Why Do I Do This? | Comedy Central
The tirades he delivers here, always laced with self-depreciation, amount to a lovingly mean-spirited string of barbs aimed at racists, idiots, girlfriends, bikers, and well, just about everybody.
By TED DROZDOWSKI | August 26, 2008

Joke's on whom?

Letters to the Boston editor, August 22, 2008
Harvey Silverglate’s article is the sort of thing that should be saved for occasions when people who may be offended by humor need to be advised to calm down.
By BOSTON PHOENIX LETTERS | August 20, 2008

No sex, please, it's Boston?

Nicholas Hlobo tones it down at the ICA
It’s a big, curious, floating object, a leaping whale, a flying squash, a makeshift anatomy display, with a bit of carnival atmosphere.
By GREG COOK | August 04, 2008

Parody flunks out

Political humor is no longer welcome in Academia as administrators choke the life out of parody
Artist Barry Blitt’s brilliant illustration — which sought to satirize the naysayers who portray Obama as a flag-burning, unpatriotic Muslim and his wife as a black-power radical — cut to the core of today’s political paradox.
By HARVEY SILVERGLATE | July 30, 2008

Leggo my ego!

The GOP is smearing Obama as a narcissist. So why is the press playing along?
If Barack Obama loses the presidency this November, it won’t be because of Reverend Jeremiah Wright, or “Bitter-gate,” or sundry other vulnerabilities.
By ADAM REILLY | July 30, 2008

Who’s the real Obama?

Diverse city
Do we know who Obama is and what motivates him, and are we really looking to find out?
By SHAY STEWART-BOULEY | July 23, 2008

Time for a clean sweep?

A former guard calls for prison reform
In early 2007, Rhonda Dawson, a thoughtful, candid, 45-year-old African-American guard at the Maine State Prison in Warren, quit her job after four years because, she says, of racist taunting from her fellow correctional officers.
By LANCE TAPLEY | July 23, 2008

Stop the bastards!

African exiles get political.
If you’re unfamiliar with the history of Ethiopia, you’ll probably be lost. (Try skimming a summary before you go.)
By GREG COOK | July 08, 2008

Letters to the Portland editor, July 4, 2008

Well-designed thanks
You saw my passion for fashion and helped me to create my dream. So thank you from the bottom of my heart.
By LETTERS TO THE PORTLAND EDITOR | July 02, 2008

Upping the game

Letters to the Boston editor, May 23, 2008
I believe games should be able to choose their setting.
By BOSTON PHOENIX LETTERS | May 21, 2008

So to speak

Letters to the Bostone editor, May 2, 2008
The article attacking House Speaker Sal DiMasi by David S. Bernstein was offensive character assassination based on ethnic stereotyping and cute political correctness.
By BOSTON PHOENIX LETTERS | April 30, 2008

Sex, violence and video games

Reconciling the irreconcilable
Popular culture has always had a bogeyman. These days, it’s most often video games being accused of leading the nation’s youth astray.
By MITCH KRPATA | April 23, 2008

Wrong on Wright?

Letters to the Boston editor, April 25, 2008
I’m so sick of people in general, and reporters in particular, who make assumptions about something based on hearsay.
By BOSTON PHOENIX LETTERS | April 23, 2008

Dartmouth's right is wrong

A bad Review of some campus elitists
This article originally appeared in the April 15, 1988 issue of the Boston Phoenix.
By SEAN FLYNN | April 18, 2008

Truth hurts

Diverse city
The inflammatory "God damn America" soundbites of Barack Obama's former pastor Jeremiah Wright still in heavy rotation on the cable "news" channels were taken completely out of context.
By SHAY STEWART-BOULEY | April 02, 2008

Always a bridesmaid

But Kathleen Edwards steps forward on her third album
Asking for Flowers is the slickest album yet from Kathleen Edwards — the Canadian alt-country songwriter frequently heralded as the next Lucinda Williams — and her most raw.
By CHRISTOPHER GRAY | March 19, 2008

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