Issue 14.12

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KATHY GRIFFEN @ THE WILBUR

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Anderson Cooper, Anderson Cooper, Anderson Cooper. Also, Kathy Griffin. Continue reading

Lust 

SAVAGE LOVE: BEATING YOURSELF UP OVER BDSM

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So how do you find a partner? Date vanilla girls? Trawl online personals? Get involved in the BDSM scene in your area? Yes, yes, and yes. Get involved in the BDSM scene and take out a kinky personal ad, and maybe you’ll meet a nice, dominant girl who wants a sexually submissive—and Ivy League–educated—boyfriend. Continue reading

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Experience 

13TH ANNUAL IRISH FILM FESTIVAL @ BRATTLE THEATRE

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Cure your hangover just in time for the Festival and the plenty o’ faux Irish stereotyping included in this write-up. Continue reading

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WZBC SPRING CONCERT @ GREAT SCOTT

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Will these stalwart sonic saviors be able to snatch salvation from the soundings of suckitude??? Find out next week! No, wait. Find out tonight. Continue reading

Experience 

HOOKMAN @ BCA CALDERWOOD PAVILION

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Instead of falling into cinematic horror clichés, Hookman focuses on “young girls at a crossroads in their life, as they navigate what emotions, expectations and goals they should have.” Continue reading

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OBIT: DAVID THORPE NOT SUCKING, 2004-2008

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To the casual reader, the Dig and the Other Paper might not seem so different. We both constantly rotate a bunch of the same writers, we both cover a lot of the same shit. And, like AV dweebs mad-dogging yearbook dweebs in the hall, we both fucking hate each other for reasons that totally exist. But there’s one major difference, kids. Continue reading

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COMMUNITY FORUM: ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE

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I’m sure folks at Occupy Wall Street are happy to address issues of economic disparity and corporate greed through mass incarcerations, and Occupy Oakland is happy to take one for the team by being doused with teargas, rubber bullets and flash grenades, but we could use the American people. Continue reading

Taste 

JAYSON ZEEMAN OF Z-RANT

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The restaurant was, in many ways, a chance project that Zeeman never imagined he’d create. But through a movie-script series of chance meetings, he’s created the area’s only seven-day brunch place that, through word of mouth, is completely packed for most of the week. Continue reading

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DEAR READER: LOCAL! LOCAL? LOCAL!

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“Local, echoing the fate of “Green” before it, is in the latter stages of metastatic ubiquity…” Continue reading

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EXIT POLL: THERESA MAKING IT MOIST AT MAKE IT NEW

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What’s so great about Make It New? “I come here and f-cking dance my ass off and I feel like I’m a person again.” Continue reading

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VACATIONER: GONE

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One helluva hazy-summer-evening soundtrack. Continue reading

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