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Slideshow: Cloud life

Cameraphone sky shots from around town

By: K BONAMI | August 21, 2008

Pick what you eat

Fans of organic food: Stop talking, start weeding
In just a few hours, go beyond the agri-tourism of picking berries or apples, and actually learn something about the land.

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | August 20, 2008

The truth is up there

Clouds, sun dogs, and the dream of an atmospheric education . . . How one former TV reporter brought his sky gospel to the people
The sky’s on the move again, he can feel it.

By: JAMES PARKER | August 21, 2008

Dance, Monkey: Corey Rodrigues

We put a comic on the hot seat. This week’s victim . . .
They find out I’m lip-synching, and it’s actually Milli Vanilli that’s doing the real singing this time. They’re trying to make a comeback, so I would just be a cover for them, and if that got blown, it would suck.

By: MARC HIRSH | August 20, 2008

MEFA madness

No need to panic over student loans. Just pay more.
On July 28, news broke that the Massachusetts Educational Financing Authority had fallen on hard times.

By: KARA BASKIN | August 13, 2008

Mound wisdom

Cartoons of pitchers and catchers talking are a New Yorker staple. What is so funny about rubbers?
The first pitcher/catcher cartoon in the New Yorker was also the simplest.

By: MIKE MILIARD | August 19, 2008

Photos: One Night In Boston

Twelve photographers go on a 10-hour shooting spree
From the pages of our sister magazine Stuff@Night: excerpts from "One Night In Boston," an issue-length photo essay covering nightlife in the metro Boston area.

By: Stuff At Night | August 16, 2008

Major problems

Triple helpings of course requirements can ruin your college experience
Why are so many students taking on so much?

By: MEREDITH HASSETT | August 13, 2008

Dance, Monkey: Lamont Price

We put a visiting comic on the hot seat. This week's victim . . .
I don’t know where I leave my pants sometimes, and I could care less.

By: MARC HIRSH | August 12, 2008

Sweet release

Cupcake OD
Peanut butter and jelly, gin and tonic, milk and cookies, indie rock and microbrew beer — these are pairings that have stood the test of time.

By: MEREDITH HASSETT | August 13, 2008

Beijing sting

Exposed: A top-secret government memorandum, obtained this past week by the Phoenix, gives the games away
Greetings, faithful steward of information!

By: JAMES PARKER | August 08, 2008

Ready or not (mostly not)

Beijing says it's ready for the Olympics. Uh, really, Beijing?
Oh, Beijing. You’re like the ex-boyfriend that I wanted so badly to love, but just couldn’t bring myself to face in the morning, once the booze wore off.

By: SARA FAITH ALTERMAN | August 08, 2008

BarCasting about

Beer and Cheesecake
The inside of the Silhouette Lounge in Allston is a bit like a pinball machine.

By: CAITLIN E. CURRAN | August 06, 2008

Dance, Monkey: Selena Coppock

We put a visiting comic on the hot seat. This week's victim . . .
Tila Tequila, where’d you come from? You’re this manufactured little pop tart. Euch. Grody-wack.

By: MARC HIRSH | August 07, 2008

Dance, Monkey: Chrissy Kelleher

We put a comic on the hot seat. This week’s victim . . .
No one over the age of 22 should wear butt-revealing pants.

By: MARC HIRSH | July 30, 2008

Me and my tattoos

One Man’s Inky Voyage Toward Meaning
I know that most people get their first tattoo when they’re drunk, or infatuated, or when there’s a race war on their cellblock and they have to quickly join a gang — but not me.

By: JAMES PARKER | July 23, 2008

Dance, Monkey: Brian Moote

We put a comic on the hot seat. This week’s victim . . .
Pringles, the pizza-flavored ones, feel like a dinner. I wouldn’t just get sour-cream-and-onion. That doesn’t have enough food groups in it.

By: MARC HIRSH | July 23, 2008

Late-season highlights

Seven entertaining ways to finish off the summer
Make no mistake: these are naked comics, not joke-telling strippers, and the show never comes within 50 miles of what could be even loosely considered “sexy.” It is, though, a truly unique experience.

By: JASON O'BRYAN | July 22, 2008

Facebook phobia

Thought high school was bad? Social-networking sites jack up Web-era insecurities
It’s safe to say that Facebook is now an omniscient, all-powerful tool that, in some way, traffics in dirt on nearly everyone you know.

By: SHARON STEEL | July 16, 2008

Wait, who is this?

Andrew Earles and Jeffrey Jensen shine the dim light of cultural obscurity on the prank phone call
Earles and Jensen’s calls, primarily perpetrated on unsuspecting denizens of Memphis and New York, are strange and wonderful specimens of telephonic performance art.

By: MIKE MILIARD | July 16, 2008

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Moonsigns

This horoscope traces the passage of the moon, not the sun. Simply read from day to day to watch the moon’s influence as it moves through the signs of the zodiac.

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BLOGS

Nerd Alert: Watchmen isn't going to get blocked, everyone
phlog | August 21, 2008 at 10:37 PM

Steve Coogan: no holds bard
Outside The Frame | August 21, 2008 at 4:55 PM

Flashbacks: when Nathaniel met Herman, a tribute to Boston’s “other” team, and sportswriter Michael Gee nominates himself to be baseball’s newest commissioner
phlog | August 21, 2008 at 11:28 AM

Follow Me To Denver
Talking Politics | August 21, 2008 at 11:14 AM

Some perspective on Clay
Sox Blog | August 21, 2008 at 10:01 AM

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