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By PHOENIX STAFF | July 13, 2009

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They feel a song coming on
The night the Bruins took the Stanley Cup, the cast of Improv Boston's T: An MBTA Musical ambushed two carfuls of unsuspecting Red Line passengers.
The trolley Svengali
When the T works, we usually don’t notice. But when it doesn’t, our reaction is swift and severe.
Pedal promise
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.
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They feel a song coming on
The night the Bruins took the Stanley Cup, the cast of Improv Boston's T: An MBTA Musical ambushed two carfuls of unsuspecting Red Line passengers.
The trolley Svengali
When the T works, we usually don’t notice. But when it doesn’t, our reaction is swift and severe.
Pedal promise
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.
A blood-boiled appeal to the young and bewildered Boston newbies
You students are back. We locals, many of the best of whom began our lives here as scholar-transplants from that Other America ourselves, know this without consulting a calendar.
Slideshow: Video game heroes run amok in Boston
The Laser Orgy awards ceremony got a little out of control, and we followed our red carpet video game stars as they ran amok in Boston.
Photos: No Pants Subway Ride Boston 2011
The No Pants flash mob prank returns to Boston public transit once again.
How staying different saved street art in the Bean
Boston has a special place in graffiti history — and not just because one of our early marquee vandals, Popeye, was Jordan Knight of the New Kids on the Block.
Activists rail at the T
The latest theater in the war against MBTA fare hikes and service cuts opened with a bang this week, as activists stormed every corner of the subway map.
Republicans continue to wage war on women
The Republican Party's unrelenting war on women is now being waged with such frenzied fury that sane people might well wonder if there is a GOP-wide obsession with punishing an entire gender.
COMIC: The illustrated history of Boston's future, 2020-2100 AD
We approached this future-Boston project as a sort of moderated "jam comic." Result: post-singularity MBTA robots, Menino clones, Citgo aliens, and donut zombies.
Local experts predict the Boston of the future
There's more to imagining our city's future than placing bets on when Hizzoner will retire (which is just an exercise in futility at this point).
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