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Freeze-framenew
Ten years after Roxbury, Massachusetts, filmmaker Robert Patton-Spruill directed his critically acclaimed film Squeeze, he’s finally back behind the camera. Will it be worth the wait? Does it even matter?
Boston Phoenix |
Camille Dodero |
09-09-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Wake-up Callnew
Fight back! Talk about science! Here are five ideas for John Kerry to get back into the race.
Boston Phoenix |
Dan Kennedy |
09-09-2004 |
Politics
Tags: compaign, Presidentail
RNC Report: A Week of Protest Comes to an Endnew
On the Republican National Convention's last night, most of the activists who had come to New York were either still in cells or had gone home.
Boston Phoenix |
Camille Dodero |
09-03-2004 |
Politics
RNC Report: GOP to the World — I Yam What I Yamnew
The hardest thing to consider is changing the product.
Boston Phoenix |
David S. Bernstein |
09-03-2004 |
Politics
RNC Report: Protests Go Out with a Whimpernew
Suddenly, I was very, very tired. It was time to go home.
Boston Phoenix |
Adam Reilly |
09-03-2004 |
Politics
RNC Report: Everywhere a Signnew
A survey of some of the best protest placards.
Boston Phoenix |
Camille Dodero |
09-03-2004 |
Politics
RNC Report: How Bad Was Bush? Baaaaaaad!new
George, if you want anyone to believe you're really introducing "a clear and positive plan" to lead us through "this time of change," you have to give it a name. The 21st Century New Freedom plan or something.
Boston Phoenix |
David S. Bernstein |
09-03-2004 |
Politics
RNC Report: Waiting for George to Speaknew
All the way up to the big speech, Thursday night's convention program was so bad it seemed intentionally so.
Boston Phoenix |
David S. Bernstein |
09-03-2004 |
Politics
RNC Report: Mean Mr. Millernew
On Wednesday night Zell Miller was mainly pissed off that John Kerry is not more like Wendell Willkie, so clearly he's not too choosy about his topic.
Boston Phoenix |
David S. Bernstein |
09-02-2004 |
Politics
RNC Report: What's with Zell Miller?new
Dan Kennedy's media log critiques the RNC, Fox News, and alleged Democrat Zell Miller's speech.
Boston Phoenix |
Dan Kennedy |
09-02-2004 |
Politics
RNC Report: Osama Bin-Who?new
This entire convention is an orgy of grief and fury over the attack that smashed a vertical city of people just four miles south of the speakers' podium, and yet the name of Osama bin-Laden has not been uttered. Not once.
Boston Phoenix |
David S. Bernstein |
09-02-2004 |
Politics
RNC Report: Students to GOP - Stop Exploiting 9/11new
Students from Manhattan’s Stuyvesant High School march to Ground Zero on the third day of the RNC to protest what they see as the Bush administration’s use of September 11 for propaganda.
Boston Phoenix |
Kevin Ford |
09-02-2004 |
Politics
RNC Report: Romney — Not Ready for Prime Timenew
Massachusetts Governor (and 2008 presidential hopeful) Mitt Romney's speech Wednesday evening was the biggest moment of his political career. And he blew it.
Boston Phoenix |
Adam Reilly |
09-02-2004 |
Politics
State of the Art: Illustrated Novels on 9/11, Iran and Sarajevonew
Art Spiegelman, who witnessed the World Trade Center attack firsthand, explores that tragedy in his graphic novel, In the Shadow of No Towers. Also reviewed are Marjane Satrapi's graphic novel, Persepolis 2, and Joe Sacco’s The Fixer: A Story from Sarajevo.
Boston Phoenix |
Jon Garelick |
09-02-2004 |
Fiction
Echoing Disasternew
Never at any time in The Brown Bunny does Vincent Gallo give the impression of being outside the world of the film: in The Brown Bunny, artist and world are one.
Boston Phoenix |
Chris Fujiwara |
09-02-2004 |
Reviews
