AltWeeklies Wire
Off the Press! My Life and Good Times in Alternative Journalismnew
Written in 2006 for the 40th anniversary of the Boston Phoenix. Alt-weekly veteran Clif Garboden passed away on Feb. 10, 2011.
Boston Phoenix |
Clif Garboden |
02-11-2011 |
Media
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Review: God in Americanew
PBS puts American religion in its proper place.
Boston Phoenix |
Clif Garboden |
10-08-2010 |
Commentary
Ken Burns Worships America's Spiritual Resource in His Latest Docnew
His PBS 12-hour epic The National Parks: America's Best Idea is a selective chronicle of the evolution of the National Parks system and the changing roles protected lands have played in American culture since Congress validated Yosemite in 1864.
Boston Phoenix |
Clif Garboden |
09-24-2009 |
TV
PBS Puts a Human Face on Native American Historynew
In terms of exposition, inspiration, and cross-cultural outreach, you can think of We Shall Remain as the Native American Eyes on the Prize. Like that landmark documentary, this series reminds us that true glory lies in the honest histories of people, not the manipulated histories of governments.
Boston Phoenix |
Clif Garboden |
04-08-2009 |
TV
The Romance of Decay in Photosnew
Cheer up and don't let this dust-to-dust business slow you down. That's something to keep in mind when confronting the work of Jerry Berndt and Eugene Richards, two photographers with Boston ties adept at making art from what a lot of people consider ugly, untouchable things.
Boston Phoenix |
Clif Garboden |
03-05-2009 |
Nonfiction
Boston Media Legend Alan Lupo, 1938-2008new
Al Lupo, for decades Boston's gravelly voice of the people in both the daily and alternative press, died, after fighting cancer, on Monday, September 29.
Boston Phoenix |
Clif Garboden |
10-01-2008 |
Media
What Every Boston Freshman Should Knownew
Freshmen, check your egos at the state line and listen up — things are not always as advertised.
Boston Phoenix |
Clif Garboden |
09-04-2008 |
Comedy
Victim, Not Vixennew
Evelyn Nesbit biographer Paula Uruburu makes a convincing case that sexual naïveté plus parental abandonment aggravated by an unearned notoriety based on looks alone added up to certain doom for the most beautiful woman in the world.
Boston Phoenix |
Clif Garboden |
07-31-2008 |
Nonfiction
Repression Illustrated: People's History in a Graphic Formatnew
National Lampoon/Heavy Metal illustrator Rick Geary’s graphic bio of the notorious FBI strongman, J. Edgar Hoover, and American Splendor author Harvey Pekar’s anthology of new-left living-history reminiscences, Students for a Democratic Society are well-drawn histories.
Boston Phoenix |
Clif Garboden |
07-03-2008 |
Nonfiction
Global Warming Means Sweating it Out This Summernew
"Going green" may be an annoying trendy catch phrase, but there's something to be said for turning down the global thermostat before we all drown in a pool of our own sweat.
Boston Phoenix |
Clif Garboden |
06-12-2008 |
Science
The Dirtiest Copnew
How the East Side, the West Side, and 42nd Street corrupted the 20th century.
Boston Phoenix |
Clif Garboden |
11-05-2007 |
Nonfiction
Cathy Wilkerson: Exploding the '60snew
She survived the infamous Weatherman bomb-factory explosion, life underground, and prison. In Flying Close to the Sun, she offers her life and times for all time.
Boston Phoenix |
Clif Garboden |
10-25-2007 |
History
'The War' Is Swellnew
Ken Burns's WW2 documentary seeks to impose truth on the legend. Still, the specifics of WW2 have been such a closely guarded (Greatest) generational secret that you want him to say more.
Boston Phoenix |
Clif Garboden |
09-24-2007 |
TV
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Everybody Say 'Arrragh!'new
Being a brief but basically positive review of two new books about pirates.
Boston Phoenix |
Clif Garboden |
09-13-2007 |
Nonfiction
Revenge on Icenew
Celebrated spy novelist Charles McCarry offers a sad tale from the Deutsches Reich with love.
Boston Phoenix |
Clif Garboden |
05-10-2007 |
Fiction
