AltWeeklies Wire
Brave New Worldnew
Australian-born feminist Germaine Greer launches a campaign against Bardolaters with a revised look at Shakespeare's wife and their world.
Boston Phoenix |
Jeffrey Gantz |
04-03-2008 |
Nonfiction
Biolab Folliesnew
When work began on Boston University's laboratory for Level 4 deadly-disease research, the project seemed unstoppable, but a string of legal, diplomatic, and political setbacks have changed all that. What went wrong?
Boston Phoenix |
Adam Reilly |
04-03-2008 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
Clinton Fatiguenew
What is driving the widespread movement pressuring Hillary to drop out, even though she is very much still in the race?
Boston Phoenix |
Steven Stark |
04-03-2008 |
Commentary
Running Up a Tab in Iraqnew
The authors of The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict react to the administration's dismissal of their findings.
Boston Phoenix |
Joseph E. Stiglitz and Linda J. Bilmes |
04-03-2008 |
War
The Latest Hellboy Gossipnew
With Hellboy II: The Golden Army hitting theaters this summer and plans for the further adventures of Screw-On Head, illustrated novelist Mike Mignola never gets a day off.
Boston Phoenix |
Kristina Wong |
03-27-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Hellboy, Mike Mignola
Playing the Facts Against the Fiction of '21'new
"The reality is that while they captured some things really well, the actual storyline is changed quite a bit," says MIT house-beater Jeff Ma.
Boston Phoenix |
Brett Michel |
03-27-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: 21, Robert Luketic
Downbeatnew
BILL, the New England band fronted by Bill Gage, the vocalist with Down syndrome, is not what you expected -- no matter what you expected.
Boston Phoenix |
Ian Sands |
03-27-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
The 100 Unsexiest Men of 2008new
Beauty is only skin-deep, but unsexiness rots outward from the soul. Our annual roster of male undesirables proves the maxim: ugly is as ugly does.
Boston Phoenix |
Staff |
03-27-2008 |
Comedy
Tags: humor & satire
Precedent-Breaking Presidentnew
A November win for Obama would make history in more ways than race.
Boston Phoenix |
Steven Stark |
03-27-2008 |
Commentary
What About Tibet?new
The Olympics are a glittering prize that was awarded China as an incentive to better behavior. But seen through the prism of the Tibet crisis, the games are proving to be not a source of strength but a point of vulnerability.
Boston Phoenix |
Editorial |
03-27-2008 |
International
Tags: Tibet, international
Synonymous with Pretensenew
Peter Roget never intended his thesaurus to be the verbal equivalent of a fast-food drive-thru for people who want to sound more intellectual (sage, academic).
Boston Phoenix |
Caitlin E. Curran |
03-20-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Election '08: Race Gets in the Racenew
Obama's fast-track to success could be alienating working-class white voters, reminding them of their nemesis: affirmative action.
Boston Phoenix |
Steven Stark |
03-20-2008 |
Commentary
What is Filk?new
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the dirunal atmospheric disequilibrium.
Boston Phoenix |
Georgiana Cohen |
03-20-2008 |
Culture
Seventh-Sinning Stretchnew
Baseball is a game of verdant fields, balletic athleticism, cheating, meanness, corruption and greed. Seven books chronicle the dark side of the diamond.
Boston Phoenix |
Mike Miliard |
03-20-2008 |
Sports
Tags: sports & fitness
Music of the Spheresnew
Metal is from Mars and girly-pop's from Venus. We have proof -- the yin, the yang, and the whang-dang-doodle.
Boston Phoenix |
James Parker and Sharon Steel |
03-20-2008 |
Music
