Massachusetts

School That Shocks Gets Slapped

Who Will Replace Ted Kennedy in the Senate?

T-Pain's Justin Timberlake Remix: "Can't Believe It"

Saving Marriage

Victoria: Berkshire Lesbian Night

It's the Symbolism, Stupid

Gay Marriage and the Future of American Politics

I Do? Oh No You Don't.

On marriage "defense," the right is now speaking loudly, not holding its peace

Northern Exposures:

Clinton Does the Democratic Primaries

Frederick Wiseman's Fair Game

Subjectively Speaking

Get Back!

The Gathering Storm Over Gay Rights

Letters

The Gathering Storm Over Gay Rights

Remembering Why We Are Americans

Who's That Next to Us at the Meeting?

The New American Freedom Fighters

Organizing Against General Ashcroft

R Bar Is A-OK

Knock back a few in Brooklyn's backwoods

No Time To Celebrate

Same-Sex Marriage in the Court of Public Opinion

Standing on Ceremony

A Rites Issue: Straight Couples Who Refuse to Marry Because Gays Can't

Separate Still Not Equal

If Gay Marriage Is the Question, Civil Unions Aren't the Answer

Movin' Out

Nothin's cool, they found your father in the swimming pool

Lazy Bums

When you're allergic to covering the issues, head for the sports cliché. We're going into overtime.

Marriage Equality, State by State

When you're allergic to covering the issues, head for the sports cliché. We're going into overtime.

Please Ignore This Band

Why Vampire Weekend’s high-society fetishizations can’t help but drive you to Black Flag

Letters

Why Vampire Weekend’s high-society fetishizations can’t help but drive you to Black Flag

Bliss or Miss

Getting over the gay-wedding jitters

'After Innocence'

Getting over the gay-wedding jitters

Marriage of Two Minds

Gay nups may have become inevitable, but for now it's a world of pain

Gay Marriage Wins in Maine; D.C. Fights to Recognize It

Maine's got gay marriage. Governor John Baldacci signed a marriage equality bill that passed the state legislature this morning. New England is kicking New York's ass. Massachusetts got the ball rolling. New Hampshire's lawmakers have passed a gay marriage law that waits on the governor. Vermont o ... More >>

Sriracha, Spotted Everywhere

While eating with my in-laws at a stodgy fish restaurant in suburban Massachusetts, I asked the waiter for Sriracha, almost just to see what he would say. But he nodded knowingly, and brought out a dish of the red, garlicky hot sauce. That's when you know that Sriracha has hit the mainstream. That, ... More >>

Edward M. Kennedy, 1932-2009

​Last night Edward Kennedy, who had been suffering from brain cancer, succumbed at his home in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts. His life story is so well known as to hardly bear repeating: younger brother of President John F. Kennedy and Senator Robert F. Kennedy, Presidential contender, Senator ... More >>

BEAT IT

The legend of Jack Kerouac

After Takedowns Lamb, Tofu & Bacon, Chili Returns

serenejournal/flickr​ Following the success of his first Chili Takedown five years ago, Matt Timms dabbled in lamb, toyed with tofu, and is even taking his Takedown show on the road for mac 'n' cheese in Massachusetts. But, come November 22, he's going back to his roots for The Brooklyn Chili ... More >>

Tonight! Cave In, The Reigning Sound, Dylan (Last Time), And Miles Benjamin Etc.

​Massachusetts metalheads Cave In have had quite a varied career, vacillating from screamy hardcore to what Spin once dubbed "emo-metal Radiohead" (2000's Jupiter is indeed pretty righteous to not-quite-ascendant major-label hopefuls to... whatever they are now. They'll be it, whatever it is, ... More >>

Barrett: It Takes a Bulger To Understand the Mass. Massacre

​When I got up this morning, I wanted to know what Billy Bulger thought. After all, he ran Massachusetts politics for 35 years as the president of the same state senate that Scott Brown joined in 2004. Indeed, one of Brown's few state senate achievements was his role in drafting a 2009 pens ... More >>

Scott Brown to Pen His Amazing Story for HarperCollins

Scott Brown has accomplished much in his short time on earth. He's fathered an American Idol contestant. He's been naked in Playgirl. He's served in the National Guard, as property assessor for Wrentham, Massachusetts, and in the Massachusetts state legislature. And a perfect storm of incompetent co ... More >>

Young@Heart

Scott Brown has accomplished much in his short time on earth. He's fathered an American Idol contestant. He's been naked in Playgirl. He's served in the National Guard, as property assessor for Wrentham, Massachusetts, and in the Massachusetts state legislature. And a perfect storm of incompetent co ... More >>

Morning Links: Science vs. CEO in the BP Oil Spill; Actors Prepare to Mourn Law & Order; Woe to the Mets

​• BP (and dozens of other oil companies) were allowed to drill in the Gulf without getting required federal permits, "despite strong warnings from that agency about the impact the drilling was likely to have." Also, scientists are saying the size of the spill has been underestimated, while ... More >>

Summer Guide: Hit the Arts Road!

