Arts 

DIG THIS: THE AMISH PROJECT @ CAMBRIDGE YMCA THEATRE

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In 2006, a school shooter attacked and killed several young girls in an Amish community before committing suicide. Continue reading

Comics 

EARTH PRIME TIME: PRIMATES INTERVIEW WITH MARIS WICKS & JIM OTTAVIANI

MPrimates Cover by Maris WicksSomerville comic artist Maris Wicks was tapped to illustrate another fine Jim Ottaviani science book and the result is Primates from First Second. Jim and Maris were kind enough to talk with us about observers that inspire us. Primates is the story of “Leakey’s Angels”—Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Biruté Galdika—and is a beautifully crafted story, lushly illustrated for all audiences. Get your feet wet in the jungle with us as we swing from the trees!

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News 

COMMUNITY FORUM: DEFUSING THE CARBON BOMB

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“This pipeline is a carbon bomb, the tipping point for this country,” Pearl said. “With a stroke of a pen the president can end this injustice.” Continue reading

LULZ 

TOUCH THE WONDER: LET’S DANCE WITH JESSE LONERGAN AND HIS POP CULTURE ARTWORK

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Jesse Lonergan is a comic book writer and artist living in Somerville. He began a blog called Dancer A Day in January 2012 and it is the coolest thing I’ve seen all year. Dancer A Day offers up a different pop culture character or figure culled from either film, comics, music, literature and even history itself, then simply shows them dancing. Dancing… joyously. The result is internet quicksand. Continue reading

News 

DEEMABLE TECH: iMESSAGE ISN’T iWORKING

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Q: I thought that when iOS 6.0 came out iMessage was supposed to be synchronized between the iPad and the iPhone. I have an iPad and an iPhone, and my husband has an iPhone, but he has to send texts to either my iPad or iPhone. It doesn’t send his text messages to both. Did I setup something wrong?

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Music 

HELLA NEWSWORTHY: DEER TICK RELEASE NEW SINGLE

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Deer Tick, that explosive alternative country band, have jumped out of Providence’s woods (heh) to share “The Rock.” Continue reading

Music 

ZOMBY: WITH LOVE

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But now it’s 2013. Obama’s watching you have Skype sex, you can’t leave your house without hearing the Biebs’s cover of “Little Drummer Boy” and Zomby has ditched electronic purist label Werk Discs for 4AD. Continue reading