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Crossword: ''Hidden strength''

Yes, we can solve this puzzle

By MATT JONES | November 26, 2008

Crossword: ''So cute''

If it gets any cuter, I'll get a toothache.

By MATT JONES | October 22, 2008

The Dreams of Antigone; In the Continuum; Show Boat
It would seem that Sophocles has been hanging around for 2500 years waiting to be improved — and the makeover artists have been numerous.
By CAROLYN CLAY | October 01, 2008

Hello, old friend

Sports blotter: "Past Pats" edition
There was a recent arrest of a onetime member of the Patriots defensive backfield — old friend Lawyer Milloy.
By MATT TAIBBI | September 25, 2008

Spygate hits home

Balls and pucks
The best meal of my year is the breakfast a chef friend has been cooking in his home on the first Sunday morning of NFL football for the past 14 seasons.
By RICK WORMWOOD | September 10, 2008

Death of a hoop dream

Mario Hornsby Jr. was senselessly gunned down in May. Now his father is trying to make sure his death was not in vain.
This past fall, Mario Hornsby Jr., then a senior at Springfield Central High School, wrote an essay for English class.
By MIKE MILIARD | August 28, 2008

Tiger trap

Sports blotter: "Walking in Memphis" edition
There are a lot of famously troubled college sports programs out there, the majority of them football teams.
By MATT TAIBBI | August 20, 2008

Crossword: ''Hit the bricks''

A classic case of one-upmanship

By MATT JONES | August 20, 2008

Win tickets to Grizzly Bear

Free tickets to the show at the MFA
Text the word GRIZZLY to 22122*, and you will be entered into a random drawing to win yourself and a pal a pair of tickets to see Grizzly Bear on August 14 at the MFA.
By PHOENIX STAFF | August 06, 2008

Eight is enough

Olympians to watch
Sometimes we’d rather root for the unknowns, the underdogs, and the uniques than the professional jerks who are only competing to sweeten their endorsement deals.
By MIKE MILIARD | August 08, 2008

Return of the U

Sports blotter: "Plant City, indeed" edition
Remember the days when the University of Miami dominated college football?
By MATT TAIBBI | July 30, 2008

Chicks who kick

The other kind of Celtic dance
I’ll admit that cheerleading teams have always irked me.
By NEELY STEINBERG | July 30, 2008

Krofft fare

Sid and Marty show MySpace how psychedelia’s really done
My favorite Sid and Marty Krofft production is one they had nothing to do with.
By MIKE MILIARD | July 23, 2008

Street cred

Sports blotter: "This year's Xbox" edition

By MATT TAIBBI | July 23, 2008

Does Boston hate the BPD?

A secret survey shows just how low the Boston Police Department’s reputation had sunk two years ago. Is the mayor listening?
When Kathleen O’Toole served as Boston police commissioner, from early 2004 through mid 2006, she and Mayor Thomas Menino seemed in constant denial of the spiraling violence and shocking police scandals that were roiling the city.
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | July 18, 2008

New Mexico

Sports blotter: "Marcus Vick and more" edition
According to news reports, Lavender was drunk and disorderly on the streets of Cincinnati on April 6 when cops asked him several times to move away from an intersection.
By MATT TAIBBI | June 25, 2008

Testosterowned

Only Living Witness at the Middle East Downstairs, June 21, 2008
Thirteen years is a long time in heavy metal, but as the eerie distended melody of Only Living Witness filled the Middle East downstairs on Saturday, time flickered and then collapsed.
By JAMES PARKER | June 24, 2008

Streetball spectacle

The other end of the court

By NEELY STEINBERG | June 18, 2008

Bad sports

While old and new media are mending many fences, they’re still squaring off in jockland
When historians trace the rise of the blog as the dominant journalistic form of the 21st century, they’ll pay close attention to two recent developments.
By ADAM REILLY | June 18, 2008

Bought and paid for

Balls and pucks
Boston haters will say that the Celtics purchased their 17th championship.
By RICK WORMWOOD | June 18, 2008

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