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...future of ROFLCon has yet to be determined, according to organizers. “To be honest, we haven’t given that much thought to what to do next year,” Hwang said. For others, the better question is not what next year holds in store, but why ROFLCon wasn’t organized until this year. “It just makes too much sense,” Connor said of the first-ever event. “I would hate for it to be a one-time thing...
...Newbury Comics was the store, I think, for me, that was almost like a rite of passage when I was younger, you know, and first able to come down to the city on my own and go exploring.” Alternating between giddy dancing fits and hugs or autographs with fans, Brian Viglione was the vision of a populist indie icon. Viglione is one half of the Boston burlesque-rock duo, The Dresden Dolls—and with cabaret stockings and hints of stage makeup, he looks the part. He and Dolls lead singer Amanda M. Palmer were...
...expanding to a new location in Egleston Square in the fall. Student interest in the program has been strong, and 826 Boston opened the Greater Boston Bigfoot Research Institute, a tongue-in-cheek storefront for the writing center along the lines of 826 Valencia’s pirate supply store. Feeney has seen firsthand the formative effects of programs such as 826, and he attributes this to the organization’s lighthearted approach to literature. “When your writing space doubles as a Bigfoot research institute, you inevitably invite students to think a little creatively. I believe...
...reflection on his own profession, scrutinizing journalism in light of Hogue’s actions: “While it is facile to equate journalism with lying, it is also true that both actions share in common an unpleasantly instrumental approach to people and language that diminishes the common store of trust. The subject has no power to alter a reporter’s approach to his or her subject, or to take back a single word that they said.” Told in Samuels’s clean and direct style, “The Runner?...
...land, Nikolauk said, so an arrangement was made to haul sewage to the city plant. They always paid their bills - in cash. "I established rapport with two or three of them," Nikolauk says, but few members of the community were ever seen in town at the feed store or coffee shop...