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Queering the party with the DJs of Nu Life

Beyond Gay Night
Growing up gay on Long Island, Brian Friedberg went out dancing almost every night: at all-ages clubs, raves, dancehall nights, gay hip-hop nights, gay clubs, straight clubs, and late-night joints. But he couldn't find the party he was looking for.

By: EUGENIA WILLIAMSON | May 23, 2012

Chinatown Hypnosis Case Bull, Says Renowned Mentalist

Not so amazing
Not so amazing

By: EUGENIA WILLIAMSON | May 16, 2012

Lizzie Stark explores the worlds of live-action storytelling

The Art of LARP
For the uninitiated, the word "LARP" conjures burly beardos hitting each other with foam swords in the woods and corseted women in capes flouncing around hotel ballrooms, all for entirely inexplicable reasons.

By: EUGENIA WILLIAMSON | May 14, 2012

Save a car, ride a pedicab

The Pedi Cure
Before this assignment, I had never even considered riding in pedicab, even though I work in the pedicab mecca of Kenmore Square. I always thought there was something extremely icky about making someone sweat while I sit there like a pasha.

By: EUGENIA WILLIAMSON | May 09, 2012

Stupid Bike Poetry

A celebration of ostentatious bikes, in verse
Some people are just too goddamn special to ride a two-wheeler.

By: EUGENIA WILLIAMSON | May 09, 2012

A year in Westeros

Two Allston roommates make the nerdiest cookbook ever
"There's a pig head in the pot," Sariann Lehrer says, almost apologetically.

By: EUGENIA WILLIAMSON | May 02, 2012

Rich Juzwiak, the superman of supercuts, waxes philosophical about his métier

He’s not there to make friends
I'm not here to make friends. This pithy phrase tidily encapsulates all the bluster, the stiltedness, the underwhelming drama and overinflated breasts of reality TV.

By: EUGENIA WILLIAMSON | May 04, 2012

The ’90s auteur is back with Damsels in Distress, and he wants you in his club

Me and Whit Stillman down by the schoolyard
I attended a Catholic prep school in the early '90s filled with the scions of physicians and food czars.

By: EUGENIA WILLIAMSON | April 20, 2012

Review: Damsels in Distress

Whit Stillman's first film in 13 years
Damsels in Distress , writer-director Whit Stillman's first film in 13 years, is a comedic fable set at a fictional college in the East at some indeterminate time that seems like the present but might as well not be.

By: EUGENIA WILLIAMSON | April 20, 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

Touré on Prince

'Touch, if you will, my stomach'
Boston native Touré, a critic (Rolling Stone), talking head (MSNBC), television host (The Hip Hop Shop), and author (What It Means To Be Black Now) has added "Harvard lecturer" to his lengthy résumé.

By: EUGENIA WILLIAMSON | March 30, 2012

The Battle of Midway

Have you heard the one about the artists, the defense contractor, and the landlord they all don’t like?
To understand what happens when a defense contractor moves into an artists' enclave and isn't the strangest thing to happen there, one only need look at the saga of Midway Studios.

By: EUGENIA WILLIAMSON | March 30, 2012

And thus the 'Game of Thrones' continues

Calling Dr. Zaius!
'Twas the thud heard round the world. In the penultimate episode of the first season of HBO's Game of Thrones , our hero Ned Stark (Sean Bean), after a brief, fraught tenure as the King's Hand, discovered the Lannisters' incestuous affair, was falsely declared traitor to the realm, and was beheaded in front of a frothing horde in the town square at King's Landing.

By: EUGENIA WILLIAMSON | April 04, 2012