Just after April Fools' Day, the Boston Phoenix implemented a mandatory-mustache policy in its Kenmore Square offices. Several weeks later, we invited noted Mustachiologists TD Sidell (of Big Digits fame) and Chris Braiotta to survey the damage.

PLAYING FAVORITES
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April 25, 2003 | Brent Kendall analyzed how a presidential candidate’s declared “favorite book” can affect his campaign chances.
“The 2000 election demonstrated precisely how candidates' book choices play right into the media's preconceived storylines--for better and for worse.

The original title of this post was going to be "Unzipping Scar-Jo's Assets," since that's what we did a few minutes ago when the .zip file showed up with the press materials for Anywhere I Lay My Head. Ironically, we were in the midst of posting a video of a non-Scar-Jo Tom Waits cover when this stuff showed up.

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From the Times: a Salem man who was molested by his priest recounts the events that led to his meeting with the Pope...

"Mr. McDaid said he received a call about two weeks ago from Ms. Thorp and the Rev. John Connolly, who has overseen the Archdiocese’s efforts to respond to reports of clergy sexual abuse.

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While hanging out with the folks at Harvard's student radio station for a story about a long-running specialty show, Phoenix music editor Michael Brodeur was shown a shelf filled with grade-school-style composition notebooks dating back to the early 1980s.

CROSSING OVER
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April 18, 2003 | Dan Kennedy discussed what he thought was “perhaps the most astounding media story to come out" of the Iraq War.
“This past Sunday, Jules Crittenden, the Boston Herald reporter embedded with the Army’s Third Infantry Division, described how he ‘went over to the dark side.

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Behold the big, beautiful baby heads, entitled Day and Night, installed in the lawn of the MFA. The sculptures, by Spanish realist Antonio Lopez Garcia, are emotive enough to stop traffic.

MP3: MFA contemporary art curator Cheryl Butvan talks to FNX about the baby heads and existence.