The Place to Take a Humor Break
It’s three weeks after Christmas, time for the dreaded envelopes to arrive containing the credit card bill for ill-fitting and ill-advised purchases that have already been forgotten or broken, but which have yet to be […]
LOS ANGELES. E.J. Gaines of the Los Angeles Rams didn’t realize something was missing from his life until he opened up this morning’s New York Times. HUGE Alvin Ailey fans. “I was looking for the review of the […]
SOMERVILLE, Mass. By day, Toby Shasniff is an installer for Fallmere Appliances, a retailer with a large share of the local market for those who find big-box stores in the suburbs hard to reach or […]
In recent years, rap kings such as Jay-Z and Diddy have displayed their swagger with looks that were more boardroom than bling. The Boston Herald 75 State Street I turn my collar up against […]
BOSTON. This city is home to some of the world’s most distinguished teaching hospitals, and yet a visitor to the Pumpsie Green Ambulatory Surgery Center here is surprised to see an object at his feet that is […]
As a boy, I was fascinated by tales of the necessity of certain mental and physical functions. If a person didn’t dream at night, I had read, he or she would go mad the next […]
As you turn the page on 2016 and look ahead to the coming year, you may be asking yourself–what exactly do I get for all the taxes I’m going to owe come April 15th? Where […]
It is one of the most difficult problems of aesthetic philosophy: What do we mean when we say that a song or poem is sad? I’ve read Aristotle, Kant, Croce–Benedetto, not Jim–all the big names. […]
In Italy, they throw old dishes and glasses out their windows. In Latin countries, women wear yellow underwear for good luck and red for success in love. In America, people blow noisemakers and pretend to […]
Rap record company Strange Music has a strict code of conduct that forbids employees from stripping naked during the workday unless their clothes “are actually on fire.” The Wall Street Journal I was sitting […]