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Cancer comedy

Smile & Save
Cancer isn't funny, but the cancer-ass-kicking fundraiser Comics for a Cure could be.
By SARA FAITH ALTERMAN | January 09, 2009

Review: My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poems of Jack Spicer

Strong spirits
Spicer believed that words are magic, that they have the power to "do" good and harm to people.
By WILLIAM CORBETT | December 19, 2008

What is normal?

The Gamm's moving Elephant Man
The Gamm has done it again, giving us a performance not to be missed.
By BILL RODRIGUEZ | September 12, 2007

Good Shaq, bad Shaq

Is O’Neal’s fat-camp show kind or cruel?
Say this for Miami Heat center Shaquille O’Neal: in Shaq’s Big Challenge , signs abound that his intentions are good.
By ADAM REILLY | July 10, 2007

Letters to the Boston editor: April 27, 2007
I can’t remember the last time so many commentators from diverse points of view got together in a kumbaya circle.
By BOSTON PHOENIX LETTERS | April 25, 2007

Sorrow floats

Chris Adrian reckons with human suffering in his new book The Children’s Hospital
Chris Adrian is trying to figure out how to bring people back to life.
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN | March 02, 2007