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It’s so different here

Savoring the challenges of spending all four college years abroad
Sometimes living and studying abroad can feel like running a marathon with a backpack full of bricks.

By: MARY GARBODEN | January 18, 2008

A provocative new book suggests big business could learn from piracy and youth culture
When Napster, invented by a Northeastern freshman, threw the music industry into chaos in 1999, Steve Jobs didn’t panic. He saw an opportunity.

By: MIKE MILIARD | January 16, 2008

Strip club

Underwear underground
Do not show up unless you plan to take your pants off. This includes media.

By: IAN SANDS | January 16, 2008

Brain gloss

Two new Boston mags aimed at women beg the question, why not the perfect women's magazine?
The merger of thought and glossy spreads of girls in streaming, DIY couture.

By: ELLEE DEAN | January 15, 2008

Presidential Primary pinball

Please insert $100,000,000
Please insert $100,000,000

By: DAVID KISH | January 09, 2008

Ten new careers for Bill Gates

Xperience
Here are some jobs Mr. Gates could pursue.

By: MIKE MILIARD | January 09, 2008

Defending the universally loathed

The Phoenix looks with loving eyes at some of the worst people, places, and things in the world — and gives them a big hug
Forsaken entities deserve a second chance.

By: PHOENIX STAFF | January 14, 2008

The bottom of the barrel

Could be verse: the wrenching finale
Lines upon the suspension, for reasons astrological, mechanical, and dietary, of the ‘Could Be Verse’ franchise.

By: JAMES PARKER | December 16, 2008

Browsing ahead

You can’t do much when you’re dead — but you can still send e-mail. That’s just one Internet innovation that will loom large in 2008
All that online talk (nine billion Google hits and counting) notwithstanding, “Web 3.0” won’t be happening any time soon.

By: MIKE MILIARD | December 26, 2007

It parade

In 2008, novels turn to fairies, fashion goes faux green, and Star Trek gets all 90210
There is a moment, at the end of a beauty pageant, when the previous year’s winner is forced to place the sparkling crown on a new champion’s head.

By: SHARON STEEL | December 26, 2007

You light up my litter tray

Could be verse: poetry ripped from the headlines
Lines upon learning that South Korean scientists, by manipulating a fluorescent protein gene, have produced cloned cats that glow in the dark.

By: JAMES PARKER | December 19, 2007

The complete rules of ‘playing guys’

A grown-up six year old shares with adults the warrior’s code of action figures
I’d like to establish once and for all the rules of a game that adults have for too long perceived as a random activity — namely, “Playing Guys.”

By: STEVE MACONE | December 19, 2007

Snowed Inn

How the Pine Street Inn helps people come in out of the cold
Six inches of snow had fallen by 5:30 last night, and Boston’s homeless crowded the entrances to Pine Street Inn in Roxbury.

By: KATHY MARTINEZ | December 14, 2007

They shall not pass gas

Could be verse: poetry ripped from the headlines
Lines upon learning that scientists have recently isolated methane-mitigating microbes in the intestinal lining of the kangaroo, and plan to replicate them in cattle to reduce the emission of “cow-created” greenhouse gas

By: JAMES PARKER | December 16, 2008