September 11 Attacks

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Physics lesson for Diamon

Letters to the Portland editor, May 21, 2010
Newton’s laws of gravity and motion are universally understood laws, not subject to anyone’s opinion.
By PORTLAND PHOENIX LETTERS | May 20, 2010

Open Your Mind to 9-11 Truth

Letters to the Portland editor, May 7, 2010
I was disappointed but not surprised to read Al Diamon’s shallow and cynical column on Dr. David Ray Griffin.
By PORTLAND PHOENIX LETTERS | May 05, 2010

High ideals and crazy dreams

Truthers hurt
I have nothing against conspiracy theories.
By AL DIAMON | April 28, 2010

Plus, Obama and the Nobel
The idea that the war in Afghanistan has reached a critical junction, a “now-or-never” moment that requires an additional 40,000 troops to win, is rubbish.
By EDITORIAL | October 14, 2009

68. David Zucker

PLANE WRECK
It’s ironic that the guy who directed Airplane! turned conservative after 9/11. But we’re not surprised that he crashed last year’s intensely awful alleged satire, An American Carol , square into the Hollywood Hills.
By Boston Phoenix Staff | March 25, 2009

How much have we learned since 9-11?

Conflicts
When Israel launched recent attacks against Palestinian foes, killing hundreds, president-elect Obama and others repeated the familiar mantra of pro-Israel support, decrying Hamas and citing Israel's right to self-defense, ignoring how dead children, on both sides, know no politics.
By MARY ANN SORRENTINO | January 14, 2009

The spectacle of terror

Why the attacks in Mumbai constitute a terrible threat
Images are weapons as real as bullets and bombs.
By EDITORIAL | December 05, 2008

The Apocalypse versus stupid human tricks

Paul Chan, Adel Abdessemed, and Andrew Neumann
Among the most poetic and moving artwork to come out of 9/11 is Paul Chan’s series of videos The 7 Lights .
By GREG COOK | December 12, 2008

Timeline of events

How the ISBCC turned from a place of worship to a symbol of controversy
How the ISBCC turned from a place of worship to a symbol of controversy
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | November 19, 2008

Brick Lane

A lush love story of Bangladeshi immigrants
A lush love story set in East London explores the lives of Bangladeshi immigrants caught up in social turmoil before and after 9/11.
By PEG ALOI | June 25, 2008

Camera bluff

Occupational hazards in Operation Filmmaker
Even as critics and moviegoers alike have scorned the surge of movies related to the War on Terror and Iraq, Nina Davenport has quietly been making illuminating, fair-minded, and entertaining films on these topics.
By PETER KEOUGH | June 17, 2008

Body of War

Poetic Americana
Tomas Young volunteered for the US Army right after 9/11, hoping to be sent to Afghanistan and chase down Osama bin Laden.
By GERALD PEARY | April 09, 2008

Land of Liberty

We're trapped in the Homeland
After 9/11, many of us went to New York City, responding to then-Mayor Rudolph Giuliani’s plea to help Gotham by visiting and spending money.
By MARY ANN SORRENTINO | November 28, 2007

Buying in

Consumer Culture at Montserrat, Mini Golf at Mass Art, and ‘Seek Alternate Routes’ at 119 Gallery
In late September 2001, President George W. Bush urged Americans to go shopping in support of the slumping US economy, equating purchasing with patriotism in the aftermath of 9/11.
By RANDI HOPKINS | November 20, 2007

The problem with heroes

Lessons from the build-them-up, tear-them-down Boston firefighter backlash
Even the hardest-hearted news consumer had to wince this past week when the private autopsy results of Paul Cahill and Warren Payne were leaked to some of the press.
By ADAM REILLY | October 10, 2007

Iran: the next crisis

Trying to make sense of Ahmadinejad at Columbia will not shed light on Bush’s emerging plans to attack Iran
All politics are local, so said the late Speaker of the House Tip O’Neill.
By EDITORIAL | September 26, 2007

In tragedy’s shadow

Politics encroached on 9/11 this year in Massachusetts, even if nobody wants to admit it
Jim Ogonowski, a 28-year military veteran and small-farm owner in Dracut, brings plenty of life story, personal accomplishments, and policy positions to his campaign for US Congress.
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | September 19, 2007

Replaying injustice

Sacco and Venzetti, 80 years later
They stare from faded photographs like ghosts: faces ashen, eyes doleful and accusatory.
By MIKE MILIARD | August 22, 2007

Laurie Anderson

Big Science | Nonesuch
One of the most important albums of the ’80s has been re-released with two appealing extras.
By TED DROZDOWSKI | August 14, 2007

Village folk

Suzanne Vega gets into the sounds of the city
Suzanne Vega’s Beauty and Crime is a sleek collection of New York City stories, all pop-song trim, but bubbling with an undercurrent of experimentation.
By TED DROZDOWSKI | August 07, 2007

Keeping It Real

Sticking to the facts in a post-9/111 world, Michael Winterbottom and Paul Greengrass lead a new breed of filmmaker
We’ll get used to it, I suppose, this new category of moviegoing distress. Sooner or later, we get used to everything.
By JAMES PARKER | June 20, 2007

Cinema of Shadows

We’re five years into the Iraq crisis, and Hollywood hasn't made a film about the war. Or is every film is about the war?
It’s not likely, but Judd Apatow’s pitch for Knocked Up might have sounded something like this.
By PETER KEOUGH | June 06, 2007

Endangered tongues

We’re not surprised you speak our language
You may have read: the world is getting smaller.
By SARA FAITH ALTERMAN | May 09, 2007

Civic Duty

Stylishly silly stuff
Falling Down takes a post-9/11 turn in this psychological thriller from Canadian filmmaker Jeff Renfroe.
By PETER KEOUGH | May 02, 2007

Bush's secret army

Meet the American mercenaries of Blackwater, who fight outside of the law and take direction from the radical Christian right
The 9/11 attacks provided a catalyst: an unprecedented justification to forge ahead with a radical agenda molded by a small cadre of neoconservative operatives.
By JEREMY SCAHILL | March 21, 2007

Feast or famine?

Jack Shafer defends the press pre-Iraq
Jack Shafer defends the press pre-Iraq
By ADAM REILLY | March 21, 2007

If terrorists hit Boston

In The Edge of Disaster , a security expert warns that the US is not prepared for future disasters
What follows is a scenario roughly based on two real-world post-9/11 terrorist attacks.
By STEPHEN FLYNN | March 08, 2007

Of pols and pop culture

A fifth, and final, cardinal rule for presidential wannabes
The Tote Board’s preliminaries are almost over, meaning next week we begin to set the odds.
By STEVEN STARK | February 28, 2007

Elvis Perkins

Ash Wednesday | XL
“I heard a sound when I was a child,” Elvis Perkins sings in “It’s Only Me,” a typically introspective folk-pop number from this debut album.
By MIKAEL WOOD | February 20, 2007

Truth and consequences

Al Gore’s graphic disaster movie
For a film consisting mostly of a middle-aged guy pointing to charts and lecturing about complex, controversial, and world-challenging ideas, An Inconvenient Truth makes for a more entertaining thriller than The Da Vinci Code .
By PETER KEOUGH | February 20, 2007