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Decay artist

Greg Mahoney's Brockton
There’s something about a hometown that you just can’t shake.

By CAMILLE DODERO | June 28, 2006

ID Check turns one
One year ago, this was a different world. New Orleans was still intact; “truthiness” was not yet a word; and the first installment of a column later christened as “ID Check” had just debuted in this paper.

By CAMILLE DODERO | June 22, 2006

D-Tension and Effect

Wϋnder twins: Activate!
Los Wünder Twins Del Rap are like the Tenacious D of old-school rhyme-spitting: supposed brothers, goofball raconteurs, big eaters, crass sex-talkers. Los Wünder Twins Del Rap, "Myspace Bitches" (mp3)

By CAMILLE DODERO | June 15, 2006

Keaton Kustler-Klein

Wallet girl
Keaton Kustler-Klein has become something of an unofficial mascot here at the Phoenix offices.

By CAMILLE DODERO | June 27, 2007

ID Check: Chelsea Spear

The no-talkies
Chelsea Spear grew up in Medford, back when it was strictly a working-class enclave known largely for “big hair, Spandex, and KISS-108,” so she understands the injuries of class.

By CAMILLE DODERO | June 07, 2006

ID Check: The Best Thing Ever

Men’s-room rockers
It’s 11:15 pm on Monday night when Alex Billig enters the fancy men’s bathroom at the Top of the Hub lounge.

By CAMILLE DODERO | May 10, 2006

ID Check: Cassi Hunt

Screwed (alleged) pirate
Cassi Hunt feels she’s being screwed.

By CAMILLE DODERO | May 03, 2006

ID Check: Alli Auldridge and Jesse Hirsch

Zombie wranglers
When I found out that 25-year-old Brookline resident Alli Auldridge was planning a “Zombie March” this Saturday evening, it seemed fitting that we should meet up, refashion our mugs into brain-eating cretins, wander around the Somerville neighborhood where she’d decided to start her walking-corpse pilgrimage, and, I dunno, call it a dry run.

By CAMILLE DODERO | April 26, 2006

ID Check: Bob Whetstone

That Jesus guy
Bob Whetstone may be the most famous man in Boston whom nobody knows.

By CAMILLE DODERO | April 24, 2006

ID Check: Alison Novak

Meltdown barista
Once upon a time, Alison Novak was a nuclear-engineering student at MIT.

By CAMILLE DODERO | April 18, 2006

ID Check: Glenn Troy

Lounge swinger
The pre-pre-release listening party for the lounge demo tracks of the Yukonn MC, a/k/a the Grizzly (“I never shave and I’m grimy”), is so exclusive, so “top secret,” that only two people are invited: the Yukonn and me.

By CAMILLE DODERO | April 07, 2006

ID Check: Padraig Shea

The freshman
There are at least three people who read this column every week.

By CAMILLE DODERO | April 05, 2006

ID Check: Nikki Roxx

Slam-bam ma’am
The mostly male, mostly lumpy 100 or so fans inside the Framingham Civic League, a 75-year-old suburban hall temporarily outfitted with a wrestling ring, have already sat through three predetermined hours of all-man-meat matches.

By CAMILLE DODERO | March 28, 2006

ID Check: Boston Derby Dames

Block-and-roll girls
Billy the Kid is showing the newbie referees how to take charge.

By CAMILLE DODERO | March 15, 2006

ID Check: Team Rekloos

Two-man art crew
It takes a special sort of artist to draw for both a children’s computer program and a porn mag, and Mike Lee is just that sort of artist.

By CAMILLE DODERO | March 08, 2006

ID Check: HumanKind

Ghost-rock street hustlers
Pick a three-digit number.

By CAMILLE DODERO | March 02, 2006

ID Check: Super Secret Dance Society

Dance dance revolutionaries
I’m sitting in Super Secret Dance Society Original Agent Annaliese Rittershaus’s unmarked vehicle on President’s Day, with three other soon-to-be-indoctrinated SSDS Agents.

By CAMILLE DODERO | October 17, 2008

ID Check: Stu Sherman

One-man picture
Whalom Park isn’t much like Kosovo, but visiting the rusted remains of America’s 10th-oldest amusement park is one hell of way to spend a drizzly Saturday afternoon.

By CAMILLE DODERO | February 15, 2006

ID Check: Paul Foley

Privately sweating DJ
Maybe I should have taken Paul Foley up on his suggestion to meet in his Malden bathroom (“the only place I can really hang”) or “in a tub of oatmeal.”

By CAMILLE DODERO | February 02, 2006

ID Check: Alex Brown-Whalen

Flying-V prodigy
Heavy-metal axe strapped over his shoulder, Alex Brown-Whalen sure knows how to shred.

By CAMILLE DODERO | January 26, 2006

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