SMITH: Bieber’s Biggest Fan
Belieber is not a real word. It’s a made up term for describing fans of Canadian … artist … and serial cultural arsonist Justin Bieber. But despite being made up the term was everywhere on Sunday, displacing such irrelevant issues as the gun control debate and the war in Afghanistan, all due to Justin’s recent [...]
FONTANA: A technological day in the neighborhood
Gentle folk of the greater Boston area, a rather urgent issue has been brought to my attention, one that I fear we cannot continue to ignore. No, the zombie apocalypse is not suddenly upon us. No, “winter is [not] coming.” No, Star Wars really was sold to Disney. These minor worries pale in comparison to [...]
GIRL, 20: Quae mentem insania mutat
Have you ever been mounted by Paul Revere? In one of those dreams where you think you have woken up, but are in fact still sleeping, our Boston’s very own “Midnight riding” hometown hero was on top of me. It wasn’t even sex; he was just there, tri-corner hat and all. Thereafter I woke up [...]
MARK: Join me on my Soap Box
It seems like a requirement for being a celebrity is to skirt the line of sanity and to do so in the most public of ways. Sad to say, Amanda Bynes is the latest case of celebrity meltdowns. Over the weekend the former Nickelodeon star began tweeting incoherent messages, apparently trying to convince people that [...]
SMITH: Hipsters and why we hate them
Maybe it’s a little close to the fact to be so definite. However, as we sit here on a generously warm evening in April, the facts seem increasingly clear to me. We are the Hipster Generation, and there’s not a thing we can do about it. “Hipsterism” seemingly rose from the ashes of the Emo [...]
