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Chinatown Hypnosis Case Bull, Says Renowned Mentalist

Not so amazing
Not so amazing

By: EUGENIA WILLIAMSON | May 16, 2012

Watertown vs. Walmart

Thinking Outside the Big Box
Some 75 people stand holding signs along Watertown's Arsenal Street on Saturday morning as Mike Mandel shouts their goal: to keep Walmart from moving in up the road.

By: GREG COOK | May 07, 2012

Looney Tunes' new home

As the Vinyl Turns
Pat McGrath is a realist.

By: TOM KIELTY | May 02, 2012

Occupy buries capitalism

Rest in pieces
Seattle Occupiers threw bricks through windows. Oakland anarchists got tear-gassed. Chicago protesters shut down five Bank of Americas.

By: | May 02, 2012

An app for autism

Tech to speech
This month marks the second anniversary of Apple's first public iPad release.

By: ARIEL SHEARER | April 19, 2012

Mitt bulks up

Up to Old Tricks Dept.
If there's one thing the Mitt Romney team excels at, it's manipulating campaign-finance rules.

By: DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | April 18, 2012

When the cops subpoena your Facebook information, here's what Facebook sends the cops

By: CARLY CARIOLI | April 09, 2012

Bill Murray's bag job

Live from Suffolk
When Bill Murray walked onstage to deliver the opening remarks at a Suffolk University award ceremony last Tuesday, he carried with him an unmarked paper shopping bag.

By: EUGENIA WILLIAMSON | April 04, 2012

April Fools
In the April Fool's Day issue of Boston University's Daily Free Press, sorority girls get roofied and raped, one female student gets "gang-banged" by an entire fraternity, and a hockey player gets arrested for walking around with his pants down.

By: LIZ PELLY | April 04, 2012

A moment of illumination

Film matters
Last Friday, Brandeis University brought together two legends of nonfiction filmmaking: Errol Morris and Claude Lanzmann.

By: BETSY SHERMAN | March 29, 2012

Everything Is Terrible sics ''DoggieWoggiez! PoochieWoochiez!'' on the Coolidge

Worst in show?
For a concise introduction to Everything Is Terrible, look up "Nightmare on Drug Street" on YouTube.

By: EUGENIA WILLIAMSON | March 26, 2012

St. Patrick’s Day v. Gays

March madness
You wouldn't know it from this past weekend's green-beer bonanza, but South Boston is changing: real-estate prices are on the rise, and longtime residents are being squeezed out as a more affluent — and, as I wrote about in 2009, often more gay — demographic takes hold.

By: ERICA CORSANO | March 21, 2012

Cameroon foundation gets fabulous

ONE Love
A drag queen named Tiffany Whispers strokes her bubblegum-pink wig and smiles at me as I hand my coat off to be checked. "Don't you just love Africa?" she says, and winks before taking another sip of her drink, her frosty lipstick leaving a mark on the straw.

By: CASSANDRA LANDRY | March 14, 2012

For Cherie King, paid employment doesn't bring shelter

The working homeless
According to a 2011 survey by the US Department of Mayors, Boston's homelessness rate is in moderate decline. Still, the plight of the working, struggling people on the street remains a real one.

By: CHRIS FARAONE | March 07, 2012

Putting the 'Arrrr' in DRM

Booty Call
Forget Talk Like a Pirate Day. In the 2012 elections, November 6 will be Vote Like a Pirate Day — if you happened to have joined a growing number of hackers and Internet activists and registered as a member of the Massachusetts Pirate Party (MAPP).

By: ARIEL SHEARER | March 07, 2012