Word: brotherism
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...sketch comedy,” this brainchild of “Tom Goes to the Mayor” creators Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim wholly defies description. Sometimes it takes the form of a local cable-access talent show featuring a diseased boy and his brother performing catchy tunes about how “life is Number One.” Sometimes it shows John C. Reilly giving tips on the best vegetables to eat. And sometimes there’s a thrilling rock opera about a bald man wanting to have sex with his 300-pound secretary...
Francine Mukantarengwa is describing how she survived the genocide when my translator breaks down. "Fourteen people in my family were killed," she says. "The brother of the killer of my family - he hid me." At this point, the interpreter, a former fighter with Kagame's Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), starts weeping. I let Francine go. She'd already told me about her life after the genocide. "I was abandoned," she said. "I was alone and I had nothing." And now? "Now I have goats, I have two cows, I have built a house. I have 700 coffee trees...
...visual and environmental studies concentrator in Currier House. She hails from Vermont, where the natural environment is similar to Massachusetts, except that the squirrels there don’t eat human babies for breakfast. She hopes her brother, TJ, will make it to the NHL so he can support her art career. Check out her cartoon on Wednesdays...
...Felipe is a master,” Brush said. Felipe Herrera came to America from Mexico and began working at Taqueria Mexico in Waltham. He then worked at Boca Grande, a local chain started by a Japanese brother-and-sister duo. When infighting led one sibling to leave Boca Grande, Herrera left with him to be the first cook at Anna’s Taqueria—a branch of which can be found in Porter Square. Herrera left Anna’s five years ago to start his own taqueria with Brush...
Shapley's cousin, 17-year-old John Smith [a pseudonym at his request since he has family in Hildale] was expelled three years ago - an elder brother, one of 12 siblings, came to him one day after work and told him and his 13-year-old brother to pack their things and go. "I was kicked out for being a teenager," Smith said. He and other kids would buy small televisions and build huts or underground hideaways in the mountains where they would watch movies. Their behavior - much of it typical for teenagers "in the world," as they call...