Boston Phoenix
The Boston Phoenix was founded in 1966 as an arts and entertainment newspaper for the 18-40 year old market. Today, with editions in Rhode Island and Portland, Maine, the Phoenix has a distribution of 220,000 and more than 600,000 readers...
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- Market Served: Metropolitan Area
- Address: 126 Brookline Ave., Boston, MA 02215
- Phone: (617) 536-5390
More by James Parker
Nick Cave's New Novel is All Sex, Drugs and Hand Creamnew
When I interviewed Nick Cave for the Phoenix three years ago and he told me -- drolly, languidly, literarily -- that his next writing project was about "a sexually incontinent hand-cream salesman" on the south coast of England, I assumed he was taking the piss.
Boston Phoenix |
James Parker |
10-08-2009 |
Fiction
Dirty Democracynew
Sexual politics have never been more -- perhaps because there's so much sex in politics. A sexpert sorts us out.
Boston Phoenix |
James Parker |
12-18-2008 |
Comedy
Two Boston Poets Use Their Art for the Good of the Tribenew
What if a poem were a social force? Boston poets Rafael Campo and Franz Wright have laid bare a live wire between poetry and isolation.
Boston Phoenix |
James Parker |
11-26-2008 |
Books
More by Boston Phoenix
Nas Rocks the Bellsnew
The rapper fronts the tour that erased lines between commercial and underground, white and black, alternative and trendy.
Boston Phoenix |
Chris Faraone |
09-12-2011 |
Music
Sound on the Streetsnew
Mornin' Old Sport plays jazz-inspired country songs, brimming with three-part harmonies and a rare chemistry amongst the group's four members. On August 2 the group kicked off the Phoenix's new pop-up music video series, which hosts bands in unexpected and non-traditional locations for spontaneous, just-announced live shows.
Boston Phoenix |
Liz Pelly |
08-18-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Viva Cool Britannianew
Counting down the top 100 greatest Britpop anthems of the '90s.
Boston Phoenix |
Michael Marotta, Daniel Brockman, Luke O'Neil and Michael Christopher |
08-18-2011 |
Music
Cut Copy Elevate the Cycle of Rock and Dancenew
If there's one thing music fans don't want to do anymore this decade, it's stand in a room and watch people play instruments. They want to dance. Thank the Australian electro-pop/whatever outfit Cut Copy.
Boston Phoenix |
Luke O'Neil |
04-05-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: dance music, Cut Copy
Camper Van Beethoven and Cracker Display Their Indie Artifactsnew
It was on a whim roughly 25 years ago that a young David Lowery called up a friend at SST Records to see how SST had been promoting records that year.
Boston Phoenix |
Matt Parish |
01-17-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Camper Van Beethoven, David Lowery
