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. . . And so is your mom

If you don't have anything nice to say dept.
Va te faire enculer . Sounds lovely, doesn’t it? Actually, I just told you to fuck off. Pardon my French!
By CAITLIN E. CURRAN  |  July 01, 2009
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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
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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
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Slideshow: 'Paint Pens in Purses' in Allston

Gallery pops up in vacant liquor store
Paint Pens in Purses," a female art collective, put up its work in a pop-up gallery at 193 Harvard Ave., Allston.
By CAITLIN CURRAN  |  April 27, 2009
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The society of the spectacle

Of Montreal live at the Paradise, April 21
Of Montreal live at the Paradise, April 21
By CAITLIN E. CURRAN  |  April 24, 2009
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Firing back

A girl's best friend is her yogurt
"Yogurt is the official food of women." Or so enthuses TV writer Sarah Haskins in her sarcastic three-minute video "Target Women: Yogurt Edition."
By CAITLIN E. CURRAN  |  March 26, 2009
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Moving pictures

Dean & Britta take on Andy Warhol's Screen Tests
The latest Dean Wareham and Britta Phillips project — 13 Most Beautiful . . . Songs for Andy Warhol's Screen Tests (Plexifilm) — is true to the artist it honors, innocence is only the surface of subterfuge.
By MICHAEL BRODEUR  |  June 17, 2009
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Nazis, Manet, and romance

Telling Fiction from Fact
During World War II, Nazi plunderers focused their greedy eyes on Paris and began looting the city's artwork — operating according to Hitler's plan to open a massive, self-aggrandizing museum in Germany.
By CAITLIN E. CURRAN  |  February 19, 2009
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Precious and Few

Passion Pit live at the Middle East Downstairs, February 6, 2009
Twenty-five minutes into Passion Pit's set last Friday at the Middle East downstairs, Michael Angelakos mopped sweat from his brow with a towel and made an apologetic announcement.
By CAITLIN E. CURRAN  |  February 09, 2009
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Short and bitter words of love

Six Little Words
People sum up grand concepts, thoughts, and plans in six words or fewer every day — in Facebook status updates, text messages, text-message novels , iPhone or Blackberry e-mails, Twitter posts, or analog Post-Its.
By CAITLIN E. CURRAN  |  February 02, 2009
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Interview: Shepard Fairey

Poster boy
"Denver wasn't great because I literally had a gun pointed at my head for putting posters up at the DNC."
By EVAN J. GARZA  |  January 27, 2009
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Slideshow: Shepard Fairey slaps a mural on the Phoenix offices

January 22, 2009
January 22, 2009
By CAITLIN E. CURRAN  |  January 27, 2009
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Spilling family secrets

Speaking Up
Shortly after the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Iranian author Azar Nafisi began making a list in her diary.
By CAITLIN E. CURRAN  |  January 21, 2009
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Grupo Fantasma

Middle East Downstairs, January 8, 2009
"When you come to our show, you gotta dance. You dance however you want to dance."
By CAITLIN E. CURRAN  |  January 12, 2009
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Quiz-bowl kids

Harvard rebuilds its team and answers some hard questions
Andrew Watkins is having faulty-buzzer issues.
By CAITLIN E. CURRAN  |  January 08, 2009
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Year in pictures

Imagery 2008
Imagery 2008
By PHOENIX STAFF  |  December 24, 2008
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Lovers' rock

Think just being in a relationship is tough? Meet five bands who've combined work and play — and against all odds ended up making sweet harmonies
Ever want to throttle your co-worker, that well-meaning but slack-jawed doofus always peering over your cubicle? How about your partner at home, always leaving the seat up or making a Hansel-and-Gretel popcorn trail from the kitchen to the couch?
By CAITLIN E. CURRAN  |  December 12, 2008
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Never Say Smile

Annie Leibovitz highlights her career
Could there be anyone cooler to have for a photography teacher than Annie Leibovitz?
By CAITLIN E. CURRAN  |  November 19, 2008
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Mixed Media at the Papercut

Cultural staples
Last Saturday's mixed-bill affair at the Papercut Zine Library was a strange hybrid of contemporary salon, multimedia talent show, and impromptu modern-dance class (with instructions to move our bodies "like fire").
By CAITLIN E. CURRAN  |  November 18, 2008
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San Francisco treat

Deerhoof at the Middle East Downstairs, October 23, 2008
The SF-based Deerhoof performed at the Middle East a week ago Thursday with the amusingly repetitive precision of a puppet show or an assembly of wind-up toys.  
By CAITLIN E. CURRAN  |  October 28, 2008

MySpacing

Hot and not
Here are some current top MySpace artists to check out, and some to avoid.
By CAITLIN E. CURRAN  |  October 27, 2008
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Juana Molina | Un Día

Domino (2008)
Un Día shows Molina’s music in its weirdest, most mesmerizing, ideal version of itself.  
By CAITLIN E. CURRAN  |  October 15, 2008
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Scarlet letters

The uptight killjoy in us
Sarah Vowell’s fifth book, The Wordy Shipmates (Riverhead) — released on October 7 — examines New England Puritans with a meticulously researched, critical-yet-comical eye.  
By CAITLIN E. CURRAN  |  October 09, 2008
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Couple of Mavericks

The Dodos at the MFA, October 2, 2008
Whereas Sarah Palin spewed folksy, confused verbiage, the Dodos played endearingly folk-y music for a stuffed Remis Auditorium.  
By CAITLIN E. CURRAN  |  October 08, 2008
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Mobile-home game

Cross the Mayor of Lansdowne Street at your peril, Sox fans: you might be jinxing your team in the process
The intersection of Brookline Avenue and Lansdowne Street, in the hours before, during, and after a Red Sox game, is not unlike a trading floor on pre-crash Wall Street: it’s chaotic, teeming with people, and everyone’s trying to make a buck.  
By CAITLIN E. CURRAN  |  October 01, 2008
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Ask me anything

A  free instant answer to any question is just a text away. But what do ChaCha’s guides have that , say, librarians don’t?
It used to be that, if you had a burning question, you had to a) ask your mom; b) consult a Magic 8 Ball; or c) trek to the top of a mountain to seek out a sagacious, all-knowing guru.
By CAITLIN E. CURRAN  |  September 03, 2008
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Unhinging the binge

Some drinks are just too good to chug
I have a possible solution for the binge-drinking quandary: be more discerning about what you pour down your throat.
By CAITLIN E. CURRAN  |  August 21, 2009
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Love us, don't leave us

Advice from sadder but wiser Bostonians
Let’s skip the sugarcoating. Boston can be a tricky place.
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  August 21, 2009
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Three’s a charm

The 802 Tour at the Museum of Fine Arts, August 24, 2008
Muhly, Amidon, and Bartlett are all VT-to-NY transplants and long-time collaborators.
By CAITLIN E. CURRAN  |  August 26, 2008
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White walls, black paint

Street art looking fine
Not long after walking into the Distillery Gallery on a Monday evening, Thomas Buildmore removes two painted-over NO PARKING signs that had been screwed into the wall. “This show isn’t about street art,” he says.
By CAITLIN E. CURRAN  |  August 20, 2008

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