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May 22, 2012 | Low-Tech Tuesdays at Flat Top Johnny's

21 May, 2012

It’s hard to belly up to a bar these days without elbowing someone’s smartphone. Hell, the other night, we actually saw a dude clack-clacking away on his laptop smack-dab in the middle of a nightclub.…

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5 Courses with Joe Cassinelli of Posto and The Painted Burro

20 May, 2012 | Feed | Louisa Kasdon

It’s not often that you encounter a chef-owner who is as passionate about choosing the best fish (haddock or pollock?) for his tacos as he is about ensuring his servers remember to say “hello” and “go…

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All Star Pizza Bar

20 May, 2012 | Feed | Miles Howard

Like mini mad scientists, some of us grew up blowing off our eyebrows with childhood chemistry sets. (“Oh, that scar? Got it in a bar fight,” we boast now. Right.) Others, the fledgling foodies, condu…

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Getting hot out

20 May, 2012 | Get | Stuff Boston

There are two ways to handle a 30th birthday. Option A: hang your head, drown your sorrows, and bawl over photos from younger, spryer days. Option B: throw the most fierce, fabulous bash Boston has ev…

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Hot catch

20 May, 2012 | Get | Stuff Boston

In the dating pool, being called a “one-in-a-million catch” is quite the compliment. But in the ocean? A calico lobster wouldn’t hear it that way. Those elusive crustaceans are exponentially more uniq…

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Hot and cold

20 May, 2012 | Get | Stuff Boston

Bostonians are used to sudden changes in temperature. (Only in New England could we conceivably start the day in snow boots and end it in espadrilles.) But while Mother Nature’s mood swings can wreak …

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Hot and horrifying

20 May, 2012 | Get | Stuff Boston

We’ve always known that the suburbs can be a terrifying place. (A 10-minute drive to a Starbucks? Deliver us!) And now filmmaker Adam Green has a hit on his hands with Holliston, a horror-comedy TV se…

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Get Close ... with Avicii

20 May, 2012 | Get | Scott Kearnan

The Bruins may be off the ice, but this summer TD Garden (100 Legends Way, Boston, 617.624.1050) will welcome an act who knows how to score a hat trick. Swedish-born house star Avicii marks three majo…

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Golden playing cards, or the world's largest jigsaw puzzle?

20 May, 2012 | Get | Meghan Kavanaugh

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Get Seen ... at the Revere Hotel Boston Common Grand Opening

20 May, 2012 | Get | Erin Souza

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Self-centered portraits

20 May, 2012 | Get | Meghan Kavanaugh

It’s a well-known fact: you haven’t really “made it” unless the paparazzi are hounding your every move. And sometimes they’re actually the ticket to celebrity status. After all, was it Paris Hilton’s …

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Move it along

20 May, 2012 | Get | Miles Howard

Wander through the urban jungle of Cambridge on most days, and you’ll probably see a pretty benign biosphere, with a few grad students here, some skinny-jean-clad hipsters there. But in recent weeks, …

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The language of love

20 May, 2012 | Get | Miles Howard

What’s the key to kindling romance and keeping it aflame? (Hint: Jäger bombs is incorrect.) The answer we’re looking for here, class, is communication. The way we relate through language is usually th…

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May 22, 2012 | DJ Armin van Buuren at Royale

20 May, 2012 | Get | Miles Howard

Every industry has its kingpins. And in the pulsing trance-music scene, it’s Dutch DJ Armin van Buuren who rules the dance floor. He’s the lauded producer of sonic juggernauts like “Sail” and “Blue Fe…

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May 23, 2012 | Nikka Costa at Johnny D's

20 May, 2012 | Get | Miles Howard

When you’ve already sung with Frank Sinatra on the White House lawn by age nine, it’s hard to imagine another career-topping moment. But for Nikka Costa, performing alongside the king crooner himself …

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May 24, 2012 | Nutcracker Turbo (and Other Love Stories) at Loeb Drama Center

20 May, 2012 | Get | Miles Howard

Come the holiday season, The Nutcracker is a tried-and-true tradition. But there’s nothing standard about the surreal mash-up Nutcracker Turbo (and Other Love Stories), which is running from May 20 th…

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May 25, 2012 | Laff Mobb at the Wilbur Theatre

20 May, 2012 | Get | Miles Howard

It’s always a testament to your talent when you get a ringing endorsement from a veteran within your vocation. So when comedian Chris Rock referred toLaff Mobb as “a motherfuckin’ movement,” we perked…

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May 26, 2012 | Bovinus Rex at Boston Conservatory

20 May, 2012 | Get | Miles Howard

Food ethics are increasingly in the spotlight — quite literally in the case Guerilla Opera’s latest production. So if the factory-farming system strikes you as something out of a (Greek) tragedy, chec…

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May 27, 2012 | Avenue Q at Lyric Stage Company

20 May, 2012 | Get | Miles Howard

Coming-of-age stories usually veer toward the trite and self-affirming. So where can cynical 20- and 30-somethings turn when confronted by the disappointments and disillusionments that actually accomp…

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May 28, 2012 | The Mob at Great Scott

20 May, 2012 | Get | Miles Howard

If the modern Occupy movement ever decides it needs an anthem, it might want to look to The Mob. The British anarcho-punk band raged against societal woes of the late 1970s, delivering distortion-smot…

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