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Interview: David Cross

 David Cross is not cross
"When people thought of stand-up in 1987, they thought of a guy with a skinny red tie and a jacket saying, 'What's the deal with blah, blah, blah?' "
By CHRIS FARAONE  |  October 07, 2009
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Interview: Michael Angelakos of Passion Pit

Cleaning up with this year's BMP winners
In 2008, Passion Pit won Best New Artist in our Best Music Poll.
By CARLY CARIOLI AND RYAN STEWART  |  October 01, 2009
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Reggae revival

Booming in Boston's underground, Caribbean riddims are about to burst back into the mainstream
The climate is tropical, sweet skunk fills the air, and reggae jams are hitting such lofty decibels that I can't even feel my phone vibrate.
By CHRIS FARAONE  |  May 21, 2009
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Let's talk about sex

Truth and Consequences in  Hide and Seek
It's not that Eve's religious but sisterly mother wouldn't understand, it's that Eve is apprehensive about her not  understanding.
By BILL RODRIGUEZ  |  May 06, 2009
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Interview: Mitch Fatel

Fatel hates the Yankees, loves stand-up
Given that he was once an intern for Howard Stern, it's not too surprising that comedian Mitch Fatel is all about clits and tits, and assorted lady bits – not the stuff that feminists would gleefully shave their legs over.
By SARA FAITH ALTERMAN  |  March 19, 2009
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Dance, Monkey: Jon Rineman

We put a comic on the hot seat. This week’s victim . . .
I like to take my time surveying the voting booths, slowly walking past each one for about 20 minutes. Then I pick one, say, “Yes. This is the one. This will do."  
By SARA FAITH ALTERMAN  |  October 29, 2008
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Afterglow

Rachel Whiteread’s dollhouse village at the MFA, Erwin Redl’s red-light district at Emerson
The installation is a bit of a shift for Whiteread, who’s best known for making plaster, rubber, resin, or concrete casts of old used mattresses, a staircase, the entire interior of rooms.  
By GREG COOK  |  October 27, 2008
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Spelling lessons

Campus witches have no brooms, no bleeding goats. Just cookies. Sorry.
A fair number of college students are turning to Wicca for spiritual identity.  
By SARA FAITH ALTERMAN  |  October 31, 2008
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Literary import

Ploughshares lands a new editor
One of the first things Ladette Randolph tells me is that she’s a fifth-generation Nebraskan, that her great-great grandparents settled there, that the landscape there, particularly in the western part of the state, where her novel is set, is “like being in the middle of the ocean — that kind of erasure.”
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  September 24, 2008

The Muzzle Awards: Collegiate Division

Stamping out free speech in academia
Stamping out free speech in academia
By HARVEY SILVERGLATE  |  June 25, 2008
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Small presses

Big ideas, and a match made in heaven
Rose Metal Press focuses on unique, non-traditional literary forms such as flash fiction, prose poetry, or novels-in-verse.
By DEIRDRE FULTON  |  June 11, 2008
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Blouse party

White Williams stops by Urban Outfitters
Joe Williams, the waify mastermind, is childlike in performance, all long eyelashes and restless feet.
By CAITLIN E. CURRAN  |  May 27, 2008
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Mexico City abuzz with Beantowners

A report from the International Mexico City Festival of Contemporary Cinema
Where’s New York?  Where’s LA?
By GERALD PEARY  |  April 07, 2008
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Film @ Noir

Opening night at the Boston Underground Film Festival
“It’s called The Wizard of Gore, it’s with the Suicide Girls in it. What did you fuckin’ expect?!”
By JIM SULLIVAN  |  March 24, 2008

Portland scene report: March 14, 2008

Sibilance starts now
An interesting Web site to check out in general if you’re into indie music. And who isn’t? No one reading “Sibilance,” we’re sure.
By PORTLAND PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF  |  March 12, 2008
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Meet and greet

Boston's rock n' roll social
To be a fly on the wall was, well, quite a buzz.
By STEVEN LEE BEEBER  |  November 19, 2007
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Deadbeat universities

It’s time for higher education to pay its fair share of city costs. Plus, how to improve the Boston City Council.
No college should be allowed to cry poverty to get out of PILOT anymore.
By EDITORIAL  |  November 14, 2007
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Come out, come out, wherever you are

GLBT students get by with a little help from EAGLE, BGLTSA, BAGELS, GAMIT, QWILLTS, GABLES, and NUBiLAGA
What if I’d been a guy in a Ren Faire dress?
By SARA FAITH ALTERMAN  |  October 25, 2007
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Eraser heads

Overzealous deans at Emerson literally make students’ rights disappear
What happened to the student bill of rights?
By HARVEY SILVERGLATE AND JAMES F. TIERNEY  |  October 25, 2007
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Punch lines

Eddie Brill and the Boston Comedy Festival
A tide of laughter breaks over comedian Eddie Brill as his high-speed spiel about an antic bar pick-up recounted in a string of clichés halts.
By TED DROZDOWSKI  |  October 01, 2007
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Open city

The 2007 Toronto Film Festival
In the pioneering early-’80s days of the Toronto Film Festival, the audience actually rose before movie showings for a canned recording of “God Save the Queen.”
By GERALD PEARY  |  September 18, 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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School for scandal

An Emerson College dean becomes the first Boston casualty of the national student-loan fiasco
Lending institutions have been buying the favor of sticky-fingered college administrators for some time now.
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN  |  August 27, 2008
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Daddy’s girl

Mabou Mines looks into James Joyce’s daughter
Repressed, talented women lurk in the background of Western cultural history.
By IRIS FANGER  |  June 05, 2007
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Tinseltown East

Boston was once a breeding ground for movie big-wigs. Now, Emerson College tries to preserve its ghosts.
Looking at the photographs now, it’s hard to believe it ever existed.
By MIKE MILIARD  |  May 30, 2007
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Boston music news: June 1, 2007

Notes on Dinosaur Jr.'s gig at Urban Outfitters
Not only have the reunited J. Mascis/Lou Barlow Dinosaur Jr. just released a new album, they’re coming to town.
By JIM SULLIVAN  |  May 29, 2007
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Culture war games

Karen Finley moves on, ‘It’s Alive’ goes after bio-tech, ‘Personal Computer’ gets Webby
Karen Finley sat at the edge of the stage of Emerson College’s Cutler Majestic Theatre last week and spoke about a woman who got off on war.
By GREG COOK  |  March 27, 2007

Christians and Lions, 'Gimme Diction'

From More Songs for Dreamsleepers & the Very Awake
From More Songs for Dreamsleepers & the Very Awake
By BOSTON PHOENIX VIDEO  |  March 09, 2007
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Rule, Britannicus?

American Repertory Theatre does rare racine
The ruler of the mightiest nation in the world has begun to appreciate his power.
By IRIS FANGER  |  January 09, 2007

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