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Out of control

Convenience stores
Would you want a business like this in your town?
By AL DIAMON | October 12, 2011

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The uncertain future of Rhode Island media

Breaking news or broken news?
The endless, anguished debate over how to deliver local news in the Age of the Internet has not reached anything like a satisfying conclusion.
By DAVID SCHARFENBERG | April 06, 2011

Maximum pleasure

Ann Beattie hasn’t been sleeping
Ann Beattie emerged in the 1970s in the pages of the New Yorker with a cast of post-grad characters who smoked pot, bummed around, fell in and out of relationships, and faced the world with a shrug and the latest rock and roll on the stereo.
By JON GARELICK | July 05, 2010

Slideshow: Photos from the War Lovers

Photos of Teddy Roosevelt, Henry Cabot Lodge, William Randolph Hearst, and more from Evan Thomas' book.
Photos from Evan Thomas' book The War Lovers.
By EVAN THOMAS | May 14, 2010

Meet Evan Thomas

The parallel careers of Newsweek's premier wordsmith
Narrative is the throughline in the professional life of Evan Thomas.
By PETER KADZIS | May 13, 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

After Fort Thunder, the zine lives

Media
Last week, friends of the zine Taffy Hips gathered at Ada Books on Westminster Street to celebrate the sixth issue: robot comics, prints of giant tsunami waves, and an interview with Chicago-based cartoonist Anya Davidson.
By ABIGAIL CROCKER | February 03, 2010

Review: The September Issue

An eye-opening, highly satisfying fashion documentary
The issue of Vogue currently crowding newsstands is the September issue, a 584-page monstrosity that's the hallowed mag's biggest production of the year.
By SHAULA CLARK | September 09, 2009

Adrian Soiza and Dani Umpi | Dramatica

Los Años Luz (2009)
Uruguay, a small nation often shadowed by neighbors Argentina and Brazil, is home to a thriving music scene that has produced some of the best performers and composers of the "southern cone" of South America.
By GUSTAVO TURNER | August 19, 2009

Portland Phoenix honored

AAN honors Portland Phoenix for election coverage
At the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies annual awards banquet in Tucson, Arizona, last Friday, Portland Phoenix staff and freelancers were recognized for their coverage of the 2008 elections, with a second-place award, tying the City Newspaper of Rochester, New York, for the honors.
By JEFF INGLIS | July 01, 2009

64. Mark Halperin

NOSTRA DUNCES
If Time magazine political prognosticator Mark Halperin bet on horses, he’d be broker than one of Bernie Madoff’s pigeons. Here’s just one headline we’re sure he wants back: WHY OPRAH WON’T HELP OBAMA . Bonus Unsexy Points for being a sore loser and whining about pro-Obama media bias.
By Boston Phoenix Staff | March 25, 2009

Preaching to the choir

Alternative left
Despite the curious omission of the Phoenix, that bastion of liberal, progressive, alternative news, The Nation's Guide to the Nation (Vintage) mostly lives up to its stated goal of being " a kind of collage of the Left.
By DEIRDRE FULTON | January 07, 2009

A flair for the drama

Great Scott, January 4, 2009
"There's not enough hype in the world for Glasvegas," old reliable hypemonger NME recently proclaimed. But that doesn't mean the magazine and the rest of the British music press aren't trying.
By WILL SPITZ | January 09, 2009

Mixed Media at the Papercut

Cultural staples
Last Saturday's mixed-bill affair at the Papercut Zine Library was a strange hybrid of contemporary salon, multimedia talent show, and impromptu modern-dance class (with instructions to move our bodies "like fire").
By CAITLIN E. CURRAN | November 18, 2008

Phoenix.com wins at AAN conference

A line drive triple in Philly
ThePhoenix.com Web site won first place at the annual Association of Alternative Newsweeklies conference.
By CLIF GARBODEN | June 11, 2008

Mike Edison walks alone

Funhouse
On his death bed, Mike Edison probably won’t lament that he didn’t do this or he didn’t go there.
By AMY FINCH | June 10, 2008

For the birds

Artful lodger comes to MIT
Buckminster Fuller was an odd duck, one who routinely tackled concepts foreign to him.
By IAN SANDS | April 23, 2008

The player

Trying to find some meaning in ace biz-boy columnist Steve Bailey’s move to London
The exit of Boston Globe business columnist Steve Bailey this past week to take a post in London as a general-interest news editor with Bloomberg signifies the exhaustion of a tradition.
By PETER KADZIS | April 02, 2008

Brain gloss

Two new Boston mags aimed at women beg the question, why not the perfect women's magazine?
The merger of thought and glossy spreads of girls in streaming, DIY couture.
By ELLEE DEAN | January 15, 2008

They’ve got issues

The bookworm’s gift that keeps on giving
As newspapers and magazines slim and shift their focus to online content and revenue streams, it has become sadly commonplace to overlook the unique capabilities of periodically printed matter.
By CHRISTOPHER GRAY | December 12, 2007

100% Green, this week

Recycling
We thought it made sense to print the Phoenix ’s “Green Issue” on 100 percent recycled paper, procured through the Montreal-based paper producer Abitibi-Consolidated.
By DEIRDRE FULTON | November 07, 2007

Capital loss

How has moving from Boston to Washington changed the Atlantic ?
Two things stood out when the book tour for an impressive new anthology, The American Idea: The Best of the Atlantic Monthly , rolled through town this past month.
By ADAM REILLY | November 05, 2007

Prudish publication makes its debut

Return to modesty
You won’t see any bikinis in Eliza’s swimsuit spread, just one-pieces and a few belly-covering tankinis.
By DEIRDRE FULTON | October 10, 2007

Anna Wintour's hair tells all

Why an editor’s locks are more revealing than her covers
By the time you read this, the frenzied seven days that are New York Fashion Week will be drawing to a close.
By SHARON STEEL | September 06, 2007

Nothing's sacred

Biting art at AIB
“I’ve been called anti-woman, a racist, anti-Semitic, anti-American, you name it!”
By SHARON STEEL | September 05, 2007

'Please kill me'

The open-casket look vs. plastic punk
This article originally appeared in the August 16, 1977 issue of the Boston Phoenix.
By D.C. DENISON | August 20, 2007

Reality ingenue

Lauren Conrad on MTV's The Hills
What is it about MTV’s top-rated reality show The Hills , premiering its third season August 13th?
By ELLEE DEAN | August 13, 2007

Pop goes to war

Music and movies are vital coping mechanisms for US servicepeople in Iraq. And often, say four local troops, after they get home.
Next time you put on the new Spoon single to make that subway ride go by a little faster, consider what musical escapism means to troops in Iraq.
By MIKE MILIARD | July 25, 2007

Media monopolies kill

How Time Warner — and other conglomerates — threatens freedom of the press
Anyone who doubts that big media monopolies are bad for democracy should take a look at how much the Post Office charges magazines to mail issues to subscribers.
By EDITORIAL | July 13, 2007