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Spot to get naked without attracting a crowd

We’re not aware of a single spot to go skinny-dipping legally in the Greater Boston area.

By: PHOENIX STAFF | February 25, 2010

Restaurant loo

What makes a great restroom? Linen towels? Marble floor? A variety of lotions on the counter?

By: PHOENIX STAFF | February 25, 2010

Place to pick up Little Women

I had spent my whole patriarchal life without cracking open a single one of Louisa May Alcott’s classic chick-lit books.

By: PHOENIX STAFF | February 25, 2010

Place to witness something totally illogical

If you live in or around Inman Square, it can be easy to feel left out of the hustle and bustle of the big city.

By: PHOENIX STAFF | February 25, 2010

Place to scope out Financial District hotties on your lunch hour

As an alternative to the walking paths of the Boston Common, try people-watching/stalking/scoping in the Financial District’s Post Office Square.

By: PHOENIX STAFF | February 25, 2010

Place to be harrassed by political extremists

Boston University hasn’t been properly political since the early 1970s, and probably won’t be ever again unless Congress imposes a federal ban on Coach bags.

By: PHOENIX STAFF | February 25, 2010

Reason to hate the T

Don’t take it. Just don’t. Find another way to get wherever you’re going — bike, cab, Segway, whatever.

By: PHOENIX STAFF | February 25, 2010

Place to drop your whole paycheck

Everyone’s got that one store where, if they suddenly had unlimited fundage, they’d buy up the whole shop.

By: PHOENIX STAFF | February 26, 2010

Place to pick flicks in the shadow of death

For some strange reason, it’s easy to walk past Movieworks.

By: PHOENIX STAFF | February 26, 2010

Place to go shopping on your lunch hour

Ah, the H&M vortex.

By: PHOENIX STAFF | February 26, 2010

Place to recapture your, or anyone else's, childhood

Now that it’s warmer out, Mike Wilner, owner of Brookline News and Gifts, leaves his door wide open.

By: PHOENIX STAFF | February 26, 2010

Castle in Boston

South Boston’s CASTLE ISLAND is probably the best of our city’s fortresses these boring days

By: PHOENIX STAFF | February 25, 2010

Used-bookstore front operation

It’s always a little damp, dark, and dusty at the Boston Book Annex.

By: PHOENIX STAFF | February 26, 2010

Boston talk-show host

No disrespect to his work on WTKK (96.9 FM), but it’s on New England Cable News that JIM BRAUDE is at his best.

By: PHOENIX STAFF | February 25, 2010

Cards for any occasion

For all we know, the greeting cards at Black Ink on Beacon Hill (and in Harvard Square) might be stamped out as impersonally as are their drugstore counterparts.

By: PHOENIX STAFF | February 26, 2010