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Local designers head West

musiclover — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 20:08:28 +0000

Boston-based designers Patch NYC are going national, again. John Ross and Don Carney the pair who make up Patch (and landed in our 25 Most Stylish Bostonians list in 2008), have collaborated with big names ranging from Anthropologie to Barnes & Noble. This time, Carney’s elaborate ink drawings are showing up on products now arriving at West Elm. You can pick up the Patch NYC goods on dishes, wall art, and pillow covers with prices topping out at $34.

Boston University LipDub

musiclover — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 20:01:04 +0000

For many, ‘mean girl’ practice starts early

musiclover — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:41:42 +0000

The girl came home from school upset. A classmate had called her names. Told her everyone hated her. Said she couldn’t sit with the others at lunch. The other girls all went along with it. Such “mean girl’’ behavior is not new. Girl-on-girl cruelty has long been the subject of books, TV shows, and movies More >

Siobhan Magnus books spot among Idol’s final dozen

musiclover — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:28:17 +0000

Siobhan Magnus has clinched an all-important spot among the top 12 finalists on “American Idol”.

Her performance of The Animals’ “House of the Rising Sun” earlier this week wowed three out of four of the judges, and enough of the viewers who voted to keep the 19-year-old from Marstons Mills moving forward in the competition.

Another jewel lost in Greenway crown

musiclover — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:20:06 +0000

Four years after showing off plans for a glitzy $80 million building on the Rose Kennedy Greenway, organizers of the New Center for Arts and Culture have decided to abandon those plans, leaving yet another empty space on the sprawling tract created by the Big Dig.