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Review: Good Hair

Chris Rock will make your head itch to know more
According to Chris Rock, this documentary directed by Jeff Stilson was born when his young daughter asked him: “Daddy, how come I don’t have good hair?”
By SHAULA CLARK  |  October 26, 2009

Ask the Black woman: 'Good Hair' edition

Diverse City
Time to don the official robe and mantle of Black Representative, and answer a question of "blackness."
By SHAY STEWART-BOULEY  |  October 14, 2009
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Review: Coco Before Chanel

Bio-pic doesn't quite wear well enough
Based on the book by Edmonde Charles-Roux, Anne Fontaine's soaper of a bio-pic traces the fashion icon's life before the perfume and the bouclé suits.
By ALICIA POTTER  |  September 30, 2009
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The digerarti

 ‘Pixilerations’ plugs in Providence art
Strapped into Erik Conrad’s electronic vest, I stood waiting for the personal digital assistant, attached by a wire to the outfit, to make a GPS connection.
By GREG COOK  |  October 02, 2009
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Review: The Walkmen at Middle East

 The Walkmen, live at Middle East downstairs on September 18, 2009
It was strange to see the sparse instrumentation from which NYC’s The Walkmen drew their atmospheric, honey-dipped sound last Friday at the Middle East.
By DAVID BOFFA  |  September 23, 2009
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Victorian jewel

A fictional setting that never fades
What price beauty? That's the question lovely Grace Hammer has to answer as her world begins to fall apart.
By CLEA SIMON  |  September 09, 2009
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West coasting

Is Project Runway walking in circles?
As I watched this season's 16 Project Runway hopefuls squinting into the setting sun during their champagne reception atop the Title Guarantee Building in Los Angeles, it was hard not to view the scene as a sad little metaphor for the state of the show. What's supposed to feel like the beginning of something new sure looks a lot more like the end of something old.
By MICHAEL BRODEUR  |  August 26, 2009
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Widow's peak?

Failure
Anne gave me a haircut
By KARL STEVENS  |  August 26, 2009
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Back-to-school supplies

What you won't find on your syllabus
After a summer that started with a monsoon and coasted into its final lap with a heat wave, when we talked about Wilco, celebrity deaths, and Shakespeare in the park, when we feared tasers and crime sprees, and we consumed Mexican food and ice cream, we're ready to make the transition into fall.
By DEIRDRE FULTON  |  August 26, 2009
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Musical power

MSMT's lively Drowsy Chaperone
The Man in the Chair (Charles Abbott) is a man of a certain age who wears both a sweater vest and a cardigan, feels pangs of a "non-specific sadness," and harbors an abiding nostalgia for the musical theater of yesteryear.
By MEGAN GRUMBLING  |  August 19, 2009
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IndieArts' sensory overload

Taking it to the streets
If Providence is to become the "Creative Capital" of Mayor Cicilline's latest marketing campaign, it will take more than a few orange P's affixed to politicians' lapels and plastered on signs about town.
By DAVID SCHARFENBERG  |  July 15, 2009

Review: Big Meat Hammer at Geno's Rock Club

Music Seen
On my way to the club, I walked hunched in the drizzle behind a fellow in a leather jacket with white paint on the back: "Punks not dead." I pondered this idea and assumed we were heading to the same place, only to watch him pass by Geno's without a glance.
By CHAD CHAMBERLAIN  |  July 01, 2009
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The Big Hurt: Durst pantsed, Michaels smooshed

Music news in brief
"This isn't a reunion, this is a comeback," quibbled the red-hatted irrelephant in a BBC interview.
By DAVID THORPE  |  June 23, 2009
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Tiga | Ciao!

Last Gang (2009)
This Montreal-based electro-house dude made his name with slyly straight-faced covers of Nelly's "Hot in Herre" and Corey Hart's "Sunglasses at Night," and on his second studio disc, he doesn't appear hugely concerned that his original material should sound all that original.
By MIKAEL WOOD  |  June 15, 2009

Hippies and pre-teens and dating; Oh my!

