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Keeping Time with Fashionably Late

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Some — ahem, everyone in NYC — would say Boston isn't a fashion-forward city.

By: ALEXANDRA CAVALLO | March 06, 2013

Interview: Nick Offerman, the man's man of Parks and Rec

Is Ron Swanson the manliest character on TV right now?

By: ALEXANDRA CAVALLO | February 15, 2013

The TNT Short List: ArtsEmerson's Next Thing

Mike Daisey's anthropologic commentary on American culture is just the beginning of what ArtsEmerson has in store for festival-goers at The Next Thing (TNT) Festival.

By: ALEXANDRA CAVALLO | February 12, 2013

Common Threads: Block Shop textiles

Style
This past November, two giant burlap parcels — hand-stitched together and sealed with wax — arrived on Hopie Stockman's Cambridge doorstep.

By: ALEXANDRA CAVALLO | February 15, 2013

Review: Mama

This creepy Guillermo Del Toro-produced horror flick (his hallmarks are all around the smudgy edges) demonstrates convincingly that step-parenting is a real bitch.

By: ALEXANDRA CAVALLO | January 22, 2013

Endless summer: A winter picnic in the Nave Gallery

A sneak peek at the inaugural exhibit at the Nave Gallery's brand-new annex space in Davis Square.

By: ALEXANDRA CAVALLO | January 23, 2013

Perched on a stool in the artfully cluttered Crocodile Tears studio, listening to Marya Chan and Jodi Klann discuss their work while willing myself not to spill my glass of red all over the beads, baubles, and oddities strewn across the polka-dotted table that serves as their workspace, I'm thinking that — as second jobs go — making jewelry with one of your best buds is a good one.

By: ALEXANDRA CAVALLO | January 08, 2013

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On the Cheap: Neighborhoods Coffee & Crepes

French treats find a cozy nook in Fenway
Walking into the warm, aromatic embrace of the new, gingham-curtained, brightly austere café on Fenway's Restaurant Row on one of the new year's first frosty mornings felt a bit like walking into a hug after getting one's feelings bruised by an unkind word.

By: ALEXANDRA CAVALLO | January 07, 2013

10 things we said goodbye to in 2012

We Hardly Knew Ya...
Not to be all gloomy as we stand on 2013's doorstep or anything, but we thought it only right to bid one final adieu to some people and things we left behind in 2012.

By: ALEXANDRA CAVALLO | January 02, 2013

15 signs of the apocalypse we probably should have heeded in 2012

Maybe the Mayans were on to something...
As the date of the alleged Mayan doomsday drew nearer, we found ourselves looking back over the past year. And it's not looking good.

By: ALEXANDRA CAVALLO | December 18, 2012

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A Quest for the Treasure of Mount Denny’s

There and back again
When we heard Denny's had released a special menu in honor of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey , our first collective thought was "Uh, gross."

By: ALEXANDRA CAVALLO | December 12, 2012

Fresh Ink: The Tattooed Youth Librarians Calendar

A sexy fireman calendar? Please. These days that's about as antiquated as the concept of the prim, buttoned-up spinster librarian.

By: ALEXANDRA CAVALLO | December 04, 2012

Boxes for the Box: DVD sets for the holidays

GIFT GUIDE 2012
Call us homebodies, call us lazy, but the plain fact is that most nights we're more than happy to stay at home on the couch in ratty sweats, cozied up to a box of wine.

By: ALEXANDRA CAVALLO | December 05, 2012

You're Doing It Wrong: Hats

Don't worry. Our expert is here to help.
Does anybody really look good in a winter hat? Yes, says haute hat designer Marie Galvin of GALVIN-ized Headwear.

By: ALEXANDRA CAVALLO | November 27, 2012

That's hot: Drinks to keep you warm

If that snowstorm a couple of weeks back was any indication, we'd say that winter is well on its not-so-merry way.

By: ALEXANDRA CAVALLO | November 16, 2012

You're Doing It Wrong: Competitive Eating

Don't worry. Our expert is here to help.
Since the closest we've come to competitive eating was battling our dining companions for the last spring roll over late-night takeout (victoriously, we might add), we thought it best to consult a seasoned professional before entering one of McGreevy's new buffalo-wing-eating "Wing Pot" contests.

By: ALEXANDRA CAVALLO | November 14, 2012