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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

The Queen of Masturbation

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

Brave new RISD

After a year at the helm, president John Maeda is balancing broad shifts in the worlds of art, design, and business
The Rhode Island School of Design, for all its artful ambition, is a conservative place. Students draw. They mold clay. They are awash in taxidermy. So there was more than a little anxiety when John Maeda — sneaker designer, MIT professor, digital media rock star — took over as RISD president last summer.

By DAVID SCHARFENBERG | May 27, 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

Providence Best 2009

You picked the city's best places to party, shop, eat, drink, and more. The results are in! Plus insider tips from Phoenix staffers.
It’s been one calamity after another. Wherever you dwell on the economic food chain, this is not the best of times. All the more reason to revel in the good stuff we’ve got with the Best of ’09.

By PROVIDENCE PHOENIX STAFF | April 16, 2009

Slideshow: Providence Phoenix Best 2009 Party

The Providence Phoenix hosts The Best 2009 celebration party at The Prov, April 15
Photos of the Best 2009 party at The Prov

By KRZYSTYNA HARBER PHOTOGRAPHY | April 27, 2009

Unsexiest Men 2009

Hold onto your nose and dive into our 4th annual list of the world's ickiest dudes
Our annual look at the most karmically bankrupt men on the planet

By BOSTON PHOENIX STAFF | March 30, 2009

Epochalypse soon

The end is nigh! Or not.
The end times do indeed commence on December 21, 2012. On that date, this fragile blue orb of ours will suddenly cease to be a very fun place to live.

By MIKE MILIARD | March 25, 2009

Are you a retrosexual?

Facebook's latest erotic application
A few months back, one of my best friends from high school slept with the guy to whom, years earlier, she had lost her virginity.

By DEIRDRE FULTON | January 22, 2009

What kind of Trosexual are you?

33 newly discovered sexual sub-species uncovered by the truly exhausted Phoenix staff
Sexual deviants

By PHOENIX STAFF | January 26, 2009

Where the wild things are

As our planet edges closer to the apocalypse, the escapist, fantasy world of cryptids is suddenly coming to life
Venture out into the waters and woodlands of New England, and there's a chance you'll bump into "Champ," America's own Loch Ness Monster, who allegedly plies the muddy ripples of Lake Champlain.

By MIKE MILIARD | January 12, 2009

Obamastrology

Astrological musings on our next President and other political movers and shakers
Another Leo president. That's what we're getting with Barack Obama, and it's even good news on an astrological level.

By SYMBOLINE DAI | December 30, 2008

Party like it's 1999

How to throw a wicked pisser goodbye Bush/HellObama bash
Just because you puked a lung on New Year's Eve doesn't mean you can't plan another five-alarm rager this month.

By CHRIS FARAONE | December 30, 2008

Junk-food judges

The Best of the Bad
The Internet can help you answer any question these days.

By JULIA RAPPAPORT | December 31, 2008

Peter the gadfly

Bread and Puppet Theater founder Peter Schumann is a national treasure. Maybe that’s why George W. Bush wants to bury him.
Bread and Puppet Theater is the landmark political troupe that has been pricking US presidents and policies with a unique brand of street theater since JFK was in office.

By GREG COOK | October 16, 2008

Norman Mailer’s ‘White Negro’ gets the treatment

Action speaks!
Long before suburban kids began digging Dr. Dre and Tupac, an earlier generation of young white people venerated the jazz and swing music of the 1920s, ’30s, and ’40s.

By IAN DONNIS | October 15, 2008

Space cowboy

For more than 50 years, UConn physics professor Ronald Mallett had a secret. Now that it's out, we may be one step closer to traveling back in time.
Ronald Mallett wanted to build a time machine.

By MIKE MILIARD | November 14, 2008

Avant-oompah!

Mixing old and new, Providence’s What Cheer? Brigade takes a stand against pre-fabricated culture
Unexpected and improbable spontaneity is a trademark for What Cheer?, one of a number of groups that blend punk rock ethos with the mobility of marching bands

By IAN DONNIS | October 09, 2008

Fallopian follies

While celebrity sages salivate over Hollywood babies, Beltway pundits are spinning the latest wave of ovarian escapades. Have girls really gone wild?
Speculating on celebrity baby “bumps” is Hollywood blood sport.

By KARA BASKIN | September 10, 2008

In crisis, there is opportunity

Jobs are out there, even with the Internet remaking the media business
The news about the news business is bleak.

By A.J. PACITTI | August 27, 2008

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