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Photos: Boston in the 70s: Part Six

Harvard Square from the Boston Phoenix's archives
Photos of Harvard Square from the Boston Phoenix's archives
By PHOENIX STAFF  |  September 16, 2009

Equal scary people

Should foreigners -- like folks from NH -- vote in Maine?
I have nothing against people who've had the misfortune of being born in other nations. Unless they're from Chad.
By AL DIAMON  |  April 08, 2009
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East meets West

'Shôwa' at the MFA, and Mrs. Gardner's Asian tour
The paintings in "Shôwa Sophistication" at the Museum of Fine Arts are like the dreamiest travel posters you've ever seen.
By GREG COOK  |  March 24, 2009
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Digital language at the PRC

"Syntax," at Boston University's Photographic Resource Center
How important would you say Ansel Adams is to the modern trends of digital art? If your first inclination is to answer, "Not at all," you're probably right.
By EVAN J. GARZA  |  March 11, 2009
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Obamastrology

Astrological musings on our next President and other political movers and shakers
Another Leo president. That's what we're getting with Barack Obama, and it's even good news on an astrological level.
By SYMBOLINE DAI  |  December 30, 2008
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Styrofoam sorcery

Tara Donovan's mad-scientist magic invades the ICA
They seem like something dreamed up by a mad-scientist Martha Stewart tinkering in her cellar late at night.  
By GREG COOK  |  October 22, 2008
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World War III

The Big Hurt: Boy George vs. America; Coldplay vs. some dude; 50 Cent vs. chalupas
Devastating news: Boy George has been denied entry to the United States!
By DAVID THORPE  |  June 30, 2008
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Crafty retailing

Making it by making stuff
Keara Sexton was born to make stuff.
By SHARON STEEL  |  April 03, 2008
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Tazer rock

The rapid rise of Pretty & Nice
There’s a lot about Pretty & Nice that’s surprising.
By WILL SPITZ  |  September 04, 2008
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Ring of fire

The deadbeat FBI fails to pay its phone bills and jeopardizes its wiretapping program
An ugly squabble between the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the nation’s biggest phone companies has, in one nasty blow, recast the image of all the entities involved.
By HARVEY SILVERGLATE  |  January 23, 2008
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Clan bake

Trinity looks inside Memory House
Memory Lane is a blocked road for high-school senior Katia, who’s asked to pound on the barricade for a college-application essay that must be postmarked by midnight tonight, New Year’s Eve.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  December 12, 2007
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Nothing's sacred

Biting art at AIB
“I’ve been called anti-woman, a racist, anti-Semitic, anti-American, you name it!”
By SHARON STEEL  |  September 05, 2007
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Good eatin’

Barbara Kingsolver grows her own
In 2005, author Barbara Kingsolver moved her family from Tucson to a farm in Virginia to embark on a year-long experiment of returning to nature.
By DEIRDRE FULTON  |  June 27, 2007
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In the Land of Women

A tidy suburban melodrama
If Mrs. Robinson had been played by Martha Stewart and had suffered breast cancer, The Graduate might have played out like In the Land of Women .
By TOM MEEK  |  April 18, 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
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Getting Justice back on track

Freedom Watch
There’s been more than a little political posturing over the latest Bush-administration scandal.
By HARVEY SILVERGLATE  |  March 21, 2007
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Puccini For Beginners

Name-dropping, self-analysis, revelatory strangers...
More like Woody Allen for beginners.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  February 07, 2007
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You say 'bizarre'

 I say 'bazaar'
I stood in front of the Plain Mabel   table for a full five minutes, gripping a super-soft zipper pouch fashioned out of fabric that featured a pink bunny rabbit hunting for lady bugs, deliberating.
By SHARON STEEL  |  December 21, 2006
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Family ghosts

Suzanne Berne's holiday tale
In her third novel, Newton writer Suzanne Berne plumbs the rich possibilities of a few juicy literary ingredients.
By JULIA HANNA  |  November 28, 2006
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Sports blotter: special Baghdad edition

A tale of Little League corruption most foul
Historical aside to the rain-soaked folks of New England: the Blotter this week comes to you from the scorching climes of pad 14 in Camp Liberty, Iraq, where I am embedded with the 615th MP “Bloodhounds” on assignment for Rolling Stone .
By MATT TAIBBI  |  May 22, 2006
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Finley provocatively pairs George and Martha

Culture watch
In the world according to Karen Finley, George W. Bush’s Oedipal complex propelled the US invasion of Iraq, and the infantile president carries on an imagined long-running affair with domestic diva Martha Stewart.
By IAN DONNIS  |  April 12, 2006

Don’t get too hip

Politics and other mistakes
Officials at the Maine Department of Agriculture and Assorted Other Kultures are still reeling from the news that TV celebrity Homer Simpson has endorsed Maine potatoes.
By AL DIAMON  |  March 08, 2006
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Weld’s college try

An obscure school in Kentucky may cost Bill Weld an election — and maybe more
Bill Weld has hit rocky shoals in his attempt to become the first person since Sam Houston to get elected governor of two states.
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN AND HARVEY SILVERGLATE  |  February 18, 2006
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Attack of the 50-foot Oprah

Why America’s most powerful celebrity should be more feared than loved
David Letterman is by no means the first one to realize that the road to success — or forgiveness — entails planting a kiss somewhere on Oprah’s oft-fluctuating anatomy.
By MARK JURKOWITZ  |  February 09, 2006

CBS wins Wednesday viewers race with crime shows

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - CBS was hot to trot Wednesday with strong showings from dramas "Criminal Minds" and "CSI: NY."
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - CBS was hot to trot Wednesday with strong showings from dramas "Criminal Minds" and "CSI: NY."
By Mike Smith  |  December 18, 2005

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