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The Pythons' Gonzo Gospel

Jesus never had a chance
The scene is familiar: the vast blue sky, the expanses of sand, and, atop a distant hill, Jesus delivers the Sermon on the Mount to a rapt throng. But on the fringes of the crowd, His listeners behave like rowdies at a rock concert, yelling at one another and brawling until no one can hear the Savior's words. What's that He said? Blessed are the cheesemakers?
By STEPHEN SCHIFF  |  October 05, 2009
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Tormenting Teddy

Republicans threaten Kennedy reign
After 32 years in the US Senate, Ted Kennedy remains a force to be reckoned with, both for his legendary family history and his considerable accomplishments.
By BOSTON PHOENIX STAFF  |  August 26, 2009
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The odd couple

Jesse Gallagher meets Biff Rose
Apollo Sunshine's Jesse Gallagher recently announced that Biff Rose would be traveling from the Big Easy for a rare, one-night-only show this Wednesday at the cozy Lily Pad.
By MATT PARISH  |  July 10, 2009
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Hail, Deer Tick!

The Providence rockers are poised for a breakthrough with Born On Flag Day
Heady days for Deer Tick.
By DAVID SCHARFENBERG  |  June 17, 2009
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The long good-byes

Nine Inch Nails and Jane's Addiction, live at the Comcast Center, June 3, 2009
Some time in the late 90s, Trent Reznor holed himself up in a house near the ocean. Ostensibly, he was there to write some music. And while he did use that time to begin piecing together some of the songs that would become Nine Inch Nails's 1999 double-album The Fragile , Reznor.
By RYAN STEWART  |  June 04, 2009
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Rock n' Roll saves the day

'Inappropriate Covers' at Brown's Bell Gallery
One way to keep dry, academic art theorizing from getting too, well, dry and academic is to inject some rock and roll.
By GREG COOK  |  May 06, 2009
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Another damn study

Timothy Jay, PhD, discusses words his colleagues won't
Some people argue that scholarly inquiry about profanity is pointless, and even laughable.
By CHRIS FARAONE  |  April 13, 2009
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Medicine men

Two Boston poets use their art for the good of the tribe
What if a poem had the power to heal loneliness?
By JAMES PARKER  |  November 28, 2008
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California’s shame

Equal marriage rights suffers a setback, but there is hope. Plus, young voters.
The politics of division as practiced by lame-duck president George W. Bush at the connivance of his onetime Svengali Karl Rove are not dead.
By EDITORIAL  |  November 24, 2008
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A smoker’s tale

Will Self’s The Butt
Somehow one is surprised — if one is a semi-conscious literary journalist like me — by the discovery that Will Self has continued to produce books.  
By JAMES PARKER  |  November 26, 2008
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Sex on wheels

My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult just never get old
Subcultures all need their touchstones: entities that over time assume the stature of full-fledged institutions.
By BARRY THOMPSON  |  September 16, 2008
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Holy roller

Marilynne Robinson’s Home
Marilynne Robinson’s Home is haunted.
By DANA KLETTER  |  September 09, 2008
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The truth is up there

Clouds, sun dogs, and the dream of an atmospheric education . . . How one former TV reporter brought his sky gospel to the people
The sky’s on the move again, he can feel it.
By JAMES PARKER  |  August 22, 2008
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Tricky Dick

Philip K. Dick's second Library of America volume
The Philip K. Dick phenomenon might be petering out.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  July 28, 2008
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Slideshow: Tattoo you

Some of Boston's best tattoos
Inspired by the Peabody Essex Museum’s current exhibition on Maori tattoos, we raised a call to adventurously inked souls in Boston.
By PHOENIX STAFF  |  July 25, 2008
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Prodigy

H.N.I.C. Pt 2 | AAC
By the time this goes to press, Prodigy will be roughly 10 books and 2000 push-ups deep into the three-and-change prison term he picked up last year for illegal gun possession.
By MARTÍN CABALLERO  |  April 22, 2008
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Behind the immigration debate

Stella Carrera helps newcomers navigate a rigid bureaucracy
Over the desk in Stella Carrera’s cubicle are a few ceramic angels, a colorful bundle of rosary beads, and a cartoon of a fat, lazy American watching a televised protest for immigrants’ rights.
By AMY LITTLEFIELD  |  April 02, 2008
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Spitzer screws himself

Wandering NY governor annihilates a once-promising political career
In times of personal hardship and anguish, Phillipe + Jorge are always the first to offer our understanding and consolation to the aggrieved.
By PHILLIPE AND JORGE  |  March 12, 2008
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Mangum's opus

Neutral Milk Hotel's epic Aeroplane
This article originally appeared in the March 5, 1998 issue of the Boston Phoenix.
By CARLY CARIOLI  |  March 07, 2008
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‘A miracle!’

Emmanuel’s memorial for Craig Smith, plus Russell Sherman’s Bach, the Royal Concertgebouw, and Handel’s Semele
“Deep, tough, devout — and in church! It’s a miracle!”
By LLOYD SCHWARTZ  |  February 05, 2008
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Dance, monkey: Micah Sherman

We put a comic on the hot seat. This week's victim...
Isn’t your name Sara? Get some help, Sara.
By SARA FAITH ALTERMAN  |  January 02, 2008
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Silver linings on a dark screen

Film: 2007 in review
The best films of 2007 hold their own when it comes to despair, evil, and treachery.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  December 18, 2007

Sweet reads

Books: 2007 in review
Here, listed alphabetically by author, are 10 of the best works of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry the Phoenix wrote about in 2007.
By JON GARELICK  |  December 17, 2007
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The passion of the candidate

Romney’s religion speech was aimed at Christian conservatives, but his model wasn’t JFK — it was Mel Gibson
Pity Mitt Romney, the object of religious persecution, forced to make a public speech confronting the antagonistic forces that have kept his candidacy down by attacking his faith.
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN  |  December 12, 2007
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Yule appeal

Aimee Mann’s Christmas show hits the road
Aimee Mann has written many songs about heroin addiction so it’s pretty remarkable — even comic — that she launched a Christmas variety show last year.
By COLE HADDON  |  December 10, 2007
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Acoustic mainline

Spiritualized at the Museum of Fine Arts, November 19, 2007
Jason Pierce has made a clear connection between the addict’s desire to reach a higher plane and the blues/gospel singer’s quest for the very same.
By MATT ASHARE  |  December 09, 2007
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Denis Johnson’s war

Vietnam in Tree of Smoke
Denis Johnson has given us so many maimed and suffering souls in the past 25 years, he could fill a trauma ward.
By JOHN FREEMAN  |  November 06, 2007
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Buzz words

TV’s ‘A’ star makes a bee movie
I’ve had several brushes with Jerry Seinfeld.
By LLOYD SCHWARTZ  |  October 31, 2007
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Comics for Christ

Evangelicals are speaking in bubbles — and fighting God’s war on pop culture
Young Laurel Templeton spends her summer vacation “kidnapped by five cyborg flies and shrunk down to insect size so [she can] travel back in time with them to save the world from an evil spider.” You know, typical stuff.
By DEIRDRE FULTON  |  October 10, 2007
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Life is a highway

And Devil's Elbow is in the way
The fates of several Devil’s Elbow residents hang on the fate of an entrance ramp-to-be.
By MEGAN GRUMBLING  |  August 01, 2007

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