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Review: Black Box’s One-Act Play Festival

The more the merrier seems to be the theme of the sixth annual Black Box Theatre One-Act Play Festival, with the first of two nine-play "Waves" running through August 14 (a second will be staged August 19-28).
Cutting to the chase
By BILL RODRIGUEZ | August 12, 2011

Review: Doherty's East Avenue Irish Pub

Doherty's East Ave Irish Pub is an old-fashioned gem: an informal eatery where you can chow down on wonderful food over a brew or a few: there are 157 on tap and in bottles, at last count.
Beer, burgers, ball games, and much more
By BILL RODRIGUEZ | February 11, 2011

Cheap thrills

They say Dr. Lakra got his pen name from the doctor’s bag he carried around when he first began tattooing, two decades ago. “Lakra” puns on the Spanish word “lacra,” meaning scar or blemish, but it’s also slang for “delinquent” or “scumbag.”
The inky delights of Dr. Lakra
By GREG COOK | April 23, 2010

Slideshow: Dr. Lakra at the ICA

Dr. Lakra at the ICA, showing through September 6, 2010
Dr. Lakra at the ICA, showing through September 6, 2010
By PHOENIX STAFF | April 23, 2010

Scratch and Whiff

I have 53 fully scratched (and completely worthless) Billion Dollar Bonanza scratch tickets sitting in my desk drawer. Each cost $20.
A non-junkie lottery player comes to grips with cardboard crack
By JIM SULLIVAN | July 17, 2009

Numbed by Numbers

Such a difficult task, bringing horrific historical events to theatrical life. Ironically, the more vast the horror, the more difficult the challenge. Imagine the full sweep of something as enormous as the Holocaust reduced to stage scale.
Children of the Dnipro should show, not tell
By BILL RODRIGUEZ | June 12, 2009

Play by Play: April 10, 2009

Plays around town
Plays A to Z
By CAROLYN CLAY | April 10, 2009

Slideshow: Dropkick Murphys at House of Blues

At the House of Blues in Boston on March 12, 2009
Photos of Dropkick Murphys, live at House of Blues, on March 12, 2009
By ERIC BAUMANN | March 13, 2009

Jeanne Connolly, 1957-2009

Jeanne Connolly, who died Monday after a 16-month battle with colon cancer, was the ebullient presence behind the bar at T.T. the Bear's Place for more than two decades.
Beloved, Bar None
By JIM SULLIVAN | February 19, 2009

The making of a House party

By JIM SULLIVAN | February 04, 2009

Open House

I put on the obligatory hard hat and walk through the doors of what used to be Avalon on Lansdowne Street, across from Fenway Park. To the layman — me — it's all dust, noise, metal, and mess.
After more than a year of construction and relative quiet, the Lansdowne Street music scene is about to be reborn
By JIM SULLIVAN | February 04, 2009

The Front Page

The Front Page 's timeless fun at 2nd Story
Breaking news: timeless fun at 2nd Story
By BILL RODRIGUEZ | January 28, 2009

Interview: The Damned's Captain Sensible

"School teachers and lawyers come along to see the Damned. . .and they want to see really bad behavior."
The Damned carry on
By JIM SULLIVAN | December 29, 2008

Visions of Sugar Dish

Vanessa White, stage-name Sugar Dish, was lying on her couch this past spring, watching the Joffrey Ballet on TV, when "it just popped into my brain. The name came first."
The Nutcracker meets burlesque
By JIM SULLIVAN | December 10, 2008

Local influence

In a day when so much radio seems less and less local, WFNX remains in touch.
WFNX is keeping it close to home
By JIM SULLIVAN | December 01, 2008

Shirts off their backs

How To Dress Like a Rock Star
How To Dress Like a Rock Star
By JIM SULLIVAN | November 19, 2008

Interview: Billy Bragg

English singer-songwriter Billy Bragg once called himself “a one-man band who thinks he’s the Clash.”
Mr. Love & Justice on the Clash, the Queen, and preaching to the choir
By JIM SULLIVAN | October 15, 2008

Bringing up Baby

Few things in life are certain, but this is: a gentle, white miniature poodle named Baby is the most famous three-legged, barkless dog in the world.
The most famous three-legged, barkless dog in the world
By JIM SULLIVAN | October 01, 2008

Neil comes to Fenway

First song: “Sweet Caroline”— that Fenway anthem that booms throughout the park in the middle of every eighth inning. An hour later, Diamond played the thing again “for anyone who came late to the show.” And then, one more time .
Hot Diamond-on-Diamond action
By JIM SULLIVAN | August 27, 2008

Lucky, beautiful, and, now, holy

He was the king of rock, there was no higher . The sucker MCs, they should call him sire .
Rev Run runs straight
By JIM SULLIVAN | August 20, 2008

Interview: Shane West

The actor discusses the Germs . . . and ER.
Too late to stop
By JIM SULLIVAN | August 19, 2008

Club-to-theater update

“If you take the biggest 100 names in comedy, you’ll see 90 of them here in the next couple of years.”
Venue shifts
By JIM SULLIVAN | August 13, 2008

RIP Mr. Butch

Photo tribute to street musician and Allston fixture
By K.BONAMI AND KELLY DAVIDSON | July 31, 2008

We are Devo

It’s been almost three decades since five guys in baggy yellow industrial clean-up suits sporting the letters D, E, V, and O took the Paradise stage, jerking about like robots, playing clipped, caustic art punk.
The return of Akron’s finest
By JIM SULLIVAN | June 17, 2008

Boston music news: May 9, 2008

The album recorded in 2005 by Unbusted— the Martha’s Vineyard core of the Billionaires — has indeed seen the light of day.
Notes on Unbusted and the Dresden Dolls
By JIM SULLIVAN | May 06, 2008

Boston music news: May 2, 2008

Girls Guns & Glory celebrate the release of their third CD, Inverted Valentine , May 2 at the Middle East downstairs, with support from the Everyday Visuals.

Notes on Girls Guns and Glory and new happenings in Worcester

By JIM SULLIVAN | April 29, 2008

Boston music news: April 25, 2008

“As far as I know,” says saxophonist Ken Field, “ Forked Tongue is the only CD ever released to include songs by both Ornette Coleman and Billy Idol.”

Notes on Revolutionary Snake Ensemble and the Unseen

By JIM SULLIVAN | April 22, 2008

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