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Factory food

Why the cheap, mass-produced food we eat is killing our environment, our economy — and us
Since Squanto taught the Pilgrims to plant maize, no food has been more emblematic of the evolution of American eating habits than corn. That's been true from the sepia-tinged golden age of the Midwestern breadbasket to the present day, where those yellow kernels are lab-engineered and recombinated into a dizzying array of futuristic foodstuffs.

By: MIKE MILIARD | June 25, 2009

Jailed HIV-positive pregnant woman released - for now

Judicial Discretion
Quinta Layin Tuleh, the HIV-positive pregnant woman a federal judge in Bangor, Maine, ordered jailed until her baby was delivered, has been released on bail while her appeal of her sentence makes its way through the courts.

By: JEFF INGLIS | June 24, 2009

Guilty until proven guilty

Freedom Watch
The US Supreme Court's June 18 decision denying prisoners access to DNA testing — a procedure that could reliably prove innocence — adds to the high court's decades-long shameful record on criminal-justice issues.

By: HARVEY SILVERGLATE | June 24, 2009

White-supremacist code printed nationwide

One man's death spread the numeric code for "Heil Hitler" across the world.
While von Brunn survived to face federal criminal charges and may yet die slowly in federal prison, he did manage to get newspapers around the globe to print a white-supremacist code praising Adolf Hitler right next to his name.

By: JEFF INGLIS | June 17, 2009

Federal judge: more rights for the unborn

Fetal Obligations
A federal judge in Bangor, Maine, has recognized a new right of fetuses that could become a key element in the nation's ongoing abortion debate.

By: JEFF INGLIS | June 11, 2009

The blessing of abortion

Pro-choice provocateur: Meet Cambridge divinity dean Katherine Ragsdale
Abortion is dominating the headlines — and giving new resonance to the radically pro-choice gospel of Katherine Ragsdale, dean of Cambridge's Episcopal Divinity School.

By: ADAM REILLY | June 12, 2009

Sotomayor's mixed message on free speech

Freedom Watch
Minutes after President Barack Obama announced that he was nominating appellate judge Sonia Sotomayor for the vacant seat on the Supreme Court, battle lines were drawn on the pre-scripted questions of "post-racial" America.

By: HARVEY SILVERGLATE | June 03, 2009

Legalize pot now

With support from the unlikeliest circles, this could be marijuana's moment
The Obama administration, already overtaxed with two foreign campaigns, made headlines this past week when the White House's newly minted director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy called for an end to the "War on Drugs."

By: MIKE MILIARD | June 01, 2009

Dale Bozzio sentenced to jail

Feline Trouble
Two months after being convicted of animal cruelty, new-wave pop icon Dale Bozzio feels trapped in her own personal witch trial.

By: ASHLEY RIGAZIO | May 27, 2009

CVS gripes reach the State House

Retail Details
Change to Win (CtW) is no longer a mere pest buzzing in the ear of CVS management.

By: CHRIS FARAONE | May 13, 2009

Immaculate reception

The New England Patriots played host to a very different out-of-towner last week, as the Dalai Lama made a most incongruous visit to Gillette Stadium
Two Saturdays ago, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama sat cross-legged on the 50-yard line and gently intoned that "the path to happiness in the individual and with society is through inner peace."

By: MIKE MILIARD | May 13, 2009

The rain in Maine

Gay Marriage Ratified — and Jilted
If you're planning a trip to Vacationland this summer, be sure to bring your galoshes — the "gay storm" that's been satirized all over the Internet rolled into Maine last week.

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | May 13, 2009

Turkey Terror Tale

Tom Foolery
Violent crime, gang activity, and general thuggery are not recurring themes on the Brookline police blotter. But that civic paradise is plagued by another kind of scourge — one that manifests all three of those crimes in avian form. And it isn't bird flu.

By: LANCE GOULD, WITH ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY EMILY MELLO | May 13, 2009

Spite the power

This week in protest saw teens swarm the State House and tired bus drivers rally
While the economy has given us a collective jackboot to the groin, it has also seemingly stirred a civil discontent.

By: CHRIS FARAONE | May 11, 2009

Sunshine on the ACLU: a mea culpa

Freedom Watch
"Standing up to your political enemies is easy, fun, and often profitable," writes Barney Frank, on the lead jacket blurb for Worst Instincts: Cowardice, Conformity, and the ACLU.

By: HARVEY SILVERGLATE | May 06, 2009

Queer eye for the Hawkeyes

Gay marriage takes first steps in Iowa
This past Monday, as Iowa prepared to officially issue marriage licenses to gay applicants, both law-enforcement and state gay groups prepared for vocal, even violent opposition in America's heartland.

By: BEN FORNELL | April 29, 2009

Ayering differences

Academic freedom goes down by technicality at BC
Bill Ayers clearly was not welcome at BC — in the flesh or via satellite.

By: KYLE SMEALLIE | April 22, 2009

Dale Bozzio's life is so strange

Can an '80s pop icon find peace in New Hampshire in a house full of feral cats? Apparently not.
With her bold style, high-pitched voice, multicolored mop-top, and MacGyver-like ability to make mesmerizing bras out of things like electronic parts and bubble wrap, Missing Persons frontwoman Dale Bozzio planted herself firmly in the spotlight in the 1980s.

By: ASHLEY RIGAZIO | May 27, 2009

Slideshow: Crazy cat house uncovered

Photos taken at Dale Bozzio’s house and used as state evidence in her animal cruelty trial.
Dale Bozzio's house was found with dead, starved, cats as well as cat bones gnawed on by other felines.

By: BOSTON PHOENIX STAFF | May 27, 2009

Boston's Best of 2009

You picked the city's 114 best places to party, shop, eat, drink, and more. The results are in!
You picked the city's 114 best places to party, shop, eat, drink, and more. The results are in!

By: BOSTON PHOENIX STAFF | April 19, 2009

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Twitter goes on account-suspension rampage -- @BostonTweet shut down!
Phlog | July 05, 2009 at 11:29 PM

An interview with Kathryn Bigelow
Outside The Frame | July 04, 2009 at 4:07 PM

Latest Palin Kerfuffle -- I Was There!
Talking Politics | July 02, 2009 at 6:25 PM

Another News Dump: BPD Discipline
July 02, 2009 at 3:50 PM

Awesomely creepy marketing, or creepily awesome marketing?
Phlog | July 02, 2009 at 2:35 PM