Duck Boots

I have always been stingy with household climate control. Even when I lived in Texas I kept the air conditioner off. It was partly the expense; I barely had money for Lone Star tallboys back then and I had priorities. Beyond the money problem I worried about the...
Academy Mystery Tour

Academy Mystery Tour

Last spring, the front-of-house manager at the Academy of Music discovered an old cardboard box containing a series of letters dating back to the early 1940s. The correspondence they contain tells the story of Frank Shaughnessy, then the manager at the Academy, who...
Stagestruck: Money Talks

Stagestruck: Money Talks

Her inspiration, says Christian McEwen, was The Vagina Monologues, that revolutionary piece of interview theater that put a hitherto “unspeakable” subject into the public conversation. “What else,” she wondered, “do women have these...
March Madness

March Madness

Are you ready for some basketball? The NCAA has $10.8 billion that says you are. This month, CBS Sports and Turner Broadcasting Systems will show all 73 games of the “March Madness” NCAA Men’s Division 1 Basketball Tournament live on their various...

From Our Readers

Conspiracies and Actual Conspiracies In Charlotte Burns’ letter “Skeptical of Case Against Tsarnaev” [February 27, 2014] she writes, “Having lived through the Kennedy assassination, the Vietnam War and 9/11, I am totally...