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I don’t know how it is with women, but you will never learn more about a guy’s self-image then sending him to Supercuts to get a haircut. Supercuts, and various other like stylist chains, pray on men’s vanity worse than Bowflex commercials. They create an atmosphere where every fellow gets 15 minutes of [...]

The unofficial marker of autumn is upon us with the start of the next season of Monday Night Football (the Monday after Labor Day), the start of a new semester of classes, and another birthday.   Of course, fall is also the start of a new television season, after enduring so much new summer filler they [...]

I attended a charity event to raise funds for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society for cancer research tonight. The event, hosted at Boston Beer Works on Canal Street in downtown Boston, was a beer sampling of Beer Works’ custom brews. The night started with a cocktail hour and a compelling speech from a [...]

Encarta Cascade. science: a succession of things such as chemical reactions or components in an electrical circuit, each of which activates, affects, or determines the next
Cause and effect is one my favorite topics when I want to wax philosophically about the nature of the universe and wonder at the cascade of events that leads from [...]

The annual Beloit College Mindset List is something I look forward to…well…annually. If you’re not familiar with the list, it’s a compilation of the social and historical events and mores that will and won’t have shaped the development of this year’s college freshman. In short, it’s a reality check on the experiences that [...]

There’s nothing wrong with the new album released by The Academy Is…  Fast Times at Barrington High has a pure college rock sound, some decent melodies and a few catchy hooks scattered here and there.   It’s a perfectly serviceable album.
The problem though is that aside from a few tracks, nothing really standouts. Rumored Nights is [...]