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Field guide to Facebook

Recently, CNN ran a short piece listing common Facebook personas. CNN ? After our collective jaws dropped, we asked the rhetorical question, "How instructive is the funeral-parlor-stopover of undead zombies like Lou Dobbs and Larry King going to be to t
Log on at your own peril! We take you on a surfing safari and break down the site's 19 most browser-busting bozos.
By KARA BASKIN | September 04, 2009

Living beyond their means?

I'm at Bond on a Thursday night, and it's simmering with testosterone and possibility. Spaghetti-legged cocktail waitresses coo at businessmen. Tables spill forth with bejeweled women speaking too loudly and young couples sipping Champagne.
The go-go '80s have receded into the oh-no aughties, but not everyone has gotten the memo.
By KARA BASKIN | June 19, 2009

Law students luckier than the rest

While I know it has been extremely difficult for recent law-school graduates to find employment this year, the data in Kara Baskin’s story was not accurate. Ninety-two percent of our class of 2008 was employed within six months after graduation.
Letters to the Boston editor, May 8, 2009
By BOSTON PHOENIX LETTERS | May 08, 2009

Nervous, stressed, and depressed, LLC

Twenty-seven-year-old Jesse White is a temporary staff attorney at a domestic-violence nonprofit in the South End.
What's a recent law grad expected to do in this economy?
By KARA BASKIN | May 01, 2009

Red, white, and blue balls: Bringing the party to the people

Are there any jobs on Earth more virile-sounding than commander in chief?
A history of our Inaugural West Swingers and White House Hoedowns
By KARA BASKIN | January 14, 2009

The holly and the miser

Let the current financial tsunami be a lesson to you, arrogant plebeian consumer: greed cometh before a fall.
You're suddenly poor; suck it up and be cheap
By KARA BASKIN | December 08, 2008

Half-baked Alaska

Until a couple months ago, did the state of Alaska ever cross your radar? Its chief exports were cute polar-bear screen savers and Northern Exposure .
Why is the coldest state such a hotbed of corruption?
By KARA BASKIN | November 05, 2008

Living la vida Republican

Trying to find college Republicans in Boston is like looking for a flattering pair of jeans: they’re elusive — either too stiff or completely out of style.
Because at America’s colleges, even the dangerously misguided have a right to be heard
By KARA BASKIN | October 20, 2008

Biz-school widows lament

Some, these days, would have harsh words for the culture of business schools, as if, perhaps, B-school grads were just a teensy bit responsible for, like, the collapse of the whole fucking world.
It’s hard to become a full member of the club when you’re an academic ‘other’
By SARA FAITH ALTERMAN AND KARA BASKIN | October 20, 2008

Stock stupidity

In my wildest dreams, I never thought my stock-market ignorance would be something to brag about.
Self-declared financial ignoramus revels in the fact that investing ‘geniuses’ probably know less than she does
By KARA BASKIN | October 01, 2008

Fallopian follies

Speculating on celebrity baby “bumps” is Hollywood blood sport.
While celebrity sages salivate over Hollywood babies, Beltway pundits are spinning the latest wave of ovarian escapades. Have girls really gone wild?
By KARA BASKIN | September 10, 2008

MEFA madness

On July 28, news broke that the Massachusetts Educational Financing Authority had fallen on hard times.
No need to panic over student loans. Just pay more.
By KARA BASKIN | August 13, 2008

Sweet madness

Just reading this book exhausted me, so I can only imagine how tired Marya Hornbacher must have been after writing it. Or perhaps it came easily to her. Most things seem to.
Marya Hornbacher’s bipolar life
By KARA BASKIN | May 19, 2008

Nowhere to hide

Google-fucked. That’s what you are when a potential employer searches your name and discovers that you — you of the 4.0 GPA, you of the charity work — are also the sluttiest person on campus.
College gossip blogs exposed
By KARA BASKIN | April 25, 2008

The kids in the hall

Someone is going to get pregnant.
Teen pregnancies are up. Can on-campus student-parent services be far behind?
By KARA BASKIN | January 22, 2008

Loving abuse

Oh, the holidays.
No one can be ruder than your family, and the holidays provide the perfect stage for the kindest cuts of all
By KARA BASKIN | December 10, 2007

Boston's green heroes

Small steps and super-human efforts
By KARA BASKIN | November 07, 2007

Massbike

The Massachusetts Bicyclist Coalition is here to serve and protect . . . the interests of cyclists, that is.
A very effective cyclists lobby
By KARA BASKIN | November 06, 2007

Redbones

Redbones, despite the name, is one of the greenest restaurants in the city.
Even the grease is friendly
By KARA BASKIN | November 06, 2007

City Feed and Supply

Put down your brown-rice sushi and get thee to Jamaica Plain’s City Feed And Supply, a throwback to the days of mom-and-pop corner stores.
Bearing the fruits of the community back to the neighborhood
By KARA BASKIN | November 06, 2007

Jim Marzilli

State representative Jim Marzilli — Arlington resident, expert gardener, Democrat, Prius-owner — is running for state senate.
Enviro-pol
By KARA BASKIN | November 06, 2007

Greg Mosman

Mosman has an agenda: the Department of Parks and Recreation has tasked him with planting 100,000 trees during the next 10 years.
Replanting the urban canopy
By KARA BASKIN | November 06, 2007

Hatched

As we in the green generation come of age, it's only natural that we seek out organic accoutrements for our offspring.
You're never too young to save the planet
By KARA BASKIN | November 06, 2007

The Farm

An organic farm? In Boston Harbor? Whose crops won’t make you grow a third arm?
Homeless Bostonians grow their own
By KARA BASKIN | November 06, 2007

Save the Harbor/Save the Bay

More than 20 years ago, a Quincy city solicitor went for a jog along a Boston beach. Sadly, his exercise was ruined when he landed feet-first in a mound of sewage.
A 21-year campaign clears things up
By KARA BASKIN | November 06, 2007

Mike Flanigan

In the immortal words of H.G. Wells: “When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race.”
Custom-built and street-legal bikes for commuters
By KARA BASKIN | November 06, 2007

Broadway Bicycle School

You know what they say: give a man a bike, he’ll ride for a day; teach a man how to repair his own bike, and you’ll run him over on Storrow Drive.
Mastering the art of bicycle maintenance
By KARA BASKIN | November 06, 2007

E.O. Wilson

He’s spent his career as a biologist classifying living things, but E.O. Wilson is hard to categorize.
Enviro-brain
By KARA BASKIN | November 06, 2007

Celibate at Harvard

A year ago, a conservative revolution was born in the throbbing heart of liberal Cambridge: a True Love Revolution (TLR), that is.
Can true love ever replace campus hook-ups?
By KARA BASKIN | October 25, 2007

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