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High-powered hybrid

Roz Raskin and the Rice Cakes set sail on  The Friend Ship
"It's pretty much impossible for us to have a predictable sound," said Rosalind Raskin earlier this week while discussing The Friend Ship (Moose Proof Records), the full-length debut from Roz Raskin and the Rice Cakes ( MySpace.com/RozRaskin ).
By CHRIS CONTI  |  August 18, 2009
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Hot Toddy

YouTube mystery to go live in Portland
The uncredited, audio-only, blank-screen video debuted on YouTube in October 2007, but didn't start getting known until the middle of last year. Its popularity has grown steadily since: the original posting still hasn't topped even 10,000 views — and yet, it seems everybody's heard it by now. Soon, you might get to see it performed live.
By RICK WORMWOOD  |  July 15, 2009

Earth Hour

City will participate — what will you be doing?
At 8:30 pm this Saturday, the world will go dark. Or so we hope.
By DEIRDRE FULTON  |  March 25, 2009
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He's number three

How seriously should Boston take long-shot mayoral candidate Kevin McCrea?
The conditions seem perfect for  Kevin McCrea's latest YouTube video : warm for February, reasonably sunny, no sonic competition from nearby construction.
By ADAM REILLY  |  March 19, 2009
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Master P's Theater

Local video editor Paul Proulx has built a following by paying homage to Hollywood's coolest directors. So why is YouTube all up in his grill?
"It's quite simple, really," Dr. Branom tells Alex DeLarge in A Clockwork Orange . "We're just going to show you some films."  
By MIKE MILIARD  |  February 20, 2009
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The recording industry vs. free speech

This past week, US District Judge Nancy Gertner granted the industry's request to postpone the trial, originally scheduled to begin January 22, until February 24.
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By KYLE SMEALLIE AND HARVEY SILVERGLATE  |  February 09, 2009
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The Big Hurt: Dare to meme

Apologies in advance for the YouTube clip of 2009
Apologies in advance for the YouTube clip of 2009
By DAVID THORPE  |  January 28, 2009
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What exactly is the opera experience?

Multi-media score
"There's this completely wrong stereotype about opera," says Roxanna Myhrum of the Boston Opera Collaborative.
By SARA FAITH ALTERMAN  |  January 23, 2009
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Fleecing, stealing, shilling, and sucking with impunity

The Big Hurt: Music news in brief
Over the busy holiday season, a tremendous wealth of worthless music-news tidbits slipped through the cracks, unnoticed by a lethargic, goose-sated America.
By DAVID THORPE  |  January 06, 2009
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Wright stuff

The Comedy Hall of Fame picks a winner
The Comedy Hall of Fame picks a winner
By SARA FAITH ALTERMAN  |  December 12, 2008
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Robby Roadsteamer's good intentions

The Greater Boston Alternative-Comedy Festival
"He's beyond passionate — it's almost to the brink of sanity with him."
By MIKE MILIARD  |  December 12, 2008
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The Big Hurt: The YouTube anime mystery

What the hell is wrong with the Internet? Thorpe utterly fails to investigate . . .
YouTube is now so shockingly complete in its catalogue of illegally uploaded music that it's like a cheap jukebox that plays every song, ever.
By DAVID THORPE  |  December 02, 2008
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Scattered after-thoughts

Post-Election
With the Phoenix going to press on Tuesday evening (before most election results came in), I struggled to come up with ways to be relevant on the morning after.
By DEIRDRE FULTON  |  November 05, 2008
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Another Bush lie

Online history lesson
Online history lesson
By JULIA RAPPAPORT  |  October 31, 2008
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Scientific slowdown

Warp-speed photography
In the industrial heart of South Boston, behind an unassuming door labeled “Time Warp,” a man slices eggs, tomatoes, and tatami mats at high speed with a samurai sword on a recent Saturday afternoon.  
By CASSANDRA LANDRY  |  October 22, 2008
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Battling Scientology

Anonymous's Gregg Housh is committed to bringing down the Church of Scientology. Is he a gadfly or a goon?
In a world wracked with uncertainty, there is at least one thing you can bet on: pick a fight with the Church of Scientology, and its leaders will fight back — always with vigor, often with a vengeance, and sometimes with litigation that can be long and costly.  
By CHRIS FARAONE  |  October 23, 2008
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True dat?

Rory O’Connor ponders  the future of journalistic trust at Harvard
Rory O’Connor’s timing couldn’t be much better.
By ADAM REILLY  |  September 25, 2008
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Bangkok Dangerous

Like a Nine Inch Nails video in need of trimming for YouTube
For genre fare Hollywood has long turned to Asia for a creative spark.
By TOM MEEK  |  September 09, 2008
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Visions from Lilliput

The rise of the minisode
In a sense, every successful portmanteau word represents a narrow escape.
By JAMES PARKER  |  July 28, 2008
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Gimme some truth

In praise of Ultimate Fighting
Can it be a coincidence, I ask rhetorically, that we have all of a sudden become very interested in watching highly trained men smack the shit out of each other?
By JAMES PARKER  |  June 25, 2008
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Funny business

As the AltCom Festival arrives at the Somerville Theatre, we look at the roots of the indie comedy boom.
“Ashlee Simpson’s new album sold so poorly,” snorted the headline on Yahoo! this past week, that “it was beaten by a comedy album.”
By MIKE MILIARD  |  May 08, 2008

Hot and cold

A revved-up Bang Camaro and techno Freezepop lead the way
Bands and artists do have a way of coming and going here in Boston.
By MATT ASHARE  |  May 07, 2008
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Pie-tossers renew free speech debate at Brown

Uncivil liberties
“A lot of people are talking about whether this was outrageous, or justified, or laudable, or totalitarian.”
By ARIEL WERNER  |  April 30, 2008
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LOL in the family

Post-roflcon antics at the East
Rick Rolling made real before our eyes? This truly was a special night.
By CAITLIN E. CURRAN  |  April 29, 2008
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Polar excess

The brutal but beautiful Ikaruga
Warning: if you’re the type to scream profanities and toss controllers when a game is too difficult, you’ll want to give Ikaruga a wide berth.
By MITCH KRPATA  |  April 28, 2008
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The bong show

Massachusetts lawmakers are pushing to criminalize Salvia. Is this a test-run for marijuana-law reform?
Some state legislators are using the flawed logic of prohibition to try to outlaw another plant they fear kids are using as a legal substitute for pot.
By JAMES TIERNEY  |  April 23, 2008
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Clips ahoy

The treasures of Hulu.com
This past February, Tina Fey returned to host Saturday Night Live and announced, in mock triumph, that the Writers Guild of America had struck a deal with the studios that would pay them for on-line content.
By MIKE MILIARD  |  April 22, 2008
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No advil, no booze

Sampling the Frozen Food Section
...Musing on science fiction, existentialism, and stalker ex-husbands.
By BEN WESTHOFF  |  February 05, 2008
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Youth in the booth

The frat party at the Electoral College may be over . So why are the kids still turning out?
Sometime since 1976 — just four years after 18 year olds were granted the right to vote but decided they’d rather not — the youth movement has become a joke.
By VANESSA CZARNECKI  |  January 30, 2008
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Pop in a hard place

Black Dice’s Load Blown
The norms Black Dice resist are significant and strong and worth resisting.
By NICK SYLVESTER  |  December 16, 2008

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