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CLIF GARBODEN

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Not fade away

Ain't no party like a Wormtown party
Wormtown. It's a state of being, an alternative reality, a club-music subculture centered in Worcester, Massachusetts.
By CLIF GARBODEN  |  April 30, 2008

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Our championship season

Brilliant us
This year’s New England Press Association annual awards dinner forsook the Park Plaza’s rubber chicken for the upper-scale poultry fare at the Marriott Copley Place. And the food’s not the only reason we’re glad we went.
By CLIF GARBODEN  |  February 13, 2008

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Thought for food

A million words for rice
If you’re going to waste your time (or your company’s time) online, stop thinking about porn or poker and do something constructive.
By CLIF GARBODEN  |  January 16, 2008

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Tritown flashback

The return of Hollis the Mountain Man
Except for its art museum, Fitchburg is generally off the Phoenix radar.
By CLIF GARBODEN  |  January 09, 2008

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The only game in town

Sox fever grips the Hub
Memo received and understood, chiefs.
By CLIF GARBODEN  |  October 31, 2007

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Worth remembering

Abortion on trial
In 1975, Dr. Kenneth Edelin was a household name in Boston.
By CLIF GARBODEN  |  October 31, 2007

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The dirtiest cop

 How Times Square corrupted the 20th century
This is what history writing should be.
By CLIF GARBODEN  |  October 30, 2007

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Home grown terror

Cathy Wilkerson's memoir of the Weather Underground recalls a time when revolution seemed possible
Cathy Wilkerson, 62-year-old math teacher and mother of one, was famous long ago, as a member of the radical political collective Weatherman.
By CLIF GARBODEN  |  October 25, 2007

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The War is swell

Ken Burns captures reflections in ‘Hell’s own cesspool’
Sometime in the late ’80s, I was sharing some Iron City with my father at the bar of a Pittsburgh American Legion post.
By CLIF GARBODEN  |  September 18, 2007

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Everybody say, ‘Arragh’

Two excellent books about pirates
Each of these books bears a tongue-in-cheekily arcane subtitle.
By CLIF GARBODEN  |  September 12, 2007

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Listen up, newbie

We will make you one of us — all you have to do is trust
Hey, kid. Yeah, you with the hat on backward. New in town? Big city, huh? Not at all like back home. Scary. Unfamiliar. Fraught! Want some advice?
By CLIF GARBODEN  |  September 04, 2007

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Magnificent seven

The Phoenix 's AAN award winners
The annual journalism awards handed out by the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies (AAN) are the real deal.
By CLIF GARBODEN  |  June 20, 2007

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Safer at home

Four perfectly good excuses to stay indoors this summer
Read this article behind closed doors.
By CLIF GARBODEN  |  June 12, 2007

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Getting spooked

Charles McCarry looks back at the Nazis — and ahead to Bush?
The politics of celebrated spy-novel writer (and one-time deep-cover CIA operative) Charles McCarry aren’t simplistic.
By CLIF GARBODEN  |  May 08, 2007

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Purists and tourists

PBS takes a refreshingly honest look at the summer of ’67
The Greatest Generation didn’t go quietly.
By CLIF GARBODEN  |  April 17, 2007

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Hit the dirt! It’s a flan!

Tragically lost in translation
All my wife, Susannah, wanted was a flan recipe, which  Google delivered online  and offered to  “translate” from the Spanish .
By CLIF GARBODEN  |  April 11, 2007

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Phoenix reaps NEPA glory

It's all about us
The Phoenix newspapers and thePhoenix.com were major winners in this year’s New England Press Association (NEPA) Better Newspaper Competition.
By CLIF GARBODEN  |  February 14, 2007

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Goodbye, cruel America

An in-death eulogy for 2006
Toward the end of 2006, we woke up to the glad news that Chile’s former strongman Augusto Pinochet had saved everyone the trouble of hanging his sickly carcass for war crimes and atrocities by dying of a heart attack.
By CLIF GARBODEN  |  December 20, 2006

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Waging cheer

Time to turn your war-on off
There are no holy wars. Never have been. Cultural conflicts that lead to sectarian violence? Yes.
By CLIF GARBODEN  |  December 06, 2006

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Off the press!

My life and good times in alternative journalism  
I can write the alternative press’s history — or one passably passionate version of it — because the institution’s trajectory matches my own.
By CLIF GARBODEN  |  November 15, 2006
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