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Visit All the New England States Without Leaving Bostonnew
It's a staycation, get it? And not only is it frugal it also allows you to help jumpstart the local economy and appreciate what you have closer to home.
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Staff |
07-16-2008 |
Travel
Island Mighty: A Brief History of Tiki Drinksnew
You might have had some vague notion that fruity rum drinks and kitschy island decor originated in some long-ago era, like the '60s. Try 1934. Includes recipe for a Shrunken Skull.
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Barbara West, Hanky Panky and Pinky Gonzales |
06-26-2008 |
Food+Drink
Internet Memez Taek Ovar Boston ... and This Headliennew
Cyberspace is all a-blog about ROFLCon, the two-day conference set for April 25th and 26th. Internet celebrities, academics and casual nerds will invade MIT for a group dissection of the internet, examining the history and future of online culture.
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Nicole Jones |
04-24-2008 |
Tech
Kiss Guitarist Paul Stanley Talks About His New Passion: Paintingnew
That art ranges from serene to immediate, while touching on themes Kiss never would. It's important to him that his art not be seen as some by-product of Kiss. "At the end of the day, if you know you're buying pieces of art because I sing 'Love Gun,' you're probably better off spending the money elsewhere."
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Rob Turbovsky |
04-24-2008 |
Art
Corporations Try to Buy Your Love by Rooting for the Red Soxnew
Remember the good ole days when Sox profiteering was annoying but ignorable, and before it seemed like every other national and local business attached itself to Boston baseball?
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Chris Faraone |
04-10-2008 |
Sports
A Cautionary Tale of Travel on the Cheapnew
It began simply enough: Three of my close friends had planned a self-guided, three-month-long camping/cycling tour through Europe, celebrating college graduation and conveniently prolonging their parental-imposed grace period for finding a job. "Why not come along?" they prodded.
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Courtney Cox |
03-20-2008 |
Travel
Tags: travel
Scrubya: Lather Liberallynew
With each sale of the recycled-paper-wrapped soaps, proceeds go to charitable organizations that are "cleaning up after Dubya & Co." including donations to the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Physicians for Human Rights' Campaign Against Torture.
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Christine Liu |
03-20-2008 |
Shopping
Tags: shopping
Lost in Austin: A Tiny Taste of Texas Messnew
To the benefit of my sun-deprived, music-loving, perpetually hungry sensibilities -- and, conversely, to the detriment of my health -- I spent the latter half of last week in Austin, Tex., for the awesome 24/7 party otherwise known as the SXSW festival.
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Christine Liu |
03-19-2008 |
Food+Drink
Massachusetts: The Tourist Trapnew
The state sells itself ... is anyone buying?
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Nicole Jones |
03-05-2008 |
Travel
Tags: travel
Sake to Me: A Primer on Japanese Rice Winenew
If you don't like sake, chances are that you have probably only had really crappy sake. We're talking about that $7 carafe of warm, soul-burning hooch alongside your California roll at late-night sushi joints.
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Tyler Balliet |
03-05-2008 |
Food+Drink
Tags: sake
The Dirty, Delicious Workings of CSAsnew
When you buy into a community-supported agriculture (CSA) system, you're buying groceries before they've grown. In early spring, you hand over a chunk of change (usually between $400 and $600) to a local farm in exchange for a "share," about six months' worth of produce for four people.
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Ryan Rose Weaver |
03-05-2008 |
Food+Drink
Tags: csa, local food
Subversive Suppers: Sneak Peeks into Secret Eatingsnew
Supper clubs dance on the fine line between dinner party and illegal restaurant. It's basically just a bunch of hungry people getting together for a meal, yet once you start charging money at the door or passing around a donation jar, some would say it becomes something else.
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Jennifer Cacicio |
02-13-2008 |
Food+Drink
Sex Workers' Art Show: More Than Bang for the Bucknew
The show is a humanizing, edifying, fun and possibly even moral event for anyone who has cast wanton eyes on a sex worker.
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Marli Guzzetta |
02-13-2008 |
Performance
Tags: performance
A Guide to the Boston Wine Exponew
How to survive stains, cougars and memory loss.
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Tyler Balliet |
02-06-2008 |
Food+Drink
Car - Bicycle - Pedestrian Hierarchynew
By framing the streets of Boston as a one-on-one fight between cars and bicycles, they're establishing a hierarchy that puts both groups above my people, the pedestrians.
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Stewart Mason |
02-06-2008 |
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