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Jimmy C. and Teddy K.

An incumbent's lessons and the politics of personality
When the Camelot Caucus convenes in Faneuil Hall this Wednesday, the American presidency will once again become the trophy of a personality joust. In 1968 and '72, there was at least the issue of Vietnam to veil the overweaning ambitions of competing public men. But even that ambiguous nobility is lacking this year.

By MARCO TRBOVICH | August 26, 2009

Gay Activists Work for Ted

Activists note Kennedy's gay rights work
Gay-and-lesbian community activists are heavily involved in what the chairman of the Lesbian/Gay Political Alliance of Massachusetts, Todd Fernandez, calls "a full-court press to ensure that Ted Kennedy's re-elected."

By LIZ GALST | August 26, 2009

Photos: Sen.Ted Kennedy throughout the years

In memoriam
Photos of the Massachusetts senator throughout his long public life

By PHOENIX STAFF | August 26, 2009

Where was everybody on St. Patrick's Day?

Where's the (political) party?
We piled into a car, we three intrepid journalists, and set out from the Back Bay Sunday morning to find our way to Royal Bolling’s party. “Roxbury’s Salute to St. Patrick’s Day,” as Bolling called it, should be easy to find, we reasoned. After all, the Prince Hall Grand Lodge. A.F. & M., was located at 18 Washington Street. All we had to do was follow Washington Street, right?

By MICHAEL RYAN | August 31, 2009

The Mouth Behind the Eye

Maybe Norma Nathan is just a nice little Jewish mother from the North Shore. After all, she says she only assaults people who assault her.
Norma Nathan, who looks for all the world like a naïve and guileless suburban homemaker (and knows it), was down on Long Wharf a couple of weeks back, snooping around. She was checking out a rumor that Ed King, his Cabinet, a group of political supporters and a crowd of lobbyists were about to embark on a lavish Harbor cruise.

By DAVE O'BRIAN | August 24, 2009

Photos: Boston in the 70s: Part Six

Harvard Square from the Boston Phoenix's archives
Photos of Harvard Square from the Boston Phoenix's archives

By PHOENIX STAFF | September 16, 2009

Bad times for the good earth

How are we going to keep them down on the farm?
You could say that the plight of the Massachusetts farmer began during the Great Ice Age, when the Laurentide Ice Sheet scraped over New England leaving poor soil and, as one farmer put it, "rocks, rocks, rocks."

By D.C. DENISON | August 11, 2009

A haute time

My dinner with Julia
My introduction to the concept that a bottle of wine must breathe did not go well. I was already in a state from drinking nonvintage stuff when I arrived at the small dinner party. Then, the hostess announced she would let the bottle breathe and placed it before me on the table. I could imagine little strangled gasps coming from the bottle.

By FRED BAYLES | August 07, 2009

Boston in the 70s: Part Five

Photos from the Boston Phoenix 's archives
Photos of cars, vans, and trucks from the retro days

By PHOENIX STAFF | July 29, 2009

How much rock would a Woodstock stock if

Three-day festival of peace and music
Hopes are high among the quartet of rock entrepreneurs – John Roberts, Joel Roseman, Michael Land, and Arnie Kornfeld – who think they can succeed where George Wein, Newport promoter, has not.

By ELEANOR WEBER | July 23, 2009

Woodstock rock schlock

Fun Fair of peace, pot, pop, & pooped people
You've read the papers. They were right when they called the weekend a social success, for 450,000 people in the most wretched if circumstances proved that they were human beings.

By KEN EMERSON | July 23, 2009

Sex, Drugs, Rock and Peace

How Abbie Hoffman politicized Woodstock – and changed America
It is a nation of alienated young people. We carry it around with us as a state of mind in the same way the Sioux Indians carried the Sioux nation around with them. It's a nation dedicated to cooperation versus competition, to the idea that people should have a better means of exchange than property and money.

By AL GIORDANO | July 22, 2009

Boston Bathhouses

Hot Water and Harmonicas
For most of us, cleanliness is still next to godliness; for many of Boston's North Enders, however, cleanliness is also next to Columbus High School on North Bennett St.

By R.D. ROSEN | July 20, 2009

King, as in mayor

Another page from an optimist's agenda
To begin with, I'd like to set down the political and ideological frame of reference under which I try to live.

By TOM SHEEHAN | July 13, 2009

Boston in the 70s: Part 4

Photos of the Boston Common from the Boston Phoenix 's archives
Boston Common in the 70s

By PHOENIX STAFF | July 15, 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

Review: Michael Jackson | Blood on the Dance Floor: HIStory in the Mix

Epic (1997)
Personally, I'm fascinated by Michael Jackson, who may be the only truly deviant artist in modern pop: who would you really find scarier in a dark alley, him or Marilyn Manson?

By BRETT MILANO | July 01, 2009

Boston in the 70s: Part Two

Photos of the Combat Zone from the Boston Phoenix archives (NSFW)
Photos of Boston in the '70s

By PHOENIX STAFF | July 13, 2009

The End of the Yellow Brick Road

The Wiz wanders off course
The Wiz wanders off course

By STEVEN SCHIFF | July 02, 2009

Britney Spears and Michael Jackson fight it out

Who's #1?
Cue up track six on the new Britney (Jive) and prepare yourself for the Technicolor disco flash-back of the year, swooning string section, chunky Nile Rodgers guitar riff, and all. The song's called "Anticipating," and it captures the most famous 19-year-old girl in the world at her guileless, sentimental best.

By SEAN RICHARDSON | June 30, 2009