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...parallel parking. I decided it wasn’t my finest work—seeing as my car was perpendicular to the curb. She didn’t seem to agree.She leaned over to congratulate me, and I caught the faintest hint of cheap Pinot Grigio on her breath. My assessment of her sobriety was quickly confirmed as she took a dive out the passenger side of the car, landing face down in a snow bank.My mom, standing on the curb, looked horrified. I gave her the thumbs up.Back at home, I found myself smiling up at my 5-year...
Apparently it’s where the heart is, but, more importantly, it’s where free food, a full service Laundromat, and your loving parents are. You’ll score points with the rents and have a much needed chance to relax, detox, and catch your breath before the final push. Spend your time devising a Facebook album to convince everyone you clubbed 24/7...
...writing. There was a moment where I went to a reading by the novelist Robert Stone, and when the reading was over an hour later, I knew I wanted to be a writer.12.FM: What do you like about the short story form?BJ: That it can take your breath away. I love the power and economy of short stories. A story can achieve that moment where you reach the last word and it feels as though you’ve been led to the one and only place where it can end. One doesn’t trump the other...
There were moments when the audience held its breath, laughed and sighed with delight—and rightfully so. “Next Generation,” the Boston Ballet’s showcase of young choreographers that ran this past weekend, was truly a marvel. Combining modern and classical elements fluidly, it broke the boundaries of contemporary ballet. Sissones and demi grands were deconstructed, built again, and made...
...humanize the Church cross the line? When the youngest nun, Sister James (Madeleine Bennet ’08), reports that Donald Muller, the school’s only black student, returned from Father Flynn’s office acting oddly and with a hint of alcohol on his breath, Sister Aloysius immediately assumes the worst. Aloysius, unwavering in her pursuit of justice, thinks her suspicions are confirmed when she discovers Flynn has worked at three different parishes in the last five years. Though Donald never appears onstage, the conflicting interests of the adults in his life illuminate Shanley?...