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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

Nervous, stressed, and depressed, LLC

What's a recent law grad expected to do in this economy?
Twenty-seven-year-old Jesse White is a temporary staff attorney at a domestic-violence nonprofit in the South End.

By: KARA BASKIN | April 30, 2009

Bytes of knowledge

Getting the most from an online education
Once upon a time, we thought it was novel to be able to buy books in our bathrobes.

By: CLEA SIMON | April 29, 2009

Slideshow: Breakonomics 2009 at MIT

Dancers battle it out for cash prizes during Breakonomics 2009 at MIT's La Sala de Puerto Rico, April 25, 2009
Breakers, popper, and housers get on the good foot at MIT's student center

By: ALEXANDER HSU | April 29, 2009

Running a clean race

Charles River weekend
Johnny and his crew of knuckleheads were playing a round of ding-dong ditch in the Back Bay when they were spotted by a cop.

By: NEELY STEINBERG | April 29, 2009

Books tour

A guide to unofficial campus visits
While most area colleges continue to offer predictably boring campus tours that amount to wandering through academic ghost towns imagining departed crowds, there are also some alternatives to the standard walk-and-talk routine.

By: JULIA RAPPAPORT | April 29, 2009

Quincy council plays with dolls

All they want to do is dance
Local burlesque group the Boston Babydolls are getting their tasseled titties twisted by Quincy Ward 6 City Councilor Brian McNamee.

By: SARA FAITH ALTERMAN | April 22, 2009

Taking the B-boys to School

The Other MIT Crew
You may have noticed, hip-hop dance has gone legit — or at least slightly commercial.

By: LISA SPINELLI | April 22, 2009

Slideshow: Shriimp Boston at Underbar

Shriimp Boston graffitis models at Underbar, April 16, 2009
Shriimp.com graffiti artists tag models at Underbar

By: ERIC BAUMANN | April 20, 2009

Slideshow: Boston Tea Party 2009

Tea Bagging on the Commons
Protestors assembed at the Commons for the Boston Tea Party 2009, also called Tea Bagging Day

By: ERIC BAUMANN | April 20, 2009

Boston's Best City Life 2009

Rocking in the cradle of eccentricity
There’s so much to love about Boston, it’s hard sometimes to know where to start. Traffic? Obnoxious Sox fans? Irritating students? Norway rats? Inflated rents? An inferiority complex unlike any on the Eastern seaboard?

By: BOSTON PHOENIX STAFF | April 16, 2009

Slideshow: Zombie march on Easter Sunday

Boston Zombie Outbreak in Somerville and Cambridge, April 12, 2009.
Photos of zombies roaming the streets from Somerville's Davis Square to Cambridge's Harvard Square on Easter Sunday.

By: CONNOR GLEASON | April 13, 2009

Slideshow: Underground fetish scene exposed

Warning: Not safe for work!
Collection of photos from Boston's underground sexual fetish world

By: PHOENIX STAFF | April 13, 2009

Video slideshow: Sexual fetishes

Warning: probably not safe for work!
From pony play to puppy play

By: PHOENIX STAFF | April 09, 2009

Once more, with feline

Catmobile
Attention, single ladies over 30: April is national cat-care month, and, surely, you, of all people, are invested in the physical well-being of your furry little substitutes for a functional romantic relationship.

By: SARA FAITH ALTERMAN | April 08, 2009

Another damn study

Timothy Jay, PhD, discusses words his colleagues won't
Some people argue that scholarly inquiry about profanity is pointless, and even laughable.

By: CHRIS FARAONE | April 13, 2009

Crossing fingers

A long-time Downtown Crossing shopkeeper sees the neighborhood’s silver lining
When Red Sox World Series trophies need buffing, third-generation Downtown Crossing silversmith Mike Davis gets the phone call.

By: CHRIS FARAONE | April 08, 2009

Kinky Boston

Chased underground by Bay State blue laws, fetishists are flourishing
A small audience settles in to a few rows of plastic chairs to watch a woman named Jen get spanked — but not as voyeurs. They're students. And this is Sadomasochism 101.

By: SARA FAITH ALTERMAN | April 14, 2009

Slideshow: The New Allston School of Arts

Lincoln Logs and secret lofts
Photos of the New Allston School of Arts.

By: CHRIS DEMPSEY | April 01, 2009

Company, present pillows!

Down and Up For a Fight
All right, sorority girls and sleepover fiends, get those pillows fluffed and ready.

By: SARA FAITH ALTERMAN | April 01, 2009

The house that Gonzo built

On a quiet street in Allston sits an unassuming home with an indoor hoops court, a pillow loft, a house band, and one main rule: leave things better than when you came
There’s a circus-like house in Allston — complete with an indoor basketball court, movie-projector room, pillow loft, and multiple art installations — whose ethos can best be summed up with a bit of poetry, which is printed out on labels on the wall of the second-floor bathroom.

By: SHAELYN DOLEN | April 01, 2009

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