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The Gold Standardnew
Peter Guralnick's life of Sam Cooke shines.
Boston Phoenix |
David Kirby |
10-14-2005 |
Nonfiction
No Sympathy for the Devilnew
Though shut out of Downtown Crossing, Wal-Mart will keep trying to weasel its way into Boston.
Boston Phoenix |
Deirdre Fulton |
10-14-2005 |
Business & Labor
Tags: hottopic
The Future 10new
With the news industry at a crossroads, these 10 journalists could make a difference.
Boston Phoenix |
Mark Jurkowitz |
10-14-2005 |
Media
Tags: media
Dark Starnew
Through meticulous research Charles R. Cross, who also wrote the Kurt Cobain biography Heavier Than Heaven, has blown away the hearsay lazily sustained by earlier Jimi Hendrix books.
Boston Phoenix |
Ted Drozdowski |
10-11-2005 |
Nonfiction
Eloquent Crusadernew
George Clooney's Good Night, and Good Luck is caustic and captivating.
Boston Phoenix |
Peter Keough |
10-11-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: George Clooney, David, Strathairn, Edward, Joseph, Good Night, and Good Luck., McCarthy, Murrow, R., senator
Bad Ballisticsnew
Hundreds of people have gone to prison on the word of Boston's untrained, unqualified, unskilled firearms examiners.
Boston Phoenix |
David S. Bernstein |
10-07-2005 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
Harriet Miers: News From Nowherenew
George W. Bush’s nominee for the Supreme Court seat was first hired by W in 1993 in a title dispute over his East Texas fishing house. This tells us just about everything we are likely to know about why the president nominated her.
Boston Phoenix |
Harvey A. Silverglate |
10-06-2005 |
Commentary
SuicideGirls Revolt: Porn Models Walk Off the Sitenew
Forty of the close to 1000 SuicideGirls staged a Web-out and stalked off the Web site amid claims that despite all its go-girl messaging, SuicideGirls.com is run by people who don’t care much about female empowerment.
Boston Phoenix |
Deirdre Fulton |
10-06-2005 |
The War on Women
Tags: women's issues
Teen Spiritnew
Fifty years after his death, James Dean remains an icon of adolescent angst.
Boston Phoenix |
Michael Bronski |
10-04-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Fortunate Sonsnew
Franz Ferdinand are this year's Franz Ferdinand.
Boston Phoenix |
Scott Frampton |
10-03-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tales of a Quitternew
A book-long narrative rather than the usual series of semi-epiphanic moments, The Quitter is the most substantive and rewarding look yet at the strangely compelling life of the Lake Erie everyman.
Boston Phoenix |
Mike Miliard |
09-30-2005 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Buying the Campus Mindnew
Ideologues are paying big bucks to influence the college experience -- but you won’t hear that from your school.
Boston Phoenix |
David S. Bernstein |
09-29-2005 |
Education
Tags: Education
Paul Wall Emerges as Houston Hip-Hop’s Great White Hopenew
Paul Wall is a diminutive, diamond-grilled DJ/MC who while maintaining the sonic sensibility of Houston’s other rappers presents one notable difference: he's white. Wall’s success has run parallel to a renewed Northern interest in Houston rap.
Boston Phoenix |
Chris Nelson |
09-27-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Paul Wall, The Peoples Champ
Fall Books Defy Disasternew
This coming fall and winter are thin on fiction but large on hulking works of non-fiction that might help us catch up with this runaway bobsled called planet Earth.
Boston Phoenix |
John Freeman |
09-27-2005 |
Books
Tags: in, wedding, George, of, Smith, John, a, rice, Christ, child, Robert, Joan, out, Frank, Mom, Jonathan, Collins, Goodwin, Gabriel, Wilson, Again, Anita, Anne, Berry, Billy, Bloom, Brand, Carol, Christopher, Coover, cotton, December, Didion, Doris, Dyer, Egypt, Eric, Fisk, Foner, Garcia, Geoff, H.W., Harold, Hodgman, Joanna, Joyce, Kearns, Kenneth, Kevin, Koch, Lord:, Marquez, McCourt, melancholy, Memories, Missing, My, Oates, Packer, Patti, Raban, Rafi, Scott, Shreve, SZYMBORSKA, Wendell, whores, WISLAWA, young, Zabor
Jerry's Kidsnew
Would network TV survive without Bruckheimer?
Boston Phoenix |
Joyce Millman |
09-23-2005 |
TV
