Boston Book Festival: Now with wireless broadband

Oct. 14, 2010   Leave a Comment  

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Browse. Schmooze. Blog. Tweet. Boston brings its Book Festival into the digital age.

Zeitgeist Stage presents: Enron

Oct. 6, 2010   Leave a Comment  

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Take your accountant boyfriend

Was that a protest on Newbury St., or just a dumb P.R. stunt?

June 12, 2010   Leave a Comment  

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Here’s a hint. It was the latter.

An evening with Chris Botti

May 24, 2010   4 Comments  

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The jazz trumpeter plays at the Hanover Theatre

Five injured at Selena Gomez appearence

Feb. 15, 2010   Leave a Comment  

Five people were injured when an escalator abruptly stopped during an appearance by Disney starlet Selene Gomez in a North Attleborough mall Saturday, police said. While Selena — star of “Wizards of Waverly Place” and singer for Selena Gomez & The Scene — was answering questions at the Emerald Square Mall, an escalator lurched to [...]

JT dons drag for Harvard

Feb. 10, 2010   Leave a Comment  

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Justin Timberlake is awarded Harvard’s Hasty Pudding Man of the Year

“The Latest” from Cheap Trick: Blast interviews Rick Nielsen

Jan. 28, 2010   1 Comment  

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Cheap Trick plays the House of Blues on Jan. 30

Twitter literature: get “Gatsby” word for word

Jan. 13, 2010   Leave a Comment  

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F. Scott Fitzgerald is rolling in his grave

The life of Massachusetts’ tragic elder statesman

Aug. 26, 2009   4 Comments  

A brief primer on the long life and career of Edward M. Kennedy.

Senator Byrd urges colleagues to honor Kennedy

Aug. 26, 2009   Leave a Comment  

Democratic Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia is calling for his colleagues in the Senate to honor his “best friend in the Senate” by naming the seemingly-impending health care reform legislation after the late Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy, who died after a year-long battle with brain cancer yesterday. Health care reform was one of Kennedy’s [...]

Lion of the Senate dead at 77

Aug. 26, 2009   3 Comments  

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Massachusetts Senator Edward Moore “Ted” Kennedy has lost his battle against brain cancer at his Hyannis Port home at the age of 77, his family announced this morning, just two weeks after the death of his sister Eunice Kennedy Shriver. Known as the Lion of the Senate, he will be remembered as one of the [...]

Jack’s Mannequin makes love to Boston

May 4, 2009   Leave a Comment  

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The House of Blues crew wheeled the keyboard onto the stage, and the crowd went wild. When the lights dimmed and the shadowy band members walked out onto the stage to their instruments. The crowd needed no introduction to be whipped into a frenzy, with the pit in front of the stage churning and men [...]

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Calling all grad students!

April 28, 2009   Leave a Comment  

The First Ever Boston Graduate Student Party — billed as the hottest party for Boston College, Boston University, Brandeis, Emerson College, MIT, Northeastern, Suffolk, Tufts, etc., grad students — will be held April 30 from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. at the Roxy Nightclub on Tremont Street. Email boston-party@mit.edu to get on the list if [...]

The Marathon Through a Lens

April 22, 2009   Leave a Comment  

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With this photo essay from the 2009 Boston Marathon, Blast begins a regular photo feature from contributing editor Daniel Peleschuk

Gallery: Blast Boston Marathon photography

April 20, 2009   Leave a Comment  

Boston University Junior Chirstian Ronaldo cheers on runners on Beacon Street. (Blast Magazine staff photo/Sarah Gordon)

Blast photographer Sarah Gordon shares some visuals from the 2009 Boston Marathon

Your Earth Day look

April 20, 2009   Leave a Comment  

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So April is not just about the great looks you will put together with the great deals you will find at your favorite stores. No, April is also about caring for the earth and doing something special for Earth Day, April 22. However, if you’re not the type of woman that plants a tree or [...]

Behind the scenes at the Boston Ballet’s Sleeping Beauty

April 18, 2009   1 Comment  

James Witeside, soloist with The Boston Ballet, performs in The Sleeping Beauty. (Blast Magazine staff photo/Sarah Gordon)

The story of Sleeping Beauty is widely known by every generation.‚  Most forget however that the popular Disney movie with all of its singing squirrels and flying fairies was preceded by the popular ballet of the same name that has captivated audiences for over a century. Charles Perrault first published the traditional fairytale of Sleeping [...]

Plaza III: A taste of dissatisfaction

March 21, 2009   Leave a Comment  

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Restaurant Week in Boston is my favorite time of year. With seven prior restaurant week experiences in the books (and being an overall obsessive foodie) I consider myself a reasonable critic of all food. I’m not a picky eater when it comes to ethnicity, spiciness, or texture, but I hold very high standards for quality, [...]

Doin it and doin it and doin it in public

March 1, 2009   4 Comments  

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The names of subjects have been changed to protect their privacy and safety. It was mid-day. Northeastern University student Sarah Alverston was sitting in the library staring blankly into a textbook that she couldn’t seem to focus on. She just had a fight with her boyfriend, and she knew she wouldn’t get anything done until [...]

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Emerson College creates medical amnesty

Feb. 18, 2009   Leave a Comment  

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In a bold move, Emerson College has instituted a medical amnesty policy to encourage students who abuse drugs and alcohol to seek potentially life-saving medical treatment without the worry of disciplinary reprisal from the college. “The overarching priority of Emerson College with respect to alcohol and other drugs is to ensure the safety and well-being [...]