Early this Tuesday morning, Anna Tang, a 20-year-old Wellesley student, snuck into her ex-boyfriend's Next House dorm room at MIT and stabbed him seven times while he slept. The victim, Wolfe Styke, 20, is in the hospital. According to the Middlesex DA's office, Tang was found with a "buck" knife in her backpack, and her jacket was covered in blood. Apparently, she also wanted to get caught and told police "Here I am" when they......

Does signing to a major label change everything? Many longtime fans of the Portland, Oregon-based band The Decemberists wondered if the group's decision to sign with Capitol Records to release their fourth full-length album would serve to tone down everything that drew indie fans to them in the first place: the quirky lyrics, the range of song subject matter (from prostitutes to mariners), and the group's unabashed fondness for obscure literary and historical allusions. The......