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According to Tip debuts at New Rep; the ART sings Cole Porter
Given the water wings of a viable performance, one-person shows about historical figures tend to sink or swim on the raconteurship of their subjects.
By CAROLYN CLAY | July 01, 2008

Sunshine needed

Political transparency is key if DiMasi is to transcend his crisis
Sal DiMasi has a track record of great accomplishment as Speaker of the House, with victories that include health-care reform, gay-marriage protection, and an economic-development package that offers unprecedented support for the arts, to cite just three examples.
By EDITORIAL | May 14, 2008

Jackson's sweet dream

Jesse Jackson's 1988 presidential campaign
This article originally appeared in the March 4, 1988 issue of the Boston Phoenix.
By SCOT LEHIGH | March 07, 2008

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

The green governor?

Few on Deval Patrick's ‘fresh blood’ staff have been seasoned in the State-house hallways
Governor Deval Patrick promised to bring new faces and fresh perspectives to his administration, and he certainly has done that.
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | March 07, 2007

Gerald Ford, Betty’s husband

The 38th president got a lot of things right
It is the great irony of Gerald Ford’s public life that he is remembered so fondly in death because he lost an election. James Brown: 1933 - 2006. By Ted Drozdowski
By FRANCIS J. CONNOLLY | January 03, 2007

The Reagan revulsion

The President should resign
This editorial originally appeared in the December 12, 1986 issue of the Boston Phoenix.
By EDITORIAL | November 14, 2006

Striking similarities

Mike Barnicle, this is A.J. Liebling. Have you met?
This article originally appeared in the August 20, 1998 issue of the Boston Phoenix.
By DAN KENNEDY | November 14, 2006

A Handy Guide to the Big Dig Screw-Up

Who was watching out for the integrity of the work on the Big Dig? Everyone and no one
As people try to sort out responsibility for the fiasco that led to the death of Milena Del Valle in the I-90 connector tunnel, you might have a hard time keeping the players straight.
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | July 27, 2006

All poetry is local

Heaney’s District encompasses the world
The poems achieved are graspable physical objects, not “infinite,” but so wide and so deep, and solid.
By WILLIAM CORBETT | July 11, 2006

The MBTA’s new fare-hike plan

Outbound Green Line may cease to be free
It’s a ritual of most Boston University and Boston College students, enacted on lazy Monday mornings as well as on big-party Friday nights: taking the free outbound ride on the B Line, up through Allston and beyond.
By DEIRDRE FULTON | May 03, 2006

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