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Photo: Boston Comic Con 2010

Boston Comic Con 2010, at the Westin Boston Waterfront, April 10, 2010
Ghouls, Ghostbusters, and murderous clowns: Bullpen bulletins from Comic Con 2010

By: SHAULA CLARK AND MADDY MYERS | April 16, 2010

Photos: Down:2:Earth Boston 2010 | April 10, 2010

Down:2:Earth Boston 2010, at the Hynes Convention Center, April 10, 2010
D:2:E returns to the Hynes with green folk, socially conscious coffee, and bizarre birdhouses

By: SHAULA CLARK | April 16, 2010

Photos: Performances from the Great Burlesque Exposition (NSFW)

At the Hyatt Regency Hotel, April 2-4, 2010
A burlesque battle royale, drawing acts from all over the world.

By: DEREK KOUYOUMJIAN | April 06, 2010

Photos: Scenes from the Great Burlesque Exposition

Making the rounds at the Burlesque Exposition, at Hyatt Regency Hotel, April 2-4, 2010
Latex, fur, and feathers -- and lots of tiny hats. (Surprisingly SFW.)

By: DEREK KOUYOUMJIAN | April 06, 2010

Dr. Lakra loves the ink
Dr. Lakra is no more a real doctor than is Dr. Dre or Dr. Demento. The 38-year-old Mexican tattoo artist’s real name is Jerónimo López Ramírez. As for “lakra,” it means “delinquent.” Or so I thought.

By: JIM SULLIVAN | April 06, 2010

Photos: International Pillow Fight Day 2010

Banditos Misteriosos' International Pillow Fight Day 2010 | April 3, 2010
Some 1,500 combatants converged upon Cambridge Common for Banditos Misteriosos' International Pillow Fight Day on April 3, 2010

By: ERIN BALDASSARI | April 05, 2010

Photos: Anime Boston 2010

Photos from the Northeast's largest anime confab
Photos from Anime Boston 2010 at the Hynes Convention Center

By: MADDY MYERS | April 05, 2010

100 Unsexiest Men of 2010

Our annual look at the most grotesque men from around the globe
From the grotesquely foul to the karmically challenged, we assembled the worst 100 men in the world for your disgust.

By: PHOENIX STAFF | April 15, 2010

Ex–porn star blogs her way sober

Jennie Does Harvard
This past week at the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS), Jennie Ketcham taught her first class about something besides, er, “dick-sucking.”

By: CHRIS FARAONE | April 05, 2010

Photos: PAX East 2010 (Saturday)

At the Hynes Convention Center | March 27, 2010
Not pictured: Guy dressed as an enormous Fruit Fucker 2000

By: DAVE BARKER | March 30, 2010

Photos: Boston Flower & Garden Show 2010

Boston Flower & Garden Show, at the Seaport World Trade Center | March 28, 2010
Boston Flower & Garden Show (theme: "A Feast for the Senses "), at the Seaport World Trade Center | March 28, 2010

By: SHAULA CLARK | March 29, 2010

Go frock yourself!

An Irish-Jewish atheist who disdains religion becomes an ordained minister online to officiate his friends’ wedding
It was nine months before their wedding that my friends Vissy and Harry sat me down for a “We need to talk” moment. What they wanted was a favor: would I be willing to get ordained as a minister and officiate their wedding?

By: JASON O’BRYAN | March 24, 2010

Wintour tackles weighty subject at Harvard

Ice Age over at Vogue?
Brazilian fashion model Ana Carolina Reston was not the first model to die from an eating disorder, and sadly, she won't be the last.

By: ASHLEY RIGAZIO | March 24, 2010

Geek icon

Jonathan Coulton talks PAX
A hurricane of pure video-game bliss is set to pummel Boston this weekend, as thousands of gamers converge on the Hynes Convention Center for the Penny Arcade Expo.

By: SHAULA CLARK | June 19, 2010

Naked Boston

Spring has finally arrived! So take off all your clothes with these seven ways to celebrate nudity in greater Boston.
Every year, Ol' Man Winter cruelly turns Bostonians' bodies into shriveled, cracked sacks of atrophied muscle and lumpy goo — not exactly fodder for Playmate of the Month.

By: ALEXIS HAUK | March 22, 2010

Raven Used Books to nest on Newbury

Bibliomaniac
When some years ago John Petrovato decided to make a career change, he swapped the insecurity of playing bass in a New Jersey–based indie-rock band for the uncertainty of selling used books in Montague, Massachusetts, a mill town on the banks of the Connecticut River not far from Springfield.

By: PETER KADZIS | March 17, 2010