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The Year in Monkey News

Primate dispatches from around the globe
Simian news items, compiled for your reading pleasure.
By DAVID EISENBERG, JAMES P. FITZPATRICK, NATE HOMAN, AND KATIE LANNAN | August 04, 2011

Hollywood's apes: monkey puzzle or intelligent design?

Primate directive
For nearly a century apes have haunted the screen, and the link between man and ape has obsessed filmmakers.
By PETER KEOUGH | August 04, 2011

A cinematographer and his masterpiece

Young Eyes
It's fitting that the last image of Cameraman: The Life & Work of Jack Cardiff — a film containing interviews with the great British cinematographer but not released until after his death — is of Cardiff.
By BETSY SHERMAN | June 21, 2011

The Independent Man, and greased to go

Our last words on campaign ’10; acting up; farewell, Len Jardine
Phillipe and Jorge were given a subtle indicator that it was going to be a tough election night when an ad for his-and-hers KY Jelly ran right after the early ballot projections on Channel 6's news at 9 pm. This was to be a Ben Dover Production, indeed.
By PHILLIPE AND JORGE | November 04, 2010

Fourth-estate follies, 2009 edition

The Phoenix's second annual year in media malfeasance
Between the rise of the Web, the ADD-addling of America, the fragmentation of any national political consensus, and the devastated economy, working in the press can feel a bit like manning the Titanic — and this year, the entire industry seemed to teeter on the edge of oblivion.
By ADAM REILLY | December 28, 2009

Worlds collide

Bryce Dessner and Matthew Ritchie at MIT
A week ago Wednesday and Thursday, a curious collection of young scruffy indie kids and older scruffy MIT eggheads converged on the school's Broad Institute for two nights of free music, art, and lecture dubbed "Darkness Visible."
By WILL SPITZ | February 03, 2009

Fourth-estate follies!

Remembering the year in media malfeasance
Granted, other years have had flashier media embarrassments (Jayson Blair, Stephen Glass), but that doesn't mean that 2008 lacked for media misdeeds.
By ADAM REILLY | December 24, 2008

When men were men

Sam Peckinpah at the Harvard Film Archive
Since Sam Peckinpah’s untimely death at the age of 59, he has acquired such legendary status that it’s startling to remember that he made only 14 films over a period of 22 years.
By STEVE VINEBERG | September 03, 2008

Smoke screens

Does a surge of stoner movies mean America is going to pot?
What does it say about America that marijuana movies are a hot genre right now, perhaps hotter even than in the heyday of Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong’s 1978 Up in Smoke ?
By PETER KEOUGH | August 18, 2008

You could look it up

The all-star alternatives
This article originally appeared in the February 8, 1983 issue of the Boston Phoenix.
By ALAN LUPO | October 09, 2008

Last man standing

Once a cautionary tale about human folly, has the doomsday myth become just more fun and games?
In his 1954 novel I Am Legend , Richard Matheson conjured up a terrifying scenario: a man-made plague has killed most of humanity.
By PETER KEOUGH | December 12, 2007

Cinema of Shadows

We’re five years into the Iraq crisis, and Hollywood hasn't made a film about the war. Or is every film is about the war?
It’s not likely, but Judd Apatow’s pitch for Knocked Up might have sounded something like this.
By PETER KEOUGH | June 06, 2007

Protect thyself

Unbearable waiting period
The recent string of sexual assaults in the Medford/Somerville area has women, in a word, terrified.
By SARA FAITH ALTERMAN | May 02, 2007

Color Me Kubrick

Alan Conway gets krunked
In the 1990s, British grifter Alan Conway posed as director Stanley Kubrick and bilked the ignorant out of small change or sex acts in sordid scams.
By PETER KEOUGH | March 21, 2007

Unorthodox Jews

"Good for the Jews," the Paradise Lounge, December 16, 2006
You won't hear feel-good Chanukah ditties in the style of the Leevees nor any pages out of Matisyahu's prayer book. This is a foul-mouthed, shtick-heavy act inspired by the borscht-belt comics and the seventies-era.
By IAN SANDS | December 22, 2006

Flashbacks: November 3, 2006

The Boston Phoenix has been covering the trends and events that shape our times since 1966.
These selections, culled from our back files, were compiled by Dan Peleschuk, Ian Sands, and Eva Wolchover.
By FLASHBACKS | November 01, 2006

Your ombuddy

Once the most thankless job in journalism, the lowly ombudsman is now poised to be a star
Part internal-affairs cop, part complaint department, American news ombudsmen are truly a unique breed.
By MARK JURKOWITZ | June 19, 2006

Political raps

The Coup pick a bigger weapon
You can’t say a guy who blasts out of the starting gate with a song called “Kill My Landlord” and, then, eight years later, comes up with a riveting, darkly humorous rap titled “5 Million Ways To Kill a CEO” doesn’t have murder on his mind.
By JIM SULLIVAN | May 16, 2006