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Marty hears things that aren't there. Doctors say she's schizophrenic. A new movement says she's just human.
She can hear a baby crying. She searches the house, each cluttered room, the closets, under the bed. She checks the cupboards. She checks behind the shower curtains. There is no baby.

By: S.I. ROSENBAUM | October 21, 2011

On carpentry and college

Finding reward - and real learning - in the ivory tower
Age 30, I quit the Phoenix and ended up with a job as an apprentice to a carpenter. Sawing, chiseling, hammering, nail-gunning, tiling, sanding, slotting, framing, hauling, measuring, and sweeping are less obvious outcomes of an undergraduate career in the liberal arts. College, in strange and unexpected ways, prepared me for this sort of work. And in others, did not prepare me at all.

By: NINA MACLAUGHLIN | October 20, 2011

Photos: The Fear at Fenway

Fenway Park | Thursday, Oct. 20th, 2011
The Fear at Fenway haunts Boston for two weeks starting Thursday, Oct. 20th, 2011.

By: DEREK KOUYOUMIJAN | October 24, 2011

Photos: The Life Is Good Festival at the Prowse Farm

Canton MA | September 24-25, 2011
The Life Is Good Festival takes over Prowse Farm in Canton MA on September 24-25, 2011.

By: MILES WEAVER | September 30, 2011

Photos: Marshmallow Fluff Festival | September 24, 2011

Marshmallow Fluff Festival in Union Square on September 24, 2011
Union Square hosts the Marshmallow Fluff Festival on September 24, 2011.

By: K BONAMI | September 28, 2011

Slideshow: A year of ''Meet the Mayor''

Term limits? Those are for losers. Here are the 12 Foursquare mayors who hung onto their turf
Before I had the foggiest idea that Foursquare existed, our esteemed managing editor pitched me the idea of interviewing mayors. Following a deeply confusing 20-minute-or-so conversation, I started to understand that she wasn't asking me to interview Menino every week.

By: BARRY THOMPSON | September 26, 2011

How To Grow Pot In Your Dorm Room

Time to make the nuggets
First things first: If you follow the instructions below, you are an idiot who is risking fines, imprisonment, getting kicked out of school, and worse.

By: ROY BLUNT JR. | September 26, 2011

Campus safe spaces offer comfy couches and open minds

Safety in numbers
Two months into freshman year, I was sitting in a friend's dorm room when Melissa, the broadcast journalism student who lived down the hall, burst into the room. She was near tears.

By: LIZ PELLY | September 28, 2011

Photos: Freedom Rally 2011 at Boston Common

Mass Cann/NORML's annual Freedom Rally | September 17, 2011
Mass Cann/NORML's annual Freedom Rally comes to the Boston Common on September 17, 2011.

By: K. BONAMI | September 19, 2011

Photos: East Cambridge Damian Festival

East Cambridge Damian Festival | September 11, 2011
The East Cambridge Damian Festival takes over Cambridge Street on September 11, 2011.

By: DEREK KOUYOUMJIAN | September 15, 2011

Photos: Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series on the Boston Waterfront

Boston Harbor | August 20, 2011
Athletes participate in the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series at the Boston Harbor on August 20, 2011.

By: KELSEY MARIE BELL | September 01, 2011

Photos: Art Show with the Tower & the Fool at Johnny Cupcakes

Johnny Cupcakes | August 26, 2011
Johnny Cupcakes hosts an art party featuring live acoustic performances from the Tower & the Fool and Kevin King, on August 26, 2011.

By: MIKE DRAVIS | September 01, 2011

The heartbreak and hilarity of Rhode Island amateur baseball

Endless summer
By the eighth inning it's clear the Dodgers, a middling team in the 22-plus age division of Rhode Island's largest amateur baseball league, aren't going to win.

By: DAVID SCHARFENBERG | September 01, 2011

Photos: One Night in Boston 2011

Fifteen photographers. Eight hours.
STUFF Magazine presents photos taken in Boston's streets over eight hours on the night of July 15, 2011; here are a few of our favorites.

By: STUFF BOSTON | August 12, 2011

Photos: Zombie parents' day at Wizards & Warriors camp

Bridge to Sidelterra
"Your mission is nothing! Prepare to die in Sidleterra!" yells one young warrior after maiming the enemy, buying time to attack more zombie parents as they arrive, bloody and moaning, to retrieve their offspring on the last day of summer camp.

By: MOLLY GEIGER | August 10, 2011

Party supplies

Trans Dance Dept.
Original Plumbing, the New York–based quarterly lifestyle magazine and Web site for trans men and their friends, returns to the Midway this Friday for a queer/trans dance party featuring go-go boys, a photo booth, DJs D'hana and Justincredible, and a midnight performance by New England electropop act Nicky Click.

By: THOMAS PAGE MCBEE | August 10, 2011