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Hardboiled hub

The city’s gritty, criminal underbelly has redefined the dark, artistic vision known as Boston noir
When I was growing up in Roslindale a few decades back — among tribes of ignorant, second-generation immigrant kids whose favorite words began with “f” and “n” and who liked to torture small animals and beat up small children before they moved on to their future vocations as petty criminals, dead dope users, or real-estate agents.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  October 21, 2009
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Interview: Colin Beavan

It's not easy going green
"In my twenties, I was really concerned with global warming. In my thirties, I was really focused on being a writer."
By TOM MEEK  |  October 02, 2009
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Museum pieces and other pieces

Jazz Week returns, the Jazz Hall of Fame inducts, Ron Gill says bye
It's Jazz Week time again — that time when the Boston jazz community looks to expand its minority-appeal music to a larger public.
By JON GARELICK  |  April 21, 2009
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Review: My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poems of Jack Spicer

Strong spirits
Spicer believed that words are magic, that they have the power to "do" good and harm to people.
By WILLIAM CORBETT  |  December 19, 2008
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What? This old thing?

A guide to Boston's secret trove of peculiar artifacts
Glossy guidebooks often extol Boston as one of America’s most “European” cities, a euphemism that means that we’re . . . you know, wicked old.
By JACQUELINE HOUTON  |  August 27, 2008

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By EDITORIAL  |  August 20, 2008

Freedom RIDErs

A new civil-rights movement emerges
This article originally appeared in the August 12, 1988 issue of the Boston Phoenix.
By SEAN FLYNN  |  August 14, 2008
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AG should probe BPL

Supposedly ‘independent’ trustees receive city funds. Why Birmingham rather than Bulger for the top job?
Political innocents who discount allegations that Boston Mayor Thomas Menino is politicizing the Boston Public Library’s board of trustees so that he can directly control the nation’s oldest free municipal library received a rude awakening recently.
By EDITORIAL  |  July 23, 2008
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Week in the knees

Jazz Week kicks out the jams, plus Bley and Zorn
“Jazz Week,” which runs April 26–May 4, tends to appropriate all events to its needs — if you’re playing, say, your regularly scheduled gig at Matt Murphy’s Pub this week, you’re part of Jazz Week.
By JON GARELICK  |  April 28, 2008

That hurts

Letters to the Boston editor: March 14, 2008
Regarding David Thorpe’s recent “The Big Hurt” column: it’s unfortunate and a sad commentary on society that you get paid for this.
By BOSTON PHOENIX LETTERS  |  March 12, 2008
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Iraq: Five years later and time to go

Plus, updates on the Cowans   case, performance artist Milan Kohout, and the BPL
March 19 will mark the fifth anniversary of America’s war in Iraq.
By EDITORIAL  |  March 12, 2008

Read the runes

Letters to the Boston editor, March 7, 2008
As a user of the special collections at the Boston Public Library, I have been appalled at the light coverage of key service desks necessitated by staff cuts over the past several years.
By BOSTON PHOENIX LETTERS  |  March 05, 2008
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Menino aims to take another bite out of the BPL

Will his handpicked trustees let him?
Why does Boston mayor Thomas Menino seem to have such a chip on his shoulder about the Boston Public Library?
By EDITORIAL  |  February 27, 2008

New insurance, no assurance

Letters to the Boston editor, November 23, 2007
Let’s see, we start with a government-enforced policy about a life-and-death issue.
By BOSTON PHOENIX LETTERS  |  November 19, 2007
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Unpleasantness at the BPL

How one of the nation’s leading librarians got axed by City Hall
Why would the library’s trustees give the boot to a leader who has proved to be a triple-threat talent?
By EDITORIAL  |  November 07, 2007
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I will survive

John Osorio-Buck in Lawrence, street art in Central Square, and Corita Kent’s Rainbow Gas Tank
“There is no such thing in civilized society as self-support,” claims a handwritten, hand-held, Dylan-esque cardboard sign.
By RANDI HOPKINS  |  October 16, 2007
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While you were out . . .

Yes, stuff happened in Boston during your summer break. But we’ve got it covered.
When you’re a student, it can seem as if reality just freezes when you leave town for the summer.
By ADAM REILLY  |  September 04, 2007
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Tiny tomes

Miniature books at the Boston Public Library
One day, over 35 years ago, when searching at a rare book shop in Wilbraham, MA for new items for her rare book collection, Anne Bromer discovered a toolbox on top of some bookshelves.
By MICHELLE MINKOFF  |  July 16, 2007
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Mystic rivers

When G.I. Gurdjieff came to Boston
Was Georges Ivanovitch Gurdjieff a charlatan?
By JAMES PARKER  |  July 03, 2007
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That dirty water

Why doesn’t the Patrick administration think that’s an environmental issue?
Much of the heart and soul of historic Boston is in danger of sinking into the marshy ooze on which it was built over the centuries.
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN  |  April 11, 2007
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Tales from the ’hood

Wynton takes some pot shots at pop culture
From the beat of the first hand-slapped tambourine, you know who you’re listening to.
By JON GARELICK  |  March 20, 2007
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Cheap cheer

The Scrooge – lovers guide to seasonal fun
Why bother caroling when you can spike your eggnog and sing karaoke? Heck, why venture into the windy streets when you can snuggle next to the radiator with a six-pack of cheep beer?
By VANESSA CZARNECKI  |  December 12, 2006
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City Hall brain drain

Never star-studded, Mayor Menino’s executive team continues to shrink
The city of Boston is running on empty.
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN  |  September 05, 2006
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Bookworms

Sketchbooks at Harvard, dead bird at the Gardner
“Under Cover” is one of those lucid, edifying shows the Harvard museums excel at.
By GREG COOK  |  August 28, 2006
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The IberoAmerican Film Festival

Through August 26 at the Boston Public Library
Boston’s IberoAmerican Film Festival, organized by the Boston Public Library in partnership with the regional consulates of each of the 13 countries, continues tonight and runs through August 26 at the BPL.
By ANA RIVAS  |  August 10, 2006
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Name game

T.C. Boyle on America’s identity crisis
What’s in a name? For the identity thief, a fortune; for the victim, a world of woe.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  July 11, 2006
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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
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Sorellina

A few dishes amaze; many don’t
Another week, another second or third restaurant by a famous chef (Jamie “Mistral” Mammano) focused on a single cuisine (Italian), with a more-junior chef (John Delpha) at the controls.
By ROBERT NADEAU  |  April 26, 2006
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Best in show

Poster boys honored  
The Maine Historical Society's Eric Eaton and John Mayer recently received honors from the New England Museum Association for their work on the publications accompanying the exhibit “The City Awakes.”
By MEGAN GRUMBLING  |  April 26, 2006
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Forty whacks

Goody-B. Wiseman channels Lizzie Borden, ‘Fetish Gesture’ at GASP, and Tomi Ungerer at the BPL  
Lizzie Borden and her hideous tale provide a spooky point of departure for LA-based artist Goody-B. Wiseman.
By RANDI HOPKINS  |  March 14, 2006

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