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Re-Viewing 'Honey West'new
Produced on the cheap (by Aaron Spelling), and with some sets recycled from episode to episode, the short-lived series nonetheless retains some of its cocktail-shaker-and-hidden-transistors glamor on DVD.
Boston Phoenix |
Charles Taylor |
02-19-2009 |
TV
Norman Mailer's 1968 War Storiesnew
Mailer wrote his accounts of the 1968 national conventions on assignment for Harper's, and predicted a 40-year war with the emerging neo-cons. Alas, he was right about that.
Boston Phoenix |
Charles Taylor |
08-20-2008 |
Nonfiction
Holding Out Hopenew
Freed from the processed, saccharine pap of her contemporaries, Mandy Moore reveals a rich, warm, muscular voice and superb taste on her recent indie release.
Boston Phoenix |
Charles Taylor |
06-22-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Mandy Moore, Wild Hope
Wet, Hard, and Dreamingnew
The slipcased three-volume graphic novel following the bawdy exploits of Alice, Dorothy, and Wendy is out to destroy the distinction between pornography and erotica.
Boston Phoenix |
Charles Taylor |
09-21-2006 |
Fiction
Rebel Bellesnew
No other performer has been as vilified as the Dixie Chicks were for speaking out -- and they do not apologize on Taking the Long Way.
Boston Phoenix |
Charles Taylor |
06-09-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Dixie Chicks, Taking the Long Way
Folk Re-Revivalnew
This comes across somewhere between Springsteen's stab at his own Basement Tapes and a boozy, carnal wake.
Boston Phoenix |
Charles Taylor |
05-25-2006 |
Reviews
