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A lounge-ocalypse has hit Boston

The latest casualty of the economic crisis? Lounges. And possibly leisure itself.
Lounge lizards, lament.
By: SARA FAITH ALTERMAN  |  November 19, 2008
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Who Says Jim Gaffigan Isn't Sexy?

Oops. We did.
Jim Gaffigan dubbed his latest traveling venture "The Sexy Tour," and he's bringing it to Boston this weekend.
By: SARA FAITH ALTERMAN  |  November 19, 2008
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A peril on two blades

Laughing in the face of fear doesn't mean you're not a coward
At the tippity-top of my teetering list of irrational neurosis? Skiing, of course.
By: SARA FAITH ALTERMAN  |  November 18, 2008
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Green issues gaining force

Green Grassroots Effort
Overwhelming local support for a nonbinding ballot initiative indicates that a push for a greener future may have legs.
By: SARA FAITH ALTERMAN  |  November 13, 2008
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PS - Must love Cougars

Further Defying Parody
Further Defying Parody
By: SARA FAITH ALTERMAN  |  November 14, 2008
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Interview: Comedian Baron Vaughn

We put a comic on the hot seat. This week's victim...
We're not far off from a time when discontented McCain supporters will say things like, "Argh! I stubbed my toe! Damn you, Obama, and your move-around-my-furniture-while-I'm-sleeping ways!"
By: SARA FAITH ALTERMAN  |  November 11, 2008
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Interview: Carlos Mencia wants to wrestle

We put a comic on the hot seat. This week's victim...
I want to go old-school and be that wrestler that always wears a mask: in movie theaters, restaurants — I'm ordering a steak through it.
By: SARA FAITH ALTERMAN  |  November 11, 2008
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What will we obsess about now?

The time for obsessive-compulsive election monitoring has come to an end. Cupcakes, anyone?
I have an election hangover.
By: SARA FAITH ALTERMAN  |  November 05, 2008
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Worst Enemy, even worse writing

His Own Worst Enemy
Two men. One body. It sounds like the title of a squeamish sequel to “Two Girls, One Cup.” But the good news is it’s just the premise of My Own Worst Enemy , Christian Slater’s foray into the world of crappy small-screen dramas that use a lexicon of jargon in order to sound “sciency.”
By: SARA FAITH ALTERMAN  |  November 06, 2008
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Boston election parties

Electoral-entertainment guide
The presidential election got your knickers in a knot?
By: SARA FAITH ALTERMAN  |  October 31, 2008
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Hill hikes to White House

Redefining ‘Road Trip’
Since March 1, Massachusetts school teacher B.J. Hill has been walking across the country in near Kerouacian fashion — though, unlike Sal Paradise, Hill has a greater mission than apple pie and Mexican trollops.
By: SARA FAITH ALTERMAN  |  October 30, 2008
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Dance, Monkey: Jon Rineman

We put a comic on the hot seat. This week’s victim . . .
I like to take my time surveying the voting booths, slowly walking past each one for about 20 minutes. Then I pick one, say, “Yes. This is the one. This will do."  
By: SARA FAITH ALTERMAN  |  October 29, 2008
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Swing state Sarahs speak out

My name is Sarah
Mynameissarah.net is the Web project of a small consortium of media professionals who met up in Pennsylvania a few weeks ago to travel to swing states and produce videos about “Sarahs” who support Barack Obama.  
By: SARA FAITH ALTERMAN  |  October 22, 2008
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Iliza Shlesinger doesn't get gourds

We put a comic on the hot seat. This week’s victim . . .
Those pimply colorful gourds. I can’t figure them out. They’re like the ugly stepsisters for the pumpkin. Can you eat them? No. Are they pretty? No. Do you need them on your table?  
By: SARA FAITH ALTERMAN  |  October 22, 2008
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Witches on college campuses

Campus witches have no brooms, no bleeding goats. Just cookies. Sorry.
A fair number of college students are turning to Wicca for spiritual identity.  
By: SARA FAITH ALTERMAN  |  October 31, 2008
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Comedy: Are rape jokes ever funny? Are women?

The case of Sandra Bernhard vs. Sarah Palin begs the question: is it ever okay to use “rape” in a punch line?
Sandra Bernhard was supposed to be performing in Boston this week. But that was before she challenged whether Sarah Palin would keep the baby if she became pregnant after being violated by a group of black men in New York.  
By: SARA FAITH ALTERMAN  |  October 22, 2008
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Comedy Q&A: Dan Sally

Is he the father of Clay Aiken’s child?
By: SARA FAITH ALTERMAN  |  October 15, 2008
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Hot love

Taste the flames inside Boston's secret world of fire artists
For once, a scantily clad goth woman swinging chains of neon-orange fireballs over her head isn’t doing so because I’ve pissed her off.  
By: SARA FAITH ALTERMAN  |  October 27, 2008
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Dance, Monkey: Nick Prueher

We put a comic on the hot seat. This week’s victim . . .
I'm wearing Debbie Gibson’s Electric Youth.  
By: SARA FAITH ALTERMAN  |  October 08, 2008
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Schlepping for Obama

The Boston roots of Sarah Silverman's Jewbama crusade
Chances are, by now you’ve heard about the Great Schlep, the Sarah Silverman–endorsed political/social experiment that’s urging Jewish youth to trek down to vital swing-state Florida this weekend and encourage their doting grandparents to vote for Barack Obama.  
By: SARA FAITH ALTERMAN  |  October 09, 2008
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