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March 24, 2009
By Caitlin E. Curran
Midway through her set at Club Passim last Friday, right before
covering Woody Guthrie’s “Deportee,” Antje Duvekot remarked on
something she’d read about the Great Depression. “Lighthearted
entertainment became important to people,” said the Somerville-based
singer-songwriter. “They needed it to get them through it.
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January 27, 2009
By Caitlin E. Curran
Met him online. Blogged our divorce. - Kristy Sammis
While playing wingman, found my wife. - Scott Northrop
Foung my ex-husband on Craigslist. Twice. - Yin Shin
Will always follow you. On Twitter. - Mircea Lungu
Cuddling in bed, she said good-bye. - Christopher Warren
Job requires me to contemplate cunnilingus.
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December 09, 2008
By Caitlin E. Curran
Tonight: Amy Goldwasser and a few of the Red contributors come to the Harvard Coop at 7 pm.
I want to write something for Red, the recently-released,
Plume-published collection of 58 essays by teenage women, "on what
fires up their lives today." Or rather, my teenage self would like to.
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November 13, 2008
By Caitlin E. Curran
The world of snacks is complex. And supermarket shelves, with their unwavering tendency to be stocked for aisles with snack option after snack option (and imitation after imitation), offer little solace. What's tastiest? Cheez-It's or Cheese Nips? Nilla Wafers or VAnilla Wafers? Cheez Doodles or Cheetos Puffs? Where's the confused and overwhelmed snack addict to turn?
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November 12, 2008
By Caitlin E. Curran
1. As soon as Obama uttered the words: "Sasha and Malia, I love you both so much, and you have earned the new puppy that’s coming with us to the White House," on November 4, a certain subset of people (you know, just smaller media outlets, like the San Francisco Chronicle and Reuters, and pretty much everyone else who was tired of covering real news.
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November 10, 2008
By Caitlin E. Curran
Juliana Hatfield was released today from an eating disorder treatment center, where she went to face down anorexia, according to Stereogum via Hatfield's personal blog. Yesterday, the 41-year-old Boston rocker/author/former Blake Baby wrote an extensive blog post from the treatment center:
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November 06, 2008
By Caitlin E. Curran
88 percent of Cambridge voted for Barack Obama on Tuesday, so it's no surprise that impromptu celebrations were in full force there by midnight. Elsewhere in Boston, though, Obama supporters were gallivanting in all different ways - luckily, our photographer was able to snap shots of them in action. View a slideshow of photos here.
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November 05, 2008
By Caitlin E. Curran
...so we don't have to! (In case, like some of us at the Phoenix, you were watching MSNBC - or Fox News, just to see what the other side is saying - CNN's election coverage last night included gallactic, ghostly holograms. Fellow Phlogger Carly Carioli mentioned this, below.)
How'd they do that? Apparently, it involved fourty-four HD cameras, and twenty computers.
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November 04, 2008
By Caitlin E. Curran
Though I would’ve lent my full support to Hillary Clinton, had she become the Democratic presidential nominee, I voted for Barack Obama in the primaries - and am voting for him today - because I think that a President who looks out for the women of this country need not necessarily be a woman. The George W. Bush administration has wrought eight years worth of harsh, abstinence-only, anti-choice regime on American women.
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October 24, 2008
By Caitlin E. Curran
Image courtesy of the Allen Eyestone/AP via the New York Times
Sarah Palin's sparkling, new high-end $150,000 wardrobe, purchased recently on a "campaign accessories" shopping spree, is the currently topic du jour for nearly every blog, newspaper, TV news show, etc. etc
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