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Mitt & the GOP Boys’ Club

Romney needs to reach out to women voters, but his party has few who can help him do it

  • Brown bags it
    Republican Senator Scott Brown's vote to allow the interest on college loans to double illustrates perfectly why Brown is a clever politician, but a rotten senator.
  • The future -- for some
    I think Amanda Palmer missed the reason she has such a broad, wide, and fervent fan base is because she was on Roadrunner in the first place.
  • Watertown vs. Walmart
    Some 75 people stand holding signs along Watertown's Arsenal Street on Saturday morning as Mike Mandel shouts their goal: to keep Walmart from moving in up the road.
Review: Bernie

Everybody loves Bernie

  • Review: Darling Companion
    As pedestrian as a stroll through the dog park, Lawrence Kasdan's latest (and worst) film is both insulting and inconsequential.
  • Review: Girl in Progress
    As rites of passage go, Girl in Progress is a step backward for the genre.
  • Review: Surviving Progress
    Despite prestigious talking heads like Margaret Atwood, Jane Goodall, and Stephen Hawking, there is nothing new here beyond what every conscientious liberal already knows is wrong with the world.
Zombies ripped my flesh

How I didn't survive the walking dead

  • Lizzie Stark explores the worlds of live-action storytelling
    For the uninitiated, the word "LARP" conjures burly beardos hitting each other with foam swords in the woods and corseted women in capes flouncing around hotel ballrooms, all for entirely inexplicable reasons.
  • Nicole Freedman’s legacy
    After a five-year reign as Boston's first unofficial "Bike Czar," Boston Bikes director Nicole Freedman will be abdicating her throne to direct Maine's Huts and Trails program.
  • Save a car, ride a pedicab
    Before this assignment, I had never even considered riding in pedicab, even though I work in the pedicab mecca of Kenmore Square. I always thought there was something extremely icky about making someone sweat while I sit there like a pasha.
 
The Fringe at 40

Sophisticated primitives

  • Razormaze adds focus to their thrash
    For a kind-of goofy metal dude, Alex Citrone is pretty serious — especially when he talks metal, and especially when he's talking about his band, Boston shred titans Razormaze.
  • Out: Richard Davies reconnects his Cardinal roots
    Last Thursday was full of surprises at Cambridge's Plough and Stars, as Australian singer/songwriter Richard Davies and one very lucky pick-up band were set to perform the music of Cardinal — the legendary duo whose 1994 homonymous LP was perhaps the most influential baroque-pop revival record of the 1990s.
  • The punk business plan of Cock Sparrer
    If you play in, work with, or write about bands, you've doubtlessly listened to dozens of wheeler-and-dealers pitch purportedly clever plans to "make it" in the music biz.
Review: Sabzi Persian Chelow Kabab

Persian classics and outstanding kebabs

  • On the Cheap: Grass Fed Beef
    If you, like me, have ever found yourself pressing your nose winsomely against the window of the itty bitty "TT Bar" at Jamaica Plain's Ten Tables, you will appreciate the newly easy access to the restaurant's prize cheeseburger at its new adjunct spot, Grass Fed.
  • A year in Westeros
    "There's a pig head in the pot," Sariann Lehrer says, almost apologetically.
  • On the Cheap: Nyan Cat Ice Cream from Toscanini’s
    Gus Rancatore, co-founder and proprietor of Toscanini's Ice Cream in Central Square, isn't afraid of a good challenge.
Review: Trials Evolution

On the right track



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