AltWeeklies Wire
Freedom Watchnew
AltWeeklies Award - Column-Political
Boston Phoenix |
Harvey A. Silverglate |
04-21-2008 |
Media
Tags: media
On the Downloadnew
AltWeeklies Award - Blog
Boston Phoenix |
Carly Carioli |
04-21-2008 |
Media
Tags: media
Gender Benders?new
"Cars" at the MFA, "Chairs" at the Gardner.
Boston Phoenix |
Jeffrey Gantz |
04-21-2008 |
Art
Tags: visual arts
The Best 2008new
Everybody loves the annual Best issue. Or so we've been told. As these things go, we think we have one of the ... er ... better examples.
Boston Phoenix |
The Boston Phoenix |
04-17-2008 |
Commentary
Hidden in Plain Sightnew
Director Tom McCarthy based his new film, The Visitor, on first-person accounts from detainees in limbo.
Boston Phoenix |
Brett Michel |
04-17-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Visitor, Tom McCarthy
Harvard's Cops Have a Political Intelligence Unitnew
The Harvard University Police have a long record of abusing students' rights. I suspect this intelligence unit, which I also noticed photographing protesters at a campus anti-war demonstration in March, is not a recent addition.
Boston Phoenix |
Harvey Silverglate |
04-17-2008 |
Civil Liberties
Tags: civil liberties
A Liberating Experiencenew
Forty years after a bunch of Cambridge hippies stepped off into Dance Freedom, they're still out to prove that to dance is to live. Or is it the other way around?
Boston Phoenix |
Neely Steinberg |
04-17-2008 |
Performance
Tags: dance
Howard Zinn Never Figured He'd Be in a Comic Booknew
But there he is in the new A People's History of American Empire, in which artist Mike Konopacki and historian Paul Buhle commingle the scholarship of Zinn's A People's History of the United States with the personal recollections of his memoir, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train.
Boston Phoenix |
Mike Miliard |
04-17-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
John McCain's Beijing Bouncenew
No matter how well American athletes do in the Olympics, McCain should get a lift from the Games.
Boston Phoenix |
Steven Stark |
04-17-2008 |
Commentary
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
How Many Re-issues Does it Take to Screw an Elvis Costello Fan?new
And what does the listener get by reinvesting in new versions of classic albums every couple of years?
Boston Phoenix |
Matt Ashare |
04-10-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Elvis Costello, This Year's Model
Assy McGee is the Butt of the Jokenew
Clambake Animation has created one of the more unique characters ever to waddle across a television screen -- a walking, talking pair of heinie cheeks named Assy McGee.
Boston Phoenix |
Mike Miliard |
04-10-2008 |
TV
Where Raccoons Darenew
When critters invade inconvenient places, Matt Grady, a/k/a the Wildlife Remover, is the man to call. The Phoenix tags along.
Boston Phoenix |
James Parker |
04-10-2008 |
Culture
Rev. Wright Tarnished Obama's Image as America's Anointed Savoirnew
The Obama campaign and the press may want to put the Reverend Jermemiah Wright back in the bottle, but that's hard to do if you're running as a messiah.
Boston Phoenix |
Steven Stark |
04-10-2008 |
Commentary
Soul Controlnew
VH1's new rock-doc treatment of James Brown's April 5, 1968, concert at Boston Garden -- The Night James Brown Saved Boston -- has a much broader scope than its title would suggest. And that's precisely why it's so good.
Boston Phoenix |
Adam Reilly |
04-03-2008 |
TV
