This Just In
 Bollinger’s rebuke to Ahmadinejad blows up in his face: Disagreeable
Stinging, emotional insults aimed at a guest — who was invited by Bollinger — teach students nothing of intellectual or social value.
By: MARY ANN SORRENTINO
 Curbed enthusiasm: An online guide to Boston parking
Walking to work not long ago, I saw a flyer taped to a street lamp advertising an auction for eight parking spaces on Beacon Street.
By: MIKE MILIARD
.jpg) When in doubt, blame the victim: A not-so-safe week at BU
BU has seen an overwhelming number of accidents and crimes over the past year.
By: ASHLEY RIGAZIO
.jpg) The wisdom of crowds: Comic timing
Well before the appointed hour, nearly a thousand people had gathered at tiny Reverend Thomas J. Williams Park in North Cambridge, waiting for . . . well, no one really knew.
By: GEORGIANA COHEN
.jpg) Zap marketing: Don’t Taser-T me, bro
Ah, the sweet stench of Internet entrepreneurship!
By: ADAM REILLY
.jpg) Silver spokes of justice: Cyclist foils heist
This past Wednesday, Lee Peters spotted a man and a woman attempting to steal his bike near the Christian Science Plaza.
By: CAITLIN E. CURRAN
.jpg) Voto para mi?: Why can’t a Latina candidate mobilize Eastie’s Hispanics?
In East Boston, hopes have been high that Democratic candidate Gloribell Mota might draw the neighborhood’s Hispanic residents into the political process.
By: DAVID S. BERNSTEIN
 A bitter pill: Uncle Sam gouges on birth control for college women
In W’s world unaffordable birth control pills may become the “weapons of mass destruction” that we couldn’t find, until now.
By: MARY ANN SORRENTINO
.jpg) NOLA’s arc: Extreme circumstance
On the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, we’re all looking for easy answers, barometers of recovery, and people to blame. Simplistic messages of hope.
By: VANESSA CZARNECKI
.jpg) Out on the street: Finding fault with foreclosures
This was City Life’s second attempt to put a human face on the ordeal of home foreclosures, and it may have paid off.
By: NEELY STEINBERG
.jpg) Pats' parity: Power plays
And, just like that, it’s fall. The days shorten. Crockpots come out of retirement. And the Patriots play the Jets on Sunday.
By: MIKE MILIARD
.jpg) Partially free is better than partially pregnant: Freedom Watch
If this free-speech teachable moment was graded, some at Tufts would’ve got an “F.”
By: HARVEY SILVERGLATE AND JAN WOLFE
.jpg) He had his reasons: Going, going, Gonzo
So why did Alberto Gonzales resign?
By: MIKE MILIARD
.jpg) Shattered illusions: No, not the window!
This past weekend in Boston, nine people were shot, 13 stabbed, and feuding gangs used families at Roxbury’s annual Caribbean Festival as duck-and-cover props.
By: DAVID S. BERNSTEIN
 Imitation and flattery: Nation building
If the replica Green Monster, Citgo sign, and Coke bottles at the Sea Dogs’ Hadlock Field don’t sufficiently feed your Red Sox fever, don’t fret.
By: DEIRDRE FULTON
.jpg) Hot topic: Chill out, global warming is a lie
In the August 19 Boston Globe, conservative op-ed contributor Jeff Jacoby wrote his fifth column in eight months denying climate change.
By: DAVID S. BERNSTEIN
.jpg) Beware of falling scabs: Downside
Boston drivers can be excused for being a tad skittish about falling objects, after experiencing two motorist fatalities in 2006.
By: DAVID S. BERNSTEIN
.jpg) Replaying injustice: Sacco and Venzetti, 80 years later
They stare from faded photographs like ghosts: faces ashen, eyes doleful and accusatory.
By: MIKE MILIARD
.jpg) The Big Dig in court: a citizen's primer: Freedom watch
The Big Dig may at long last be 99 percent completed, but the finger-pointing is just in the early stages.
By: HARVEY SILVERGLATE
.jpg) Heroic effort: We are here! We are here!
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s . . . some dude in tights wielding a paintbrush?
By: SARA FAITH ALTERMAN
.jpg) Fishtown's loss: Running out of Artspace
When artist Shep Abbott returned from New York to his hometown, Gloucester, he never intended to become the savior of Cape Ann youth.
