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Look at This Fucking Hipster Weddingnew

Marching down the aisle with mustache parties, woodland creatures, and letterpress — lots and lots of letterpress.
Boston Phoenix  |  Eugenia Williamson  |  05-26-2011  |  Culture

Lit-Snobs, Hot Librarians, and the Rise of the Literary Tattoonew

Lit-professionals and enthusiasts discuss their affinity for literature-inspired tattoos.
Boston Phoenix  |  Eugenia Williamson  |  10-08-2010  |  Culture

Is Genius Immortal?new

Tech god Ray Kurzweil is a modern-day Edison. Now he's battling to stay alive — forever
Boston Phoenix  |  Chris Faraone  |  04-29-2010  |  Culture

Meet the Boston-area Soccer Mom who Grows and Sells her own Weednew

Mary Jones is your typical suburban soccer mom, except that her kids don’t play soccer — and she grows and sells her own pot. How did this woman, who was once rabidly anti-drug, become not only a dealer but also a champion of a global pro-pot, anti-pharmaceutical movement?
Boston Phoenix  |  Valerie Vande Panne  |  12-02-2009  |  Culture

Searching for Meaning in the Overly Sanitized Myth of Thanksgivingnew

If you think Plymouth Rock was a crock, you might be onto something. The Thanksgiving story is full of inconsistencies and overblown mythology. We journeyed to southeastern Massachusetts to see if we could set the record straight.
Boston Phoenix  |  Greg Cook  |  11-30-2009  |  Culture

Academia Under Attack ... by Zombiesnew

Humans vs. Zombies, an internationally played complicated role-playing tag game that can go on for weeks at a time, is bigger than ever these days. One local university recently mistook the game for real life.
Boston Phoenix  |  Alexis Hauk  |  10-30-2009  |  Culture

A Peek Inside Boston's So-Called Monkey Collegenew

At Helping Hands, a one-of-a-kind nonprofit school celebrating its 30th anniversary, monkeys train for two to four years before being matched with people nationwide who've experienced spinal-cord injuries or suffer from muscular dystrophy, multiple sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig's disease.
Boston Phoenix  |  Mike Miliard  |  10-22-2009  |  Culture

Boston's Most Notorious Neighborhood is Looking Gayer and Gayer Every Daynew

Thirty years ago, South Boston was an internationally recognized symbol of raging, violent intolerance. So, would you believe that Southie is now quickly becoming one of the gay-friendliest neighborhoods in Boston?
Boston Phoenix  |  Erica Corsano  |  10-14-2009  |  Culture

The Significant Objects Project Looks At What Gives An Object Its Worthnew

Significant Objects works thusly: a tchotchke is bought for a buck or two at a thrift store. A writer is told to craft the trinket's fictional back-story. The object is listed on eBay with that tall tale as its descriptor. The winning bidder gets the object; the proceeds of the sale go to the writer.
Boston Phoenix  |  Mike Miliard  |  09-10-2009  |  Culture

Living With HPVnew

It's the STD that afflicts millions. And yet few have come forward to share their travails with this nightmarish virus. Now one woman is ready to tell her story.
Boston Phoenix  |  Lisa Spinelli  |  09-02-2009  |  Culture

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

Who's Living Beyond Their Means?new

In many sectors, it seems money has been poured down the drain. Yet in Boston's glitziest watering holes, people are pouring $14 drinks down their throats like there's no tomorrow.
Boston Phoenix  |  Kara Baskin  |  06-18-2009  |  Culture

Fetishists Are Flourishing in the Bay Statenew

Massachusetts' notorious Blue laws have chased local fetishists underground, where Spandex and spanking bunnies flourish.
Boston Phoenix  |  Sara Faith Alterman  |  04-09-2009  |  Culture

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