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August 12, 2009
By Chris Faraone
One week ago today ThePhoenix.com posted The Punch That Took Two Lives - an in-depth feature about a 34-year-old East Cambridge man named Joe Donovan who was imprisoned for life in 1993 for a murder that he did not commit. Within hours of my piece going live, a reader named Rafael wrote the following comment: “Sorry - I stopped reading when I got to what the part with the cat.
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August 04, 2009
By Chris Faraone
Though D-Tension is a WFNX DJ, and Akrobatik is the most recent Best Music Poll winner for Best Local Rap Act, this fusion was not a deliberate Phoenix-prescribed arrangement. As it turns out, D is just stuck between his drug-addled 80s days and the Boston rap scene on which he's been an integral player for a damn decade now.
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August 03, 2009
By Chris Faraone
I'll never understand how the Metro chooses the wire copy that it runs. Today they have something from Reuters about this whiny little cunt Vincent Nichols - the archbishop of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales - who has a beef with social networking.
According to the article, Nichols believes that such sites as Facebook and MySpace lead young people to form "transient relationships which put them at risk of suicide when they collapsed.
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July 30, 2009
By Chris Faraone
The sweetest visitor we ever got at Curry College sleep-away camp was Aaron Krickstein – a relatively significant tennis pro from last century, as well as one of the greatest Jewish athletes ever known. I lost my weed and sexual virginities with a cute older French girl that summer, but otherwise the place was nowhere near as cool as Berklee’s Summer Performance Program
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July 24, 2009
By Chris Faraone
1 – Performances by Velvet Stylus, Shaymin, Lisa Bello, Mr. Harvey, Lyrical, and a dozen DJs (Act One, Ant G, Cruz, Daz-One, Doc Love, Ill Neil, Killer DJ, Koo Koo, Lefty, Nestle Quik, Shame and Vance).
2 – Very special sets by Grandmixer DXT and Grand Master D. If you don’t know, then it’s time to do some homework
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July 22, 2009
By Chris Faraone
If you’ve been to any Boston rap show in the past two years, then you’ve likely seen a spectacled kid named Matteo Getz working the room like a Copacabana cigarette girl circa 1955. He’s one of local hip-hop’s most persistent mixtape slingers, but, as it turns out - at least judging by his work on JDO’s new full-length Talent - his behind-the-boards game is comparably tight.
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July 22, 2009
By Chris Faraone
VIDEO: Talib Kweli live at Rock the Bells
About three songs into the epic final set of this year's Rock the Bells - a dream-like materialization of the fanatically anticipated Nas and Damian Marley collabo project - the hot dog that I buried as a late-afternoon drinking base began to sneak up my esophagus.
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July 21, 2009
By Chris Faraone
For the sake of online ad revenue, authorities everywhere should start racially profiling more prominent black academics. In the past few days, as news surfaced of Harvard professor and renowned scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr.’s arrest, the Globe and Herald web sites have been flooded with thousands of comments from concerned and rattled citizens, most of whom bravely hide behind aliases to express their unique, well-informed, and rational opinions (the Globe even opened a separate “discussion” board for the topic all-together).
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July 16, 2009
By Chris Faraone
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July 15, 2009
By Chris Faraone
Something strange was happening at the Kenmore Square T stop before the Asher Roth and Kid Cudi show last night. With no explanation whatsoever, every kid who rounded the corner by the Cask ‘N Flagon looked like they jumped off the page of a Hollister catalogue, as if they all passed through some sort of futuristic Abercrombie simulator.
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