By: JEFF BREEZE
 The problematic culture of ‘virginity rings’: Symbols symbols
Lydia Playfoot, a 16-year-old English student, regrets that London’s High Court rejected her request to wear a Christian “virginity ring” to school.
By: MARY ANN SORRENTINO
.jpg) Apolitical justice: Lefts and rights
When they began their careers in the 1960s, few would have predicted that TV broadcaster Dan Rea and US District Court Judge Nancy Gertner would make history together.
By: MIKE MILIARD
.jpg) Rent-a-scab?: Hard labor
The employees have been complaining for more than a year about the exact kinds of wage and safety abuses that are supposedly so upsetting to the pols.
By: DAVID S. BERNSTEIN
 Senator Collins objects to ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’: Equal rights
Senator Susan Collins ignored thousands of letters delivered to her office beseeching her to allow gays in the military.
By: TONY GIAMPETRUZZI
.jpg) GLAD all over: Phoenix founder Mindich honored
The Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) this past weekend honored Boston Phoenix founder and publisher Stephen M. Mindich.
By: PHOENIX STAFF
 Post fashion writer needs to get over Hillary’s chest: Double standards
I don’t see any articles about which side the male candidates dress on, or how well endowed they may be.
By: MARY ANN SORRENTINO
 BPD stands accused — as Sox-haters?: Safe, and Out
The city of Boston has paid out more than $15 million in recent years to victims of the police department’s misconduct.
By: DAVID S. BERNSTEIN
 Ebbing radicalism in Cambridge: Left behind
When conservatives obsess over the People’s Republic of Cambridge, this is the kind of thing they have in mind.
By: ADAM REILLY
.jpg) Prison sentences: Words to live by
On a recent Sunday, in the visiting room of the Bay State Correctional Center in Norfolk, a child darted between rows of green vinyl chairs in a flurry of giggles.
By: CAITLIN E. CURRAN
.jpg) Mr. Butch, 1951–2007: Death of a street king
If you didn’t know him, you might cross the street when he approached.
By: JIM SULLIVAN
.jpg) Yellow journalism: Pissing match in Peoria
One of the weirder journalistic feuds in recent memory erupted this past week, only to dissolve in a pool of urine as quickly as it blossomed.
By: ADAM REILLY
.jpg) Beverly Sills, 1929–2007: The fun diva
Beverly Sills, the most loved American opera singer of her generation, died this past week from inoperable lung cancer at 78.
By: LLOYD SCHWARTZ
.jpg) Rate of decay: Save Web radio!
On June 26, Internet broadcasters across the country went mute.
By: MIKE MILIARD
.jpg) Alito: hypocrisy in high places: Freedom watch
The First Amendment took two big hits from the Supreme Court on June 25.
By: HARVEY SILVERGLATE AND JAMES TIERNEY
.jpg) Philly stakes: Losing it all
It’s definitely worse than the curse.
By: ED CONDRAN
 Live Earth 2007: Where to go, who to see, what to know — even if you don't have a ticket
So you’re headed to a Live Earth gig somewhere, whether outside New York City or in a remote outpost in Antarctica.
By: JEFF INGLIS
.jpg) This just in: Our bad: Boston Phoenix prints wrong pages
D'oh!
By: PHOENIX STAFF
.jpg) Entourage: Mitt gets a posse
One thing we’ve learned from the Globe’s seven-day package “The Making of Mitt Romney” is that the man takes pride in his Ward Cleaver coif.
By: MIKE MILIARD
.jpg) Protest II: Protesting the closure of Axis and Avalon
Remember Wallet Girl, a/k/a Keaton Kustler-Klein?
By: SHARON STEEL
.jpg) Protest I: Fighting for your right to civil liberties
On Tuesday, 40 gagged demonstrators, clad in orange prisoner-style jumpsuits, made their way from the center of Boston to the JFK Federal Building.
By: CAROLINE PERRY
.jpg) Magnificent seven: The Phoenix's AAN award winners
The annual journalism awards handed out by the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies (AAN) are the real deal.
By: CLIF GARBODEN
 One step closer to Finland: McNallica wins!
Well, obviously.
By: JEFF INGLIS
.jpg) Faces of conflict: Marine Corps challenge anti-war vets
Each summer, it seems, the Iraq War springs another issue for the peace movement to rally around, symbolized by a specific face with a story to tell.
