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April 15, 2009
By Ian Sands
If an afternoon perfecting the art of Medieval Carpentry sounds to you like time well spent, you should probably be at the seventh-annual Boston Skillshare at MIT this weekend. Run by an entirely-volunteer organizing collective, the two-day event features workshops ranging from the somewhat esoteric (“Wild Carrot as a Natural Method of Contraception,” “Making Milk out of Nuts and Seeds,” or “Spoon Carving”) to the practical (the simply-titled “Time Management”).
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April 02, 2009
By Ian Sands
this man is likely to get laid this weekend
The brows will furrow and the pens will squeal this Sunday, April 5, as wordsters from across (and down) New England compete in the Boston Crossword Puzzle Tournament from 1-4 p.m. at the Harvard University Science Center.
New York Times puzzle editor and King of Crosswords Will Shortz will “entertain” spectators as brainy contestants vie for the shortest time to complete four new, never-before-seen Times crosswords.
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March 25, 2009
By Ian Sands
We asked Phoenix staffers to send over links to stories/blog posts/webpages that have caught their eyes today. Here are the highlights...
Man on Fire: A surgeon suffering a heart attack while performing brain surgery carries on with the procedure.
Food Fight: The Boston Globe pisses off a local deviled eggs fanatic.
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March 20, 2009
By Ian Sands
Back in 2007 I saw a band named Antiques play P.A.’s Lounge in Somerville. At that show, the only people to show up were me, my four friends, and maybe two other people. It’s not exactly an anomaly for a band to find themselves playing to an empty room at that place. But in this situation it was so painfully obvious to everyone in attendance that this band clearly should have been playing to a packed club and not six clowns such as ourselves.
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March 19, 2009
By Ian Sands
The Greed-off Continues: Citibank takes AIG’s CEO bonuses and raises it one office space.
Canada, You Can Keep Him: Dubya gets his groove on in Ontario, jokes about housing crisis.
A Bad Week for Cats: First, there’s this creepy lady. Then, there’s recently jailed Project Runway loser Kenley Collins, who allegedly used a cat, among other things, to attack her ex.
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March 13, 2009
By Ian Sands
Common Art, a weekly faith-based open studios, provides poor and homeless folks space and materials to make art. Each week between 10 am and 2 pm on Wednesday, these artists gather at the studio space in Emmanuel Church in Boston. The time serves as a reprieve for its participants: a chance to concentrate fully on a drawing, an acrylic or perhaps a puppet construction.
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March 12, 2009
By Ian Sands
MASTERPIECE THEATER
10 years ago
March 12, 1999 | Peter Keough said so long to Stanley Kubrick.
“Who could imagine 2001 without Stanley Kubrick? In an irony he would have appreciated, one of the greatest filmmakers of the last half-century died of undisclosed causes at the age of 70, just shy of the millennium he celebrated in his groundbreaking, forever baffling apocalyptic epic, 2001: A Space Odyssey (1967).
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March 05, 2009
By Ian Sands
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March 03, 2009
By Ian Sands
-- Seen on the side of the bus stop in Central Square
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February 06, 2009
By Ian Sands
Juicy Campus has officially shut its doors to the college gossipers and frightened socialites who loved and hated their presence on the site.
The website began in August of 2007 as a place to make anonymous postings about everyone and everything on college campuses. It took off this past fall as freshmen joined new colleges and needed a way to vent about the RA who was drunk all of the time, the easiest girl on campus, or that hot guy next door about whom nobody knew anything.
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