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Harvard riled by close encounters

Illegal Aliens Dept.
On September 16, 1994, 62 children in Ruwa, Zimbabwe, said they saw a spacecraft land near their school.

By: MIKE MILIARD | June 10, 2009

Gay Pride Week arrives

The latest related Twitter updates, articles, parade map, and more
The latest related Twitter updates, articles, parade map, and more

By: BOSTON PHOENIX STAFF | June 03, 2009

Coming clean with Carol Queen, the San Fran-based sexologist who created National Masturbation Month
A professional essayist, erotic story writer, and scholar, Dr. Carol Queen is the brains behind National Masturbation Month.

By: ALEXIS HAUK | June 11, 2009

Celebrating the original DIY

Sex can't get any safer than having it with yourself
Like you, dear readers, I was apparently too busy exploring south of the border to even realize it, but I just found out that May was National Masturbation Month.

By: YOUR SECRET ADMIRER | June 11, 2009

Drawn together

Comic Koffeeklatsch
Boston needs more superheroes. Not because our metropolis is gripped by an unprecedented crime spree, but, says Dave Kender, because our comics are perhaps not muscular enough for their own good.

By: MIKE MILIARD | June 03, 2009

I'm coming out!

Leaving the closet just isn't what it used to be. Thank God.
I'm not one of those naive assholes who believes that I'm inherently in tune with the LGBT experience because I have a gay friend, or because I totally made out with girls while I was a freshman at Sarah Lawrence.

By: SARA FAITH ALTERMAN | June 03, 2009

Pride at 39

One year shy of middle age, Boston Pride Week has the times on its side
Not to downplay this year's Pride Week or anything, but the annual weeklong mélange of events geared toward New England's lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community is just one year shy of its 40th anniversary. Which makes it sort of like the night before Christmas.

By: CAITLIN E. CURRAN | June 01, 2009

Can't escape Snape at LeakyCon

Pottering Around
Sure, Figawi Race Weekend is a blast, but how many times in my life would I have the opportunity to mingle with more than 750 J.K. Rowling devotees? So, this past Memorial Day weekend, I decided to skip Nantucket and join the all-ages, international assembly of Potter-heads at Boston's Park Plaza Hotel for LeakyCon 2009.

By: NEELY STEINBERG | May 27, 2009

Slideshow: Anime Boston at Hynes

Japanime lovers converged at the Hynes Convention Center on May 21, 2009
Photos from Anime Boston at the Hynes Convention Center

By: BOSTON PHOENIX STREET TEAM | May 27, 2009

Last biscuit in the oven

Nuestra's culinary misadventure
On that next trip to Whole Foods or the farmers' market, your favorite small-batch cookies, jams, and jellies might be hard to find.

By: CHRIS FARAONE | May 20, 2009

With the accent on computer

Say What?
" Pardon ?"

By: JULIA THROOP | May 20, 2009

Comedy essentials

Get your laugh on
Blogs, videos, Twitter updates and more on your favorite comedy shows in and around Boston

By: PHOENIX WEB STAFF | May 15, 2009

Inventing the Future

At MIT's fabled Media Lab, some will change the world with robots and computers, others with . . . Wii guitars
Has Boston found the new Eric Clapton? A shimmying, face-contorting successor to Yngwie Malmsteen? Not exactly.

By: ABIGAIL JONES | May 13, 2009

Bike Bible 2009

Plan your next bike route, find a good place for a tune-up, and more
Guide to getting around the city on two wheels

By: PHOENIX STAFF | May 07, 2009

The crash course

What to do when you have your next bike accident
It was a sunny but brisk Friday afternoon in March when my bike was hit.

By: CAITLIN E. CURRAN | May 06, 2009

Ready to roll

How to give your bike a proper spring cleaning
Whether you've been slogging through the streets on two wheels all winter, or are only now retrieving your bicycle, dusty and cobwebbed, from the basement, the extra light, the warm air, and the promise of snow-free roads are calling.

By: CLEA SIMON | May 06, 2009

Celebrating Ralph's

A Worcester Icon at 30
Having survived the temporary loss of its coolness factor at the turn of the century, and the death of namesake Ralph Moberly last year, Ralph's Chadwick Square Diner, the 400-seat Worcester night-life landmark that's showcased several decades worth of local, Boston, and regional bands (plus some national headliners), celebrates its 30th anniversary.

By: BRIAN GOSLOW | May 06, 2009

Cap and trade explained

The cool basics of the hottest topic in climate change
The general idea behind cap and trade is pretty simple: put a tax on pollution, and the market will crank out less of it. But if a pollution tax is a lever, cap and trade is a vast, rickety Rube Goldberg contraption. Ingenious? Yes. Complicated? Fiendishly.

By: LISSA HARRIS | May 06, 2009

Slideshow: Bike cover art contest 2009

Bob Maloney's Experimental Illustration Class competes for the cover spot on the Phoenix 's Bike Bible
Several students from Bob Maloney's Experimental Illustration Class at MassArt competed in the contest and Allison Bamcat won.

By: BOB MALONEY'S EXPERIMENTAL ILLUSTRATION CLASS | May 07, 2009

Slideshow: 'Dark Arts' at MassArt

Dark Arts Lecture Series at MassArt's Pozen Center , April 24, 2009
American Memory Project, Coyotel Press, and A Year At the Wheel at Mass Art's Pozen Center

By: BOSTON PHOENIX STAFF | April 30, 2009

Safe sext

Our anthropological observer of sex trends busies her fingers . . . with the world of raunchy texts. Plus, friends with benefits?
Blogging, vlogging, and social-networking have already hit orange-alert levels on the oversharing meter. Now pushing things into the red are "sext messages."

By: YOUR SECRET ADMIRER | April 30, 2009

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