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Flashy mob

Guerrilla Queer Bar takes over
Boston’s gay nightlife is usually balkanized into segregated enclaves for twinks, bears, lesbians, and drag queens.
By JULIA REISCHEL | April 08, 2008

Newspapers censor Bono’s ‘fucking’ gaffe

The FCC’s ‘broadcast indecency’ rules: Still, well, bullshit
Why does our ostensibly “free” press insist on acting like prudes or cowards when reporting stories for which it’s vital that readers learn someone said “fuck” rather than an undefined “expletive”?
By HARVEY SILVERGLATE | March 12, 2008

Who I am

Paris speaks
She answers my questions in a Valley Girl vixen voice, with a languid aplomb that characterizes the way she approaches life.
By SHARON STEEL | February 13, 2008

'Please kill me'

The open-casket look vs. plastic punk
This article originally appeared in the August 16, 1977 issue of the Boston Phoenix.
By D.C. DENISON | August 20, 2007

Dead white females

From Fall Out Boy to One Night in Paris , modern pop culture is what it is today thanks to 10 long-expired ladies
Can you remember the last time you curled up under the covers with Marcel Proust’s I n Search of Lost Time ?
By SHARON STEEL | August 08, 2007

After school special

Scary Monsters + Perennials, Great Scott, March 20, 2007
Scary Monsters looked like skinny monsters.
By ELLEE DEAN | March 21, 2007

2007: Same as the old year

Relatives of Cicilline and Mollis continue the Vo Dilun tradition
And they are off and running, in the 2007 edition of “How Can We Embarrass Little Rhody Even More?”
By PHILLIPE & JORGE | January 11, 2007

Who’s the Nancy?

Dubya slouches to mere mincing minion among DC’s new political elite
The GOP’s many mistakes this election season included the massive one of attacking House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, the soon-to-be Speaker of the House.
By PHILLIPE & JORGE | November 15, 2006

Close to the edge

Politics and Other Mistakes
The last time Republicans won control of both chambers of the Maine Legislature, the country was engaged in an unpopular foreign war, Washington was on the verge of a major scandal, Congress was meddling with social issues, and the vice-president was calling his critics unpatriotic.
By AL DIAMON | October 25, 2006