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The new gay bars

Is that a paradigm shift in your pocket?
If I may channel the late, great Estelle Getty for a moment: picture it, Provincetown, 2009, a dashing young man with no discernible tan and an iffy T-Mobile signal languishes bored upon the sprawling patio of the Boatslip Resort.

By: MICHAEL BRODEUR | June 02, 2010

Photos: Lost Finale Party at the Brattle Theatre

Fans bid Lost farewell at the Brattle | May 23, 2010
This party had What It Takes

By: BRANDON CONSTANT AND DAVE BARKER | May 27, 2010

Fortnight to fitness

Shaping up for the summer — in two exhausting weeks
If you’re reading this now, it may be too late. It’s the middle of May, and beach season is right around the corner.

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | May 19, 2010

Boston Bike Bible 2010

How to ride safely, cycling's answer to Zipcars, Bike Week events and much more
How to ride safely, cycling's answer to Zipcars, Bike Week events and much more

By: PHOENIX STAFF | May 14, 2010

Bike Week and beyond

From bike week to bike month, a line-up of great rides, summits, and get-togethers are helping make 2010 the year of the bike in Boston.
Boston is a great bicycling city. Sure, you have to deal with sociopathic, maniacal motorists who’ve never heard of a turn signal. And yes, you have to contend with a bunch of inconsiderate, entitled pedestrians who act like they own the road and can wander across the street whenever they feel like it, then give you a dirty look as you whiz by them.

By: RYAN STEWART | May 17, 2010

Pedal promise

The ongoing perils and recent improvements en route to a riding renaissance.
Boston has its fair share of deserving bad reputations: the sports fans whined for some 86 years about a “curse” because the Red Sox couldn’t seal the deal; the drivers are terrible; and, thanks in no small part to those driving skills, the city’s streets were thrice voted by Bicycling Magazine as some of the worst in the country for cyclists.

By: TOM MEEK | May 13, 2010

Apple loses its cool

Once the underdog cult darling battling the evil empire, Apple is fighting an image problem — and critics, who say it’s betrayed the digital revolution
Sheez, they’re getting awfully touchy out in Cupertino.

By: WEN STEPHENSON | May 14, 2010

Rent a ride

Zipcar-like bike rentals headed to Boston
Last August, the Metropolitan Area Planning Council announced that a public bike-sharing system would be coming to Boston, possibly as soon as this summer. The bikes were to come from Public Bike Systems, the creators of Montreal’s Bixi Bike program.

By: PATRICK ELLIOT | May 13, 2010

Slideshow: Bike cover art contest 2010

Bob Maloney's Experimental Illustration Class competes for the cover spot on the Phoenix 's 2010 Bike Bible
Bob Maloney's Experimental Illustration Class competes for the cover spot on the Phoenix 's 2010 Bike Bible

By: BOB MALONEY'S EXPERIMENTAL ILLUSTRATION CLASS | May 13, 2010

Harvard virginity conference pops its cherry

Roe v. Wait Dept.
At what moment are you no longer a virgin? When you get a blowjob? Give one? Give 30 ? When someone fingers you? Oral sex? Anal sex? Enjoyment? Orgasm?

By: NINA MACLAUGHLIN | May 07, 2010

Meme police

MIT’s ROFLcon, a gathering of the Web’s biggest names, decides what will make you laugh and cry.
I just woke up from some sort of bizarre dream. I was at MIT. There was a weirdo painting nudes of President Obama on a unicorn. Several adults were dressed like domestic animals.

By: CHRIS FARAONE | May 05, 2010

I Am Iron Man (Sorta)

MIT’s most famous fictional alum, Tony Stark, has some real-life rivals
Princeton, you can keep your Batman. (Frankly, his costume could use a little work, anyway.)

By: ALEXIS HAUK | May 05, 2010

Photos: Bike Porn at the Brattle (NSFW)

Bike Porn III, a film festival at the Brattle Theater
Photos from Bike Porn 3: Cycle Bound, The Backlash Tour

By: DEREK KOUYOUMJIAN | May 03, 2010

Photos [NSFW]: Naked Girls Reading at the Coolidge

Naked Girls Reading presents "Down the Rabbit Hole" (extremely NSFW)
Hey, our books are up here.

By: ERIN BALDASSARI | May 07, 2010

Cycle killers

With its own porn, polo, and personalities, bike culture in Boston isn’t just about getting to work any more
Clearly, this isn’t the sport of gentlemen unfolding at, say, the Myopia Hunt Club in Hamilton, but rather urban bike polo at a street-hockey pit in Allston. Many are dressed in black and look like refugees from a club Goth night. Participants sometimes wear Mexican-wrestler masks, while others have no shirts on at all.

By: TOM MEEK | April 30, 2010

Words around town

Our fair city is chock full of people who write well and are willing to teach you their trade.
“Every writer I know has trouble writing,” said Joseph Heller. Let that serve as comfort.

By: NINA MACLAUGHLIN | April 30, 2010

Ledge Lessons

We love you, stressed-out college kids! So relax, and remember how good you have it.
As advocates of higher education and living as long as medically possible, we were sad to read that, according to new-media-powerhouse Web site the Daily Beast, Greater Boston is home to not one but five of the most stressful colleges in the United States.

By: CHRIS FARAONE | April 28, 2010