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Fortnight to fitness

Shaping up for the summer — in two exhausting weeks
If you’re reading this now, it may be too late. It’s the middle of May, and beach season is right around the corner.
By DEIRDRE FULTON | May 19, 2010

Review: Babies

Awwww
Director Thomas Balmès’s spare, occasionally stirring documentary toddles to Namibia, Mongolia, the US, and Japan to capture a year in the life of four infants. The San Francisco family comes off at once as a gross cliché of Western privilege, complete with roof-deck Jacuzzi and baby yoga.
By ALICIA POTTER | May 04, 2010

A clean mind and dirty hands

Moral dilemmas for the Maine Clean Election Fund
Three people walk into a bank ...
By AL DIAMON | February 10, 2010

Dance, Monkey: Ripps McCoxen

Dance, monkey!
Ripps vs. Dice
By SARA FAITH ALTERMAN | February 09, 2009

Enlighten Up!

A human and profound yoga documentary
How to make a yoga documentary that will satisfy devotees but also entice those who balk at getting down with “downward dog”?
By GERALD PEARY | September 09, 2008

Bigger, Stronger, Faster*

Steroids and a culture of competition
The film, both informative and poignant, is peopled with a cross-section of users, experts, politicians, pro athletes, and gym rats with melon-sized biceps.
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN | June 04, 2008

Fitter, happier?

Nintendo offers its new workout plan
Nintendo’s newest runaway sensation is, of all things, an exercise game.
By MADDY MYERS | May 27, 2008

Yet another path to enlightenment

A grammatical spiritual journey
The book is “meant for people who . . . like to have their consciousness of life’s big questions refreshed,” says Weinstein.
By KRISTINA WONG | April 30, 2008

Prodigy

H.N.I.C. Pt 2 | AAC
By the time this goes to press, Prodigy will be roughly 10 books and 2000 push-ups deep into the three-and-change prison term he picked up last year for illegal gun possession.
By MARTÍN CABALLERO | April 22, 2008

March 12, 2008

Wednesday
Wednesday
By SYMBOLINE DAI | March 05, 2008

Abs of steel

American Gladiators does the gym proud
A wonderfully campy, oddly comforting motivator that suggests anyone with the guts and desire can become a modernized version of a Roman warrior.
By SHARON STEEL | January 28, 2008

January 23, 2008

Wednesday
Wednesday
By SYMBOLINE DAI | January 16, 2008

December 28, 2007

Friday
Friday
By SYMBOLINE DAI | December 26, 2007

Save the Harbor/Save the Bay

A 21-year campaign clears things up
More than 20 years ago, a Quincy city solicitor went for a jog along a Boston beach. Sadly, his exercise was ruined when he landed feet-first in a mound of sewage.
By KARA BASKIN | November 06, 2007

Jockular plus

New England is the home of past and future champions
Phillipe + Jorge have been absolutely giddy, as we have gone crazy about the World Series’ success of the Olde Towne Team.
By PHILLIPE AND JORGE | October 31, 2007

Keep yourself alive

How to avoid the Freshman 15, cure a hangover, get some sleep — and still have fun
I’ll admit that my college years weren’t my healthiest.
By DEIRDRE FULTON | August 29, 2007

Prisoners’ guru to speak in Maine

Human kindness
Mainers will get a chance to discuss prison life with Bo Lozoff.
By LANCE TAPLEY | July 18, 2007

Good Shaq, bad Shaq

Is O’Neal’s fat-camp show kind or cruel?
Say this for Miami Heat center Shaquille O’Neal: in Shaq’s Big Challenge , signs abound that his intentions are good.
By ADAM REILLY | July 10, 2007

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Muscles as art: Hulk meets haute

The aesthetics of oily bodies
This article originally appeared in the February 22, 1977 issue of the Boston Phoenix.
By CAROLYN CLAY | April 09, 2007

March 4, 2007

Sunday
Sunday
By SYMBOLINE DAI | February 28, 2007

My Trainer, Myself

Bramhall Square
I’m supposed to meet with my trainer today and I’m looking for ways to get out of it.
By CAITLIN SHETTERLY | February 28, 2007

Big Daddy’s

The name says it all
The name of this Brighton joint is apt: the subs here could double as free weights, and the appetizers will satisfy the inner child of many with a variety of melt-in-your-mouth bite-size appetizers (while also satisfying your wallet).
By LEAH BEN-AMI | February 14, 2007

December 21, 2006

Thursday
Waxing moon in Capricorn; winter solstice. Capricorn gets a new beginning in every sense of the word. As much as you enjoy routine, try and mix it up today — Venus is on your side through the new year, which makes you one appealing goat. Romance for Cancer is a mixed-bag; if you're with a fire sign, you could wonder why it's always about “them.” Shopping tip: skin cream, free weights, chevre.
By SYMBOLINE DAI | December 20, 2006

Wolf love

Marjorie Morgan in Brookline
Marjorie Morgan has extended her musical adventures with a new piece for seven dancers and double bassist.
By MARCIA B. SIEGEL | December 12, 2006

November 30, 2006

Thursday
Waxing moon in Aries. Get to the gym! Aries will display ingenuity when dealing with people whose motives aren’t always clear. But Libra isn’t getting the whole story — even though it seems like new information is coming quickly. Mild domestic dissatisfaction could rile Cancer and Capricorn, but Sagittarius is in fine form.
By SYMBOLINE DAI | November 29, 2006

Stark realization

Steve Zaillian can’t put All the King’s Men together again
Zaillian gives a workout to the elements that make this book such a favorite with high-school English teachers: the neat symbolism, the themes of good and evil, guilt and innocence. But the ideas remain abstract. Watch the trailer for All the King's Men (QuickTime) King maker: The director on the campaign trail. By Peter Keough
By PETER KEOUGH | September 22, 2006

June 1, 2006

Thursday
Waxing moon in Leo. “Advertisements for myself” is your theme today, except for Aquarius, who is getting squeezed by planets and is way harder on him- or herself than anyone else would be. Leo, this isn’t the best month for you to get in shape, but the decisions will come easily in the forthcoming weeks. You guys get this kind of astrological juice every two years, so use it wisely.
By SYMBOLINE DAI | May 31, 2006

The fat of the land

Does the obsession with losing weight do more harm than good?
A few months ago, for Jenna Broccolo’s 15th birthday, she and her family took a trip to New York City to attend a festival in Little Italy. Jenna, a sophomore at Westerly High School, asked her mom for one more gift: a full-length mirror. “You go, girl!” said her mom, Ann Marie Broccolo.
By | January 17, 2006