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Hoopleville
Air travel choices have evolved.
By DAVID KISH | December 01, 2010

Eight years later
Eight years ago, on a sunny Tuesday September morning in New York City and Washington, DC, a sickeningly well-orchestrated terrorist attack took flight, in part, from Boston’s Logan International Airport.
By BOSTON PHOENIX STAFF | September 07, 2011

26. Vince Offer

SCAM WOW
Vince’s face is a throwback to the movie stars of yesteryear — mainly Stripe from Gremlins . This beady-eyed pitchman, born Vincent Offer Schlomi, is more schlemiel than sales genius, and that Britney headset he wears when he’s yapping about the Sham Wow looks like that full-head retainer your mom made you wear in the ’80s. Lately, he’s been seen on television offering stay-at-home MILFs the worst pickup line ever: “You’re gonna love my nuts.” But his pitchman schtick may be nearing its end. The Smoking Gun just dug up a police report from last month in which Vince admitted to punching a woman he'd paid $1000 for sex. According to his arrest report, Vince told cops that after forking over a grand in $20 bills to one Sasha Harris, she "bit his tongue and would not let go," whereupon Vince "began to strike [Harris] numerous times in the face area."
By Boston Phoenix Staff | March 30, 2009

Media kills hero pilot

Herd-mentality pack lacks sufficient imagination to find another story
US Airways Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, who pulled off the "Miracle on the Hudson" emergency landing, was found beaten to death by the national media.
By PHILLIPE AND JORGE | January 28, 2009

Flying high

Interview: Jonathan Miles’s airport novel
There’s nothing new about the complaint as literature, says author Jonathan Miles.
By CLEA SIMON | June 02, 2008

Mile-high schlub

We recall the 10 things we miss most from the Golden Age of Air Travel
Look your children in the eye, globetrotter, and tell them the truth: the Golden Age of Air Travel is over.
By JAMES PARKER | May 21, 2008

The cuteness surge

Why, in desperate times, we turn to lolcats, twee songs, and mute kittens
Cuteness, of course, is the collective cultural cure-all to our problems.
By SHARON STEEL | February 01, 2008

Bronx bum

Sports blotter: "Hero to zero" edition
Man, there sure must have been some serious drinking going down on those great Yankee teams of the 1990s.
By MATT TAIBBI | January 09, 2008

Land of Liberty

We're trapped in the Homeland
After 9/11, many of us went to New York City, responding to then-Mayor Rudolph Giuliani’s plea to help Gotham by visiting and spending money.
By MARY ANN SORRENTINO | November 28, 2007

Wings of desire

Could be verse: poetry ripped from the headlines
Lines upon reading that in-flight entertainment is exposing children to images of an increasingly violent and sexual nature.
By JAMES PARKER | September 05, 2007

Fly the friendly skies with the Pope

Heavenly
The Pope didn’t ask me for any marketing tips for his new airline venture linking Rome to pilgrimage sites like Lourdes, Fatima, and Czestochowa.
By MARY ANN SORRENTINO | September 05, 2007

Far out

As the war escalates, a onetime hippie chick reflects on the groovy time she spent in Afghanistan and Iran in the late ’60s
Carol Abbe sat very still on the international flight taking her from Beirut to Taipei.
By LAUREN WOLFE | May 04, 2007

On Broadway

VIDEO: The Independent Film Festival of Boston Vodcast, Volume Two .
World Premiere of locally produced ON BROADWAY with airline ticket giveaways, sexy candid shots of the cast including Joey McIntyre, and Q&A with director David McLaughlin. Thick Boston accents abound! Produced by Heather Kapplow for the Independent Film Festival of Boston in partnership with thePhoenix.com.
By BOSTON PHOENIX VIDEO | April 28, 2007

She who controls the purse

Terry Murray gave away $11 million of state money. Will anyone call her on it?
The rumor mill has been buzzing with speculation that Massachusetts senate president Robert Travaglini might leave the legislature to take a position with the Massachusetts Hospital Association or the Massachusetts Biotechnology Council.
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | February 09, 2007

In the footsteps of the devil

Why did Mohammed Atta choose to spend his last night on Earth in my hometown?
On top of everything else that day, there was this.
By MIKE MILIARD | September 11, 2006

Bojinka

Why we are no safer today than we were before 9/11
The mainstream media has more or less treated the news that a group of British-based Islamist terrorists planned to blow up as many as ten airliners with colorless liquid explosives as the planes cruised over the Atlantic as a new development. It isn’t.
By EDITORIAL | August 22, 2006

Controllers at T.F. Green pan FAA contract

Annals of labor
The Federal Aviation Administration’s current labor contract proposal is so bad that 16 of the 28 air traffic controllers working at T.F. Green Airport may retire, warns Jake Crowley, the National Air Traffic Controllers Association’s Rhode Island spokesman.
By STEVEN STYCOS | April 27, 2006

The ultimate PILOT movie

Movies . . . one profession at a time
Whether in the world of commercial airlines, the Air Force, or a futuristic world of intergalactic smuggling, those who fly planes for a living have long been well-represented in the cinema.
By RYAN STEWART | March 10, 2006

US airlines could be on front lines for bird flu

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. airlines could be on the front lines in a bird flu outbreak and federal health officials are streamlining procedures for the possible quarantine of sick passengers.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. airlines could be on the front lines in a bird flu outbreak and federal health officials are streamlining procedures for the possible quarantine of sick passengers.
By | November 11, 2005