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Injustice everywhere

Letters to the Portland Editor, October 9, 2009
Thank you for the timely interview with Harvey Silverglate.
By PORTLAND PHOENIX LETTERS | October 07, 2009

Letters to the Boston editor, October 2, 2009
Thank you Harvey Silverglate for shining a light on our criminal-injustice system with your new book Three Felonies a Day. And thank you Peter Kadzis for a great interview.
By BOSTON PHOENIX LETTERS | September 30, 2009

You're all guilty!

In his new book, Three Felonies A Day , Harvey Silverglate dissects the corrupt justice practiced by federal prosecutors
Silverglate's thesis is as provocative as it is simple: justice has become sufficiently perverted in this nation that federal prosecutors, if they put their minds to it, could find a way to indict almost any one of us for almost anything. It is a truly radical notion.
By PETER KADZIS | September 28, 2009

Culture wars

The Army's controversial anthropology program
American anthropologist Paula Loyd was in Afghanistan, discussing living costs with a local man when suddenly he doused her with fuel from a jug he was carrying and set her on fire.
By PETER PIATETSKY | March 16, 2009

Ticket to ride

Reflections on 10 years at the Phoenix
In April 1999, two weeks after I started on the job at the Providence Phoenix , the FBI raided City Hall, formally unveiling the federal investigation that would land Vincent A. "Buddy" Cianci Jr., Rhode Island's rascal king, behind bars.
By IAN DONNIS | February 11, 2009

In context

Why — and how — the chace center works
Moneo’s Chace Center is a place where art will live — in conception, execution, and display.
By PETER KADZIS | September 25, 2008

RISD redefined

With the dramatic new Chace Center, the art school reaches outward
Rhode Island School of Design’s new Chace Center is the physical embodiment of the 131-year-old institution’s effort to rebrand itself as a more open place.
By GREG COOK | September 25, 2008

China, Tibet, and the Olympics

Buddhist scholar Robert Thurman explains the Dalai Lama’s political wisdom, the myopia of the Chinese, and the essence of the Olympics
It is difficult to imagine an American — perhaps any Westerner — with a greater sympathy for, and understanding of, Tibet than scholar-activist Robert Thurman.
By PETER KADZIS | August 08, 2008

AG should probe BPL

Supposedly ‘independent’ trustees receive city funds. Why Birmingham rather than Bulger for the top job?
Political innocents who discount allegations that Boston Mayor Thomas Menino is politicizing the Boston Public Library’s board of trustees so that he can directly control the nation’s oldest free municipal library received a rude awakening recently.
By EDITORIAL | July 23, 2008

Beyond the spin

Why Clinton's commanding West Virginia win is more show than substance
The day after Barack Obama inched ahead of challenger Hillary Clinton in the superdelegate count, the indefatigable Clinton won the West Virginia primary.
By PETER KADZIS | May 14, 2008

The player

Trying to find some meaning in ace biz-boy columnist Steve Bailey’s move to London
The exit of Boston Globe business columnist Steve Bailey this past week to take a post in London as a general-interest news editor with Bloomberg signifies the exhaustion of a tradition.
By PETER KADZIS | April 02, 2008

Iraq: Five years later

Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz explains the punishing cost of staying any longer
Five years later, President George Bush and his minions were wrong about the need to fight in Iraq, wrong about the way to fight in Iraq, and wrong about what the war in Iraq would ultimately cost.
By PETER KADZIS | March 12, 2008

Lloyd Schwartz: the beat goes on

Letter from the Executive Editor
Classical-music critic Lloyd Schwartz recently marked his 30th year as a Phoenix contributor.
By PETER KADZIS | January 30, 2008

The landmark Herodotus: The Histories edited by Robert B. Strassler, translated by Andrea L. Purvis

Pantheon | 1024 pages | $45
What do the late Polish journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski and the fictional archeologist Count László de Almásy (played by Ralph Fiennes in the cinematic adaptation of The English Patient ) have in common?
By PETER KADZIS | December 03, 2007

And now for something completely different

VIDEO: Peter Kadzis talks to Michael Palin about his favorite sketches, hosting Saturday Night Live , the Lumberjack, and the show's beginnings.
VIDEO: Peter Kadzis talks to Michael Palin about his favorite sketches, hosting Saturday Night Live , the Lumberjack, and the show's beginnings.
By BOSTON PHOENIX VIDEO | September 17, 2007

Desperately seeking shoulder pads

Amy Arbus and ’80s style at the Schoolhouse, Hung-Chih Peng’s video at MIT, and ‘Drama and Desire’ at the MFA
In the glorious fall of 1980, young photographer Amy Arbus approached the Village Voice looking for freelance work.
By RANDI HOPKINS | August 14, 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

Rushdie’s courage

Why Sir Salman’s knighthood matters
Bombay-born Salman Rushdie, educated at Rugby and Cambridge, is now Sir Salman Rushdie.
By EDITORIAL | June 20, 2007

New editor for Boston Phoenix

Veteran New York editor Lance Gould to helm the weekly
Lance Gould, a journalist with 20 years’ experience at leading New York–based newspapers and magazines, will become the next Editor of the Boston Phoenix .
By PHOENIX STAFF | February 28, 2007

R.I.P., Godfather of Soul

James Brown stood his ground against Cianci
Regular readers of the Cool, Cool World obviously recognize the musical genius of James Brown.
By PHILLIPE & JORGE | December 27, 2006

Striking similarities

Mike Barnicle, this is A.J. Liebling. Have you met?
This article originally appeared in the August 20, 1998 issue of the Boston Phoenix.
By DAN KENNEDY | November 14, 2006

Boston Phoenix Editor flies to New Times/Village Voice Group

Voice publisher eyes new Web structure
Boston Phoenix Editor Bill Jensen is leaving the alternative news weekly to take a job directing the web operations of the New Times chain of alternative papers.
By PHOENIX STAFF | October 26, 2006

Getting oiled up

Gouging on gas prices should outrage our elected officials
Phillipe & Jorge rarely have reason to scream at our Congressional delegation.
By PHILLIPE & JORGE | August 02, 2006

Phoenix's Jurkowitz to depart

Destination: Project for Excellence
Media critic Mark Jurkowitz will be leaving the paper on or around July 1 to become the associate director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism headquartered in Washington, DC.
By PHOENIX STAFF | May 05, 2006

Polite and brave and honest - side

By | April 24, 2006

Med Noir - side

By | April 24, 2006

Weld’s college try

An obscure school in Kentucky may cost Bill Weld an election — and maybe more
Bill Weld has hit rocky shoals in his attempt to become the first person since Sam Houston to get elected governor of two states.
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN AND HARVEY SILVERGLATE | February 18, 2006

Happy Hollandaise

Bidding good night to 2005
Schwarzenegger, torture, cocaine, and college: it must be Christmas.
By | January 07, 2006

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