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Phish-ing tripsnew

What is the lasting influence of a band who saw no barriers?

Boston Phoenix | Jeff Miller | 01-30-2006 | Music

Hollywood Gives Bush the Fingernew

Lefty films look good for this year's Oscars.

Boston Phoenix | Peter Keough | 01-30-2006 | Movies

The Rise of Reggaetonnew

Make way for reggaeton, the latest Latin musical style to sweep the world and just maybe the one with the most promise of finding a permanent, prominent place in global popular culture.

Boston Phoenix | Wayne Marshall | 01-19-2006 | Music

Open Sesamenew

They don’t give out awards for best titles, otherwise Albert Brooks’s Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World would be in the running. Instead, all it got him was trouble with the studio.

Boston Phoenix | Peter Keough | 01-19-2006 | Movies

Tags: Albert Brooks, Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World

About Last Nightnew

The number of rape victims who believe they were drugged is climbing -- although methods to prove their claims remain elusive.

Boston Phoenix | Deirdre Fulton | 01-19-2006 | The War on Women

Tags: women's issues

Hostile Encountersnew

Bill O’Reilly is famous for attacking guests who dare disagree with him -- so why do liberals keep going on his show?

Boston Phoenix | Mark Jurkowitz | 01-19-2006 | Media

Tags: Fox News Channel, o'reilly factor, the no spin zone

Hidden Agendanew

By taking surveillance for granted, Caché plays forbidden games.

Boston Phoenix | Peter Keough | 01-13-2006 | Reviews

Tags: Michael Haneke, Caché

Cris du cœurnew

Uproot a city of artists and you will hear their cries, and New Orleans was nothing if not a gathering place for creatives. Two new books sing the city's praises and lament its loss.

Boston Phoenix | Clea Simon | 01-13-2006 | Nonfiction

Tags: Tom Piazza ; Andrei Codrescu, Why New Orleans Matters ; New Orleans, Mon Amour: Twenty Years of Writings from the City

Gratis Expectationsnew

Music and movies, books and booze, electronics, furniture, even a car -- all can be yours for nothing, if know where to look, and how to avoid gimmicks and scams.

Boston Phoenix | Mike Miliard | 01-13-2006 | Shopping

Tags: shopping

Toon Tunesnew

Puffy AmiYumi, the Japanese pop group that Japanese punk-rockers are allowed to like, want to be taken seriously as rock musicians.

Boston Phoenix | Michael Alan Goldberg | 01-12-2006 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi: Music from the Animated Series, Puffy AmiYumi

Dirty Politicsnew

For two years as Wonkette, Ana Marie Cox was best known for gleeful daily references to "ass-fucking" and political tawdriness in the blogosphere, but now she’s moving on to different endeavors.

Boston Phoenix | Deirdre Fulton | 01-12-2006 | Author Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Dog Days, Ana Marie Cox

The Only Question for Alitonew

Samuel Alito must be rejected should he refuse to state his opinion about executive supremacy or claim agreement with Bush’s approach to the constitutional separation of powers.

Boston Phoenix | Harvey Silverglate | 01-12-2006 | Commentary

Tags: Bush, appointees

On December 25, Dr. Charles W. Socarides, one of the last of the old-school scourges of the gay community, died at the age of 83 -- to the end maintaining that homosexuality is a mental disorder that can be cured.

Boston Phoenix | Michael Bronski | 01-12-2006 | LGBT

Tags: gay & lesbian issues