Weekend trips to cultured places

Do Tea Partiers Love States' Rights Even When They Help the Gays Get Married?

​It's a good question -- confusing for many -- and in the news this weekend after a court ruling in Massachusetts, which is exposing "the fractures and fault lines among groups working to bolster states' rights." Those known far and wide as the Tea Party -- that ambiguous, all-encompassing ama ... More >>

Battle of the Blueberries: Wild Vs. Cultivated

​Wild blueberries on the left, cultivated on the right There's been a bumper crop of blueberries this year, maybe because we had a damp Spring, or maybe they've done well in an especially hot Summer. Pints of regular blueberries have been selling for $3.50 to $7 in farmers' markets, while str ... More >>

One Standardized Test to Rule Them All

Can a multi-state effort to concoct new standardized tests prepare New York's students for college?

Northampton Wools

Can a multi-state effort to concoct new standardized tests prepare New York's students for college?

Dear Hollywood: Leave Massachusetts Alone!

​2010 was the worst year in history for the state of Massachusetts--on film anway. If you live there, you obviously get pink slipped, become a bank robber, get unjustly convicted of something else, and emerge to become a boxer with a fucked-up family. I am not making this up! All in 2010, w ... More >>

At Bowery Beef, No 'Farm to Fucking Table'

Rebecca MarxGray Burton behind the Bowery Beef counter.​ Gray Burton stands in the Bowery Poetry Club, surveying the lay of the land. "Up there, we'll have every pot and pan you ever dreamed of," he says, gesturing to the wall above a long, stainless-steel display case. A life-sized iron eagl ... More >>

Crave Something Fecal-Sounding for Lunch? Dogshit Meat From Bowery Beef

​What could it be? And are the bottles of Bosco somehow involved? One of our favorite local places to grab a quick sandwich is Bowery Beef, a joint that seeks to replicate a certain kind of roast beef sandwich native to the northern suburbs of Boston.

Sixpoint Flashes Its Cans for Memorial Day Weekend

Sixpoint Brewery​Memorial Day weekend is 11 long days away, and courtesy of Sixpoint Brewery, there is now another reason to mourn its relative distance.

Converge

Sixpoint Brewery​Memorial Day weekend is 11 long days away, and courtesy of Sixpoint Brewery, there is now another reason to mourn its relative distance.

Dom

Sixpoint Brewery​Memorial Day weekend is 11 long days away, and courtesy of Sixpoint Brewery, there is now another reason to mourn its relative distance.

An Ode to Summer's Last Footlong

​The last footlong of summer -- click to enlarge it to full size. People without imagination find the last day of summer on Labor Day, when they lament the return to the routine of school, or the last summer-hour schedules at work. More poetic souls see signs in the first day you put on a jac ... More >>

NYC's Most Perfect Pork Cutlet at Katsuhama

​The mortar contains seeds to be ground up for a do-it-yourself pork cutlet sauce. In the '80s, the area around Grand Central Station was dotted with single-specialty Japanese restaurants - much like many back in Japan - which catered to the Japanese businessmen then ubiquitous in Midtown, ... More >>

For Only $69, You Can Ride the Juggalo Express

Thing about Insane Clown Posse? Their grind is unstoppable. They've outlasted more novelty cycles than Spencer Gifts, completely independently, and with this sheer stubborn unwillingness to quit, they keep forging on, as cartoonishly corny and fastidiously "wig-splitting" as ever. So even when it s ... More >>

Fat Worm of Error

Thing about Insane Clown Posse? Their grind is unstoppable. They've outlasted more novelty cycles than Spencer Gifts, completely independently, and with this sheer stubborn unwillingness to quit, they keep forging on, as cartoonishly corny and fastidiously "wig-splitting" as ever. So even when it s ... More >>