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A Big Change to This Year’s Voter Guide We’ve been doing voter guides for a really long time. I’m pretty sure we put our first one out in like 2010 or something. And I know that thousands of you rely on our voter guides to help you make decision. But

Goood Eeeevening, I got kind of burnt out on Death By Audio about a year ago. I stopped going. But all this has changed. Call it a religious awakening. Call it a resurrection. Call it Scott Bakula’s Dracula Spectacula! Disclaimer: I have no idea what Quantum Leap star, Scott Bakula,

Lisa Peterson, our broke-ass of the week, hails from Seattle and now calls East Boston home.  She’s not afraid of rain (“just wear a hood”), once accidentally spent 4oo bucks on a meal in Iceland (damn you, Björk, and your funny currency), and sells books at a travel bookstore in