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Nouvelle New England: These are not your great-great-grandfather’s hoecakes

by MC Slim JB | November 16, 2007
NEW ENGLAND’S culinary tradition may be America’s oldest, but it’s not often considered its most delicious. After all, our local cuisine originally sprang from the British Isles, land of the boiled potato and overdone roast, and the Pilgrims, whose religious...

Worth their salt: Local veteran chefs choose their favorite young guns

by Heather Bouzan | November 16, 2007
YOU ENTRUST your dinner to them, so doesn’t it make sense to ask your favorite local chefs which up-and-coming cooks they think are talented? We checked in with restaurant vets Jody Adams, Robert Fathman, Marc Orfaly, Bill Poirier, and Jeremy Sewall about...

Shop talk: Ever wonder where your favorite chefs find all those great ingredients?

by Heather Bouzan | November 16, 2007
ASK US WHERE we shop and it’s a simple answer: Newbury Street, Copley Place, and, when time allows, the Natick Collection. But when we pose the same question to 10 local chefs, most wax enthusiastic on the merits of various meat distributors, organic...

Well worn: 10 years of Stuff@Night fashion

by Michael Diskin | November 05, 2007
SLIDESHOW: Click here to view photos from the "Well Worn" slideshow. MP3: Stuff@Night editor Tamara Wieder talks to FNX about turning 10

Where were they then?: Local notables recall their lives a decade ago

by Heather Bouzan | November 05, 2007
WHEN Stuff@night hit the streets for the first time in 1997, Boston was a very different place. The Red Sox still sorta sucked, M-80 was the place to see and be seen at night, and Kenmore Square was its old, scuzzy self. But what about the people? What...

Now and then: Hot trends from the last decade — and their contemporary counterparts

by Heather Bouzan | November 02, 2007
WE’RE GLAD that one of the inherent qualities of a trend is its brevity, because if we’d had to endure a lifetime’s worth of leggings, scrunchies, and New Kids on the Block, we’re not sure we’d still be around to talk about it. In the last 10 years, what...

Master Class: Many in Boston’s fashion community can trace their style education to one place: Louis Boston. Their teacher? Debi Greenberg.

by Erica Corsano | November 02, 2007
BOSTON IS renowned for a lot of things: universities, hospitals, sports teams. Still, we’ve never been known for our fashion scene. That’s not a dig — it’s just the truth. But thankfully, that’s changing. Gone are the days of pearls, ribbon belts, and...

Perfect 10: Get in touch with your inner pre-teen

by Melissa Cronin | November 02, 2007
ANOTHER YEAR older, another year wiser, another birthday pub crawl? Nah — we’re so tired of the usual bar-hopping birthday fêtes. In brainstorming ideas for Stuff@night ’s 10th-birthday celebration, we found ourselves yearning for the days of cupcakes...

Flashbacks: What we were talking about...

by Michael Diskin | November 02, 2007
… in 1997 “Remember when Princess Diana sparked the rage for colonic irrigation? (It makes me feel so energized.’) That development sent bicoastal trendsetters bot-toms up. Now it’s time for deep breathing. An oxygen hit is the pick-me-up of the moment...

Queen for a day: A transformation

by Michael Diskin | October 08, 2007
Photographed by Eric Levin Model: Airline SLIDESHOW: Click here to view more photos from the "Queen for a day" slideshow.

A stylist walks into a bar: A makeover story

by Heather Bouzan | October 05, 2007
IT SOUNDS like a bad joke, doesn’t it? At least, that was the reaction we got from the majority of unsuspecting partygoers we ambushed at Rumor (100 Warrenton Street, Boston, 617.482.6958) on a recent Tuesday night. With two top hairstylists and one of...

Advice squad: Readers share the best beauty tips they’ve ever received

by Heather Bouzan | October 05, 2007
WHENEVER WE need beauty advice, we go to the pros: our favorite hair gurus, spa owners, makeup artists, aestheticians. Their tips are usually spot-on; after all, they deal with split ends and monster zits for a living. But some of the best advice we’ve...

Inside-out beauty

by Heather Bouzan | October 05, 2007
IN PREPARATION for this issue, we indulged in some good old-fashioned field research: a body treatment here, a manicure there, and a few chats with spa owners, estheticians, and massage therapists along the way. But the one thing we took away from the...

Stuffed: The third-annual Stuff@night dining awards

by RUTH TOBIAS AND MC SLIM JB | September 24, 2007
MC Slim JB: “Best-of lists are the McDonald’s cheeseburger of food/drinks articles: everyone occasionally wolfs one down, and no one brags about it afterward. But why do they always include some howler that makes you wonder if the judges are daffy or...

All grown up: Sophisticated takes on some college-food favorites

by Heather Bouzan | September 07, 2007
THERE ARE surely some things about college you miss: the random hook-ups, the endless parties, the complete lack of responsibility, and, of course, the excess drinking. But that dining hall serving half-congealed mystery meats and triple-fried everything...

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