I just got assaulted. Or I guess you could say I lost a fight badly. I think if you lose a fight badly enough you can just say “I got assaulted”. It started outside the Planet Fitness on Winter Street. A woman leaving work says excuse me after stepping out of the way of a … More I got assaulted
A chance occurrence sets Max on a dark and twisted path down a long-forgotten past … More The Hunt for the Baltimore Oriole
New York City. A.K.A. The Big Apple in the Concrete Jungle that Never Sleeps. For centuries it has served as an epicenter of finance, art, music, media, fashion, and global affairs. It is the backdrop to countless TV shows and movies including hit sitcoms, dramas, and 8,000 procedural cop shows. I mean, seriously, how do … More I spent 48 hours in New York City
2023 is over. In a new tradition I’m creating right now, I am going to summarize my life these last twelve months and share the resolutions I made last New Year’s. In December of 2022, I was living in downtown Boston and had been working my first job out of college in a lab for … More Max’s 2023 Recap
Boston Ballet’s annual production of The Nutcracker hit me real hard. Where that mark is, you’ll have to read and find out. … More The NutCracker Cracked My N- Nevermind
A year after the unveiling of “The Embrace” monument downtown, Maureen Li gives her insight into the piece, its meaning, and its impact. … More One Year of the “The Embrace”
On Friday I impulsively bought tickets to one of my favorite Boston venues, Paradise Rock Club. It’s the same place I saw my first ever live show almost exactly one year ago, so this was a great way to celebrate 🙂 The warm-up act was a guy named Maeko who had a pretty tough time … More The Q-Tip Bandits Stole My Heart
Last week, you, Mr. Portnoy, the owner of Barstool Sports and host of a popular pizza-reviewing series came to Boston. One of the shops you visited was Dragon Pizza in Somerville, and what came from that was a viral video in which you drop a mediocre score for their pizza before getting in a shouting … More Dave Portnoy Eat Your Heart Out
Hidden among packed city streets are the traces of structures no longer standing. Where sudden gaps appear between densely packed buildings, brick walls are exposed with the outline of a roof or chimney embedded like an abstract mural. These are ghost buildings – the consequence of limited space forcing two buildings to share the same … More Buildings and Breakups
Last month I got on a crowded Green line train and made my way to Fenway Park for the first time. Built in 1912 and demolished hopefully sometime soon, the Boston Red Sox have been playing there since a time when doctors gave out lobotomies like they were lollipops. The game was great. That is, … More My First Red Sox Game
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