In Praise of Ultimate Fighting
Boston Phoenix |
June 26, 2008
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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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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11-26-2008 |
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Oversharingnew
When the cops subpoena your Facebook information, here's what Facebook sends the cops.
Boston Phoenix |
Carly Carioli |
04-10-2012 |
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Tags: Facebook Subpoena, Online Privacy
Where Does Your Data Go When You Die?new
In the absence of meaningful state or federal regulation regarding post-mortem rights in cyberspace, a so-called digital death industry is booming.
Boston Phoenix |
Chris Faraone |
06-10-2011 |
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Tags: DataInherit, Entrustet
Look at This Fucking Hipster Weddingnew
Marching down the aisle with mustache parties, woodland creatures, and letterpress — lots and lots of letterpress.
Boston Phoenix |
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05-26-2011 |
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Is Net Neutrality Doomed to Failure?new
The debate over net neutrality hasn't gotten much smarter since 2006, when Ted Stevens, of Alaska, opposed the Net Neutrality Act by infamously declaring that the Internet was "a series of tubes" -- but it has intensified along predictable partisan fault lines.
Boston Phoenix |
Carly Carioli |
04-11-2011 |
Tech
The Rise and Uncertain Future of 'Pirate' Radio in Bostonnew
If there's any hope for unlicensed stations to go legit, it's the Local Community Radio Act, passed by Congress in December after a 10-year campaign by proponents of hyper-local radio. However, details of how the legislation will be administrated are still hazy. And some experts say the measure comes too late, and with too little backbone.
Boston Phoenix |
Chris Faraone |
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