By Milas Bowman and Stella Dennig Bucket List Destination of the Week: Naked Comedy with ImprovBoston ($10); 40 Prospect St. (Central Square); Cambridge, MA Goal: See more penises in one night than ever before. Successful? Not even close. We both do wilderness. Penis Tally: 11: 8 comedians, 2...
Escape to the Loj
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By Ryan Clapp Drive two hours straight north on I-93, and you’ll arrive at Tufts University’s least-known satellite campus. Nestled in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, its few acres are just minutes away from a whole host of outdoor activities. It’s a lodge, or rather, the...
Random Trysts & ...
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Since the start of the semester, more and more students have been talking about Saloon, a pre-prohibition style bar that opened in December underneath the Foundry in Davis Square. You would easily miss it if you (a) weren’t paying very close attention or (b) didn’t know exactly...
Seeking Asylum | Somerville’s Creative Commu...
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By Ellen Mayer Somerville has long been known as a hub for artists and artisans. Combine this community with the wealth of engineering graduates in the Boston area who want to continue working on their own projects after college, and you get a huge demand for workspace and machinery. Enter Artisan’s Asylum, a non-profit community craft space near Union Square. The Asylum resides in a 25,000 square foot warehouse and rents studio space to over 100 tinkers, artists, and artisans. The site also has communal machinery for welding, woodwork, metal machining, fiber arts, robotics, and bicycle building. It’s a veritable playground for...
Boston’s Independent Book Scene
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By Ellen Mayer In Nora Ephron’s classic ’90s chick flick You’ve Got Mail, Meg Ryan plays the owner of a small children’s bookstore on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Just around the corner, a new Fox Books (a stand-in for Barnes and Noble) opens up and puts her out of business. Even as Meg Ryan finds herself falling in love with the CEO of Fox Books (Tom Hanks, of course), the movie continues to present the argument for the independent bookstore where community is paramount, where the booksellers know their customers and their books, and where a book does not cost so much, it is worth so much. Over a decade later,...
Craft Beer at the Fi...
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By Molly Rubin If there’s one thing I’ve learned while working as a bartender at the Five Horses Tavern, it’s that there is a beer out there for everybody. For those of us who don’t leave campus very often, it’s sometimes hard to remember that beer exists beyond the confines...