Thirty-seven-year-old Boston-based bartender Trevor Christian has been slinging drinks for nearly 10 years — and been sober for eight of them. Don’t get me wrong: I love alcohol. It still plays a large role in my life, just not in my body. I don’t feel like I’m better than...
With summer heat come summer smells. And beyond the scents that waft across the backyard from the grill, almost none of them are good. Particularly, summer is the time when bodies make themselves most pungently known, filled with sweat and armpit horrors, often covered by the cloying,...
Don’t have three hours a day to spend at the gym? Not interested in bulging like a bodybuilder? Unmoved by promises of “fat-blasting, ab-chiseling monster workouts”? This is the column for you, fellow regular human with very little free time. … The Man Elion, Marina Del Rey,...
Based on recent history, it would seem the popped collar originated with one of three male species: 1) frat guys; 2) Jersey Shore juiceheads; or super-rich bros who spend their many non-working hours in the Hamptons. But that wouldn’t just be recent history; it also would constitute...
Most of us work more than we live, which is to say we spend considerably more time at the office and with our coworkers than we do with the human beings we actually want in our lives. It also means that the stressors and anxieties of work...
In this installment of our “What Makes Me a…” column, we asked seven people what they really mean when they call you a “nice guy.” Rob Dick, Bounty Hunter School instructor: In my world, a “nice guy” is someone that treats the fugitive like a human being....
While the president has called diaper-changing “women’s work,” some 90 percent of fathers with children under 5 will change the diaper on that child every day or several times a week, according to a recent study. Yet it’s anyone’s guess where they’re doing it, since so many...
It’s pretty common to want to blame other people for our flaws, and it’s especially tempting — easy, even — to put the burden on our parents. Got angry-drunk and called your boss a bad name? Thanks for showing me how to self-medicate with alcohol instead of controlling my anger, Dad....
You have plans with a friend who you don’t entirely trust to stick to said plans. You’ve agreed to a time and a place. You show up at the appointed time and place. Maybe 20 minutes later, you get a familiar text: They can’t make it after...
I struggle with asking for things that I want. I’ve never, for example, sent a meal back to a restaurant kitchen for any reason. Instead, I’ll happily power down the veggie special after ordering lobster to avoid an uncomfortable confrontation with a waiter. I’ve been meaning to...
I can still picture the first time I was fired as if it happened an hour ago: I was working at a record store and had mistakenly sold an R-rated DVD to two girls who turned out to be 14 years old, and one of their parents...
When Rick Webb got engaged several years ago, he turned to the best wedding planner he knew: Himself. The long-running stereotype is that men are not just indifferent about the details of their wedding ceremonies; they’re bored by them. Couple that with the idea that women are...