Stuff We Love

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  Brian Coleman’s Stuff

  09 July, 2012 | Good | Kara Baskin

  Brian Coleman has a record collection that would make even the most well-stocked DJ swoon. The marketing maven, writer, and hip-hop fiend runs his own PR and event-management agency, Good Road, which …

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  Out of tune

  09 July, 2012 | Sex | Jeannie Greeley

  I knew my friend was truly in love with her new girlfriend when she uttered the following statement: “I’m taking her to Country Fest.” Suddenly this arbiter of musical taste, one who had shaped my you…

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  Letter from the Editor: Music Issue 2012

  09 July, 2012 | Letter from the Editor | Scott Kearnan

  If you really want to know someone, steal that person’s iPod. After all, few things are more revealing than musical taste. Favorite songs can become our personal anthems, and we sometimes share them w…

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  Metro 2.0

  29 June, 2012 | Get Pretty | Cheryl Fenton

  Guyliner: it’s not just for Johnny Depp anymore. First we noticed more guys sporting painted nails and eye makeup. (Besides Depp, mainstream stars like Billie Joe Armstrong and Adam Lambert regularly …

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  At Home with Brian Piccini

  29 June, 2012 | Good | Scott Kearnan

  The restaurant owner’s home décor hits all the right notes Restaurant owner Brian Piccini knows how to entertain guests — on and off the clock. They come to Dorchester’s dbar and Back Bay’s Deuxave fo…

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  David Nicholas’s Stuff

  29 June, 2012 | Good | Scott Kearnan

  Makeup specialist David Nicholas has beautified countless stars, from modern trendsetters like Sarah Jessica Parker to screen legends like Tony Curtis. And alongside husband and co-president David Mir…

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  Sexually Spirited

  29 June, 2012 | Sex | Jeannie Greeley

  Of all the sexual lubricants on the market, the most effective is that slippery, strangely emboldening substance known as alcohol. And on those occasions when the nightclub was too loud and your speec…

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  Letter from the Editor: Cocktails Issue 2012

  29 June, 2012 | Letter from the Editor | Scott Kearnan

  I need a drink. I’m writing this letter on the first 90-plus-degree day of the year. (I think. Have fun fact-checking that one, Ms. Houton.) My office feels like a greenhouse, and I’m as red as a toma…

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  Hot threads

  25 June, 2012 | Get | Stuff Boston

  Our last experience with “nose art” was not a good one. It involved a particularly, ahem, phlegmatic classmate and a wad of compromised construction paper during indoor recess. (Move over, Pollock?) B…

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  Hot stepping

  25 June, 2012 | Get | Stuff Boston

  Forget breaking in high heels; if you ask us, transitioning into flip-flop weather is the more painful prospect. (Plus, there’s the added embarrassment of those mangled talons we hid all winter long.)…

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  Hot tea

  25 June, 2012 | Get | Stuff Boston

  Ever wonder what the Boston Tea Party would look like in 2012? (Our wager: hashtags like #OccupyOolong.) At the Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum (Congress Street Bridge, Boston, 855.832.1773), whic…

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  Hot and homespun

  25 June, 2012 | Get | Stuff Boston

  The name M3 (382 Highland Avenue, Somerville, 617.718.6666) sounds awfully high-tech, like a secret government warplane or a men’s razor that shoots aloe — and laser beams. But the newly opened restau…

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  Graffiti cocktail shaker, or test tube shot set?

  25 June, 2012 | Get | Susan Johnston

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  A Work of Artichoke

  15 June, 2012 | Get | Meghan Kavanaugh

  Some people save up for sensible luxury investments: a classically handsome piece of furniture, perhaps, or a custom-tailored suit that will never go out of style. And then there are the rest of us, t…

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  Gregory Maguire’s Stuff

  15 June, 2012 | Good | Scott Kearnan

  In his most famous novel, Wicked, best-selling author Gregory Maguire explored the universe of L. Frank Baum’s Oz books from the perspective of the Wicked Witch, turning the green-skinned villainess i…

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  Bullied into babies

  15 June, 2012 | Sex | Jeannie Greeley

  If 2012 is the year of the dragon, then 2011 must have been the year of the sperm. This occurs to me as the invitations to first birthday parties, baptisms, and baby showers come pouring in. And with …

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  Letter from the Editor: Food Issue 2012

  15 June, 2012 | Letter from the Editor | Scott Kearnan

  I hope this issue makes you hungry. Starting with the cover image. As far as food goes, a rack of ribs and a slice of watermelon are pretty much worlds apart. One is hot and hearty, a staple at that g…

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  Silverware clock, or silverware bracelets?

  11 June, 2012 | Get | Meghan Kavanaugh

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  Orange Crush

  11 June, 2012 | Get Pretty | Heather Bouzan McHugh

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  At Home with Marie Galvin

  11 June, 2012 | Good | Scott Kearnan

  Long before the royal wedding made headwear hot, Marie Galvin’s couture hats and fascinators were turning heads (and adorning them) on runways and in her South End showroom, GALVIN-ized Headwear (450 …

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