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Surveying the Damage

A More Perfect Union
People will surely debate for years to come whether President Barack Obama's self-described "evolution" on universal, legal, same-sex marriage caused, or simply reflected, a turning point on the issue in the United States.
Mitt & the GOP Boys’ Club
Last week, Barack Obama's re-election campaign launched a Web slide show, "The Life of Julia," depicting a woman helped throughout her years by Obama policies, and warning that — if elected — Mitt Romney would undo all of them.
Could the Bay State’s Ron Paul-loving delegates ruin Romney’s coronation?
Saturday was an embarrassment of epic proportions for Mitt Romney and the Massachusetts Republican Party — an organization that, as I've chronicled in recent months, is essentially an extension of the Romney machine.

Letters to the Boston editors, May 25, 2012

Spoiler alert
I took issue with the final statement of Peter Keough's review of The Avengers ("Awkward First Steps," Arts & Entertainment, May 4) — with his dismissal of Agent Phil Coulson's death as not "compelling" enough to rally a group of heroes into action.
The future -- for some
I think Amanda Palmer missed the reason she has such a broad, wide, and fervent fan base is because she was on Roadrunner in the first place.
For your consideration
I'm curious about the inconsistency of the 2012 Boston Phoenix ballot for Best Trivia Night.

Crucify the bastards

Why Elizabeth Warren is right — and why Romney won’t change
Like an alcoholic downing nips on the drive home from court-ordered rehabilitation, JPMorgan Chase and its CEO, Jamie Dimon, could hardly wait to once again start wildly tossing depositors' money into derivative hedge bets — the very type of irresponsible behavior that nearly brought down all of Wall Street less than four years ago.
Brown bags it
Republican Senator Scott Brown's vote to allow the interest on college loans to double illustrates perfectly why Brown is a clever politician, but a rotten senator.
Reading between Obama's lines
President Barack Obama's address to the nation from Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan may have lasted less than 11 minutes, but it has big implications.

Scenes from the NATO protests | May 18-20

ON-THE-GROUND UPDATES: Dispatches from NATO-Chicago
I wasn't even at Daley Plaza for two minutes when I ran into Vermin Supreme ...
Michael Guglielmo soldiers on
Despite his sickness and small stature, Giovanni Guglielmo was a bona fide celebrity.
Photos: Occupy Boston's May Day rally
Occupy Boston participates in Occupy Wall Street's nation-wide May Day rally on May 1, 2012.

Not so amazing

Watertown vs. Walmart
Some 75 people stand holding signs along Watertown's Arsenal Street on Saturday morning as Mike Mandel shouts their goal: to keep Walmart from moving in up the road.
Looney Tunes' new home
Pat McGrath is a realist.
Occupy buries capitalism
Seattle Occupiers threw bricks through windows. Oakland anarchists got tear-gassed. Chicago protesters shut down five Bank of Americas.

A backstage diary

666-pack: Music to groove the savage Beasties
This article originally appeared in the January 13, 1987, issue of the Boston Phoenix.
Nick Cave: An Elvis From Hell
This article originally appeared in the July 24, 1984, issue of the Boston Phoenix.
Money Talks and Fans Walk
This article was originally published in the September 29, 1995 issue of the Boston Phoenix.