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Ticket chase

Ace Ticket deal offers several benefits for the Red Sox
Last week, the Phoenix broke the news that the Boston Red Sox were opting out of the agreement Major League Baseball struck last year making eBay–owned online sports-ticket giant StubHub the official reseller of MLB seats.

By: IAN DONNIS | March 12, 2008

Ticket shock

Fans are paying the price for the Sox success: inside the Fenway fiasco
When NESN periodically broadcasts a historic Red Sox game during the off-season, the vast swaths of empty seats are enough to cause a sharp sense of wistfulness for many fans.

By: IAN DONNIS | March 10, 2008

The Station’s long shadow

Five years on, getting by remains a day-to-day challenge for some of those touched by the fire
For most Rhode Islanders, the Station nightclub conflagration — the worst disaster in the state since the hurricane of 1938 — is like a receding object in a rearview mirror.

By: IAN DONNIS | February 20, 2008

ProJo squashes kids' spelling-bee

As the ProJo Turns
Newspapers need all the help they can get these days, so the Providence Journal ’s withdrawal of sponsorship for the Rhode Island Statewide Spelling Bee -- resulting in the cancellation of this year’s competition -- has angered ProJo staffers.

By: IAN DONNIS | January 17, 2007

Out of the shadows

The Providence ‘Wunderground’ gets its due at the RISD Museum
Although “Wunderground: Providence, 1995 to the Present,” an exhibition that opened last weekend at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum, covers a brief period of time, it also represents a dramatically compressed cycle of change in the life of the city. Images from the Wunderground Print the legend: Providence's "Wunderground" and MassArt's "Crafty." By Greg Cook

By: IAN DONNIS | September 27, 2006

Young Sulzberger prepares to go West

As the ProJo Turns
Arthur Gregg Sulzberger, who has built a promising foundation for his journalistic career during almost two years as a reporter at the Providence Journal , plans to leave the paper later this month to take a job at the Oregonian .

By: IAN DONNIS | April 07, 2006

Wild and Crispy

Yes, Damon’s departure changes the Sox, but they won’t be wanting for charisma
When Johnny Damon took a $52 million deal in December to join the New York Yankees, it cut through Red Sox Nation like a rusty knife.

By: IAN DONNIS | April 11, 2006

The prince and the paper

Quietly building his journalistic credentials in Rhode Island, 25-year-old Arthur Gregg Sulzberger could one day vie for the top job at the New York Times
When a young Providence Journal reporter was poised to reveal the all-male membership of the Narragansett Lions Club last year, it didn’t sit well with at least one member.

By: IAN DONNIS | February 02, 2006