Carl Isaacs, General Manager of Renewal by Andersen of Boston joined me in studio this morning to talk about a special offer: save 20% on windows and patio doors and your installation is included. Listen in for the details! More
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Hello dear readers, where did I leave you last? Oh, right, preparing for a bomb-shelter-style canned goods dinner party. More
If you’re an astrology aficionado, today’s a good day – after three weeks, Mercury is out of retrograde. So, what now? More
ASMR (short for Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response) is one of those brainchilds of the Internet that you’re either enamored with or completely baffled by. On the surface, it’s men and women whispering and speaking softly into a binaural microphone with the intent of relaxing their listeners – a “tingle” response that radiates through the head is the desired response, though there isn’t yet scientific evidence that backs the trend. More
Sometimes, the arrogance of youth is no joke…and no, that is not in reference to the two servings of Easy Mac that I just inhaled at 8 a.m. Australian startup Ship Your Enemies Glitter, a service that offered to send “the herpes of the crafts world” to anyone in the world with an attached note for only ten Aussie dollars, went viral and subsequently imploded in the space of 48 hours. What happened? More
Hate someone? Have a disposable income? The Internet has a present for you. More
When Warner Bros. first announced Central Square’s own Ben Affleck would wear the cape and cowl for Zack Snyder’s “Man of Steel” sequel “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice,” the Internet exploded with rage. Comment trolls eventually calmed down by the time Snyder released the first official photo of Batfleck a year later, but the jokes kept coming. With the finished film not due in theaters until 2016, a few of Affleck’s fellow Bostonians decided to make their own Batman film. More
“It was amazing. It changed my life,” says Femsex Boston founder Hang Nguyen of her first experience with the peer-facilitated sex and sexuality workshop. She was living in Washington, D.C. at the time, where their chapter is called Femex. She’d studied sciences and gone into tech after graduating from Brown University. She was on the med school track. After the workshop, she quit her job, went abroad for a few months, and then settled in Boston to start her own version of Femsex. More
So…as of December 21, at 6:03pm, it’s officially winter. The good news is that you and I have both made it through November. I don’t know how you did it, but I did it by following my own advice of last month and battling the blackness of early sunsets with one of them low-budget, post-Thankgiving fitness deals. I’m 19 days and probably 15 classes into the aforementioned “30 days for $30” yoga trial, and I must say that I haven’t lost any weight or figured out how to stand on my hands. But the world going dark at 4 p.m. has also not yet forced me into a fetal position. More
Close your eyes and think the phrase “craft fair”. What immediately comes to mind? Jars of homemade jam stacked in a pyramid with sprigs of holly tucked artfully around them? Loosely crocheted hats? Christmas elevator music? These are the kinds of things that came to mind when I closed my eyes, but to challenge my presuppositions, I went on a quest for the weirdest things available at craft fairs in the Boston area. And guess what? There is some very weird stuff for sale at craft fairs. For example, cats… More