By: IAN SANDS
.jpg) Looking for Charlie: Mission: annoying
Suppose you want to get a Charlie Card.
By: ADAM REILLY
.jpg) Mic and the mechanics: National Free Culture Conference has a wiki good time
At first blush, it was tempting to mock the 2007 National Free Culture Conference.
By: BEN RICHARDSON
Hillary and Pelosi’s strides mask a lack of progress: Gender 2007
Women like Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi are widely disrespected, especially in the conservative climate that has clouded the nation’s perspective since Ronald Reagan.
By: MARY ANN SORRENTINO
.jpg) Meet the new Wingo?: Department of Nostalgia
Earlier this month, the free commuter daily BostonNow unveiled its $1,000 Name Contest and commenced hyping it in earnest.
By: ADAM REILLY
.jpg) Where’s Felix?: Council insiders spank Arroyo for missing budget hearings
At-large city councilor Felix Arroyo made headlines this week for proposing a resolution against spanking.
By: DAVID S. BERNSTEIN
.jpg) Kelly Wallace, 1983-2007: In Memoriam
Kelly Wallace had a lot of friends.
By: MIKE MILIARD
 Protesting the bio-whatever: A week of biotech protests ends, not with a bang but with battery failure
Eighteen dancers showed to prostest the BIO 2007 convention, but they were as fuzzy as their boas on a lot of details.
By: MARGARET DORIS
.jpg) It’s time for some real judicial activism: Freedom Watch
There is a time and a place for “judicial activism,” no matter what so-called conservatives say.
By: HARVEY SILVERGLATE
.jpg) Protect thyself: Unbearable waiting period
The recent string of sexual assaults in the Medford/Somerville area has women, in a word, terrified.
By: SARA FAITH ALTERMAN
.jpg) Annals of termination: Yet another mission to accomplish
George W. Bush is guilty of a lot of things. But in her just-released book, former federal prosecutor Elizabeth de la Vega gets specific.
By: MIKE MILIARD
.jpg) What can Iowa teach the MCC?: Under new leadership, the arts and humanities comes into focus
The state’s top public promoter of art and culture, the quasi-governmental Massachusetts Cultural Council, has a new executive director: Anita Walker.
By: DAVID S. BERNSTEIN
 Alito and Co. deal a bitter blow to American women: Choice
April 17 should go down in infamy as the date when the United States Supreme Court made it official: women don’t matter.
By: MARY ANN SORRENTINO
.jpg) Bloch head: Should Karl Rove fear Bush’s house homophobe?
For three-and-a-half years, Scott Bloch has managed to hang onto his job as head of the federal government’s Office of Special Counsel.
By: DAVID S. BERNSTEIN
.jpg) Appetite for destruction: Did the Virginia Tech shooter take his cues from a Guns N' Roses song?
Well before he gunned down 32 people at Virginia Tech last week, it appears Seung-Hui Cho was obsessed with Guns N' Roses.
By: PAUL IORIO
.jpg) Hot stuff: Global-warming study looks local
When we think of global warming, we picture glaciers melting, sunbathing polar bears, and The Day After Tomorrow.
By: GREG COOK
.jpg) Howling in Boston: This old towne
A city is small geography — even the City on the Hill, the Athens of America — to merit a poet laureate.
By: WILLIAM CORBETT
.jpg) Notes on a scandal: Could a botched sting operation compromise Hillary Clinton’s presidential hopes?
The saga of gossip columnist Jared Paul Stern has entered a n phase that could end up generating the biggest political and the biggest media story of the year.
By: ADAM REILLY AND HARVEY SILVERGLATE
.jpg) Student loan scandal: Is your college getting paid to steer you in the wrong direction?
Are students getting screwed, and will anybody stop it?
By: DAVID S. BERNSTEIN
.jpg) A judge speaks with candor about judicial cop-outs: Freedom watch
Rarely does an audience get to hear a sitting judge deliver anything more than the usual clichés about “blind justice” and the like.
By: HARVEY SILVERGLATE
(3).jpg) Blow by blow: Massachusetts women are being stabbed, run over, burned, strangled, and shot to death
Last year, at least 34 women were murdered in Massachusetts, the highest total in several years. Sadly, 2007 is on pace to exceed last year’s bloodshed.
