AltWeeklies Wire
Interview With Melissa Auf der Maurnew
On her new CD and movie — and Billy, Courtney, and Danzig.
Boston Phoenix |
Jon Garelick |
10-18-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
Newport Jazz Comes Back With a Bangnew
The biggest news made by the Newport Jazz and Folk Festivals the past two weekends was that they happened at all.
Boston Phoenix |
Jon Garelick |
08-12-2009 |
Music
Ricky Jay's Sleight of Handnew
To call Ricky Jay a "magician" is like calling Leonardo a portrait painter. Esteemed among his peers as one of the finest sleight-of-hand artists in the world, Jay is also a recognized scholar in the motley history of illusionists, cardsharps, and con men.
Boston Phoenix |
Jon Garelick |
04-02-2009 |
Performance
Christuhfuh Rocks with La Dolce Vitanew
Actor/musician Michael Imperioli explains his life after The Sopranos.
Boston Phoenix |
Jon Garelick |
04-10-2008 |
Music
Tags: La Dolce Vita
The Long Viewnew
Long-time Boston jazz critic Bob Blumenthal avoids the relay-race theory of music history. The artists, he says, never passed the baton -- they just kept running.
Boston Phoenix |
Jon Garelick |
01-30-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
New Orleans Notesnew
This year as last, the refrain at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival was: "We're back." But the question still nagged: "How far 'back' are we?"
Boston Phoenix |
Jon Garelick |
05-10-2007 |
Concerts
Tags: concerts
Lovely Ladnew
Unlike bland international pop, the Arctic Monkeys come from a real place.
Boston Phoenix |
Jon Garelick |
06-09-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Arctic Monkeys
Revival Meetingnew
Everywhere you looked during the first weekend of the 37th annual New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, the big theme was recovery -- but amid all the optimism, you couldn't overlook the prevalent downside.
Boston Phoenix |
Jon Garelick |
05-11-2006 |
Music
Talkin' Trashnew
Footballers Wives is anything but desperate, and Love Monkey is no High Fidelity.
Boston Phoenix |
Jon Garelick |
02-09-2006 |
TV
Tags: TV
Different Strokesnew
Critic Jon Garelick reviews his favorite people, CDs and performances of 2005.
Boston Phoenix |
Jon Garelick |
12-23-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: yearinreview2005
It's All Truenew
Phoenix reviewers list their favorite non-fiction books of 2005.
Boston Phoenix |
Jon Garelick |
12-23-2005 |
Nonfiction
Tags: yearinreview2005
Speeding Through Lifenew
The Phoenix lists the best fiction and poetry of 2005.
Boston Phoenix |
Jon Garelick |
12-23-2005 |
Fiction
Tags: yearinreview2005
Giving Good Offensenew
Sarah Silverman, the nice Jewish girl out shopping at Loehmann’s with her mother meets Jenna Jameson, says she goes for laughs but gets them by way of shock.
Boston Phoenix |
Jon Garelick |
11-29-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Liam Lynch, Jesus Is Magic
New Standardsnew
Gold Sounds, a collection of Pavement songs performed by accomplished jazz musicians, dramatizes the absence of new "standards" -- contemporary pop songs on which to improvise.
Boston Phoenix |
Jon Garelick |
11-22-2005 |
Music
Lived to Tellnew
Bob Dylan looks back in Scorsese’s No Direction Home.
Boston Phoenix |
Jon Garelick |
09-22-2005 |
Reviews
