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The Kennedys will rise again!

Dynasties
As you've probably heard a couple thousand times by now, Rhode Island Representative Patrick J. Kennedy's retirement means Washington is without a member of Team Camelot for the first time in 64 years.
By DAVID SCHARFENBERG | January 12, 2011

Review: South of the Border

Oliver Stone's look at Hugo Chavéz, among others
Oliver Stone may have been easy on W. in his bio-pic, but he chops the dummy's head off in this revealing documentary about the social-welfare-minded neo-liberal leaders running South America, and the liars in the Bush administration who compared them to Hitler and bin Laden.
By CHRIS FARAONE | September 29, 2010

Operators are standing by

Blah Blah Tourism
Here's the ugly truth about Republican 2nd District congressional candidate Jason Levesque.
By AL DIAMON | February 03, 2010

Letter Rip

The Phoenix discovers secret messages in Hollywood-connected political correspondence
Hollywood celebrities who fancy themselves pols and pundits don’t just bring impassioned everyman views to the legislative banquet.
By CHRIS FARAONE | November 12, 2009

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69. Sean Penn and Hugo Chavez

HARVEY LECHE
Sean Penn can kick back with this Caracasshole all he wants, but he needs to seriously reevaluate his journalistic skillz. The laughably awful dud he penned for the December issue of The Nation should have been titled “I’m Cool Enough To Hang With Hugo Chavez.” We stopped taking him seriously just after he played Spiccoli and just before he married Madonna.
By Boston Phoenix Staff | March 25, 2009

Good news, bad news

Fear and loathing? Or happy days? The only thing we know for sure about the coming year is that we're all in this together.
It will be the best of times. Or, perhaps, it will be the worst.
By MIKE MILIARD | December 30, 2008

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One mean mother

Fox’s theorem: Back renewable energy or get bent
As the old expression goes, “If it’s not one thing, it’s your mother.”
By PHILLIPE AND JORGE | June 11, 2008

Bright lights of America

Politics and other mistakes
Once, I was even called a New York Yankees fan.
By AL DIAMON | April 30, 2008

Casting ballots

The Human Rights Watch Film Festival on the campaign trail
Some believe democracy can save the world. Others wonder whether it can even work in America.
By PETER KEOUGH | January 08, 2008

Don't tase me, bro

The year in would-be catch phrases
2007 was the year that viral humor hit critical mass.
By JAMES PARKER | December 21, 2007

Everyone’s a neocon now

Looking back on state politics — and forward
In the eight years I’ve covered the State House for the Portland Phoenix, I’ve been struck by the depressingly constant themes.
By LANCE TAPLEY | December 21, 2007

Temporarily north of the border

Al Giordano plays the Field
Add another name to the list of Phoenix alums (Mark Leibovich, Dave Crowley, Seth Gitell, Dan Kennedy) writing on the 2008 presidential race.
By ADAM REILLY | December 19, 2007

The dictator slayer

East Boston's Gene Sharp is soft-spoken, but he makes bad guys from Caracas to Beijing cringe
According to some people — including at least one sitting head of state — East Boston’s Gene Sharp is a dangerous dude.
By ADAM REILLY | December 05, 2007

Menino’s hit list

40 potential candidates for the 2009 election who could take on the mayor — if they have the courage.
At a recent political event, Boston mayor Thomas M. Menino asked Robert Crane, the former long-time state treasurer, how many years he had held that office.
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | November 28, 2007

The 10th Annual Muzzle Awards

Silencing free speech
Mitt Romney will say or do anything if he thinks it will help him become president.
By DAN KENNEDY | July 10, 2007

Looking for the next ‘Lisa’

Annals of Cultural Decline
A Dutch TV station says it will go ahead with a programme in which a terminally ill woman selects one of three patients to receive her kidneys.
By ADAM REILLY | May 30, 2007

Crossword: 'Italian for beginners'

Don't let this happen to you
Don't let this happen to you
By MATT JONES | March 21, 2007

A plea to the democrats in congress

State of the nation
Perhaps the new Democratic majority in Congress can slow down, if not bring to a halt, the current presidential insanity.
By MARY ANN SORRENTINO | January 10, 2007

The Rhoda Reaction

Why The Bad Seed teaches us more about “evil” than George W. Bush ever could
what are the causes of evil and how do we eradicate it — or at least keep it in abeyance?
By MICHAEL BRONSKI | December 20, 2006

Changing lives

The New England Conservatory’s Youth Philharmonic Orchestra visits Venezuela and Brazil
People who love the arts are fond of saying that art changes our lives. Slideshow: The New England Conservatory’s Youth Philharmonic Orchestra visits Venezuela and Brazil
By LLOYD SCHWARTZ | December 15, 2006

Until there’s nothing left of us

Politics and other mistakes
Hey, all you Maine Republicans wallowing in self-pity, after losing the election: snap out of it.
By AL DIAMON | November 15, 2006

My Chomsky

As the lefty linguist’s most recent book rises to the top of Amazon’s bestseller list, a partisan explains why Noam Chomsky’s all that
Had Groucho Marx been a Marxist and stopped in the middle of A Night at the Opera to praise Karl Marx, the effect might have been a little like that which greeted Venezuela’s president Hugo Chavez after he lauded Noam Chomsky at the UN General Assembly last week. The Phoenix interviews Noam Chomsky (1999) Ali G interviews Noam Chomsky
By GEORGE SCIALABBA | September 27, 2006

The IberoAmerican Film Festival

Through August 26 at the Boston Public Library
Boston’s IberoAmerican Film Festival, organized by the Boston Public Library in partnership with the regional consulates of each of the 13 countries, continues tonight and runs through August 26 at the BPL.
By ANA RIVAS | August 10, 2006

Burning money

State gives extra millions to oil dealers, leaving the poor and elderly out in the cold
You’d think, with nearly $30 million to spend on heating oil for poor people this winter, the Maine State Housing Authority would have bargained a pretty good price with the oil dealers, right? Wrong.
By LANCE TAPLEY | February 16, 2006

God and Darwin

A teacher's private battle between fact and faith
Julie Raines has been teaching biology at Yarmouth High School for 25 years. She hasn't always taught evolution.
By RICK WORMWOOD | February 02, 2006

Twisted

Politics and other mistakes
There’s got to be something more important in Maine to get your knickers knotted up about than the political convolutions currently contorting way too many pairs of skivvies.
By AL DIAMON | January 25, 2006

Tough time for Cheney

The Veep is being punished for his misdeeds
If the national media give attention to the totally demented ravings of the Christian Coalition’s ludicrous God-botherer Pat Robertson — most recently about Ariel Sharon — the Associated Press should pick up this following news.
By | January 18, 2006

Yayo for president?

Why Bolivia's new boss won't turn his country into a full-fledged narco-state.
Bad news for cokeheads everywhere: the chances of Bolivia becoming for cocaine users what Amsterdam is for pot smokers are slim.
By ADAM REILLY | January 05, 2006