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The heartbreak and hilarity of Rhode Island amateur baseball

Endless summer
By the eighth inning it's clear the Dodgers, a middling team in the 22-plus age division of Rhode Island's largest amateur baseball league, aren't going to win.
By DAVID SCHARFENBERG | September 01, 2011

Curse and worse

Johnny Baseball is stuck in the minors
The high point of Johnny Baseball , the new musical receiving its world premiere from the American Repertory Theater (at the Loeb Drama Center through June 27), comes two-thirds of the way through the second act.
By STEVE VINEBERG | June 09, 2010

Judging the Judge

Committee Doubting Thompson. Plus, The Bish, Rush, and more.
After reading Sunday’s front page BeloJo story, “Support for R.I. Judge not unanimous,” your superior correspondents have to suspect that everything — absolutely everything — is thoroughly politicized.
By PHILLIPE AND JORGE | October 28, 2009

Black beauty

Fences, plus The Savannah Disputation and Mister Roberts
August Wilson pioneered a magical realism all his own.
By CAROLYN CLAY | September 22, 2009

Play by Play: September 25, 2009

Plays from A to Z
Boston's weekly theater schedule
By JEFFREY GANTZ | September 22, 2009

Play by play: September 18, 2009

Plays from A to Z
Boston's weekly theater schedule
By JEFFREY GANTZ | September 17, 2009

Play by play: September 11, 2009

Boston's weekly theater schedule
By JEFFREY GANTZ | September 09, 2009

Play by play: September 4, 2009

Plays from A to Z
Boston's weekly theater guide
By JEFFREY GANTZ | September 02, 2009

Plain spoken

Colm Tóibín's see-through prose
In American prose, there is a plain style, a child of the 20th century, descending from Hemingway and Cather. The best New Yorker writers — James Thurber, Joseph Mitchell, Janet Malcolm — have it.
By WILLIAM CORBETT | June 16, 2009

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The Express

Football bio-pic offers a reflection on our not-so-proud past
Ernie Davis may be the greatest running back never to play in the NFL.
By TOM MEEK | October 09, 2008

Bases very loaded

Spurred by fans’ ’roid rage, new books focus on our national pastime’s dark side. Meet baseball’s seven deadly sins.
Even as the sun rises on the new Major League Baseball season, skies are cloudy for the game we love.
By MIKE MILIARD | March 19, 2008

The old neighborhood

Charles ‘Teenie’ Harris at Gallery Kayafas, plus videos at MIT
Some call Charles “Teenie” Harris’s five decades of photos of Pittsburgh one of the grandest chronicles of African-American life ever assembled.
By GREG COOK | December 12, 2007

Home of the Braves?

50 years after the Boston Braves' departure, it’s worth asking: did the wrong team leave town?
Fifty years ago this fall, a Boston team beat the Yankees in the World Series.
By MIKE MILIARD | May 09, 2007

Play ball, Rhody-style

Nine innings’ worth of stuff you don’t know about Rhode Island and baseball
Baseball fans in New England view spring’s wispy introduction through a different lens.
By IAN DONNIS | April 06, 2007

Everybody’s Irish

Quebecois ensemble Le Vent du Nord join PSO
On the heels of Saint Patrick’s Day, it’s fitting to blather about the Irish.
By BEN MEIKLEJOHN | March 21, 2007

In the right field

Daniel Sonenberg gets everyone into the compositional league
In his third year as resident composer and professor at the University of Southern Maine, Daniel Sonenberg is making his mark in the field.
By BEN MEIKLEJOHN | March 12, 2007

The Boston Red Sox

Are they racist?
This article originally appeared in the August 17, 1976 issue of the Boston Phoenix.
By TOM SHEEHAN | November 14, 2006

Flashbacks: August 18, 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 Paul Babin and Sam MacLaughlin.
By FLASHBACKS | August 17, 2006

Harrah’s hummer

Changing the state Constitution for a no-bid deal is so RI
Hey, hats off to the dignity of the Rhode Island Constitution.
By PHILLIPE & JORGE | June 09, 2006

Glory Road

In 1966, coach Don Haskins and tiny Texas Western College (now the University of Texas at El Paso) shocked America by knocking off legendary coach Adolph Rupp and all-white Kentucky to win the NCAA basketball championship.
By TOM MEEK | January 28, 2010