AltWeeklies Wire
Fairy Dust: Jeanette Winterson Floats Awaynew
British novelist Jeannette Winterson's eighth novel marks a return to the trademark intimacy of her acclaimed earlier work. It’s cyclical, circular and surreal, and the Biblical lilt of it is counterbalanced by glimmering flimsiness.
Boston Phoenix |
Nina MacLaughlin |
04-13-2005 |
Fiction
Seen But Not Heardnew
By standing in opposition to modernity, the pope made himself an irrelevant--if beloved--figure in the West.
Boston Phoenix |
Dan Kennedy |
04-12-2005 |
Religion
Conversation Pieces: Tori Amos in Song and Otherwisenew
The quirky diva discusses her new CD, her new book, her many frames of reference, terrorists and orange knickers.
Boston Phoenix |
Matt Ashare |
04-11-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Art Demon: An interview with Camille Paglianew
Camille Paglia talks (and talks and talks) about her new book of poetry commentary — and academic ‘ass-lickers’ and ‘liberal media elites’ had better respond intelligently for a change.
Boston Phoenix |
Tamara Wieder |
04-07-2005 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
An American Fatwanew
Media irresponsibility could place Michael Schiavo's life in danger for many years to come.
Boston Phoenix |
Dan Kennedy |
04-04-2005 |
Media
Tags: media
Worst Homicide Squad seriesnew
AltWeeklies Award - Investigative Reporting
Boston Phoenix |
David S. Bernstein |
03-31-2005 |
Media
Tags: media
Where the Chords Have No Namesnew
Jon Garelick interviews guitarist Pat Metheny about his group's new magnum opus, The Way Up.
Boston Phoenix |
Jon Garelick |
03-30-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Pat Metheny Group, The Way Up
When My Brother Held the Plugnew
Three years ago, the writer watched his brother struggle with the gut-wrenching decision of whether to pull the plug and let his wife die -- and then watched as she miraculously recovered.
Boston Phoenix |
David S. Bernstein |
03-29-2005 |
Science
GLBT Youth and the Stifling of Discussion of Gay Sexualitynew
The queer community's fight for same-sex marriage, combined with revived AIDS hysteria, is shortchanging gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender youth by stifling discussion of gay sexuality.
Boston Phoenix |
Michael Bronski |
03-28-2005 |
LGBT
Homme Sweet Homme: Queens of the Stone Age Interviewnew
Repetition saturates Queens of the Stone Age's new album Lullabies To Paralyze like a recurring nightmare.
Boston Phoenix |
Ken Micallef |
03-24-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Jonathan Safran Foer Discusses Extremely Loud and Incredibly Closenew
Jonathan Safran Foer talks about his new novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, in which he makes September 11th the canvas for his portrait of the dimensions of tragedy.
Boston Phoenix |
Nina MacLaughlin |
03-24-2005 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Legendary Parts: The Slint Legacy Becomes Realitynew
Slint has reunited for a tour. When they called it quits in 1991, that wasn’t headline news. Over the next dozen years, however, they would take on a legendary, almost sacred status.
Boston Phoenix |
Matt Ashare |
03-23-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Memoir Covers the Author's Struggle to Believe and Morenew
David Plante descends from Ernest Hemingway and writes a high American plain style with a personality all its own. In his memoir American Ghosts, he quotes a passage from Hemingway’s Death in the Afternoon, and his prose stands up to it.
Boston Phoenix |
William Corbett |
03-22-2005 |
Nonfiction
Tags: American Ghosts, David Plante
Rapstreet Boys: 50 Cent and the Game Diss and Tellnew
The question is this: Outside the WWE, what’s the last time such a massively unimportant feud occurred between two jacked dudes with stage names, shifty alliances, and self-mythologies that are way more entertaining than their actual skills?
Boston Phoenix |
Nick Sylvester |
03-21-2005 |
Music
High Times: the Magazine for Serious Cannabis Smokersnew
After a brief stint as a slick, celebrity-driven version of the Nation, the pot-appreciation magazine High Times is back to its roots -- and readers are inhaling deeply.
Boston Phoenix |
Camille Dodero |
03-21-2005 |
Media
