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An app for autism

Tech to speech
This month marks the second anniversary of Apple's first public iPad release.

By: ARIEL SHEARER | April 19, 2012

Bruce Rosenbaum: steampunk interior design’s unlikely leader

Full steam ahead
There's a porthole on Bruce Rosenbaum's toaster.

By: ARIEL SHEARER | March 26, 2012

Booty Call
Forget Talk Like a Pirate Day. In the 2012 elections, November 6 will be Vote Like a Pirate Day — if you happened to have joined a growing number of hackers and Internet activists and registered as a member of the Massachusetts Pirate Party (MAPP).

By: ARIEL SHEARER | March 07, 2012

Occupy Boston: the movie!

Love story
John Forrester spent the past five months filming and editing two terabytes of raw digital Occupy Boston footage, captured between late September and December 2011.

By: ARIEL SHEARER | February 29, 2012

On the Cheap: Lizzy's

Comfort grub in a landmark East Cambridge Watering Hole
After Prohibition was repealed in 1933, an Italian barber walked into an East Cambridge shoe building and turned it into a bar: Pugliese's.

By: ARIEL SHEARER | January 18, 2012

Photos: #OWS protesters attempt to re-occupy NYC

Occupy Wall Street #D17 day of action | Duarte Square, NYC | December 17, 2011
Occupy Wall Street protesters gathered at Manhattan’s Duarte Square on December 17, 2011 (#D17 day of action) to celebrate the original protest’s 3-month anniversary by attempting to reclaim a space.

By: ARIEL SHEARER | December 30, 2011

PHOTOS: On the scene of the Occupy Boston eviction

Police raid the Dewey Square encampment at 5am | December 10, 2011
And then it came. Right before five o'clock. Nobody really believed that it was coming, even though we all knew it was inevitable ...

By: ARIEL SHEARER | December 10, 2011

PHOTOS: Occupy Boston defies Menino’s order to vacate Dewey Square

Thousands rallied on the Greenway, and protesters packed up much of the camp for safekeeping | December 8, 2011
The scene from Occupy Boston after Mayor Menino gave orders to vacate.

By: ARIEL SHEARER | December 09, 2011

Little House on the Occupation

#OccupyBoston
Sage Radachowsky moved into Occupy Boston's Dewey Square camp on the night of the season's first snowstorm and says he kept warm and dry just fine, thanks to a portable sleeping trailer he built himself.

By: ARIEL SHEARER | November 07, 2011

Photos: Occupy Boston celebrates one-month anniversary at Dewey Square

Dewey Square | October 30, 2011
Occupy Boston celebrates the one-month anniversary of their protest at Dewey Square on October 30, 2011.

By: ARIEL SHEARER | October 31, 2011

Review: Taza Chocolate

Spooky craft chocolate for the big kids
If lately you've been hit with the trick-or-treat nostalgia blues, longing for simpler times when the best costumes still came in our sizes, do not resort to reproduction.

By: ARIEL SHEARER | October 31, 2011

Photos: Scenes from Occupy Wall Street

Shots of the Zuccotti Park #OWS encampment this past Columbus Day weekend
Zuccotti Park is now a settled shantytown, complete with its own classrooms, junkies, trash collectors, and daily broadsheet.

By: ARIEL SHEARER | October 12, 2011

Review: Redbones Barbecue Food Truck

Southern comfort goes mobile
With food trucks slowly taking over our streets, we get Redbones on wheels around Copley Square five days a week.

By: Ariel Shearer | October 05, 2011

Photos: Occupy Boston plans financial district take-over

Big money meets big opposition in Boston
Hundreds of fiscally wary citizens gathered on Boston Common Tuesday, September 27, to organize a lasting protest occupation of Boston’s financial district.

By: ARIEL SHEARER | October 03, 2011

Photos: Tree play the 22nd Annual Freedom Rally

Boston Common | September 17, 2011
Tree play the Freedom Rally main stage on September 17, 2011.

By: ARIEL SHEARER | September 19, 2011

Review: Thinking Cup Coffee Bar

Toning down technology and one-upping fair trade
This past December, Thinking Cup Coffee Bar opened downtown, serving up strong brew in an atmosphere that fosters low-tech creativity.

By: ARIEL SHEARER | August 31, 2011

Rubblebucket | Omega La La

Sin Duda Records (2011)
Although bands often sacrifice musical quality for the sake of maintaining a weirder image, Rubblebucket keep buzzing forward, as impressive as they are idiosyncratic.

By: ARIEL SHEARER | August 30, 2011

Fantasy camp

Where Lord of the Rings meets Lord of the Flies
Wizards & Warriors Camp is a living video game, putting kids in control of everything from plotline to character personality.

By: ARIEL SHEARER | August 10, 2011

Jaho Coffee and Tea brings Slow-Life to South End

Review: Jaho Coffee & Tea

A slow-life beverage chem lab opens in the South End
Jaho is dedicated to slow living and slow brewing, but the haughty morning attitude of Boston commuters rushing for a cup may challenge this shop's efforts to make caffeine consumption relaxing.

By: ARIEL SHEARER | June 15, 2011

Review: Boston Kabob Company

Middle Eastern served with a side of sex appeal
A few doors down from the Brighton Music Hall, there's a new Middle Eastern food stop grilling kabobs with sex appeal.

By: ARIEL SHEARER | May 06, 2011

Estrogen influx for pot protesters

Tokin' females
For years, MassCann has been something of a gentleman's club, trying to legalize pot in Massachusetts with limited success. But the March 19 board election brought a dramatic change.

By: ARIEL SHEARER | April 13, 2011