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Unveiling the new (old) Planned Parenthood

Rebranding the Branded
Planned Parenthood wants abortions for everyone! Well, not exactly.

By: SARA FAITH ALTERMAN | March 25, 2009

Dance, Monkey!: Taylor Newhall

Eats stinky cheese
We put a comic on the hot seat. This week's victim . . .

By: SARA FAITH ALTERMAN | March 19, 2009

Interview: Mitch Fatel

Fatel hates the Yankees, loves stand-up
Given that he was once an intern for Howard Stern, it's not too surprising that comedian Mitch Fatel is all about clits and tits, and assorted lady bits – not the stuff that feminists would gleefully shave their legs over.

By: SARA FAITH ALTERMAN | March 19, 2009

Dance, monkey!: Bobby Collins

Bobby Collins on crazy-eyed Limbaugh
Every week we put a comic in the hot seat. This week's victim is....

By: SARA FAITH ALTERMAN | March 12, 2009

Fistfight at the Coulter/Maher Speaker Series!

Bill Maher and Ann Coulter go head-to-head in the first installation of the Wang Theatre's 2009 Speaker Series
What happens when the country's most litigious conservative butts political heads with the man who champions pot and prostitution?

By: SARA FAITH ALTERMAN | March 16, 2009

Walk against sexual violence

$100,000 in Change
April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month and you can help acknowledge the month by helping raise much-needed funds for the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center (BARCC).

By: SARA FAITH ALTERMAN | March 12, 2009

The center of the universe

Renaissance man Richard Goodwin explores the roots of religious wars by channeling anti-hero Galileo in the play Two Men of Florence .
Real-life quantum leaper Richard Goodwin was sort of a 1960s political Zelig — everywhere you looked, there he was.

By: SARA FAITH ALTERMAN | March 10, 2009

Jonas Brothers: The 3-D Concert Experience

Uncomfortable all around
Just as there's no good reason for Joe, Kevin, and Nick Jonas to be swoon-inducing pop-idol heartthrobs.

By: SARA FAITH ALTERMAN | March 04, 2009

Death becomes her

The future of funerals is fresh-faced . . . and female.
Like any other 20 year olds, Megan Peterson and Mackenzie Byles chatter like hyperactive squirrels, excitedly finishing each others' sentences as though they're alien twins with melded minds.

By: SARA FAITH ALTERMAN | February 27, 2009

Dance, Monkey!: Ardal O'Hanlon

Deep thoughts by Ardal O'Hanlon
Every week we put a comic in the hot seat. This week's victim: Ardal O'Hanlon.

By: SARA FAITH ALTERMAN | August 04, 2011

Dance, Monkey!: Rob Crean

We put a visiting comic on the hot seat
Rob Crean has secret talents

By: SARA FAITH ALTERMAN | February 10, 2009

Dance Monkey: Bill Burr

Dance, monkey!
We put a comic in the hot seat every week. This week's victim.....

By: SARA FAITH ALTERMAN | February 04, 2009

Dance Monkey: JR STRAUSS

JR Strauss
We Put A Comic On The Hot Seat. This Week's Victim . . .

By: SARA FAITH ALTERMAN | February 02, 2009

Puccini goes punk

Faced with diminishing mainstream opportunities, Boston's young opera singers are going small and making the repertoire their own
Perched on the lid of a lace-draped baby grand, a bobblehead quivers along with Christine Teeters's vibrato as she powers through a Tuesday-night voice lesson in the Steinway Piano Building on Boylston Street.

By: SARA FAITH ALTERMAN | January 23, 2009