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The Weekend Guide

Sit up straight, stop mumbling, and brace yourself at the gateway to Boston’s most exquisite month. Ladies and gentlemen, we present: October.

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National Jean Co. Swap for Katrina Survivors

What: For every pair of old jeans you bring in, ...

The Ex Files

It’s not really your fault. You were only eighteen years old at the time. And you were mildly intoxicated.

Still, tattooing the name of your high school sweetheart on your ankle may have been a bit rash. Especially since he ...

Nut Job

In the winter, a cup of hot chocolate did the trick. By summer, it was all about a perfectly ripe peach. But fall? In fall you want your go-to snack to be something a little spicier. A little crunchier. A ...

Party Politics

Things you need to have now that social season is officially underway:

1. Embellished denim. Paris-inspired black. Metallic anything.

2. The best doormen’s numbers, for any A-lists you don’t make.

3. A standing pre-soiree dinner reservation, so you don’t actually ...

Band Aid

There are two types of people on this earth: interior decorators and interior dreaders. Take wallpaper, for example.

The decorator embraces it as an opportunity to explore a country theme through gingham, murals, and birdhouse borders. The dreader analyzes a ...

Jean Pool

They say that you can never have too much of a good thing.

Well they have clearly never had to put their favorite dress into storage after mauling four pounds of chocolate. Or suffered a hangover after fifteen pomegranate martinis. ...

Archeological Treasure Found on Newbury Street

Boston, Mass. — Archeologists were thrilled to uncover today a subterranean gold mine of stylish artifacts and apparel on Newbury Street, suggesting a cool urban culture unknown to the Boston region.

As explorers entered the basement location, they reported seeing ...

Run, Lola, Run

It takes time to establish an identity.

That’s especially true, it seems, when your name is Lola. It took awhile for the Kinks to figure out just who and what she was. (Give them a break: She walked like a ...