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The Best 2008

Our readers pick the best places to eat, drink, party, and shop. Plus, special tips from Phoenix staffers.

By: PHOENIX STAFF | April 17, 2008

I scream, you scream

A salute to ice cream trucks
Kids still stream toward the siren song and that holy grail — frozen treats in paper packaging, paradise in the guise of a push-up pop.

By: DAVID MASHBURN | August 27, 2007

Masters of Muppets

The 20 best musical moments on the original Muppet Show .
Here are some of our fave muppet musical moments.

By: CARLY CARIOLI AND RYAN STEWART | August 27, 2007

A list of the beasts -- real and imagined -- that feast on human flesh
Sometimes the most ferocious maneater looks like an ordinary rabbit… and sometimes it looks just like you covered in a flesh-gobbling pus!

By: PHOENIX STAFF | August 02, 2007

Political cartoons

The 20 Best Animated Politicians in Cartoon History
Among its hordes of firsts, The Simpsons helped transplant politicians from the cartoon funny pages to our television sets.

By: DAVID MASHBURN | July 26, 2007

Potter-schmotter!

25 fantasy films that lock horns, swords, and wands with Harry Potter
No reading required.

By: ELLEE DEAN AND MADDY MYERS | July 24, 2007

The goggles do nothing

The 25 greatest movies in Simpsons history
On July 25th, The Simpsons Movie will hit theatres.

By: RYAN STEWART | July 25, 2007

'Tis the season

To stay inside and watch awesome movies
Yeah, yeah, summer . Go outside, hone your tan, toss a Frisbee, blah blah blah.

By: RYAN STEWART | June 28, 2007

Digital strips

The rise of webcomics and four artists leading the way
In the not-too-distant past, telling someone you were interested in webcomics was met with awkward stares and changes of subject. (Trust me.)

By: JOE BERNARDI | July 10, 2007

Stealing culture

A free must-see movie
The following review of Good Copy Bad Copy does not appear in the Phoenix ’s film section.

By: MIKE MILIARD | June 26, 2007

BFFs, bosom buddies, and dynamic duos...

We salute you all in honor of Best Friends Day, June 8, 2007

By: PHOENIX STAFF | June 08, 2007

Smoking hot

Cigarettes on the silver screen
In honor of May 31, International No Tabacco Day, we’re listing the some of the most seminal smoking scenes on the silver screen.

By: PHOENIX STAFF | June 01, 2007

Good vibrations

The 15 dirtiest dancing music videos
In honor of dancing dirty, as well as Patrick Swayze’s open-shirt-pelvic-thrusting summer camp fantasy, we offer this list of the dirtiest dancing music videos we could find.

By: ELLEE DEAN | May 24, 2007

The 100 Unsexiest men 2007

Who will win this year's Golden Gilbert Award?
The 100 Unsexiest men 2007 has been released

By: PHOENIX STAFF | April 13, 2007

Don't look under that rock

Domestic animals with opposable thumbs means certain doom
Someone on the internet has actually gone through the bother of copyrighting the concept of “What if Cats and Dogs Had Opposable Thumbs Day.”

By: RYAN STEWART | March 02, 2007

Year of the Pig

The top 20 porkers in pop culture history
In Chinese astrology, 2007 is the Year of the Pig. To celebrate the swine, we’re counting down the top 20 oinkers of all time.

By: RYAN STEWART | February 15, 2007

iFun for phone nerds

Dept. of new stuff
Apple’s iPhone was unveiled last week to much chattering and drooling.

By: MIKE MILIARD | January 17, 2007

Useful friends

Brookline’s Mimoco Mimobots blur the boundaries between form and function
Ramona is a tattooed rockabilly chick with cat’s-eye glasses and a twin-lens-reflex camera strapped around her neck.

By: CAMILLE DODERO | December 06, 2006

The gift of gadgets

Wish list

By: BRIAN MCFADDEN | December 06, 2006

Bored? Not with these games

Role-playing, railroad-building, and good ol’ spelling
One way of channeling family competitiveness at holiday gatherings is to bring out a board game and gently coerce people to play it.

By: JOHNETTE RODRIGUEZ | December 12, 2006

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