AltWeeklies Wire
Grokster Blues: Marketing to Scofflawsnew
It’s hard to feel much sympathy for the folks at Grokster Ltd., Streamcast Networks Inc., and other file-sharing-service providers. After all, as Justice David Souter made clear in the Supreme Court’s decision Monday, their business plans were predicated entirely on users’ illegal behavior.
Boston Phoenix |
David S. Bernstein |
07-06-2005 |
Media
Tags: media
DJ Danger Mouse Goes From Grey to Technicolornew
The Grey Album not only put a beatsmith with just one disc to his name on pop culture’s front burner, it got Brian Burton an offer to produce Demon Days, the new album by the faux cartoon band Gorillaz.
Boston Phoenix |
Simon William Vozick-Levinson |
07-05-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Gorillaz, Demon Days
Dinosaur Jr. Bury the Hatchetnew
The Phoenix examines the legacy of three geeks from Northampton, goes to rock therapy with the band, and gets the story behind their masterpiece, Bug.
Boston Phoenix |
Matt Ashare |
07-05-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Mao, More Than Evernew
Boston communists say they want a revolution. Now they just have to agree on how to bring it about.
Boston Phoenix |
Mike Miliard |
06-30-2005 |
Politics
The Boston Phoenix's Eighth Annual Muzzle Awardsnew
The FBI leads our annual roundup of those who undermined free speech and personal liberties.
Boston Phoenix |
Dan Kennedy |
06-30-2005 |
Civil Liberties
Hangar 51 Revisitednew
On a flight chartered by Foo Fighters to Roswell, N.M., the UFO-obsessed town where the band was scheduled to perform, passengers got Milky Way bars and alien-themed coloring books.
Boston Phoenix |
Jeff Miller |
06-28-2005 |
Concerts
Tags: Foo Fighters, In Your Honor
Better Late Than Nevernew
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas arrives on Xbox and PC.
Boston Phoenix |
Aaron Solomon |
06-27-2005 |
Video Games
Tags: video games
HBO/BBC's 'The Girl in the Café'new
Writer-director Richard Curtis has managed that most difficult of movie feats, entwining the personal and the political without trivializing either.
Boston Phoenix |
Joyce Millman |
06-24-2005 |
TV
Billy Corgan Unleashes His Inner Hendrixnew
The Phoenix talks with Billy Corgan about his solo debut.
Boston Phoenix |
Ted Drozdowski |
06-23-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Fresh Airnew
There are signs that the party of Teddy Roosevelt - our first conservationist president - may be reviving its care for the environment, and wonders whether or not the Bushoids will listen.
Boston Phoenix |
Deirdre Fulton |
06-23-2005 |
Environment
Punk Elegies for the '00snew
The Warrior's Code takes somber subjects -- war and the soldiers who fight it, urban poverty, fallen friends -- and sets them to the bruising but melodic punk that's the Dropkicks' stock-in-trade.
Boston Phoenix |
Mike Miliard |
06-21-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Other Englandsnew
Who wrote Hamlet? Did Christopher Marlowe help William Shakespeare? Plus, the tragic vision and mystical romance of Joan Aiken's Wolves Chronicles.
Boston Phoenix |
Jeffrey Gantz |
06-20-2005 |
Fiction
Tags: in, and, of, King, wolves, Nantucket, black, Stolen, Hearts, Lodge, Alex Jack; Joan Aiken, Battersea, Chase, Clatteringshaws, Cuckoo, Dido, Hamlet; Wolves Chronicles, Lake, Lear, Limbo, Midwinter, Nightbirds, Nightingale, Pa, TREE, Willoughby
Real Girls Play Tacklenew
Linda Caruso can totally kick your butt. An East Boston native with painted toenails, a pierced belly button, and a thick townie accent, Caruso is a veteran linebacker on the Mass Mutiny, a 6-1 pro women’s tackle-football team.
Boston Phoenix |
Camille Dodero |
06-17-2005 |
Sports
Tags: sports & fitness
The Trouble With Being Hillarynew
Many of the same folks who were gunning for husband Bill are out to get her. What's a power-player to do?
Boston Phoenix |
Dan Kennedy |
06-16-2005 |
Politics
Christ by the Slicenew
Domino's Pizza founder Tom Monaghan is spending millions to build a City of God in suburban Florida.
Boston Phoenix |
Adam Reilly |
06-16-2005 |
Religion
