Katherine Stevens
Katherine Stevens
Recent Stories
Let’s go to Antarctica!
Kati Stevens edited scene in 2005. Remember 2005? Neither do we. Anyway, she wants to go to Antarctica, and she wants you to help her do it. Here’s the pitch she sent us.
New York or LA? -- Because Boston lost its soul
Since that glorious day 500 years ago when Spanish conquistador Hernando "Kiss My Aztec" Cortes razed and burned his way to Anaheim, Calif., and founded what would someday be the landmark of the free world, Disneyland, the East Coast-West Coast debate...
The world is my … frozen whole-grain waffle
Day after graduation: Weep. Buckets. May 25-June 5: Sit on the couch watching all the taped episodes of "Lost" I missed over the school year. Try to understand how J.J. Abrams' brain works. Fail. Ignore my parents' repeated pleas to go find a job.
Get high the old-fashioned way: on life's enchntment
Perhaps the other night while you were walking down the street, you saw searchlights streaking the brown snow-laden sky. Maybe you stopped and ogled them. Maybe you just wondered who'd be crazy enough to go to a nightclub in the ice cold. Maybe you...
Falling (or tripping) in love is hard on the knees
I recently had a "Twist and Shout" experience. I twisted my ankle, and then I shouted. Well, really, it was shriller than that. More of a banshee shrieking through a mouthful of live frogs sort of sound. Since I twist my ankle on a semesterly basis...
From Snicket to Fidelity, books worht growing for
Books I bought in January: "The Polysyllabic Spree" by Nick Hornby, "High Fidelity" by Nick Hornby, "Wonder Boys" by Michael Chabon. Books I read in January: all the ones above, "Vernon God Little" by D.B.C. Pierre, "The Grim Grotto" by Lemony Snicket.
The honeymoon is over for Brad and Jen
Pretend this moment is a hot dog and relish it. If you don't stop reading this column now, it will be the last moment you relish for a good long while. I'm in Lemony Snicket mode, and there is just no stopping me. Stop writing those belated thank-you...
Make love and not war at The Game, seniors say
When underclassmen flock to The Game this weekend, they may notice a dearth of seniors. This is not because we seniors are apathetic, jaded, lazy or way too sober to watch our butts get kicked for the fourth year in a row. Our boycott of The Game is...
A dream TV lineup, starring a teen dream
So I was wandering around ABC headquarters this week, and I spotted a whistling William Shatner coming my way. Naturally, I ran in the other direction to escape the Shat, whom I owe five smackeroos after losing the bet that he'd never be in primetime...
Wahoo! BoSox beat the c-word, and so can you!
We're going to try a little game right now. Pretend you are one of your parents, and you forgot your reading glasses and are having trouble reading the small newspaper print. Get your face really close to this column, so close that you can get high off...