Lenny Bruce

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C Is For . . .?

9/4/2008 5:02:19 AM

Source: New York Post

A Kaddish for Carlin

7/2/2008 3:18:36 PM

Source: New Jersey Jewish News

Chabad influence

1/23/2008 4:42:33 PM

Source: New Jersey Jewish News

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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

Unauthorized!

Axl Rose, Albert Goldman, and the renegade art of rock biography
I think it may have been sometime in the 1970s that the term “unauthorized” became sort of cool.
By JAMES PARKER | February 15, 2008

Bittersweet Lenny’s R.I.P.A.

Say what it wants in a big way
“The role of a comedian,” said the late Lenny Bruce, is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every 15 seconds.”
By MIKE MILIARD | October 03, 2007

Rap Hashanah

An old school new year
The Boston Jewish Music Connection kicked off the Jewish New Year not with a kegger or kippers but with a freestyle showdown of Jewish rappers.
By STEVEN LEE BEEBER | September 24, 2007

Dirty politics

Has the Right Wing hijacked raunch?
The last resort of the true patriot is a fart joke.
By PETER KEOUGH | July 27, 2007

Off the press!

My life and good times in alternative journalism
I can write the alternative press’s history — or one passably passionate version of it — because the institution’s trajectory matches my own.
By CLIF GARBODEN | November 15, 2006

Just Visting

An occasional shout-out from people passing through town
What's the difference between Mexican and American comedy?
By MARK OSTOW | November 08, 2006

Who you callin’ a punk?

Down by law
Jamaica Plain–based freelancer and Allston-Brighton Community Development Corporation staffer Steven Lee Beeber was waiting for a plane at the airport a number of years ago when his girlfriend let out a gasp.
By IAN SANDS | November 01, 2006

Class acts

Stan Strickland , Thom Pain (based on nothing) , and Augusta
Stan Strickland doesn’t play an instrument; he is an instrument.
By CAROLYN CLAY | October 03, 2006

Flashbacks: June 9, 2006

The Boston Phoenix has been covering the trends and events that shape our times since 1966.
These selections, culled from our back files, were compiled by Chris Brook and Sam MacLaughlin.
By EDITORIAL | June 07, 2006

Steely man

Donald Fagen takes a solo shot
For a rock band who wrote songs about prostitutes, Eastern gurus, pedophilia, heroin, niece lust, Charlie Parker, and a post-apocalyptic world, Steely Dan have always had something akin to the last laugh.
By KEN MICALLEF | March 09, 2006