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Just this past weekend, I watched two hometown schools TKO a couple of college hoops giants. First, the University of Alabama—a school known for its rich football tradition and insatiable, self-hating sports fans (myself included)—shocked No. 1 Stanford in Seattle, 70-67, to the dismay of gambling poolsters around Cambridge and the nation...
...from a sidewalk-less, SUV-saturated suburbia that is famously inhospitable to walkers. Acquiring our cars was a rite of passage; our high schools were flanked by expanses of asphalt. Most of our walking was done at saunter, as we described long, lazy circuits of the mall. In my hometown, walking seems a dangerous eccentricity; when, at home over winter break, I walked to the end of Main Street, a high-school classmate I hadn’t seen in years pulled over to ask in concerned tones whether I needed a ride. Pundits seeking to explain what they?...
...aggressive, British bounce of the Clash. Somewhere in that music stew would be Heather Hates You. Calling their sound “an edgy and intellectual brand of aggressive but melodic pop-punk,” Heather Hates You isn’t afraid of mixing things up. This hometown favorite will be playing tracks off of their first studio album Operation Suckerpunch and will be joined by Simple Discourse and The Casual Lean. Tickets $6. 18+. 9:15 p.m. T.T. the Bear’s Place, 10 Brookline Street, Central Square...
...upbringing. Except for an uncle who'd spent a year in college, no one else in my family had even gone past high school. Being from Lorain, Ohio, made it even more difficult for me to envision the life my mother had in mind for me. My gritty hometown, situated on Lake Erie, was known for producing streetcar tracks, ships and the resulting orange clouds spewing from its smokestacks. There, manual labor usually trumped education...
...Hometown: Peru...