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Karen Finley does Jackie
Karen Finley won’t be naked, or covered in chocolate. Candied yams will not be involved. If there are neighborhood morality-watch squads in Salem, they’ll have the night off.
By JIM SULLIVAN | May 28, 2010

Twilight of the superheroes

The ghost of Time Inc.’s Henry Luce haunts Bill Keller, Executive Editor of the New York Times
While riding the New York subway one warm night in 1922, Hotchkiss-schooled, Yale-educated Henry Robinson Luce conjured the name of his epoch-defining magazine after spotting an arresting advertising placard.
By PETER KADZIS | April 28, 2010

Nudity throughout history

By ALEXIS HAUK | March 17, 2010

Magpie and copyist

Iris Apfel at PEM, Mary McFadden at MassArt
If you were going to recount the evolution of hippie guy fashion, you might say that what began with psychedelic ruffled shirts and corduroy pants in 1968 has in late middle age split into two streams: collarless white button-down shirts, usually buttoned right up to the neck and worn with a black vest, and Hawaiian shirts.
By GREG COOK | November 24, 2009

Stuck in his Throat

Suburban, family-oriented David Bertolino has a dream: to stage a play about Deep Throat , one of the most controversial films of all time
Growing up in Sudbury, David Bertolino’s upbringing was strictly G-rated.
By JON HART | October 28, 2009

Review: Valentino: The Last Emperor

The king of fashion
In 2008, Italian fashion designer Valentino Garavani stepped down from a spectacular 45-year career that had culminated in a wildly opulent retrospective exhibit in Rome.
By SHAULA CLARK | April 22, 2009

The center of the universe

Renaissance man Richard Goodwin explores the roots of religious wars by channeling anti-hero Galileo in the play Two Men of Florence .
Real-life quantum leaper Richard Goodwin was sort of a 1960s political Zelig — everywhere you looked, there he was.
By SARA FAITH ALTERMAN | March 10, 2009

Is black the new black?

Was new Portland police chief picked because he is black?
Was new Portland police chief picked because he is black?
By SHAY STEWART-BOULEY | March 04, 2009

Bringing the party to the people

A history of our Inaugural West Swingers and White House Hoedowns
Are there any jobs on Earth more virile-sounding than commander in chief?
By KARA BASKIN | January 19, 2009

Exposures

Photos from Yousuf Karsh, William Christenberry, and the PRC
In "Karsh 100: A Biography in Images," which is now up at the Museum of Fine Arts, his iconic shots of Winston Churchill, George Bernard Shaw, and Ernest Hemingway are defining portraits of the men in all their crusty manliness.
By GREG COOK | November 14, 2008

Photos: Exposures

A slideshow of photos from Yousuf Karsh, William Christenberry, and the PRC
A slideshow of photos from Yousuf Karsh, William Christenberry, and the PRC
By BOSTON PHOENIX WEB STAFF | November 11, 2008

Political Andy?

Warhol's court-painter years; plus doodling at the Rose
Was Andy Warhol more politically engaged than he's given credit for?
By GREG COOK | November 06, 2008

Class play

Monmouth gives Merchant new status
Interpreting Merchant is a perennial challenge.
By MEGAN GRUMBLING | July 30, 2008

Faux and Fabulous

Kenneth Jay Lane’s classy costume jewelry at the RISD Museum
Lane seems forever a child of the ’60s: psychedelia, India, and all that.
By GREG COOK | October 30, 2007

Worth seeing

Heroes, fakes, abstracts, and figures
Three exhibitions will catch your attention at the RISD Museum.
By BILL RODRIGUEZ | September 19, 2007

Dirty politics

Has the Right Wing hijacked raunch?
The last resort of the true patriot is a fart joke.
By PETER KEOUGH | October 27, 2008

Greatest reality hits

The 10 best moments of the past nine months or so
To be read while listening to Green Day’s “Time of Your Life” or Mary Hopkin’s “Those Were The Days, My Friend."
By JAMES PARKER | July 03, 2007

Enemies in high places

By ADAM REILLY | May 30, 2007

Sticking it to the man

Five centuries of protest art at Harvard
In 1969, Harvard University students rallied to support the creation of a black-studies program and protest the Vietnam War, the presence of ROTC on campus, and the university’s expansion into surrounding communities.
By BY GREG COOK | January 02, 2007

Waters runs deep

Lunch with director John Waters
This article originally appeared in the June 23, 1981 issue of the Boston Phoenix.
By OWEN GLEIBERMAN | November 15, 2006

Ready to rumble!

Mixing it up with Ultimate Fighter 4 , the Cowboys cheerleaders, and the ’kats
Rather depressing, one imagines, to catch a spinning backfist to the head, particularly when it’s the very thing you’ve been determined to avoid since the last time you caught a spinning backfist to the head.
By JAMES PARKER | October 25, 2006

Elemental

Island Moving Co. out in the Open
The unusual title — Open for Dancing — for Island Moving Co.’s five-day fall dance festival comes from several sources.
By JOHNETTE RODRIGUEZ | September 19, 2006

The Beales Of Grey Gardens

More of the same
In their 1975 film Grey Gardens , Albert and David Maysles documented the reclusive existence of Edith Bouvier Beale and her daughter, Edie, aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, in the women’s moldering East Hampton manse.
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN | August 09, 2006