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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Gods and monsters

Boston Ballet struts Robbins, Lander, and Martins
It's almost enough to make you nostalgic for World War II.
Interview: Rory O’Connor digs social media
Rory O'Connor has been thinking about trust and the media for a long time.
Photos: Boston Ballet's Fancy Free
Boston Ballet performs "Fancy Free" at the Opera House on May 10-20, 2012.

On the right track