Newbury Comics

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Want to fit in like a local? There's no better place to buy a "Yankees Suck" T-shirt.

This outpost of the renowned pop culture store carries especially good lineups of independent pressings and frequent sales keep prices down. Second and third locations are found on JFK Street in Cambridge and inside the Faneuil Hall Marketplace.

This company operates a smaller, 149-passenger vessel at a slower pace than Phillips -- they hit a mere 10 glaciers but spend more time waiting for them to calve. Another important feature: The tour is narrated by a Chugach National Forest ranger, not the company. The route goes up Blackstone Bay, not to College Fjord. The salmon and prime rib buffet is $19 for adults, $9 for children. It's...

A quickly adapting survivor of the format revolution, Newbury Comics is a funky local chain that stocks a wide selection of music, gifts, novelty items, posters, T-shirts -- and, of course, comics. You'll find video games, DVDs, and new and used CDs of mainstream and cutting-edge music, with lots of independent labels and imports.

The Scene
Once upon a time, this was a fringe store catering mainly to punk-rock diehards and hipper-than-thou college kids. But ever since alternative rock started blending with the...

Though the name Newbury Comics says comics, this New England retailer on Newbury Street is first and foremost a purveyor of low-priced CDs and other music-related goodies. A throwback to the 1960s record store, Newbury has records, CDs, cassettes and DVDs, in addition to a wide array of T-shirts, buttons and posters with rock or movie themes. Newbury Comics even sells lava lamps. Founded in the...