Steph Hiltz

Boston-based writer, copy editor, and bartender, looking for marketing and editorial opportunities.



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Suggest a silly scenario and it’s game on! - The Boston Globe

It's like "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" played as team sport, and every night is unique. One performance last month featured rap battles, improvised scenes acted in forward and reverse, and an homage to "The Dating Game" featuring celebrity impersonations ranging from Michelle Bachmann to Flipper. The fast-paced, family-friendly show runs just short of two hours (including half-time intermission), during which two teams of three or four "actletes" perform up to a dozen improv "games."

If you're a
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Mutual Benefit, ‘Love’s Crushing Diamond’ - The Boston Globe

You might have seen this album on some magazine’s year-end list of overlooked albums from 2013. And in the instance of “Love’s Crushing Diamond,” a spot on those lists is much deserved. After its digital release in October, the album garnered significant recognition in the indiesphere and was subsequently released by Other Music Recording Co. on CD Dec. 13. A vinyl release is set for Jan. 7.

Mutual Benefit is Jordan Lee, pop experimentalist and Midwest transplant currently based in Brooklyn via
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Scene gets more room with Allston Rock City Hall opening - The Boston Globe

The name and concept for the venue were conceived, as are most of the best ideas (that typically don't make it to fruition), over drinks slung in plastic cups across a sticky bar in a dark, noisy rock club. It was back last April, after a night of the Rock 'n' Roll Rumble at T.T. the Bear's, when Anton, Michael, and Studio 52 employee Nick Grieco started to form a plan.

For nearly two years, Studio 52, Allston's warehouse-turned-artist-space, has been accommodating and exceeding the needs of th
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After big year, a homecoming for Bad Rabbits - The Boston Globe

Bad Rabbits plays a sold-out show with Bearstronaut and Brek.One on New Year's Eve at the Sinclair in Cambridge. We caught up with vocalist Fredua "Dua" Boakye and guitarist Salim Akram before their sold-out show at NYC's Bowery Ballroom to discuss their homecoming, rock stardom, and New Year's resolutions.

For Boston-based post-R&B rockers Bad Rabbits, 2013 has been a wild ride. With the release of their debut full-length album, "American Love," major radio and television appearances, a nation
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Samantha Stevens takes to the runway - The Boston Globe

“As a philanthropist, I go to a lot of charity events and [notice that] the people that are being served are often invisible,” Whitten said. She went on to create what has become the largest fund-raiser for Down syndrome in the nation, the annual Be Beautiful Be Yourself Fashion Show.

When Michelle Sie Whitten established the Global Down Syndrome Foundation five years ago, her mission was to give a face to those within the community. And there’s hardly a more glamorous way to move into the spot
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Treaty of Paris stamped North America’s history - The Boston Globe

To better grasp the document’s historical impact and its relevance to our time and city, the Globe spoke with Eliga Gould, professor and chairman of the history department at the University of New Hampshire and an expert on the American Revolution and Colonial history.

On the night of Feb. 10, 1763, crowds gathered and fireworks lighted the skies of London, Paris, and Boston to celebrate of the signing of the Treaty of Paris and the end of the Seven Years’ War. Two hundred and fifty years later
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College students on the challenge of preparing healthy meals - The Boston Globe

There’s no shame in walking into your local pizza joint and watching the cashier key in your entire order without asking, then seeing someone put your dinner on the grill or in the oven — all before “hello.” OK, maybe there’s a little shame, but over the course of four years, these people can provide you with a sense of home away from home.

Between essays, exams, and extracurriculars, it’s hard enough for college students to find time to shower, never mind grocery shop, plan, prepare, and cook
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Vintage touches make corporate style distinctive - The Boston Globe

Their rebuttal to my critique was something along the lines of: “We can’t all be eccentric arts writers, Steph. Some of us would like to have real jobs.” This was followed by a lecture on what constitutes business formal: suits, skirts, blazers, professional, conservative, blah, blah — boring. I became determined to find office-appropriate ways to make a fashion statement.

The other day I met up with a few law-school friends for drinks after work. They walked into our favorite local watering ho
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Annie Hall, reluctant style icon - The Boston Globe

Annie Hall was never envisioned as a fashion icon. In fact, Ruth Morley, wardrobe stylist on the 1977 Woody Allen classic, almost vetoed the Chaplin-esque look before it lit up the silver screen. It was actress Diane Keaton’s own effortless and uniquely androgynous style that gave life to the flighty-but-lovable Annie Hall, a character that has been stealing hearts since her debut. In an era characterized by metallic hot pants and polyester bellbottoms, the boots, vests, and bowler hats that com