Just before I left for the Poconos for Thanksgiving, I taped my call on Car Talk, which destroyed all of my notions about the show while being as fun and intimidating as you might think. Nothing happens live, of course, though listening to the show makes you think it does. I called almost two weeks […]

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The latest in a long series of hand-painted wooden signs attached to already-standing street signposts around Boston, Cambridge, and Somerville (and beyond?). These two are at the edge of the Simmons College campus, at that nasty intersection where The Fenway curves around and heads back into Park Drive, and where buses, construction vehicles, and gaggles […]

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