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Twitheads

Is it time to dial down journalism’s latest fad?
Is Twitter bad for journalism?
By ADAM REILLY | September 25, 2008

Films with a full agenda
With pundits already reading political significance into summer blockbusters like The Dark Knight (“Is Batman a stand-in for George Bush? Discuss.”), the meatier movies of fall arrive not a moment too soon.
By PETER KEOUGH | September 11, 2008

Mad men

Orfeo’s Look Back in Anger; WHAT’s What the Butler Saw
Audiences must have developed shock absorbers over the course of the past 50 years.
By CAROLYN CLAY | June 24, 2008

Faux and Fabulous

Kenneth Jay Lane’s classy costume jewelry at the RISD Museum
Lane seems forever a child of the ’60s: psychedelia, India, and all that.
By GREG COOK | October 30, 2007

Can Britney rise again?

It’s tough to be a celebrity on the skids, but even a ‘ticking time-bomb’ can stage a convincing comeback
The first movie star was a woman named Florence Lawrence.
By SHARON STEEL | October 18, 2007

I stalked Di

Paparazzi were the first to be blamed for the death of the Princess of Wales. My (brief) life as a snapper.
This article originally appeared in the September 5, 1997 issue of the Boston Phoenix.
By JASON GAY | September 10, 2007

Cooking with Joe

Aerosmith’s lead guitarist has grill, will travel
Some rock stars travel with personal chefs. Joe Perry brings a grill — a Weber.
By MATT ASHARE | September 04, 2007

Salman speaks

Rushdie's new novel, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, is a work of epic ambition that fuses myth with rock-and-roll reality
This article originally appeared in the May 6, 1999 issue of the Boston Phoenix.
By PETER KADZIS | June 21, 2007

Hollywood Babel on

In a so-so Oscar field, the most pretentious wins
The Academy Awards is one of the few contests where the closeness of the race is in direct proportion to the lack of interest.
By PETER KEOUGH | November 04, 2008

Royal pain

Mirren and Frears save The Queen
Every tragedy reaches a point where mourning turns to kitsch. Watch the trailer for The Queen (QuickTime)
By PETER KEOUGH | February 20, 2007

Doom, gloom and zoom

A year in film
Given the past year’s headlines, it can’t come as a surprise that some of the best films of 2006 had an edge of darkness to them.
By PETER KEOUGH | January 16, 2007

Off with their heads

Recent polls are giving the GOP the willies. So should the movies.
The signs are getting bleak for the man in the White House and the party in power.
By PETER KEOUGH | October 20, 2006

Princesses

Cinderella in Beverly and Ogunquit, Martha Mitchell Calling in Lenox
Cinderella has been making her way around New England stages, and whether she had fairy or gold dust in her eyes depended on where you caught up with her.
By CAROLYN CLAY | August 29, 2006

Primadonna

Madonna alters female adolescence
This article originally appeared in the July 29, 1986 issue of the Boston Phoenix .
By JOYCE MILLMAN | July 26, 2006

Hip-pop redux

Hip-hopped-up hits from Deborah Harry to Gwen Stefani
Nelly Furtado’s not the first pop diva to embark on a lucrative hip-hop detour.
By KEN MICALLEF | June 20, 2006

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