AltWeeklies Wire
The New New Agenew
Here's both the good news and the bad: the 60s never ended.
Boston Phoenix |
James Parker |
08-21-2006 |
Culture
Tags: lifestyles
Pardons Are Forevernew
Prediction: Before leaving office, Bush will issue a shockingly large number of presidential pardons to operatives who ventured far outside the law to wage the "war on terror."
Boston Phoenix |
Harvey Silverglate |
08-21-2006 |
Politics
Ahmadinejad-Manianew
That's right, kids -- Iran's smilin', Holocaust-denyin', nuclear-power-wantin', windbreaker-wearin' president joined the new media this week, over at ahmadinejad.ir.
Boston Phoenix |
Adam Reilly and Bill Jensen |
08-21-2006 |
Comedy
Tags: humor & satire
Green Monster to Green Zonenew
Two red Sox fans gave up selling "Yankees Suck" T-shirts and got jobs in war-torn Iraq.
Boston Phoenix |
Mike Miliard |
08-10-2006 |
Nonfiction
The Real Anti-Hillary Stands Upnew
There's no telling how many anti-Hillarys the Democratic Party will see between now and 2008 -- right now, it's John Edwards's turn.
Boston Phoenix |
Adam Reilly |
08-10-2006 |
Politics
The Feel-Good Movie of the Summernew
Stone makes a movie on a politically loaded subject and tries really, really hard not to make it political, and he's still called a conspiracy nut, this time for not politicizing his subject.
Boston Phoenix |
Peter Keough |
08-10-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Oliver Stone, World Trade Center
Breeding Injusticenew
Only the most hard-hearted would press for sterilizing the “feeble-minded” or preventing the mentally retarded from marrying, but similar arguments are regularly made in favor of banning same-sex marriage.
Boston Phoenix |
Michael J. Amico |
08-10-2006 |
LGBT
Tags: gay & lesbian issues
A Few Miles Past Tupelonew
The genre is established and the bands play on, but all may not be well down on the alt-country farm.
Boston Phoenix |
Franklin Soults |
08-03-2006 |
Music
Missionary Mannew
A 2004 documentary, Gram Parsons: Fallen Angel, just released on DVD is reviving interest (again) in one of alt-country's most influential legends.
Boston Phoenix |
Matt Asharre |
08-03-2006 |
Music
Tags: Gram Parsons
The Cartoon Network Goes Metalnew
Heavy metal remains fertile ground for satire on all fronts, but what sets the Cartoon Network's new animated series Metalocalypse apart is the reverence that precedes the ridicule.
Boston Phoenix |
Larissa Glasser |
08-03-2006 |
TV
Tags: TV
Everybody Loves Corpsesnew
A German scientist brings a display well-preserved human bodies in wacky poses to Boston's Museum of Science -- and the crowd loves it.
Boston Phoenix |
Greg Cook |
08-03-2006 |
Art
Tags: visual arts
The First Annual Phoenix Sex Surveynew
The results of the Phoenix's first annual sex survey are in. Our conclusion? Our readers are freaks.
Boston Phoenix |
Phoenix readers |
08-03-2006 |
Sex
Revenge of the Nerdsnew
Three gamer geeks from Massachusetts made a vid-cast that was slagged mercilessly on the Web, and then MTV called -- now they're cooler than you are.
Boston Phoenix |
Mike Miliard |
08-03-2006 |
TV
Tags: TV
Second for New Hampshire?new
A new 2008 Democratic nominating calendar wedges a Nevada caucus in between the traditional one-two primaries punch of Iowa and New Hampshire -- and that has Granite Staters preparing for a showdown.
Boston Phoenix |
Calvin Hennick |
08-03-2006 |
Politics
What Smell?new
The second-quarter of 2006 saw Scott McClellan succumb to liar's fatigue, Stephen Colbert and Al Gore offering inconvenient truth, bad guys dying of natural and unnatural causes, and a war within a war that nobody needs.
Boston Phoenix |
Barry Crimmins |
07-31-2006 |
Commentary
