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							 Katy Perry brought her debut headlining tour, "Hello Katy" -- and her larger-than-life stage-prop cat, Katy Purry -- to Boston's House of Blues. Highlights: a pussy joke, a period joke, a watermelon with the word "penis" on it, and a bunch of other certified borscht-belt blue humor that left the pre-teens in the audience cackling, and their moms looking horrified . . . that is, when said MILFs weren't losing their shit to "Hot and Cold."  
							
							 
						
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							  One of the cool things about being astonishingly single is that you can experiment, both with actual humans, and with ideas.  
							
							 
						
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							   If, sometime in the next few decades, humanity kicks the religion habit once and for all, the current crop of atheist agitators will deserve plenty of credit.   
							
							 
						
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							 There’s a circus-like house in Allston — complete with an indoor basketball court, movie-projector room, pillow loft, and multiple art installations — whose ethos can best be summed up with a bit of poetry, which is printed out on labels on the wall of the second-floor bathroom. 
							
							 
						
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							   Once a month, in the cramped A-frame attic of a house in Allston, folk singers from around New England gather to sing for each other.   
							
							 
						
					 
				 
			 
			
				
					
					
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							   If, sometime in the next few decades, humanity kicks the religion habit once and for all, the current crop of atheist agitators will deserve plenty of credit.   
							
							 
						
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							  "There are people who react strangely. I've had people who will clutch rosary beads or throw glasses."  
							
							 
						
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							   Whereas a few months ago it seemed that no one could pose a serious threat to any re-election campaign mounted by Governor Deval Patrick, a recent string of missteps has suddenly made him very vulnerable.   
							
							 
						
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							  An East Boston bistro? Kind of doesn't have a ring to it — especially since we're not talking about Orient Heights or Jeffries Point.  
							
							 
						
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							   There has been much debate — public, behind closed doors, and on message boards — as to whether Boston punk does in fact rule.   
							
							 
						
					 
				 
			 
			
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