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Can't escape Snape at LeakyCon

Sure, Figawi Race Weekend is a blast, but how many times in my life would I have the opportunity to mingle with more than 750 J.K. Rowling devotees? So, this past Memorial Day weekend, I decided to skip Nantucket and join the all-ages, international as
Pottering Around
By NEELY STEINBERG | May 29, 2009

Running a clean race

Johnny and his crew of knuckleheads were playing a round of ding-dong ditch in the Back Bay when they were spotted by a cop.
Charles River weekend
By NEELY STEINBERG | May 01, 2009

Why no Barack of lamb?

Assuming he was indeed born in Honolulu, and barring another hanging-chads debacle, Barack Obama will likely be our next president.
Dining with Democrats
By NEELY STEINBERG | October 28, 2008

Night of the living geeks

I’ve never dated a geek. Nor have I ever envisioned myself doing so.
Romancing the nerds
By NEELY STEINBERG | September 10, 2008

Dated advice

To boink a lot or not to boink a lot?
Old-school words of wisdom for a better college sex life
By NEELY STEINBERG | September 04, 2008

Chicks who kick

I’ll admit that cheerleading teams have always irked me.
The other kind of Celtic dance
By NEELY STEINBERG | July 30, 2008

Collective effort

Making money watching Tom Brady? Sign me up!
So what happens next?
By NEELY STEINBERG | July 02, 2008

Streetball spectacle

The other end of the court
By NEELY STEINBERG | June 18, 2008

ReJoyce!

Trust Boston’s socially conscious Catholic academics to connect the dots between James Joyce’s once-banned 1922 mega-novel Ulysses and (among other things) gay marriage.
Love in Bloom at BC
By NEELY STEINBERG | June 11, 2008

Off the hook-up

It took me several years after college to understand what true relationship intimacy was about.
Sex and the single student
By NEELY STEINBERG | May 14, 2008

Probing minds

In the 1999 cult-classic satire Office Space, disgruntled corporate lackey Peter Gibbons visits an occupational hypnotherapist to address burn-out, stress, and his antipathy to TPS reports.
You, too, can learn to tap into people's unconscious through hypnosis
By NEELY STEINBERG | April 25, 2008

A liberating experience

In 1968, with the hippie Zeitgeist in full swing, a lively bunch of locals began meeting weekly on the Cambridge Commons to dance freeform to the wild drumbeats.
A liberating experience
By NEELY STEINBERG | April 16, 2008

A voice for the voiceless

“Where we come from we have a saying: ‘If you live in hell long enough, you get used to it.’ ” That’s Mohammed Harba talking about his former life in Iraq, under Saddam Hussein’s dictatorship.
The Boston Muslim Film Festival
By NEELY STEINBERG | April 09, 2008