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Clif Garboden's "Music to Fear"

Since I wrote about our late friend and former Phoenix senior managing editor Clif Garboden's mix CDs for our tribute last week, several curious and...
By Ashley Rigazio | February 18, 2011

Remembering Clif Garboden

He was the damndest combination of kindness and gentleness and dyspepsia there absolutely ever was. He was old and young, all at once.
The life and times of an alternative-media true believer
By PHOENIX STAFF | February 18, 2011

Clif Garboden, 1948-2011

Clif Garboden, who spent virtually all of his professional career affiliated with the Boston Phoenix , died last week. He was 62.
Media = truth
By PETER KADZIS | February 18, 2011

We Never Got Rich, But We Are Going To Heaven: Farewell, Clif Garboden (1948-2011)

If you knew Clif Garboden, who for many years was the managing editor the Boston Phoenix and a guiding spirit of alternative press, then you'd...
By Carly Carioli | February 11, 2011

BU offers the class of 1970 a second chance at complacency

Boston University’s class of 2010 celebrates its commencement this weekend, and BU has invited the class of 1970 to tag along.
After School Special
By CLIF GARBODEN | May 14, 2010

Fess Elisha Parker, 1924–2010

The King of the Wild Frontier is dead.
In memoriam
By CLIF GARBODEN | March 26, 2010

Wild about Harry

What I want to do — what most photographers want to do — is write Harry Callahan a love letter. At the very least, he deserves an elaborate thank-you note for innovating or validating 80 percent of the successful photographs we ever took.
Trailblazing along a narrow path
By CLIF GARBODEN | December 11, 2009

Updike does death, R. Crumb does God, Vanity Fair does Proust

Trying to reach as broad a range of tastes and pocketbooks as possible, we this year scavenged everything from the front pages of the Onion to R. Crumb's genesis, to valedictory Updike. Stuff to read, stuff to look at, glossy pages and matte. Remember
Gift books to savor
By PHOENIX STAFF | December 11, 2009

Interview: Ken Burns

After watching The National Parks: America's Best Idea , it would be easy to conclude that it all could have been said a lot faster. Ken Burns disagrees — but he's not just being defensive.
On his latest PBS documentary, The National Parks
By CLIF GARBODEN | September 25, 2009

Holy landscape!

Ken Burns worships America's spiritual resource
Ken Burns worships America's spiritual resource
By CLIF GARBODEN | September 25, 2009

Photos: The National Parks: America's Best Idea

Scenes from The National Parks: America's Best Idea , a six-part, 12-hour film by Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan, George Masa.
Images from Ken Burns's latest documentary
By PHOENIX STAFF | September 25, 2009

Photos: Boston in the 70s, Part 8

Photos of protests and rallies from the Boston Phoenix archives
The last installment of Boston in the 70s slideshows on protests and rallies
By BOSTON PHOENIX STAFF | September 11, 2009

Michael Ryan: 1951-2009

Every proper obit should begin with something long-winded and amusing. In this case, that's easy.
A celebration of the good old days by someone who knew him when
By CLIF GARBODEN | August 28, 2009

Boston in the 70s: Part 3

Photos of the MBTA from the Boston Phoenix archives
Photos of the MBTA in the 70s
By PHOENIX STAFF | July 10, 2009

K is for clown

The lighter side of global annihilation
The lighter side of global annihilation
By CLIF GARBODEN | July 03, 2009

A decade of song

It’s been a decade since the Portland Phoenix and the Portland music scene first joined up to celebrate the best in local music. Here are some highlights from this year’s party, and some artifacts we dug up from the archives.
10 years of the Portland Music Awards
By MARGO ROY, CLIF GARBODEN, JOHN MARSHALL, LISA CRAIG, MATTHEW ROBBINS, SONYA TOMLINSON, JEFF INGLIS, AND JENNIFER KEARNS | June 12, 2009

Reggae revival

The climate is tropical, sweet skunk fills the air, and reggae jams are hitting such lofty decibels that I can't even feel my phone vibrate.
Booming in Boston's underground, Caribbean riddims are about to burst back into the mainstream
By CHRIS FARAONE | May 22, 2009

Phoenix group harvests 17 regional press prizes

The New England Press Association (NEPA) annual newspaper contest has always been good to us.
Bragging-Rights Night at NEPA
By CLIF GARBODEN | February 11, 2009

Flashbacks

The Boston Phoenix has been covering the trends and events that shape our times since 1966. These selections, culled from our back files, were compiled by Ian Sands.
For the week of January 13
By | October 27, 2008

Friends remember Alan Lupo

The Boston Phoenix is collecting memories from all those whose lives were touched by our friend and colleague, Alan Lupo.

By CLIF GARBODEN | October 16, 2008

The people's gravely voice

There’s a lot to be said about Alan Lupo. All of it good. Much of it colorful as hell.
Alan Lupo, 1938–2008
By CLIF GARBODEN | September 29, 2008

Get over it

Okay, you survived the college-application process; you filled out the miserable FAFSA forms; you sweated out the wait for acceptance letters; and cut your best financial-aid deal.
What every freshman should know about going to college in Boston
By CLIF GARBODEN | September 02, 2008

Terror 'toonist

Earlier this month, syndicated cartoonist Matt Bors found a new fan in none other than Salim Hamdan, the man tried and convicted for once having been Osama Bin Laden’s driver.
Dept. of gallows humor
By CLIF GARBODEN | August 20, 2008

Victim, not vixen

Florence Evelyn Nesbit was the most beautiful woman who ever lived.
Sex, death, and the filthy rich
By CLIF GARBODEN | July 29, 2008

Repression illustrated

Graphic novels are an acquired taste.
People’s history in graphic format
By CLIF GARBODEN | July 01, 2008

Phoenix.com wins at AAN conference

ThePhoenix.com Web site won first place at the annual Association of Alternative Newsweeklies conference.
A line drive triple in Philly
By CLIF GARBODEN | June 11, 2008

It is the heat

“Going green” may be an annoying trendy catch phrase, but there’s something to be said for turning down the global thermostat before we all drown in a pool of our own sweat.
. . . though humidity plays its part. Either way, global warming means sweating it out this summer.
By CLIF GARBODEN | June 09, 2008

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