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By | January 01, 0001

Manuel at Fajita Grill, December 8

Music seen
It was a cold, blustery trip to Westbrook, and we were to be rewarded by hot Tex-Mex fare and margaritas. We arrived at Fajita Grill for a friend's birthday party and were immediately greeted by a six-foot Christmas tree and the warm sound of "Feliz Navidad" ringing through the restaurant — we had no idea there would be live music.
By AMANDA PLEAU | December 15, 2010

Review: Burlesque

A film that's been done before. Many times.
It's no great surprise that Christina Aguilera can sing.
By ALEXANDRA CAVALLO | December 01, 2010

Classic burlesque star swings into town

Octogenarian dedication
"I've always been a class act," says Tempest Storm, the 82-year-old Burlesque Hall of Fame dancer. "I have a personality that really connects with the audience — the expression on your face, your eyes, your smile — I've been told that . . . when I hit the stage, something transforms over my face."
By DEIRDRE FULTON | November 03, 2010

The McRib is back, and it’s McWonderful

Lucky for us, the McRib has turned out to be the Cher of sandwiches
When it comes to crap food, everyone has a guilty pleasure.
By ASHLEY RIGAZIO | October 29, 2010

By | January 01, 0001

By the Grace of Ralph

A debut that is Lying Down Looking Up
As debut records go, it's rare to find one as textured and fully realized as what Marion Grace have put together in the 10-song Lying Down Looking Up , an arty, smart, folk-rock affair that shows songwriting creativity with some genuinely great ideas.
By SAM PFEIFLE | March 17, 2010

Don't do it

Thinking about making the gnarly move from skiing to snowboarding? Think again, brah.
So, I heard that you want to trade in your skis for a snowboard this year. Maybe it'll be fun? Well, maybe, but there are a few things I'd like you to consider before you make that leap.
By JASON O'BRYAN | November 17, 2009

Owing muses

Brian King sings his life in Venus As a Boy
A few days after I graduated from high school, the Internet showed up. "Well," I thought to myself. "That's just fucking great."
By MICHAEL BRODEUR | August 25, 2009

Play by play: July 17, 2009

Plays from A to Z
Boston's theater schedule
By JEFFREY GANTZ | July 15, 2009

Play by play: July 10, 2009

Plays from A to Z
This week in Boston theater
By JEFFREY GANTZ | July 08, 2009

Play by Play: July 3, 2009

Plays from A to Z
This week in Boston theater
By JEFFREY GANTZ | July 06, 2009

Play by Play: June 26, 2009

Plays for A to Z
Boston theater this week
By JEFFREY GANTZ | June 23, 2009

Play by Play: June 19, 2009

Plays from A to Z
Boston theater this week
By JEFFREY GANTZ | June 16, 2009

Interview: Kathy Griffin

D Girl
"I think Ryan Seacrest and Oprah will finally be together, and it will be like one of those great '70s cover-up movies and I'm playing the body."
By JIM SULLIVAN | June 11, 2009

Interview: Dame Edna

Edna sounds off
"People like the fact that I'm not needy. I think it's a very unappealing thing in the theater."
By JIM SULLIVAN | April 08, 2009

William Friedkin at the Harvard Film Archive

William Friedkin, the New Hollywood’s most daring pulp-realist provocateur.
However we may still praise, and therefore bury, the American New Wave, we do still run the genuine risk of slipping down the wormhole slicked by present-moment techno obsessions and amnesiac entertainment-media narcissism.
By MICHAEL ATKINSON | February 11, 2009

Y'all come back now . . .

Diminishing returns in 2009
I've always liked the idea of there being some weight to the "nines," meaning: if you're a year, and you're going to perch yourself at the very edge of a decade, you'd better be ready to represent.
By MICHAEL BRODEUR | December 31, 2008

Smooth operators

The year in Auto-Tune
The year in Auto-Tune
By RICHARD BECK | December 24, 2008

Flashy mob

Guerrilla Queer Bar takes over
Boston’s gay nightlife is usually balkanized into segregated enclaves for twinks, bears, lesbians, and drag queens.
By JULIA REISCHEL | April 08, 2008

Newspapers censor Bono’s ‘fucking’ gaffe

The FCC’s ‘broadcast indecency’ rules: Still, well, bullshit
Why does our ostensibly “free” press insist on acting like prudes or cowards when reporting stories for which it’s vital that readers learn someone said “fuck” rather than an undefined “expletive”?
By HARVEY SILVERGLATE | March 12, 2008

Who I am

Paris speaks
She answers my questions in a Valley Girl vixen voice, with a languid aplomb that characterizes the way she approaches life.
By SHARON STEEL | February 13, 2008

'Please kill me'

The open-casket look vs. plastic punk
This article originally appeared in the August 16, 1977 issue of the Boston Phoenix.
By D.C. DENISON | August 20, 2007

Dead white females

From Fall Out Boy to One Night in Paris , modern pop culture is what it is today thanks to 10 long-expired ladies
Can you remember the last time you curled up under the covers with Marcel Proust’s I n Search of Lost Time ?
By SHARON STEEL | August 08, 2007

After school special

Scary Monsters + Perennials, Great Scott, March 20, 2007
Scary Monsters looked like skinny monsters.
By ELLEE DEAN | March 21, 2007

2007: Same as the old year

Relatives of Cicilline and Mollis continue the Vo Dilun tradition
And they are off and running, in the 2007 edition of “How Can We Embarrass Little Rhody Even More?”
By PHILLIPE & JORGE | January 11, 2007

Who’s the Nancy?

Dubya slouches to mere mincing minion among DC’s new political elite
The GOP’s many mistakes this election season included the massive one of attacking House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, the soon-to-be Speaker of the House.
By PHILLIPE & JORGE | November 15, 2006

Close to the edge

Politics and Other Mistakes
The last time Republicans won control of both chambers of the Maine Legislature, the country was engaged in an unpopular foreign war, Washington was on the verge of a major scandal, Congress was meddling with social issues, and the vice-president was calling his critics unpatriotic.
By AL DIAMON | October 25, 2006

Bar-band bonding

The Raconteurs, Orpheum, September 29, 2006
Jack White’s just one of those guys who likes the idea of being in a band. Slideshow: The Raconteurs at the Orpheum Theatre, September 29, 2006
By MATT ASHARE | October 02, 2006