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Letters to the Boston editors, September 9, 2011
In his interview with Liz Pelly (" PETA on Primates ," Back Talk, August 5), PETA's Justin Goodman mixes up a stew of half-truths and misstatements and then slops the results all over biomedical research with animals.
By BOSTON PHOENIX LETTERS | September 07, 2011

PETA on primates

The animal-rights organization's case against the labs
We spoke with Justin Goodman, associate director of PETA's laboratory investigations, about the use of primates for experimentation in schools and labs around Boston, the US, and the world.
By LIZ PELLY | August 04, 2011

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Photos: Myopia Sled Dog Races

Myopia Sled Dog Races | Appleton Farms, Ipswitch | January 15, 2011
Dog teams test their speeds at the Myopia Sled Dog races at Appleton Farms in Ipswitch on January 15, 2011.
By DEREK KOUYOUMJIAN | January 24, 2011

Mush it real good

Dog Days Dept.
A thousand frozen dogsled fanatics line the track's edge as approaching yaps signal a start to the races.
By SCOTT FAYNER | January 19, 2011

Photos: PETA Fashion Week protest [vaguely NSFW]

PETA Fashion Week protest in Copley Square | September 30, 2010
PETA members protest fur as fashion at Copley Square on September 30, 2010, as a response to Boston Fashion Week.
By KELSEY MARIE BELL | October 04, 2010

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Naked Boston

Spring has finally arrived! So take off all your clothes with these seven ways to celebrate nudity in greater Boston.
Every year, Ol' Man Winter cruelly turns Bostonians' bodies into shriveled, cracked sacks of atrophied muscle and lumpy goo — not exactly fodder for Playmate of the Month.
By ALEXIS HAUK | March 22, 2010

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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

Monkey Business

Boston's an academic city, even for capuchins who attend Brighton's Monkey College, where they're trained to be lifesavers for the disabled
Craig Cook remembers when friends tried to draw him out of a deep depression — by offering to get him a monkey.
By MIKE MILIARD | October 21, 2009

Crossword: ''Tune in, drop out''

Who needs high school?
Who needs high school?
By MATT JONES | September 09, 2009

Review: The Cove

Secret dolphin slaughter revealed
There's something at stake here, and it's not just the conscience of Ric O'Barry, who as the former dolphin trainer for the 1960s television show Flipper feels responsible for the planet's porpoise fetish.
By CHRIS FARAONE | August 04, 2009

Amnesty International liberates City Hall

The kids are all right
Old-school Jamaica Plain and Cambridge hippies had better step up their game.
By CHRIS FARAONE | April 01, 2009

The whiff of art

Heide Hatry, Misaki Kawai, Andrew Mowbray, and William Pope.L
The stench came from the rotting corpse — well, it appeared to be a corpse — of a woman who'd been laid out on a metal table like an exhumed murder victim awaiting a coroner's examination.
By GREG COOK | March 03, 2009

The Big Hurt: Who charted?

Billboard's Hot Modern Rock Tracks
In order to serve you better, I'll be taking an occasional look at the charts and giving a brief rundown of the week in pop.
By DAVID THORPE | January 13, 2009

Green around the gills

Politics and other mistakes
Spotting environmentalists used to be easy.
By AL DIAMON | October 02, 2008

Here comes trouble

Street art pisses off neighbors, meat pisses off PETA
There’s nothing like a brouhaha to make art feel relevant. And the Boston art scene has just been blessed by two.
By GREG COOK | July 18, 2008

The best of Boston's gift shops

By MEG MUCKENHOPT | 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

PETA’s Dan Mathews says all animals are equal

Activism
With its boldest gambit yet — offering $1 million to the person who can create “commercially viable” fake meat — PETA continues to push boundaries in its fight for animal rights.
By KATE MAYHEW | April 23, 2008

Were they just bluffing?

Online-poker players ante up, then fold
The world is full of aggrieved groups: the Kurds, PETA, Boston firefighters. But you probably wouldn’t think to put poker players on the list.
By ADAM REILLY | March 20, 2008

Everything is coming up bacon

That intoxicating smell, the siren-call sizzle — looks like pop culture has gone hog wild
Pigs are noble creatures, selflessly giving of their delectable flesh — and we need as many of them as we can get.
By MIKE MILIARD | February 22, 2008

The big hurt: Hello, goodbye

And a warm hello to STP, Britney, and Lily Allen
I should probably explain that this is not the same David Thorpe who recently resigned from a different local newspaper where he wrote a beloved weekly column very, very much like this one.
By DAVID THORPE | February 20, 2008

Cruella de Vil shows her softer, dog-loving side

Venue watch
It may come as a surprise that Glenn Close is a dog lover, given her history of playing characters who wouldn’t win any awards from PETA.
By DEIRDRE FULTON | November 14, 2007

The witching hour

Wicked , plus The Atheist , A Streetcar Named Desire , Zanna, Don’t!
WICKED is a very different witch hunt from the 1995 Gregory Maguire novel on which it is based.
By CAROLYN CLAY | September 18, 2007

The taste of sanctimony

Animal-rights activists flavor their philosophy with purity in Year of the Dog and a vegetarian food fest
Both the Maine Animal Coalition’s recent Vegetarian Food Festival and Mike White’s new film Year of the Dog explore the idea that the confinement and killing of animals is the great moral shame of our time.
By BRIAN DUFF | May 09, 2007

Fresh meat

Letters to the Boston editor
Thanks for the interesting article, but I disagree with your stance on the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) contest.
By BOSTON PHOENIX LETTERS | May 02, 2007