At one point in “Me and Earl and the Dying Girl,” the closing film at this year’s Independent Film Festival Boston on Wednesday night, the eponymous dying girl snuggles into our protagonist’s...
The 13th annual Independent Film Festival Boston, which kicked off Wednesday night with James Ponsoldt’s “The End of the Tour,” continued into the weekend with a full slate of narrative and documentary...
After the initial announcement in late 2013 that James Ponsoldt would be making a film about the late David Foster Wallace titled “The End of the Tour,” the Internet was ablaze with skepticism and,...
If anyone were to ask Boston-born stage and screen actress Uzo Aduba how she feels about running 26.2 miles from Hopkinton to Copley Square for the Boston Marathon, she would say, “quote, wicked excited.”...
What does it mean to grow older? For women in Hollywood, it has often meant to inject, to tuck, to smooth away. This has long been the stuff of think pieces across the web, but it had yet to be explored...
Deep in the softly lit, marble halls of the Back Bay’s Westin Copley Place lies a secret garden of sorts in Japanese restaurant ShabuMaru. Real plants burst from the wall, boasting a rich array of...
In an increasingly connected world, further amplified by social media platforms such as Instagram, Facebook and Twitter, many would consider humans the most socially complex species on the planet. However,...
Best New Boston Bite: 2014, year of the fancy doughnut
Brooke Jackson-Glidden
While San Francisco is hyperventilating over $4 toast, Boston has the breakfast game down with a new twist on a classic.
Let’s...
Break out that GPS and grab some foodie friends, we put together some of the best places around Boston to grab a beer, a cup of coffee, the best late-night pizza and more.
Best late-night pizza:
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Sporting a light grey pullover and a sensible pair of square-framed glasses, Maziar Bahari looks a lot like a dad. And while Bahari is a father, he is perhaps better known as the Iranian-born journalist...
Honks and profanity are surefire ways of letting off some five o’clock steam, but when all is said and done, there’s a reason why the phrase “stuck in traffic” sticks. But the inch-by-inch stop-and-go...
With the wide array of clubs and activities available to students at Boston University, it’s rare to find a student who’s not involved in some kind of extracurricular. But when it comes to political...
