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December 04, 2008

Flashbacks: Boston chess champ squares off against a computer, the painful musical pairing of Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson, and the squabble over the Boston Tea Party Bicentennial festivities
By Ian Sands

CRUEL TO BE KIND
5 years ago
December 5, 2003 | Rebecca Paley profiled Dr. William Rashbaum, a long-time practicing, prominent second-trimester abortion provider.
“Husbands or boyfriends have been known to barge into his office and violently insist their baby not be aborted, to which Rashbaum replies with an equally violent, ‘Fuck you, Charlie, we can abort her.

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Flashbacks, From the archives, local heroes

March 21, 2008

Celtics complete sweep of Texas Triangle
By Ryan Stewart

Andrew D. Bernstein/NBAE via Getty Images, ganked from ESPN.com

I'll come totally clean on this: as much as I was enjoying this season, it wasn't until this week that I thought the Celtics were a real NBA Championship contender. Much like everyone else, I was simply expecting the eventual champion to be a western power, be it San Antonio, Los Angeles, or Utah, with New Orleans, Dallas, Phoenix, et al looking at a tougher road but still having a puncher's chance if they made it in.

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Celtics, local heroes, our hometown papers

March 18, 2008

About last night...
By Ryan Stewart

Back when the Celtics were dominating the easier part of their schedule in November, the skeptics - somewhat justifiably - had trouble taking them seriously as a title contender. "Let's see how they do against the best of the west." Maybe last night doesn't shut everyone up completely, but sweeping the season series against the oh-so-hateable Spurs (and winning last night's game without Ray Allen) should at least show that their chances are legit.

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Awesomeness, Celtics, local heroes

March 13, 2008

Flashbacks: The Pope as human shield, the Tarantino touch, and a hermit goes to heaven
By Ian Sands

HOLY PURPOSE
5 years ago
March 14, 2003 | Michael Bronski talked to a peace activist with the idea of sending the Pope to Iraq in order to stop the impending war.
“Renowned peace and anti-nuke activist Helen Caldicott thinks she has a way to stop the all-but-inevitable war with Iraq: convince Pope John Paul II to join the human shields in Baghdad.

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Flashbacks, From the archives, local heroes

November 09, 2007

A little love for the Revs
By Ryan Stewart

Okay, so we all know about the Red Sox. And the Patriots. But it's quite possible that Boston could turn into a three-title-team town this year. Very possible.

Oh, no, we're not talking about the Celtics, although they're off to a great start. We're talking about the motherfucking New Englad god-damn Revolution

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Awesomeness, local heroes, Soccer

October 29, 2007

A quick note about your New England Patriots
By Ryan Stewart

The gentleman pictured above is Chris Hanson, punter for the New England Patriots. In eight games, he's been called upon to punt 18 times. For those who don't know much about football, that's not a lot of punts.

But that's not what this post is about - I'm not here to give you a different spin on "The Patriots are really good."

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Football, local heroes, Patriots

October 19, 2007

Talking Rock Band with Harmonix's Sean Baptiste
By Ryan Stewart

Last Friday, the Phoenix visited the Central Square offices of Harmonix, the video game development house behind the first two Guitar Hero products, and, with help from their new parent company, MTV, the upcoming, hotly-anticipated Rock Band, which, as you may have heard, takes Guitar Hero's authentic musical simulator feel and stretches that to accommodate a drummer and vocalist.

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music, Awesomeness, Guitar Hero

September 26, 2007

The best thing to come out of the Halo 3 launch hysterics
By Ryan Stewart
Nice work, MIT:

Pic via Joystiq.

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local heroes, video games, Xbox 360

September 24, 2007

Bike thieves beware!
By Caitlin E. Curran

Last Wednesday night began average enough for Lee Peters. He stopped in at Economy Hardware on Mass Ave in Boston, near Christian Science Plaza, around 6 p.m. When he walked outside, he explains via an e-mail from the Boston Critical Mass chain, he saw “two people standing around my bike in the middle of stealing it.

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Awesomeness, i love my bike, local heroes

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Flashbacks: Boston chess champ squares off against a computer, the painful musical pairing of Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson, and the squabble over the Boston Tea Party Bicentennial festivities
Published 12/4/2008 by Ian Sands
CRUEL TO BE KIND5 years agoDecember 5, 2003 | Rebecca Paley profiled Dr. William Rashbaum, a long-time practicing, prominent second-trimester abortion provider.“Husbands or boyfriends have...

Boston Phoenix
Celtics complete sweep of Texas Triangle
Published 3/21/2008 by Ryan Stewart
Andrew D. Bernstein/NBAE via Getty Images, ganked from ESPN.comI'll come totally clean on this: as much as I was enjoying this season, it wasn't until...

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