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Magnum farce

Sports blotter: "CSI: Binghamton" edition

By MATT TAIBBI | November 19, 2008

The Portland Phoenix' s prison scoops keep piling up
For the past three years, Portland Phoenix contributing writer Lance Tapley has been the only reporter in Maine to pay attention to the appalling conditions suffered by inmates in the Maine State Prison
By PORTLAND PHOENIX STAFF | November 05, 2008

A threat, but not to security

Deane Brown battles on
Maine prisoner Deane Brown, 44, is no longer in solitary confinement, though he remains far from Maine.
By LANCE TAPLEY | September 03, 2008

Voting right

Why Beacon Hill should adopt same-day voting and join the national popular-vote movement. Plus, that Obama cover.
The Massachusetts Legislature is expected to vote in the next several days on two proposals that would make democracy, well, more democratic.
By EDITORIAL | July 16, 2008

The friends of Jack Kelly

In the end, the adventure killed him
This article originally appeared in the July 4, 1978 issue of the Boston Phoenix.
By DAVE O'BRIAN AND TOM SHEEHAN | July 08, 2008

‘Sorry’ state

How to eliminate a bad decision or policy misstep and win back voters
A leading theme among Democrats this year is how they won’t allow Barack Obama to be “Swift-boated,” as John Kerry was in 2004.
By STEVEN STARK | October 27, 2008

Imprisoned facts

Will the truth escape from a break in the prison wall?
Although I had already written a lot about abuse in the prison, this May 21 interview with Dorney, a 28-year-old Portland man serving 20 years for assault, was what I had been waiting for.
By LANCE TAPLEY | May 28, 2008

Dead heat

If the general election took place tomorrow, we’d have an unprecedented situation on our hands.
With a bit less than six months to go until Election Day, both parties now know their nominees with certainty.
By STEVEN STARK | May 14, 2008

Winning losers

Stand up for your write(-ins)
Every last one of you who votes in our Best Music Poll is a treasure; but blessed are those who write-in.
By MICHAEL BRODEUR | May 07, 2008

Judge orders injections for Maine prisoner

Maryland exile
A Maryland court has ordered Maine prisoner Deane Brown to be forcibly injected with insulin, if necessary.
By LANCE TAPLEY | April 23, 2008

Important event reaches predictable audience

Anti-war stories
“There’s a term, ‘Once a marine, always a marine,’” Jon Michael Turner of Burlington, Vermont, told a crowd at the Winter Soldier II hearings in Maryland last weekend.
By DEIRDRE FULTON | March 19, 2008

Jackson's sweet dream

Jesse Jackson's 1988 presidential campaign
This article originally appeared in the March 4, 1988 issue of the Boston Phoenix.
By SCOT LEHIGH | March 07, 2008

Stop, look, and upload

Diary of the Dead records it for the Web
Romero has not grown narcissistic or solipsistic; American society has.
By PETER KEOUGH | February 13, 2008

Sculpting with paper

Imi Hwangbo and Jae Ko at Bell Gallery
One of the preeminent issues of art — and, well, everything these days — is the how technology is changing our lives, making everywhere we go begin to feel like a synthetic, artificially-flavored SimCity.
By GREG COOK | February 12, 2008

The morning after

Now that Super Tuesday is behind them, where do they go from here?
Obama now faces a road that may well get rougher. And the fat lady is singing so loudly for Romney that she’s getting hoarse.
By STEVEN STARK | February 07, 2008

The amazing race

We break down the Presidential campaign to its six essential parts, and predict your next Commander-in-Chief.
For the past year, presidential politics has been building to the crescendo that is the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary.
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | December 26, 2007

Winter reads

Novels from Peter Carey and Russell Banks, poetry from Elizabeth Bishop, and advice from Madeleine Albright
Esteemed fiction writers, young stars, the Civil War, the ’60s, and the morass of contemporary geopolitics — it’s all here for reading during winter’s long, dark nights.
By BARBARA HOFFERT | December 21, 2007

Sketch artists

The BCA’s ‘20th Drawing Show,’ plus Little Lulu
A man with an ax walks out onto ice crusting over part of a pond and proceeds to chop a wavy line.
By GREG COOK | December 09, 2007

Playing with your food

Recreational cooking classes to satisfy every appetite
In 1977, two food-loving childhood friends named Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield signed up for a $5 Penn State correspondence course in ice-cream making, just for the hell of it.
By ASHLEY RIGAZIO | October 25, 2007