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Shirts off their backs

How To Dress Like a Rock Star
How To Dress Like a Rock Star
By JIM SULLIVAN | November 20, 2008

Part-time villain

Ill Bill gets nice
As much as Ill Bill eschews clichés, the Brooklyn rap goon is either a righteous friend or a torrential enemy.
By CHRIS FARAONE | September 03, 2008

The Seagull flies at the Publick; Company One knocks off Assassins
Chekhov wrote to a friend while composing The Seagull , first of his Big Four, that he was writing a “comedy with three female parts, six male parts, four acts, a landscape (a view of the lake), much talk about literature, and five tons of love.”
By CAROLYN CLAY | July 15, 2008

Last man standing

Once a cautionary tale about human folly, has the doomsday myth become just more fun and games?
In his 1954 novel I Am Legend , Richard Matheson conjured up a terrifying scenario: a man-made plague has killed most of humanity.
By PETER KEOUGH | December 12, 2007

The 100 unsexiest men 2007: 90-81

These guys couldn't turn on a radio

By | April 12, 2007

Worst in breed: Music

The 100 Unsexiest men 2007
Who are the unsexiest music men of 2007?
By PHOENIX STAFF | April 12, 2007

Oh ... uh, wow ... thanks?

The Internet is a vast trove of very strange gifts
Once upon a time, not all that long ago, holiday shopping was a fairly straightforward enterprise.
By MIKE MILIARD | December 07, 2006

Waters runs deep

Lunch with director John Waters
This article originally appeared in the June 23, 1981 issue of the Boston Phoenix.
By OWEN GLEIBERMAN | November 15, 2006

John Waters runs deep

The director discusses Pink Flamingos
Lunch with director John Waters. The menu: delicately-spiced Vietnamese eggrolls. The conversation topic: eating shit.
By OWEN GLIEBERMAN | June 21, 2006

When pigboys fly

Is Karl Rove’s comeuppance at hand?
For those of you old enough to remember the TV show Car 54, Where Are You? , it is time to do your best Gunther Toody impersonation, with an excited shout of “Ooh! Ooh!”
By PHILLIPE & JORGE | May 17, 2006

How to blow your tax refund

There’s a lot of weird crap out there. We’re here to help you wade through it.
For the first time in seven years, this penurious typist will be receiving tax refund instead of having to fork over a check to Uncle Sam.
By MIKE MILIARD | May 01, 2006

Freak-out

John Roecker's Live Freaky, Die Freaky does the Manson family
Famous punks lent their voices to a cartoonish retelling of the bloody ’60s saga.
By GERALD PEARY | January 24, 2006

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