Dr. Lovemonkey answers your questions
I'm planning to attend a rally for social and economic justice soon and I'm wondering what to wear.
By DR. LOVEMONKEY  |  June 03, 2009

Dr. Lovemonkey: Cautionary Tales

Dr. Lovemonkey answers your questions
I've been going out with this guy at work for about four months and, although I love him dearly, he seems distant while we are at work.
By DR. LOVEMONKEY  |  April 22, 2009
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Review: Valentino: The Last Emperor

The king of fashion
In 2008, Italian fashion designer Valentino Garavani stepped down from a spectacular 45-year career that had culminated in a wildly opulent retrospective exhibit in Rome.
By SHAULA CLARK  |  April 22, 2009
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Meant to be

The Books leave (almost) nothing to chance
The Books are, more and more, making their work something you can see.
By MICHAEL BRODEUR  |  April 07, 2009

12. Robert Smith

INCURABLE
The bloated goth frontman is well on his way to becoming the Leslie West of alternative rock. Most of the Cure’s ’80s contemporaries have updated their stage looks to reflect the inevitable processes that time, gravity, and tight-pantsed young hipsters eventually impose on us all. Not Smith: he’s still smearing on the makeup like Bette Davis after her fifth cocktail, and the mangy hair that used to look batty, cool, and aloof now makes him a dead-ringer for Michael Keaton in Beetlejuice . In the name of Pitchfork, please make it stop.
By Boston Phoenix Staff  |  March 25, 2009

18. Joe the Plumber

PLUNGEBOB DUMBPANTS
An overnight sensation in unsexiness, this shiny skulled, pea-brained blue-collar worker has reverse-Midas powers: everything this faker touches — from the McCain campaign to Pajamas Media — turns into a substance that folks in his profession unhappily know all too much about. Of course, as was pointed out numerous times during the campaign but which still amuses, his name is not really Joe (he’s Samuel Wurzelbacher) and he is not registered to operate as a plumber in his home state of Ohio, which means that, er, he isn’t actually a plumber.  
By Boston Phoenix Staff  |  March 25, 2009

5. Rod Blagojevich

PAY-ROD
An Illinois governor is alleged to have put a vacant US Senate seat up for sale? We’re shocked, shocked . In his defense, could his mind have been controlled by that brown-furred, Tribble-looking mammal that’s been sucking on his scalp for the past 20 years? Seriously, what the hell is that thing on his head? And why aren’t they both in jail yet?
By Boston Phoenix Staff  |  March 24, 2009

72. MC Frontalot

BIG NERD
Now that dweebitude is all the rage in mainstream circles (see: the popularity of Marvel comics movies, video-game sales, etc.), all that separates real geeks like nerdcore hip-hop king MC Frontalot from everybody else are his unfortunate accessories. And his shitty rapping.
By Boston Phoenix Staff  |  March 25, 2009

25. DUSTIN PEDROIA AND KEVIN YOUKILIS

INFIELD NOT-SO-FLY RULE
We love us some Sox — we can see the majestic green of Fenway’s stadium walls from all our Phoenix restrooms, and it just gets our hearts afluttering. That is, until we contemplate the mugs of the one-two combo of Youkilis and Pedroia. Don’t misunderstand us — they’re good guys (though Youk seems to have an eensy-weensy anger-management issue) — but their visages are perhaps better suited to a sport like football, where one’s entire face is sheathed in a helmet.    
By Boston Phoenix Staff  |  March 25, 2009

42. Matthew Broderick

UNSEXY AND THE CITY
People used to ask us: “Hey, why not do an ‘Unsexiest Women’ list?” Our answer has always been: “Unsexiest Men” is funny; “Unsexiest Women” is just mean. Try telling that to the douchebags at Maxim , though, who, after we christened our initial Unsexiest annual list, went ahead and named Sarah Jessica Parker the world’s unsexiest lady. We mention this as a prelude to the obvious, so you don’t get it twisted: Broderick isn’t on our list because he married into the franchise — with the pudge and the floppy coif, we all know who wears the Unsexiest pants in that family.  
By Boston Phoenix Staff  |  March 25, 2009
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Fanboys

As endearingly grungy and careworn as the Mos Eisley cantina in the original, pre-digitized, puppets-and-all 1977 print of Star Wars
Bonus points to director Kyle Newman for upping Kristen Bell's already solid geek cred (and for squeezing her into Princess Leia's gold bikini).
By GARY SUSMAN  |  February 19, 2009
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Review: Afro Samurai

Beautiful bloodbath
Afro Samurai , which is based on the anime of the same title, follows Afro on his quest to find the Number Two headband.
By MADDY MYERS  |  February 17, 2009
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Good news, bad news

Fear and loathing? Or happy days? The only thing we know for sure about the coming year is that we're all in this together.
It will be the best of times. Or, perhaps, it will be the worst.
By MIKE MILIARD  |  December 30, 2008

Buy Nothing Day: A good cause for tough times

Consumerism
During the 11 previous years in which Buy Nothing Day has been staged in Rhode Island, there have been economic downturns and times when the national economy was humming.
By IAN DONNIS  |  November 25, 2008
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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
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I’ve Loved You So Long

A crass and pretentious soap opera
So which portrayal of a victimized woman will win an Oscar this year?  
By PETER KEOUGH  |  November 04, 2008

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