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Introducing Sir John Hargrave, Professional Prankster

By Ian Sands

Boston Phoenix | July 9, 2009

Sir John Hargrave is no nobleman. He's a lifelong mischief maker who legally changed his name to punk the entire British royal family — and in the process got himself barred from the Queen's digs.

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Tags: Mischief Makers Manual, Sir John Hargrave, comedy

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Russell Freeland Gave Up Everything in Pursuit of His Risky Art Projectnew

Abstract artist Russell Freeland gave up everything -- that's everything -- to go from Boston to Austin and see if he could survive solely on his art. His homeless and hungry saga is told in the Absolute Zero Project.

Boston Phoenix | Ian Sands | 10-07-2009 | Art

Tags: Absolute Zero Project, abstract art, Russell Freeland, Boston, Austin

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

Tags: Lifestyle Features, Henry Louis Gates, home security Hobbies and Pastimes, lockpicking, Jr.

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

Tags: charitable giving, Berkman Centre for Internet & Society, Broad Institute, Paul Revere, Tim Hwang, Cambridge, Harvard University

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Caleb Neelon Traces Graffiti's Hidden History in New Booknew

In a proliferating library of graffiti books, the 410-page The History of American Graffiti stakes a major claim at being the definitive history of the art form. And it's astonishingly illustrated by hundreds of snapshots, mostly by the artists themselves.

Boston Phoenix | Greg Cook | 04-06-2011 | Author Profiles & Interviews

Tags: graffiti, street art, Caleb Neelon, The History of American Graffiti, art books

I did Sookie Stackhousenew

A book snob reveals her whirlwind affair with America's favorite telepathic waitress.

Boston Phoenix | Eugenia Williamson | 02-10-2011 | Author Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Charlaine Harris, Sookie Stackhouse

20 Astoundingly Bad Romance Novel Coversnew

Moaning, groaning, and oiled-hunk-boning with Uncle Walter & Co.

Boston Phoenix | Uncle Walter and the Wife | 02-10-2011 | Books

Tags: Romance Novels

Tim Wu, Historian of Information Empiresnew

To say that Tim Wu has written a history of the information age is sort of like saying that Howard Zinn wrote a history of the United States. Wu is a young scholar but the first line of his obituary is already written: a few years back he coined the term "Net neutrality," then got the FCC to embrace

Boston Phoenix | Carly Carioli | 02-08-2011 | Author Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Net Neutrality, FCC, Tim Wu