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by Liza Weisstuch |
December 15, 2008
What’s so funny about Boston? We can think of a few things (and no, we’re not talking about how early the T stops running, or outoftowners’ sorry imitations of the local accent). But if we told you in print, it wouldn’t be half as sidesplitting as...
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by Liza Weisstuch |
December 11, 2008
As rational and comforting as the five stages of grief identified by Elizabeth Kübler-Ross may be, when it strikes, rationalization goes out the window. We’ve known songs, books, and movies that strive to capture the anguish and despair, but few have...
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by Liza Weisstuch |
December 11, 2008
Sleigh bells ring, but we’re not listening. Not to sound too bah-humbug, but the whole laughing-all-the-way/chestnuts-roasting/mommy-kissing-Santa-Claus thing can get a little wearisome year after year. That’s why we’re always grateful to Tony Williams...
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by Liza Weisstuch |
November 24, 2008
Malcolm Gladwell had us at The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference. We love staying on top of the latest trends, but he took the sport of trend-spotting to a level of social science that makes more sense than the revival of neon...
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by Liza Weisstuch |
November 24, 2008
Ten years ago in October, Matthew Shepard, a gay college student, was beaten and left for dead tied to a fence in Laramie, Wyoming. That tragedy made him into something of a symbol of the victims of anti-gay violence and the gross inequities that still...
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by Liza Weisstuch |
November 24, 2008
If it looks like a Styrofoam cup and it squishes like a Styrofoam cup, it’s a Styrofoam cup, right? We thought so, too; then we saw the Tara Donovan exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art (100 Northern Avenue, Boston, 617.478.3100) and we haven...
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by Staff@Night |
November 14, 2008
InsideOut: The Museum School Art Sale (formerly known as the December Sale) has a new name, but its goal is the same: to showcase the work of Boston’s talented artists and raise funds for Museum School scholarships to help put other aspiring artists through...
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by Liza Weisstuch |
November 14, 2008
We’ve never spent an entire night in the Museum of Fine Arts (465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, 617.267.9300), so we can’t tell you about any ancient Egyptian ghosts or bronze ballerina sculptures that pirouette to life when the doors are locked. But there...
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by Liza Weisstuch |
November 14, 2008
Long before there was Xbox and Wii, there was Atari and Game Boy. Given the countless hours you played Ms. Pac Man, Space Invaders, and Super Mario Brothers, the electronic blips, beeps, and crescendos provided what could loosely be classified as the...
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by Liza Weisstuch |
November 14, 2008
The ragtag bunch of guys that gathers in a dingy Dublin home in Conor McPherson’s The Seafarer is there to celebrate Christmas Eve just like everyone else celebrates it: drinking. And that’s about as traditional as this crew gets. As the evening wears...
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