House and Home

Latest Articles

Review: Red Dead Redemption

Grand Theft Oater?
The land doesn't care. Not about the storms that blow across its plains. Not about the animals that stalk one another through its grasses. And certainly not about the men who occasionally appear over the horizon and try to build a civilization on its sands.
By MITCH KRPATA | June 21, 2010

By | January 01, 0001

Potatoes and a pennywhistle on Somerset Street

In the Garden
Drive south on Broad Street past the markets and churches, take a left on Somerset and there, in a clearing of raised garden beds behind a chain-link fence, you will find Phil Edmonds with his peas.
By ELIZABETH RAU | April 02, 2010

What would Joan do?

Gifts to show off your taste
In the pilot episode of AMC's Mad Men , Peggy Olson told Joan Holloway: "I'm from Bay Ridge. We have manners."
By DEIRDRE FULTON + CLEA SIMON | December 09, 2009

What Would Joan Do?

Jackie or Marilyn, Pete or Roger — they are what they eat. So, who are you?
So you've got a party coming up, a gift due, or a difficult-to-please significant other.
By CLEA SIMON | December 08, 2009

Review: Aliens in the Attic

No amount of shitty CGI can save it
As a kid, I was absurdly unpicky about my entertainment: shoddy '80s anime , reruns of This Old House , staring cross-eyed at our basement's pegboard wall to achieve a Magic Eye 3-D effect — these were all totally acceptable ways of whiling away an afternoon.
By SHAULA CLARK | August 04, 2009

Classing up the joint

World/Inferno Friendship Society at Paradise Rock Club, April 11, 2009
A substantial portion of the Paradise's clientele Friday evening wouldn't have looked out of place at a fancy dinner party. Thanks to the World/Inferno Friendship Society, punk rock and snazzy fashion sense are no longer mutually exclusive.
By BARRY THOMPSON | April 21, 2009

Fred Woodward | Urban Garden

Ujam (2009)
Veteran Boston jazz guitarist Fred Woodard comes from the Wes Montgomery and Grant Green schools of elegant post-bop funk with a contemporary spin of hip-hop and avant-garde.
By JON GARELICK | April 14, 2009

By | January 01, 0001

Growing good air

Going green
What's greener than houseplants?
By DEIRDRE FULTON | February 18, 2009

Crossword: ''Double dip''

It's giving me an ice cream headache
It's giving me an ice cream headache
By MATT JONES | February 18, 2009

The parent trap

Coraline pushes familiar buttons
Coraline pushes familiar buttons
By PETER KEOUGH | February 06, 2009

Not messing about

Mad Horse's beautiful Clean House
The pale modernism of Lane's living room, plush but sterile, is being slowly strewn with stuff: barely bitten apples, playing cards, a bright yellow spice.
By MEGAN GRUMBLING | January 28, 2009

Review: My Bloody Valentine 3-D

Not for the squeamish
Back in the early '80s, before Michael, Jason, and Freddy took off as slasher all-stars, there were other less famous genre seedlings, like the homonymous source for this pedestrian hack-'em-up about a pickax-wielding wonk gone berserk in a sleepy mining town.
By TOM MEEK | January 20, 2009

Bam Bam

Music seen at Bubba's Sulky Lounge, November 29
There are a few people in town who really know how to throw a party. Three of them (Jen Batchelor and Phoenix scribes Chris Gray and Ian Paige) amalgamated their powers on Saturday at Bubba's for a party to remember.
By CHAD CHAMBERLAIN | December 03, 2008