If at first you don’t get a taxpayer-funded pension, try, try again
Now here’s a shocker: the Providence Retirement Board made a stupid decision. My heavens!
By PHILLIPE AND JORGE | August 20, 2008

Newsman takes a walk rather than embrace tabloid lexicon
Jim "Opie" Hummel has been among the handful of local wild and crazy reporters who consistently come up with solid, aggressively pursued, and flashy stories.
By PHILIPPE + JORGE | August 06, 2008

A User’s Guide to AltCom 2008

By MIKE MILIARD | May 07, 2008

Native Portlander makes good at Sundance

Local film
Don’t watch The Execution of Solomon Harris expecting a treatise about the death penalty.
By DEIRDRE FULTON | March 06, 2008

The Big Hurt: Fire sales

Plus, this week in tedious headlines
The world’s largest collection of recorded music has gone up for auction on eBay with a starting bid of $3 million.
By DAVID THORPE | March 04, 2008

Fool's Gold

Ever shirtless, ever silly
As for Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson, they should have a sit-down with their agents.
By TOM MEEK | February 13, 2008

Who I am

Paris speaks
She answers my questions in a Valley Girl vixen voice, with a languid aplomb that characterizes the way she approaches life.
By SHARON STEEL | February 13, 2008

The Estate’s first

Paris Hilton helps celebrate a local anniversary
She’s the 21st century’s best example of someone who’s famous for being famous, but she’s also a good sport and, up close and semi-personal, kind of sweet.
By JIM SULLIVAN | February 11, 2008

The Hottie and the Nottie

Total makeover madness
It’s a shame you can’t auto-tune acting talent the same way you can manufacture vocals in the recording studio.
By SHARON STEEL | February 06, 2008

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