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March 17, 2008

A Look at The Look Book
By Sharon Steel

Yes, yes, I am obsessed with Amy Larocca's weekly New York magazine fashion popsicle, in which she interviews one or more crazily dressed urbanite and explains why they are loathsome, amazing, weird, terrible, or the coolest just by asking them, like, four questions. Deborah Solomon, take note! Sometimes the answers are all about What You're Wearing.

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Fashion, kick-ass gear, people doing awesome things

March 16, 2008

Fun with the Police State
By Clif Garboden

Thanks to winter weather closing half the airports in the America, we headed out of South Station for Baltimore by Amtrak a few weekends ago. Train travel, in case you’d forgotten, is wonderful. Slower than planes sure, but from your total travel time you get to subtract the treks to and from airports, the hour (minimum) sitting in a waiting room at your gate listening to CNN blaring unwelcomely at your back with no representative of your carrier in sight, and the seeming eternities sitting on the stuffy plane on runways.

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Terrorists, travel

March 03, 2008

Daily Street Art: The NYT covers Berlin graffiti
By Caitlin E. Curran
Yesterday's New York Times travel section had an interesting piece about graffiti and street art in Berlin. From the article:

"Nearly everywhere you go, from the cafe-lined streets of Kreuzberg to the leafy schoolyards in Grunewald, hastily drawn “tags” stream across the sidewalk and crawl up the side of buildings, in an elaborate zigzag of cartoonish graphics, puffy letters, photo-like wheat pastes and bold stencils.

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artsy fartsy, Awesomeness, boston street art

February 29, 2008

Daily Street Art: Back from Paris and Iansanity
By Caitlin E. Curran
Daily street art posts have been minimal lately, due to my recent absence from the office/country, but I'm back and voilà! I've brought street art pics back pour vous. From the fifth arrondissement of Paris, Hemingway's old stomping grounds, I've got some shots of famed figures in stencils, by the not-so-famed artist Jef Aerosol (he's getting there, though).

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music, Awesomeness, boston street art

February 07, 2008

Flashbacks: adventures in smuggling, all-star alternatives, and yet another person who's been threatened by Dapper O’Neil
By Ian Sands

CONFESSIONS OF A SMUGGLER
20 years ago
February 5, 1988 | Nancy Roosa wrote of her experience as a smuggler in Asia.
“The offers were almost too good to pass up. For simply carrying items from Hong Kong into Thailand or Taiwan, as we did, handwritten signs promised US $50 to $100. Even more common are ‘milk runs,’ where a group of milk-fed innocents are led by a smuggler on a five-to-six-day trip through Customs of three countries: South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan, carrying items that are limited, prohibited, or expensive in each country.

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beat downs, Flashbacks, From the archives

November 13, 2007

Searching for Hidden Treasure in Gloucester
By Ian Sands

This past Saturday, I visited Gloucester, Massachusetts. While there, I didn’t duck into the Cape Ann Historical museum, didn’t check out the docks where the fishermen hang or any quant little art galleries. Instead, I searched with my friend for about 2.5 hours in the cold, armed with a little yellow and black GPS device, for a hidden treasure.

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Awesomeness, choose your own adventure, Internet

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