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. . . And so is your mom

Va te faire enculer . Sounds lovely, doesn’t it? Actually, I just told you to fuck off. Pardon my French!
If you don't have anything nice to say dept.
By CAITLIN E. CURRAN | July 03, 2009

Not to downplay this year's Pride Week or anything, but the annual weeklong mélange of events geared toward New England's lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community is just one year shy of its 40th anniversary. Which makes it sort of like the nigh
One year shy of middle age, Boston Pride Week has the times on its side
By CAITLIN E. CURRAN | May 29, 2009

The crash course

It was a sunny but brisk Friday afternoon in March when my bike was hit.
What to do when you have your next bike accident
By CAITLIN E. CURRAN | May 08, 2009

Slideshow: 'Paint Pens in Purses' in Allston

Paint Pens in Purses," a female art collective, put up its work in a pop-up gallery at 193 Harvard Ave., Allston.
Gallery pops up in vacant liquor store
By CAITLIN CURRAN | May 01, 2009

The society of the spectacle

Of Montreal live at the Paradise, April 21
Of Montreal live at the Paradise, April 21
By CAITLIN E. CURRAN | May 01, 2009

Firing back

"Yogurt is the official food of women." Or so enthuses TV writer Sarah Haskins in her sarcastic three-minute video "Target Women: Yogurt Edition."
A girl's best friend is her yogurt
By CAITLIN E. CURRAN | March 25, 2009

Moving pictures

The latest Dean Wareham and Britta Phillips project — 13 Most Beautiful . . . Songs for Andy Warhol's Screen Tests (Plexifilm) — is true to the artist it honors, innocence is only the surface of subterfuge.
Dean & Britta take on Andy Warhol's Screen Tests
By MICHAEL BRODEUR | March 17, 2009

Nazis, Manet, and romance

During World War II, Nazi plunderers focused their greedy eyes on Paris and began looting the city's artwork — operating according to Hitler's plan to open a massive, self-aggrandizing museum in Germany.
Telling Fiction from Fact
By CAITLIN E. CURRAN | February 19, 2009

Precious and Few

Twenty-five minutes into Passion Pit's set last Friday at the Middle East downstairs, Michael Angelakos mopped sweat from his brow with a towel and made an apologetic announcement.
Passion Pit live at the Middle East Downstairs, February 6, 2009
By CAITLIN E. CURRAN | February 09, 2009

Short and bitter words of love

People sum up grand concepts, thoughts, and plans in six words or fewer every day — in Facebook status updates, text messages, text-message novels , iPhone or Blackberry e-mails, Twitter posts, or analog Post-Its.
Six Little Words
By CAITLIN E. CURRAN | January 28, 2009

Interview: Shepard Fairey

"Denver wasn't great because I literally had a gun pointed at my head for putting posters up at the DNC."
Poster boy
By EVAN J. GARZA | January 27, 2009

Slideshow: Shepard Fairey slaps a mural on the Phoenix offices

January 22, 2009
January 22, 2009
By CAITLIN E. CURRAN | January 27, 2009

Spilling family secrets

Shortly after the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Iranian author Azar Nafisi began making a list in her diary.
Speaking Up
By CAITLIN E. CURRAN | January 21, 2009

Grupo Fantasma

"When you come to our show, you gotta dance. You dance however you want to dance."
Middle East Downstairs, January 8, 2009
By CAITLIN E. CURRAN | January 12, 2009

Quiz-bowl kids

Andrew Watkins is having faulty-buzzer issues.
Harvard rebuilds its team and answers some hard questions
By CAITLIN E. CURRAN | January 08, 2009

Year in pictures

Imagery 2008
By PHOENIX STAFF | December 24, 2008

ROCK'S STEADIES

THINK JUST BEING IN A RELATIONSHIP IS TOUGH? MEET FIVE BANDS WHO'VE COMBINED WORK AND PLAY ? AND AGAINST ALL ODDS ENDED UP MAKING SWEET HARMONIES.
THINK JUST BEING IN A RELATIONSHIP IS TOUGH? MEET FIVE BANDS WHO'VE COMBINED WORK AND PLAY ? AND AGAINST ALL ODDS ENDED UP MAKING SWEET HARMONIES.
By CAITLIN E. CURRAN | December 10, 2008

Never Say Smile

Could there be anyone cooler to have for a photography teacher than Annie Leibovitz?
Annie Leibovitz highlights her career
By CAITLIN E. CURRAN | November 19, 2008

Mixed Media at the Papercut

Last Saturday's mixed-bill affair at the Papercut Zine Library was a strange hybrid of contemporary salon, multimedia talent show, and impromptu modern-dance class (with instructions to move our bodies "like fire").
Cultural staples
By CAITLIN E. CURRAN | November 18, 2008

San Francisco treat

The SF-based Deerhoof performed at the Middle East a week ago Thursday with the amusingly repetitive precision of a puppet show or an assembly of wind-up toys.
Deerhoof at the Middle East Downstairs, October 23, 2008
By CAITLIN E. CURRAN | October 28, 2008

MySpacing

Here are some current top MySpace artists to check out, and some to avoid.
Hot and not
By CAITLIN E. CURRAN | October 27, 2008

Juana Molina | Un Día

Un Día shows Molina’s music in its weirdest, most mesmerizing, ideal version of itself.
Domino (2008)
By CAITLIN E. CURRAN | October 15, 2008

Scarlet letters

Sarah Vowell’s fifth book, The Wordy Shipmates (Riverhead) — released on October 7 — examines New England Puritans with a meticulously researched, critical-yet-comical eye.
The uptight killjoy in us
By CAITLIN E. CURRAN | October 09, 2008

Couple of Mavericks

Whereas Sarah Palin spewed folksy, confused verbiage, the Dodos played endearingly folk-y music for a stuffed Remis Auditorium.
The Dodos at the MFA, October 2, 2008
By CAITLIN E. CURRAN | October 08, 2008

Mobile-home game

The intersection of Brookline Avenue and Lansdowne Street, in the hours before, during, and after a Red Sox game, is not unlike a trading floor on pre-crash Wall Street: it’s chaotic, teeming with people, and everyone’s trying to make a buck.
Cross the Mayor of Lansdowne Street at your peril, Sox fans: you might be jinxing your team in the process
By CAITLIN E. CURRAN | October 01, 2008

Ask me anything

It used to be that, if you had a burning question, you had to a) ask your mom; b) consult a Magic 8 Ball; or c) trek to the top of a mountain to seek out a sagacious, all-knowing guru.
A free instant answer to any question is just a text away. But what do ChaCha’s guides have that , say, librarians don’t?
By CAITLIN E. CURRAN | September 03, 2008

Unhinging the binge

I have a possible solution for the binge-drinking quandary: be more discerning about what you pour down your throat.
Some drinks are just too good to chug
By CAITLIN E. CURRAN | September 02, 2008

Love us, don't leave us

Let’s skip the sugarcoating. Boston can be a tricky place.
Advice from sadder but wiser Bostonians
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN | September 02, 2008

Three’s a charm

Muhly, Amidon, and Bartlett are all VT-to-NY transplants and long-time collaborators.
The 802 Tour at the Museum of Fine Arts, August 24, 2008
By CAITLIN E. CURRAN | August 26, 2008

White walls, black paint

Not long after walking into the Distillery Gallery on a Monday evening, Thomas Buildmore removes two painted-over NO PARKING signs that had been screwed into the wall. “This show isn’t about street art,” he says.
Street art looking fine
By CAITLIN E. CURRAN | August 20, 2008

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