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For love of art, and humanity

Spirit and nature
If art, as Chris Thompson argues in Felt , is a moral issue, its fiber just got that much stronger.
By NICHOLAS SCHROEDER | March 09, 2011

Review: The Sun Behind The Clouds

The murkiness of the Middle Way
It’s no secret that the Chinese government is only too happy to stifle cries of “Free Tibet.”
By SHAULA CLARK | April 28, 2010

China expert sees a nation at the 'shadow-line'

Across the Globe
Joseph Conrad wrote of a "shadow-line," an indistinct boundary between youth and adulthood that adolescents awkwardly straddle; one moment there is impressive poise and maturity, and the next, a slip into past boorish, immature behavior.
By PETER VOSKAMP | March 17, 2010

Cut it out

Collage-making is about the details
"Collage: Piecing it Together" at the Portland Museum of Art is a somewhat rambling look at a process that came into use in the beginning of the 20th century as a cubist process bringing images, colors, and shapes together that were previously used elsewhere.
By KEN GREENLEAF | January 06, 2010

Review: The Unmistaken Child

A fascinating, if disturbing, look at how the Dalai Lama's enlightened sausage is made
After the 2001 death of Tibetan Buddhist master Lama Konchog, his disciple Tenzin Zopa is charged with tracking down his reincarnation.
By LANCE GOULD | July 15, 2009

Immaculate reception

The New England Patriots played host to a very different out-of-towner last week, as the Dalai Lama made a most incongruous visit to Gillette Stadium
Two Saturdays ago, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama sat cross-legged on the 50-yard line and gently intoned that "the path to happiness in the individual and with society is through inner peace."
By MIKE MILIARD | May 13, 2009

When ordinary is extraordinary

Gil Corral’s questions and answers in Biddeford
Biddeford artist Gil Corral seems to be one of those people whose surreality often seemS detached from everyday matters, but who can at times distill that perspective to simple truth.
By IAN PAIGE | September 25, 2008

Cheese Danish

Hamlet variations we'd like to see
Hamlet variations we'd like to see
By PETER KEOUGH | August 19, 2008

China, Tibet, and the Olympics

Buddhist scholar Robert Thurman explains the Dalai Lama’s political wisdom, the myopia of the Chinese, and the essence of the Olympics
It is difficult to imagine an American — perhaps any Westerner — with a greater sympathy for, and understanding of, Tibet than scholar-activist Robert Thurman.
By PETER KADZIS | August 08, 2008

Me and my tattoos

One Man’s Inky Voyage Toward Meaning
I know that most people get their first tattoo when they’re drunk, or infatuated, or when there’s a race war on their cellblock and they have to quickly join a gang — but not me.
By JAMES PARKER | July 23, 2008

Tashi Delek

Fine Tibetan cuisine — freed from Chinese influences
The total Tashi Delek experience is larger than the food or the room, or even the caring service from the lone mid-week waitress.
By ROBERT NADEAU | July 09, 2008

Flash-forward

Lost ’s endgame
Fifteen years ago, I fell in love. It didn’t end well.
By SEAN KERRIGAN | May 20, 2008

Nowhere to hide

College gossip blogs exposed
Google-fucked. That’s what you are when a potential employer searches your name and discovers that you — you of the 4.0 GPA, you of the charity work — are also the sluttiest person on campus.
By KARA BASKIN | April 25, 2008

Rock of ages

The Stones find satisfaction in Martin Scorsese’s Shine a Light
What a difference four decades make.
By PETER KEOUGH | April 03, 2008

Tashi Delek

'Mo momos
How is it that Cambridge and Somerville had three Tibetan restaurants, while until recently, those on the other side of the river had none?
By MC SLIM JB | February 27, 2008

I wanna be Gorby's girl

A love letter to Gorbachev
This article originally appeared in the January 22, 1988 issue of the Boston Phoenix.
By MIMI COUCHER | January 24, 2008

We’re all doing time

Personally
The facts are almost unbelievable: As a nation, our incarceration rate is five times what it was 30 years ago and the highest in the world.
By LANCE TAPLEY | August 29, 2007

Prisoners’ guru to speak in Maine

Human kindness
Mainers will get a chance to discuss prison life with Bo Lozoff.
By LANCE TAPLEY | July 18, 2007

10 Questions for the Dalai Lama

A new-age vanity project
Ray’s smug smile tells us that “I’m sitting with the Dalai Lama!” is all that’s running through his head.
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN | November 11, 2008

Right turns

Truth and reconciliation at the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival
Maybe things are getting better.
By PETER KEOUGH | January 10, 2007

Keeping it surreal

The Beastie Boys at the Centrum, August 25, 1998
This article originally appeared in the September 4, 1998 issue of the Boston Phoenix .
By MATT ASHARE | October 25, 2006

Hugs and jugs

Darshan at the MFA; Fanfan at the Coolidge
It’s not just red-state cities that genuflect to films avowing spirituality.
By GERALD PEARY | August 17, 2006

Vajra Sky Over Tibet

A snore of an infomercial
“Vajra” is Sanskrit for “lightning bolt,” and I can’t think of a less appropriate title for this snore of an infomercial for a Free Tibet. Watch the trailer for Vajra Sky Over Tibet
By PETER KEOUGH | August 17, 2006

O’Neill Properties bids for Newport Grand

High Roller
Real estate mogul J. Brian O’Neill, who has made headlines by attracting Bill Clinton, Mikhail Gorbachev, and other international luminaries to his Carnegie Abbey Club in Portsmouth, is among the bidders seeking to buy Newport Grand, one of Rhode Island’s two highly lucrative gambling parlors.
By IAN DONNIS | July 19, 2006

Amateur hour

MVP Baseball loses its license to line-drive
Do you love America’s pastime in all its plodding glory? Or do you merely seek the vicarious thrills of jacking dingers over the Green Monster?
By MITCH KRPATA | January 31, 2006

In and out

Ornette Coleman’s Berklee doctoral dissertation; Robert Glasper’s odd grooves
Berklee professor Bill Banfield began his interview with Ornette Coleman at the Berklee Performance Center a week ago Tuesday by recounting the time he told a friend he was going to be visiting Ornette and the friend exclaimed, “You’re going to speak to God! Tell God I said hello!”
By JON GARELICK | January 24, 2006

The art of the story

Making a connection at Funda Fest
Rhode Island’s “Biggest Little” designation is particularly appropriate when applied to the performance art known as storytelling.
By JOHNETTE RODRIGUEZ | January 18, 2006