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Richard Lewis gets serious

Straight talk
Neurotic humor is Richard Lewis's style, as the series Anything But Love and Curb Your Enthusiasm, his many late-night-TV appearances, film roles, and cable specials, and his book, The Other Great Depression, all attest.
By RICHARD ANTONE | February 18, 2011

Missing in action

The legislature vacations while crisis looms
Good-government advocates often breathe a sigh of relief when the legislature quits Beacon Hill.
By EDITORIAL | December 09, 2009

Paging Dilbert

Fonting around at the Urinal. Plus, celebrity karaoke, and more.
What’s black and white and re(a)d all over? Certainly not the Providence Urinal, whose circulation has been falling faster than a 1000-pound safe pushed out of a sky-scraper window.
By PHILLIPE AND JORGE | November 04, 2009

Interview: Judd Apatow

On the making of his Citizen Kane
Behind every successful comedian, there's . . . a personal assistant. Who, given how egomaniacal and utterly misanthropic the funnyman in question is, is probably his best friend, too.
By LANCE GOULD | July 29, 2009

Sleeping with the enemy

Tennessee Williams’s Milk Train stops in Hartford
Who knew the azure waters off the Amalfi Coast flowed into the River Styx?
By CAROLYN CLAY | June 03, 2008

Defending the universally loathed

The Phoenix looks with loving eyes at some of the worst people, places, and things in the world — and gives them a big hug
Forsaken entities deserve a second chance.
By PHOENIX STAFF | January 14, 2008

Keepin' it realtor

Rock and rolling all night is tough with an unforgiving day job. That’s why the shredding set love real estate.
There’s an old Saturday Night Live sketch — not, truth be told, one of the show’s funniest moments — called “Rock & Roll Real-estate Agent.”
By MIKE MILIARD | August 01, 2007

Who's Your Caddy?

The gamut of taste
In this big-screen vehicle for pop sensation Antwan Andre Patton, nearly every element of the plot rips off the mangy 1980 comedy Caddyshack .
By TOM MEEK | August 01, 2007

The Stool also rises

Parsing the lowbrow genius of Barstool Sports
Dave Portnoy had described himself as the most average-looking guy imaginable, and he was right.
By ADAM REILLY | April 10, 2007

Mooninite media mash-up

Praise and (mostly) blame for Boston’s Fourth Estate
Slowly, mercifully, the agony of Mooninite-gate is fading away.
By ADAM REILLY | February 07, 2007

Are you too old for school?

Even at age 30, your brain is different from the average student’s
For anyone over 25 planning to go back to school, there is no shortage of things to worry about. Changing concentrations: As the world shrinks, schools expand their majors and programs. By Seetha Narayan
By SAMANTHA HENIG | January 24, 2007

Route 666

Natural Born Killers is Oliver Stone's comic debut
This article originally appeared in the August 26, 1994 issue of the Boston Phoenix .
By PETER KEOUGH | August 10, 2006

Hyland avenues

Headband and Appletown Gun Shop
It’s Friday night at P.A.’s Lounge in Somerville, and the band on stage are facing a potential drum-kit disaster.
By SARAH TOMLINSON | February 02, 2006