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Holy landscape!

Ken Burns worships America's spiritual resource
At its core, Ken Burns's PBS 12-hour epic The National Parks: America's Best Idea (nightly on WGBH Channel 2 at 8 pm, from September 27 through October 2) is a selective, initiative by initiative, advocate by advocate, chronicle of the evolution of the National Parks system and the changing roles protected lands have played in American culture since Congress validated Yosemite in 1864.
By CLIF GARBODEN  |  September 24, 2009
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Interview: Ken Burns

On his latest PBS documentary, The National Parks
After watching The National Parks: America's Best Idea , it would be easy to conclude that it all could have been said a lot faster. Ken Burns disagrees — but he's not just being defensive.
By CLIF GARBODEN  |  September 25, 2009
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Photos: The National Parks: America's Best Idea

Images from Ken Burns's latest documentary
Scenes from The National Parks: America's Best Idea , a six-part, 12-hour film by Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan, George Masa.
By PHOENIX STAFF  |  September 24, 2009
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Photos: Boston in the 70s, Part 8

The last installment of Boston in the 70s slideshows on protests and rallies
Photos of protests and rallies from the Boston Phoenix archives
By BOSTON PHOENIX STAFF  |  September 08, 2009
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Michael Ryan: 1951-2009

A celebration of the good old days by someone who knew him when
Every proper obit should begin with something long-winded and amusing. In this case, that's easy.
By CLIF GARBODEN  |  August 31, 2009

Boston in the 70s: Part 3

Photos of the MBTA in the 70s
Photos of the MBTA from the Boston Phoenix archives
By PHOENIX STAFF  |  July 13, 2009
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K is for clown

The lighter side of global annihilation
The lighter side of global annihilation
By CLIF GARBODEN  |  June 30, 2009
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A decade of song

10 years of the Portland Music Awards
It’s been a decade since the Portland Phoenix and the Portland music scene first joined up to celebrate the best in local music. Here are some highlights from this year’s party, and some artifacts we dug up from the archives.  
By MARGO ROY, CLIF GARBODEN, JOHN MARSHALL, LISA CRAIG, MATTHEW ROBBINS, SONYA TOMLINSON, JEFF INGLIS, AND JENNIFER KEARNS  |  June 11, 2009
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Reggae revival

Booming in Boston's underground, Caribbean riddims are about to burst back into the mainstream
The climate is tropical, sweet skunk fills the air, and reggae jams are hitting such lofty decibels that I can't even feel my phone vibrate.
By CHRIS FARAONE  |  May 21, 2009
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Phoenix group harvests 17 regional press prizes

Bragging-Rights Night at New England Press Association
The New England Press Association (NEPA) annual newspaper contest has always been good to us.
By CLIF GARBODEN  |  February 12, 2009

Flashbacks

For the week of January 13
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 Ian Sands.
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Friends remember Alan Lupo


The Boston Phoenix is collecting memories from all those whose lives were touched by our friend and colleague, Alan Lupo.  
By CLIF GARBODEN  |  October 22, 2008
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The people's gravelly voice

Alan Lupo, 1938–2008
There’s a lot to be said about Alan Lupo. All of it good. Much of it colorful as hell.  
By CLIF GARBODEN  |  October 09, 2008
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Get over it

What every freshman should know about going to college in Boston
Okay, you survived the college-application process; you filled out the miserable FAFSA forms; you sweated out the wait for acceptance letters; and cut your best financial-aid deal.
By CLIF GARBODEN  |  August 21, 2009
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Terror 'toonist

Dept. of gallows humor
Earlier this month, syndicated cartoonist Matt Bors found a new fan in none other than Salim Hamdan, the man tried and convicted for once having been Osama Bin Laden’s driver.
By CLIF GARBODEN  |  August 20, 2008
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Victim, not vixen

Sex, death, and the filthy rich
Florence Evelyn Nesbit was the most beautiful woman who ever lived.
By CLIF GARBODEN  |  July 29, 2008
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Repression illustrated

People’s history in graphic format
Graphic novels are an acquired taste.
By CLIF GARBODEN  |  July 01, 2008
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Phoenix.com wins at AAN conference

A line drive triple in Philly
ThePhoenix.com Web site won first place at the annual Association of Alternative Newsweeklies conference.
By CLIF GARBODEN  |  June 11, 2008
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It is the heat

. . . though humidity plays its part. Either way, global warming means sweating it out this summer.
“Going green” may be an annoying trendy catch phrase, but there’s something to be said for turning down the global thermostat before we all drown in a pool of our own sweat.
By CLIF GARBODEN  |  June 09, 2008
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Keeping the faith

Mobe turns 30
Boston has a good rep in progressive circles for being on the right side — most of the time — on every social/political issue since slavery.
By CLIF GARBODEN  |  May 07, 2008

Ding Ho home

Comedy benefit adds second show
Opening a comedy club in a Cambridge Chinese restaurant was a laughable idea unto itself.
By CLIF GARBODEN  |  April 30, 2008
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Not fade away

Ain't no party like a Wormtown party
Wormtown. It's a state of being, an alternative reality, a club-music subculture centered in Worcester, Massachusetts.
By CLIF GARBODEN  |  April 30, 2008
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Our championship season

Brilliant us
This year’s New England Press Association annual awards dinner forsook the Park Plaza’s rubber chicken for the upper-scale poultry fare at the Marriott Copley Place. And the food’s not the only reason we’re glad we went.
By CLIF GARBODEN  |  February 13, 2008
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Thought for food

A million words for rice
If you’re going to waste your time (or your company’s time) online, stop thinking about porn or poker and do something constructive.
By CLIF GARBODEN  |  January 16, 2008
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Tritown flashback

The return of Hollis the Mountain Man
Except for its art museum, Fitchburg is generally off the Phoenix radar.
By CLIF GARBODEN  |  January 09, 2008

Joyful pursuit of excellence

Letters to the Boston editor, November 16, 2007
I was as captivated by  James Parker’s article on Joy Division  as I was disappointed by  Peter Keough’s review of Anton Corbijn’s fantastic film Control .
By BOSTON PHOENIX LETTERS  |  November 14, 2007
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Worth remembering

Abortion on trial
In 1975, Dr. Kenneth Edelin was a household name in Boston.
By CLIF GARBODEN  |  October 31, 2007
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The only game in town

Sox fever grips the Hub
Memo received and understood, chiefs.
By CLIF GARBODEN  |  October 31, 2007
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Home grown terror

Cathy Wilkerson's memoir of the Weather Underground recalls a time when revolution seemed possible
Cathy Wilkerson, 62-year-old math teacher and mother of one, was famous long ago, as a member of the radical political collective Weatherman.
By CLIF GARBODEN  |  October 25, 2007
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The War is swell

Ken Burns captures reflections in ‘Hell’s own cesspool’
Sometime in the late ’80s, I was sharing some Iron City with my father at the bar of a Pittsburgh American Legion post.
By CLIF GARBODEN  |  September 18, 2007

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