AltWeeklies Wire
Easy Streetnew
What America’s die-hard Republicans should know about Massachusetts -- and Mitt Romney.
Boston Phoenix |
Adam Reilly |
12-01-2005 |
Politics
Womanly Worknew
Kate Bush has always made music that could have sprung only from a female psyche. Aerial is a mysterious, meditative work reminiscent of Joni Mitchell.
Boston Phoenix |
Joyce Millman |
11-30-2005 |
Reviews
The Kingnew
Some fans moan that B.B. King — the most influential guitarist of the 20th century — has been coasting for years, but as long as he can work a magic that only the greatest musicians possess, that’s nitpicking.
Boston Phoenix |
Ted Drozdowski |
11-30-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: B.B. King
Good Sportsnew
Broken Social Scene are the indie-rock Funkadelic.
Boston Phoenix |
Camille Dodero |
11-30-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Broken Social Scene
A Small-Town Talenew
Experienced journalist Margaret Menge was asked to resign from Manchester, New Hampshire's Union Leader because of her "New York attitude." When community journalism meets an aggressive reporter, sometimes it can get ugly.
Boston Phoenix |
Mark Jurkowitz |
11-29-2005 |
Media
Tags: media
Charles Burns’s Grand Experimentnew
Black Hole is an illustrated novel focused on sex, the emotional ramifications of sex, our sex dreams, and every Freudian and Jungian sex trope under the sun.
Boston Phoenix |
Matthew Shaer |
11-29-2005 |
Fiction
Tags: Black Hole, Charles Burns
A Scum-Shock Queen Grows Upnew
Lisa Crystal Carver doesn’t have to pee in litter boxes anymore because she has plenty of volunteers to do it for her.
Boston Phoenix |
Camille Dodero |
11-29-2005 |
Performance
Tags: performance
Giving Good Offensenew
Sarah Silverman, the nice Jewish girl out shopping at Loehmann’s with her mother meets Jenna Jameson, says she goes for laughs but gets them by way of shock.
Boston Phoenix |
Jon Garelick |
11-29-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Liam Lynch, Jesus Is Magic
Eclectic Masternew
A profoundly gratifying new two-volume Library of America collection of James Agee's works makes it clear that his broad range of literary output is unified by the beauty of his prose.
Boston Phoenix |
Steve Vineberg |
11-22-2005 |
Nonfiction
New Standardsnew
Gold Sounds, a collection of Pavement songs performed by accomplished jazz musicians, dramatizes the absence of new "standards" -- contemporary pop songs on which to improvise.
Boston Phoenix |
Jon Garelick |
11-22-2005 |
Music
Found Soundsnew
Thirty-two years after Gary Higgins was shipped off to prison on a marijuana bust, Drag City has resurrected his album Red Hash. Unlike many of his long-haired contemporaries, Higgins brought a spiky elegance to his music.
Boston Phoenix |
Eliot Wider |
11-21-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Gary Higgins, Red Hash
The Hustlernew
50 Cent gets a little less gangsta and a lot more money.
Boston Phoenix |
Leon Neyfakh |
11-21-2005 |
Music
Tags: 50 Cent
Trial and Terrornew
The Islamic Society of Boston claims a media conspiracy unfairly linked them to terrorists in an effort to halt plans for a new mosque in Roxbury.
Boston Phoenix |
Mark Jurkowitz |
11-18-2005 |
Media
Tags: media
This Is Hard-Corenew
Will the Xbox 360 revolutionize home entertainment forever? Sure — that is, until the PS3 comes out. Plus a sidebar on the ghosts of consoles past.
Boston Phoenix |
Chris Dahlen |
11-18-2005 |
Video Games
Tags: video games
Allston Crumbnew
Tattoos, misplaced angst, pretension -- you'll recognize the characters in Amanda Siska's e-comic No Soap, Radio.
Boston Phoenix |
Matthew Shaer |
11-18-2005 |
Art
Tags: visual arts
