Why isn’t the press paying more attention to a possible attack on Iran?
During the course of two weeks in May, America’s top-ranking military officer went from warning that war with Iran could cripple the US military to rattling his saber at Tehran.
By ADAM REILLY | June 04, 2008

Iron Man

Robert Downey, Jr. saves the day
Though a Marvel Comics fan, I never thought much of Iron Man.
By PETER KEOUGH | May 01, 2008

Kite club

Simplified Runner not up to speed
In spite of being lovingly realized and creatively cast, The Kite Runner is a simplistic adaptation of a powerful, multi-layered story.
By CHRIS WANGLER | December 12, 2007

Dumb or dishonest?

Bush and Iran. Plus, disturbing news about AIDS, and Romney’s illegal problem
For some reason, wisdom maintains that Republicans hold an edge over Democrats when it comes to commanding the military and conducting foreign policy.
By EDITORIAL | December 05, 2007

It’s not brain surgery

Keep your head protected on trips to the hospital
Whew, don’t say that at Rhode Island Hospital these days or you might come home holding the upper part of your cranium in your hand. Trepan this, baby!
By PHILLIPE AND JORGE | November 28, 2007

Our Sgt. Schultz society

Know-nothing nation sleepwalks well into the future
“I know noz-ZINK!” That was the catchphrase of John Banner’s character, the Nazi prison guard Sergeant Schultz.
By PHILLIPE AND JORGE | October 24, 2007

Keeping It Real

Sticking to the facts in a post-9/111 world, Michael Winterbottom and Paul Greengrass lead a new breed of filmmaker
We’ll get used to it, I suppose, this new category of moviegoing distress. Sooner or later, we get used to everything.
By JAMES PARKER | June 20, 2007

Far out

As the war escalates, a onetime hippie chick reflects on the groovy time she spent in Afghanistan and Iran in the late ’60s
Carol Abbe sat very still on the international flight taking her from Beirut to Taipei.
By LAUREN WOLFE | May 04, 2007

Bush's secret army

Meet the American mercenaries of Blackwater, who fight outside of the law and take direction from the radical Christian right
The 9/11 attacks provided a catalyst: an unprecedented justification to forge ahead with a radical agenda molded by a small cadre of neoconservative operatives.
By JEREMY SCAHILL | March 21, 2007

Wrestling with Tony

Freida Lee Mock does Kushner
In the case of Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner , which opens this Friday at the Kendall Square, director Freida Lee Mock’s typically hagiographic approach can be forgiven.
By GERALD PEARY | January 31, 2007

Seven for seven

What’s news in the New Year? Plan on these stories dominating Boston’s media landscape.
While coverage of the Red Sox is always excessive (except for the sweet deals they get from the politicians, but whatever), the arrival of Daisuke Matsuzaka will make things even worse than usual.
By ADAM REILLY | December 29, 2006

Flashbacks: November 24, 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 Dan Peleschuk, Ian Sands, and Eva Wolchover.
By FLASHBACKS | November 21, 2006

Fissionable material

Gauging the new wave at the Festival of Films from Iran
The Iranian masters upon whom we’ve come to depend seem for the moment to be indulging in their global fame.
By MICHAEL ATKINSON | November 10, 2006

Jaw-dropper

What prompted the BeloJo to do an about-face on the casino?
If there’s a real political shocker this year, it’s how the Urinal this week came out with an endorsement of Question 1, the controversial casino ballot question.
By PHILLIPE AND JORGE | October 25, 2006

Flashbacks: September 29, 2006

Tortured logic

The Bushies persist in trying to justify self-defeating behavior
Back in 1993, US Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York wrote a famous essay, entitled “Defining Deviancy Down,” for the American Scholar .
By PHILLIPE & JORGE | September 20, 2006

The Giant Buddhas

From several viewpoints
A few months before 9/11, in March 2001, Muslim fundamentalists destroyed another towering icon of non-Islamic culture: two giant Buddhas in the Bamiyan Valley in Afghanistan. Watch the trailer for Giant Buddhas
By PETER KEOUGH | September 20, 2006

Welcome back, Castro

Around the world with Adam Reilly
On Tuesday, the Cuban dictator announced his recuperation on Cuba’s state-run news Web site.
By ADAM REILLY | September 06, 2006

The JonBenet factor

The shame of monopoly media
Five summers ago, in the weeks before terrorists slammed fully loaded passenger planes into the Pentagon and the World Trade Center, national television was obsessed with what? The Taliban? Osama bin Laden? Nope. Sharks.
By EDITORIAL | August 25, 2006

Arbitrary imprisonment

In a mysterious Guantánamo-like move, the state refuses to follow a judge’s order committing a mentally ill prisoner to Riverview
Joseph Steinberger thought he had won one of the most important trials of his legal career.
By LANCE TAPLEY | July 19, 2006

UK troops deliver Afghan turbine

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