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Monkeying around

Going ape at the urinal + WJAR. Plus, a compelling reason to stay healthy
Dire fiscal conditions at most media outlets have led major local players like the Providence Journal and WJAR/Channel 10 to pursue a unique employment strategy. Both organizations are apparently looking into securing the services of trained gibbons to provide much of the support work and eventually the writing and reporting of the news.
By PHILLIPE AND JORGE | May 27, 2009

Shameless

Mitt Romney is a liar, and Republican voters deserve better.
Members of the GOP must reject the shameless, dishonorable, dishonest former governor of Massachusetts, Willard Mitt Romney.
By EDITORIAL | January 09, 2008

A tragicomedy of errors

In an excerpt from his new book, The Fall of the House of Bush, author Craig Unger details how Bush is, well, screwing up the world
It was not until after George W. Bush and Dick Cheney were narrowly re-elected that many Americans began to realize that the Iraq War represented a dangerous moment in American history.
By CRAIG UNGER | November 20, 2007

Backlash blues

Will the Larry Craig scandal bolster anti-gay bias?
Most big news stories fit the snowball metaphor, with an isolated fact or two slowly gaining significance and momentum over a period of days or weeks.
By ADAM REILLY | September 06, 2007

Gay old time

Ten moments when the mainstream assimilated gay culture and made it its own
Many people take for granted that the divide between gay culture and mainstream culture is as thin as the latex of an expensive condom.
By MICHAEL BRONSKI | May 30, 2007

The new armies of the ’net

Can pop technology ramp up public interest in politics?
More than a million people have downloaded the “Hello Garci” ring tone.
By ERICA SAGRANS | February 01, 2007

Fantasizing Congress

Democracy in action
With football in playoff mode and spring training two months away, participants in any of the Web’s innumerable fantasy sports leagues may see this winter as a fallow period, a time when they could get rusty. Lucky for them, the 110th Congress convenes on January 4.
By MIKE MILIARD | January 03, 2007

Goodbye, cruel America

An in-death eulogy for 2006
Toward the end of 2006, we woke up to the glad news that Chile’s former strongman Augusto Pinochet had saved everyone the trouble of hanging his sickly carcass for war crimes and atrocities by dying of a heart attack.
By CLIF GARBODEN | December 20, 2006

The Blowhard Bulletin

Sundlun’s desire to restore local ownership is on the money
Last week’s Phoenix carried an intriguing article, by ace news editor Ian Donnis, about how Bruce “Captain Blowhard” Sundlun, our esteemed former governor and all-around giant raving character, was looking to have a local group of investors buy the Providence Urinal.
By PHILLIPE & JORGE | December 13, 2006

My Ellen Willis

Making sense of a woman who was always two or three steps ahead of the Zeitgeist
When I was a queer teenager in suburban New Jersey in the early 1960s, I decided that I wanted to be Susan Sontag.
By MICHAEL BRONSKI | November 30, 2006

Not that there’s anything wrong with that

Big media’s big gay baggage
Want to make the mainstream press squirm? Suggest that a major public figure is gay.
By ADAM REILLY | November 21, 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

Windbags of change

A front-row seat at the midterm elections
Regardless of which major party sits astride Capitol Hill, Washington is a conservative city. Not in ideological terms, mind you.
By CHRIS LEHMANN | November 08, 2006

Republican radio

Two days with WRKO-AM, the unofficial broadcast arm of Kerry Healey’s campaign for governor
If you’re a political liberal — or just someone who has a sense of fair play — listening to two straight days of talk on WRKO-AM isn’t easy.
By ADAM REILLY | October 30, 2006

Night of the living dead?

Letters to the Boston editor: October 27, 2006
Reading your feature on the Massachusetts Republican Party’s long slide into irrelevance, I’m reminded of that suddenly popular quote: “I used to be a Republican before they lost their minds."
By BOSTON PHOENIX LETTERS | October 25, 2006

Close to the edge

Politics and Other Mistakes
The last time Republicans won control of both chambers of the Maine Legislature, the country was engaged in an unpopular foreign war, Washington was on the verge of a major scandal, Congress was meddling with social issues, and the vice-president was calling his critics unpatriotic.
By AL DIAMON | October 25, 2006

The GOP’s secret stash

Players
Give one thing to the GOP: they know how to play the game.
By MIKE MILIARD | October 25, 2006

Trail mix

Ads ’n’ ends from the media front
Could someone please get a temporary restraining order against Kerry Healey’s Deval-Patrick-loves-cop-killers TV spot?
By JOHN CARROLL | October 11, 2006

Not so jockular

The ugly racial shakedown in Coventry diminishes all of us
The field of sports is normally one of the areas with the least racism in the US.
By PHILLIPE & JORGE | October 11, 2006

Clerical error

The kids haven’t got a prayer
Oliver O’Grady, “Father Ollie,” the pastor of a Catholic Church in a bucolic, tight-knit Northern California community, would have felt at home in The Bells of St. Mary’s . Watch the trailer for Deliver Us from Evil (QuickTime)
By PETER KEOUGH | October 11, 2006

Foleygate

The former congressman’s true crime
House Speaker Dennis Hastert took office in the wake of one Republican sex scandal, and it looks like he might lose his chair in the wake of another.
By EDITORIAL | October 05, 2006

Being gay in the GOP

Congressman Mark Foley: A model of political hypocrisy and personal cowardice
This editorial originally ran in the May 30, 2003 issue of the Boston Phoenix .
By EDITORIAL | October 05, 2006

Republican dirty tricks

What’s up Karl Rove’s sleeve?
Late last month, readers of the conservative web site NewsMax discovered this juicy tidbit in a column by Ronald Kessler: “In the past week, Karl Rove has been promising Republican insiders an ‘October surprise’ to help win the November congressional elections.”
By ADAM REILLY | October 05, 2006

Any more jobs at the Vatican?

D éjà Vu
The September 29 resignation of Republican congressman Mark Foley of Florida, who sent “naughty emails,” as White House spokesman Tony Snow put it, to underage male pages, has sent shock waves throughout Washington.
By BRENDAN LYNCH | October 04, 2006