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Champion Lockpicker Schuyler Towne Can't Be Stoppednew

It's too bad Skip Gates didn't have Schuyler Towne's cell number on that fateful day last month. If he did, the Somerville-based lockpicking champ likely could have gotten in to the good professor's home in no time at all, and a national controversy (and international beer summit) might have been averted.
Boston Phoenix  |  Ian Sands  |  08-06-2009  |  Culture

Meet the Awesome Foundation for Arts and Sciencesnew

What if Eli and Edythe Broad, two seminal financial backers of MIT and Harvard, had gone batshit crazy back in the early '00s and decided to go in a different direction with their philanthropy?
Boston Phoenix  |  Ian Sands  |  07-23-2009  |  Culture

Alan Abel, the Prince of Prankstersnew

At age 78, the career trickster's life is still one big joke.
Boston Phoenix  |  Ian Sands  |  10-09-2008  |  Culture

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