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MARC LEVY

Cambridge’s Comedy Studio Hosts Hump! Festival

No matter how much porn you’ve watched, it’s almost certain you haven’t seen the clips in Hump!, the touring DIY film festival coming to Cambridge this spring. The annual festival—screening twice April 16 at the Comedy Studio in Harvard Square—packs a veritable orgy of tones and types into 24 films

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MARC LEVY January 8, 2026
MATTEA ORTIZ

Mass Indie Comic Expo Keeps Comics Trans, Black, and Educated

BOSTON – The Boston Comic Arts Foundation hosted its 16th Massachusetts Independent Comic Expo on Dec. 6 and 7 at Boston University featuring over 200 artists and writers, as well as several special guests. Jules Zuckerberg, an illustrator, cartoonist and zinemaker, tabled at MICE for the first time after spending

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MATTEA ORTIZ December 18, 2025
CELINE HIJAZI

Josh Safdie Defends Film School, Sort Of

BOSTON – “Nobody wants your films to exist,” Boston University alumnus Josh Safdie told an auditorium filled with BU film students Friday afternoon. Ahead of the Coolidge Corner premiere of his new film “Marty Supreme,” Safdie returned to the BU campus for a conversation moderated by the Chair of the

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CELINE HIJAZI December 18, 2025
CHELSEA PLUNKETT

‘The Earth Is Really Hurting, And We Can Do Something About It.’

BOSTON – The specter of silent, red-robed figures walking around Long Wharf, faces a ghostly white, stunned Gwendolen Noyes, her hands outstretched in agony.  “I was thunderstruck … they just hit me, and I couldn’t figure out what was going on,” said Noyes, a housing engineer who lives in Cambridge. 

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CHELSEA PLUNKETT December 18, 2025
CHRIS FARAONE

Why It Is Important That This Stolen Sculpture Returns To Boston

It’s more than just the simple reason that it belongs to Massachusetts and is sitting in storage at LACMA in Los Angeles

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CHRIS FARAONE December 7, 2025
NIRVANA RAGLAND

How Boston Organizations Are Choosing Human Connection Over AI

BOSTON – Whether you watch the morning news, mindlessly scroll on your phone during your commute or check in on LinkedIn, nearly everyone is surrounded by AI discourse, and there’s good reason for it. Generative artificial intelligence is quickly becoming one of the largest influences on pop culture and unexpectedly,

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NIRVANA RAGLAND December 4, 2025
John Gourley. Photo by Maclay Heriot, courtesy of Portugal. The Man.
SAM SHIPMAN

Portugal. The Man’s New Album ‘SHISH’ Is All Things Alaska

Going back home to Alaska for Portugal. The Man lead singer, John Gourley, means a 5:30 a.m. project, grabbing a tool belt and building with his father. That experience is one of the stories that inspired PTM’s tenth studio album “SHISH.” The album is an “ode to Alaska.” Yet, Bostonians

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SAM SHIPMAN November 29, 2025
COLIN HARMER

The Cornerstone Of Massachusetts Parkour

How Hub PTC, the commonwealth’s first dedicated parkour gym, jumped from YouTube inspiration to its newly revamped destination for international competition

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COLIN HARMER November 24, 2025
CHRIS FARAONE

It’s Time To Bring Home This Bust That Was Stolen From The Massachusetts State House

The sculpture of early education reformer Charles Brooks by renowned artist Thomas Crawford is in storage at Los Angeles County Museum of Art

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CHRIS FARAONE November 23, 2025
NATE HOMAN

Knights Of The Wicked Dark Ages

Medieval beatdowns with Boston’s North Horde, the region’s fearless armored combat and steel fighting paladins

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NATE HOMAN November 19, 2025
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