‘Boston Young Contemporaries’ at 808 Gallery, ‘Big Bugs’ at Garden in the Woods, and the 10th Annual Lantern Festival at Forest Hills Cemetery
The 808 Gallery is a BIG space to fill.
By RANDI HOPKINS | July 08, 2008

The Muzzle Awards: Collegiate Division

Stamping out free speech in academia

By HARVEY SILVERGLATE | June 25, 2008

Got sustainability?

Apeiron’s annual festival points the way to different possibilities
Growing numbers of Americans are taking up bicycling and gardening, and perhaps reconsidering the more costly habits of the not-so-distant boom times.
By IAN DONNIS | June 04, 2008

Dartmouth's right is wrong

A bad Review of some campus elitists
This article originally appeared in the April 15, 1988 issue of the Boston Phoenix.
By SEAN FLYNN | April 18, 2008

DiMasi’s sheep

How Stepford politics rule Beacon Hill
DiMasi’s overwhelming victory in the recent casino vote — in which only 34 of 140 Democrats voted against his plan to banish the bill for further study — was actually, as meager as it was, an unusual show of dissent.
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | April 09, 2008

Paint by numbers

Three Tall Women at the Lyric; 7 Blowjobs from Theatre on Fire
Edward Albee’s Three Tall Women are really one tall woman, and she’s a tall order.
By CAROLYN CLAY | April 01, 2008

Holding steady

Craig Finn returns to BC
When you think about it, the Hold Steady are the perfect Boston band.
By MIKE MILIARD | September 19, 2007

What’s in a name?

Why it’s Fitz Henry, not Fitz Hugh, Lane — and why it matters
The discovery that we’ve had Lane’s name wrong since at least 1913 has prompted questions about what else scholars have gotten wrong about him.
By GREG COOK | August 31, 2007

Flow chart

The ICA's 'Art on the Harbor Islands'
The sea air was cold and damp and foggy as we rode to Georges Island.
By GREG COOK | August 01, 2007

Tiny tomes

Miniature books at the Boston Public Library
One day, over 35 years ago, when searching at a rare book shop in Wilbraham, MA for new items for her rare book collection, Anne Bromer discovered a toolbox on top of some bookshelves.
By MICHELLE MINKOFF | July 16, 2007

Alumnus interruptus

How University, Inc. is controlling the message to its graduates — and funding base
Rather than take pride in the bi-monthly’s stellar 108-year-old reputation, university administrators effectively declared war on Harvard magazine earlier this year when they brought out an in-house competitor.
By HARVEY SILVERGLATE | November 16, 2006

Visit Maine

Tourism promotion’s cozy—and now hot—world
This past spring, blogger and free-lance Web site designer Lance Dutson was sued by the Maine Office of Tourism’s New York advertising agency, Warren Kremer Paino, for defamation because of the manner in which he criticized the agency’s promotion of Maine, particularly in its advertising on the Internet.
By LANCE TAPLEY | September 22, 2006

Betty Friedan, 1921–2006

In memoriam
Friedan’s astute, savagely humorous critique of how women’s magazines dictated the terms of many female lives rang true.
By MICHAEL BRONSKI | February 09, 2006

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