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Just the two of us

I almost slept over at Nat Baldwin’s house once.

Nat Baldwin lugs his bass into your heart

By CAMILLE DODERO | April 22, 2008

This year’s New England Press Association annual awards dinner forsook the Park Plaza’s rubber chicken for the upper-scale poultry fare at the Marriott Copley Place. And the food’s not the only reason we’re glad we went.
Brilliant us
By CLIF GARBODEN | February 13, 2008

Keaton Kustler-Klein

Keaton Kustler-Klein has become something of an unofficial mascot here at the Phoenix offices.
Wallet girl
By CAMILLE DODERO | June 27, 2007

Phoenix reaps NEPA glory

The Phoenix newspapers and thePhoenix.com were major winners in this year’s New England Press Association (NEPA) Better Newspaper Competition.
It's all about us
By CLIF GARBODEN | February 14, 2007

Top 20 of 2006

Unsexy men, terrible lyrics, season finales, SuicideGirls, sex, MySpace, and sneakers. The stories you clicked on most in '06.
ThePhoenix.com's 20 most popular stories of the year
By PHOENIX STAFF | December 29, 2006

Getting your kicks on Harvard Ave

Allston-Brighton isn’t the first neighborhood that comes to mind as a place to get a pair of crazy-cool sneakers.
Sneakers!
By CAMILLE DODERO | December 20, 2006

You and your tech-chic

You must’ve already heard that you were named Time magazine’s 2006 Person of the Year.
As of 2006, new media isn’t just for geeks anymore
By CAMILLE DODERO | December 20, 2006

Fatal Attraction

Carter cuts apart dead people for a living. Schoeller works part-time putting them back together. And they have a year-old “baby”: a hairless cat named Spooky, who looks like an adorably wrinkled gremlin, knows how to flush the toilet, and has his own M
Meet Julie Carter, Troy Schoeller, and Spooky. Their entire lives are death.
By CAMILLE DODERO | December 13, 2006

Yule logs

From $16 paperbacks to $120 collector’s items, we’ve come up with a range of selections that should cover everyone on your list — from former classics majors and music fans to future art critics and lovers of high-fashion soft-core.
Virgil, Ted Williams, Courtney Love, Bruce Springsteen, and other ideas for the giving season
By PHOENIX STAFF | December 07, 2006

Useful friends

Ramona is a tattooed rockabilly chick with cat’s-eye glasses and a twin-lens-reflex camera strapped around her neck.
Brookline’s Mimoco Mimobots blur the boundaries between form and function
By CAMILLE DODERO | December 06, 2006

We do too have celebrity sightings in Boston!

Who cares about seeing Sacha Baron Cohen eat dinner with Rachel Weisz and Darren Aronofsky at Fiamma?
Gawking and stalking
By CAMILLE DODERO | December 01, 2006

The next action sport

At New York City’s Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in mid October, hundreds of people are squished into bleachers, staring at cyborg super-soldiers who’re killing each other.
Say hello to the new breed of pro athlete — and goodbye to their grassroots
By CAMILLE DODERO | November 21, 2006

Poor Little Rich Girl expands in Davis

"Be Nice or Go Away" reads the sign above the cash register at Poor Little Rich Girl in Somerville.
Goodbye porn room, hello cool shoes!
By CAMILLE DODERO | November 21, 2006

The greatest story ever told

It was one thing to edit the Phoenix ’s coverage of the clergy-sex-abuse scandal as a Catholic.
A former Boston Phoenix news editor tells what it was like to cover Goodridge , the Bay State’s history-altering same-sex-marriage decision
By SUSAN RYAN-VOLLMAR | November 15, 2006

Why I write

One year ago this week, I was milling around a Theater District bar during what marketing types like to call “a launch party,” an opening reception for a clothing store that was essentially a Hot Topic for fake gangstas.
what I write (for this paper)
By CAMILLE DODERO | November 15, 2006

Apenest doesn’t want your sprinkle

One day, Brian Willmont decided he wanted to make an art magazine.
Print this!
By CAMILLE DODERO | November 14, 2006

Assman

Eric Kovall’s license plate doesn’t say ASSMAN, but his Jeep Cherokee does have a bumper sticker that proclaims i ? ASS.
Eric Kovall
By CAMILLE DODERO | November 09, 2006

Dear iPod listener

I can hear you all the way over here.
A few things for the next five years
By CAMILLE DODERO | October 30, 2006

Under the Covers battle

Rock-and-roll beefs are never quite as delicious as the heat-packing rivalries of their hip-hop brethren. Watch: Battle of the Album Covers
Albums of the year
By CAMILLE DODERO | October 19, 2006

The guerrilla-dance appeal of 123 Party!

“Get the FUCK out of my bar!” Slideshow: 123 Party! out on the town
Dork moves
By CAMILLE DODERO | October 13, 2006

Gratifying Disappointments

The Big Disappointments are an important local band for two reasons. One, they kill live. Two, their bassist is arguably the most famous spectator in the last decade of Boston live music. Big Disappointments, "Chemicals" (mp3)
Tall Guy is in a (really good) band!
By CAMILLE DODERO | October 12, 2006

Hunting the wild Klosterman

He is Charles John “Chuck” Klosterman: pop-culture critic, four-time author, celebrity profiler, Esquire columnist, ESPN Page 2 sportswriter, former Spin senior editor, unrepentant Billy Joel fan. And he makes girls spit. Chuck Klosterman reads f
Things about the pop-culture writer that are true, things that might be true, and something that isn’t true at all
By CAMILLE DODERO | October 05, 2006

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