News 

COMMUNITY FORUM: TAXI CABS REACHING THEIR CREDIT LIMIT

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More than four years after the city of Boston made it mandatory for taxis to accept credit cards, records show that some of the city’s cabbies are still refusing them. Continue reading

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ALLSTON RAT CITY: REALTORS AND LEASES AND CRAIGSLIST, OH MY!

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What we need is a social networking site for apartments; a way for people to be like: “I like cats, you like pizza, we will probably get along as roommates, so, let’s cohabitate. Pizza cats 4 lyf,” without having to sort through the Craigslist scams. I’m sure that even if we got this, it would turn into all scams within a few months anyway. Continue reading

Music 

PEER REVIEW: BLACK FLAG @ THE MIDDLE EAST

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In that moment it didn’t matter if you were 50 and seeing them again or 14 and hitting your first pit under the watchful gaze of your father—we were all lost in the music. Continue reading

Music 

COCOROSIE: TALES OF A GRASSWIDOW

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Maybe this is what we’ve been waiting for: an album to which we can groove and ponder the existence of extraterrestrial life. Continue reading

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PEER REVIEW: F-CKED UP @ THE SINCLAIR

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As the group held down the fort onstage with a blistering cacophony, a grin broke over Pink Eyes’ face as he stood at the summit of the stairs. His gut glistening, his glorious man-breasts lubed up with well-earned sweat, he dove headfirst down the railing and slid down it in slow motion. Continue reading

Arts 

PEER REVIEW: JOHN WILLIAMS @ BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 6.12.13

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Against the backdrop of “Flight to Neverland” from Hook (1991), the screen displayed a montage of airborne clips from Toy Story, Aladdin, Airplane, How to Train Your Dragon, Wall-E, and others. The audience was practically on cloud nine at this point, as their emotions were taken on a magical journey through the clouds with every momentary pause and triumphant hoist done by the orchestra. This was only the first half, and I was already swooning as if it were a Beatles concert. Continue reading

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PEER REVIEW: POSTAL SERVICE @ BANK OF AMERICA PAVILION

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And that’s what this tour is all about. It’s for the all the people who lost and then found themselves again over a decade ago to an experimental record that latched on and refused to let go. Continue reading