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Want a Free Spring Break Trip? Ok, Here You Go

Believe it or not, Spring Break planning is right around the corner. Pretty soon you’re going to have to stop drinking one night a week and start saving up for a flight, hotel, drinks for a week and maybe a meal or two. How about this, how about we make it a bit easier by just giving you a trip,...

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I'm Calling the Mayor. Boston Cabs Not Doing Their Job

I HATE BOSTON CABS. Say it with me, I HATE BOSTON CABS. Seriously, I just don't get the system. I always thought of it as this: you're a taxi driver, I tell you where I want to go, you take me there, then I pay and tip you. But no, not for Boston cabs. They pick and choose where they want to...

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Fall Break 2011: Deluna Fest

It's a party in Florida in October! Deluna Fest kicks of October 13-16!  Over 80 bands will be featured in the sexy fall music festival in Pensacola, Florida. Over 50,000 concertgoers are expected to show up this year. Linkin Park, Jane's Addiction and Weezer are headling this year's festival...

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The New Girl Volume 7: Art History

Yesterday I went to check out the Dale Chihuly exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts located at 465 Huntington Avenue. This exhibit, “Through the Looking Glass,” will be featured until August 7, 2011 and I highly suggest you art-loving Sumos go see it. About Chilhuly Chihuly is originally from...

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Sumo Summer: The Perfect Weekend Getaway, Nantucket

The Boston heat making you crazy? Need a break? Head to Nantucket. Yes, it is extremely touristy, but so totally worth the "traffic jams" (a traffic jam on Nantucket is not exactly the same as one on the mainland). There is beach literally everywhere - obviously since it's an island. Get this,...

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The New Girl Volume 1: Public Transit

*Over the summer Hallie will be sharing her tips from going from the "new kid" to the in the know one in Boston.  Coming from a small town in Connecticut, appropriately called Plainfield, moving to Boston is a huge change. What a difference an hour and a half makes. The corn fields and...

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Give Mattapan a Break

As an Emerson College jounalism student, I'm sent to all areas of Boston on a regular basis. This time I've been assigned to go to Mattapan, notourious for shootings and violent crime, to find the good in it. Needless to say I was a little scared. Scared not only for my physical safety given...

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New Rental Car Service on URI Campus

How many of you are stuck on campus without a car? Whether it's because you can't afford it, Mommy and Daddy won't let you take your car down during school, or some other unfortunate reason--it sucks. Lots of students have vehicles on campus but who wants to be that friend who always has to bum a...

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4th Annual No Pants Subway Ride

Ever wonder how clean the seats on the T really are? Well you're in for a shitty surprise. On last Sunday, January 9th, 2011 over 5,000 people took off their pants on subways in 48 cities and 22 countries around the world for the 4th annual No Pants Subway Ride. 500 Of those rough riders were right...

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For This Town, Size Doesn't Matter

You know those quaint New England towns in T.V. shows and movies, where people walk around instead of drive, there’s a cute coffee shop in the center of town, and tiny shops line the streets?  We never thought they existed.  But good news—“Gilmore Girls,” the show that catapulted Alexis...

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