By: DAVID S. BERNSTEIN
 Getting Justice back on track: Freedom Watch
There’s been more than a little political posturing over the latest Bush-administration scandal.
By: HARVEY SILVERGLATE
.jpg) Major embarrassment?: VIDEO: Michael Bronski assesses the gay-porn career of O'Reilly Factor fave Matt Sanchez
Matt Sanchez was a darling of the conservative media establishment, but then news broke that he was, only a few years ago, performing in famous gay porn films.
By: MICHAEL BRONSKI
.jpg) Toward a unifying theory of Mitt: Puff piece
“This is the book Mitt Romney didn’t want written," declares author Hugh Hewitt. Don't believe it.
By: ADAM REILLY
.jpg) Using the Web to stop a war: Wes is more
Wesley Clark is 62 years old. He is a retired four-star general, and is the former supreme allied commander of NATO. He also has a MySpace page.
By: MIKE MILIARD
.jpg) Pastor Bruce Wall mulls city-council bid: Team Disunity?
One of the most outspoken religious leaders of Boston’s black community, Pastor Bruce H. Wall, is considering a campaign for the 13-member Boston City Council.
By: DAVID S. BERNSTEIN
.jpg) Arthur M. Schlesinger, 1917–2007: In memoriam
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. managed to stay so sharp and funny up to the end that it was still a shock to hear of his death last week.
By: TED WIDMER
.jpg) Gossip columnist escapes indictment: Get me rewrite
The much trumpeted federal investigation into allegations that a former New York Post gossip writer tried to extort a friend of former President Bill Clinton has been quietly dropped.
By: HARVEY SILVERGLATE
.jpg) Same as the old blog: Red like them
Can Massachusetts’s newest conservative blog become a political sensation like liberal fave Blue Mass. Group?
By: ADAM REILLY
.jpg) Conservatives refuse to give in to Gore: Climate Change — Not!
February was a rough month for global-warming deniers.
By: DAVID S. BERNSTEIN
.jpg) Phoenix reaps NEPA glory: It's all about us
The Phoenix newspapers and thePhoenix.com were major winners in this year’s New England Press Association (NEPA) Better Newspaper Competition.
By: CLIF GARBODEN
.jpg) AG screws up 'hoax' prosecution:
In rushing to charge self-proclaimed "performance artists" Sean Stevens and Peter Berdovsky with disorderly conduct and placing a hoax device, Attorney General Martha Coakley's office violated a cardinal rule of the criminal-justice system.
By: HARVEY A. SILVERGLATE
 Other cities don’t have so many young murder victims: Street violence
In the entire United States, seven people age 12 to 14 are shot to death in an average month.
By: DAVID S. BERNSTEIN
 Sympathy for McNamara: Blowback
In the January 10 Boston Globe, columnist Eileen McNamara sized up the legacy of long-time South Boston city councilor Jimmy Kelly, who died the day before.
By: ADAM REILLY
 ProJo squashes kids' spelling-bee: As the ProJo Turns
Newspapers need all the help they can get these days, so the Providence Journal’s withdrawal of sponsorship for the Rhode Island Statewide Spelling Bee -- resulting in the cancellation of this year’s competition -- has angered ProJo staffers.
By: IAN DONNIS
 One more time . . .: Spears throwing
The editors of Time and Spin made the executive decision that You were Person and Artist, respectively, of the year 2006.
By: SHARON STEEL
 Healey quietly vetoes Bike Safety Bill: Unhappy trails
As everyone but the most oblivious knows, Boston has a reputation for being one of the most inhospitable American cities for cyclists.
By: NINA MACLAUGHLIN
 Resist the surge: enough is enough: You’ve got to be kidding us
This president fails to surprise anymore.
By: MIKE MILIARD
 James M. Kelly, R.I.P.: The departed
Consider, for a moment, two of the many compliments paid to South Boston political icon Jimmy Kelly following his death from cancer Tuesday morning.
By: ADAM REILLY
 How an Iraq War veteran turned against the war: War at home
John Kerry’s famous question — “How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?” — has been in the news a lot again lately.
By: MIKE MILIARD
 Maxed out on global warming: Carbon credit cards. It's like air miles in reverse.
Here’s the plan. Everybody gets the same allowance — in annual carbon-dioxide emissions, that is.
By: GWYNNE DYER
.jpg) How to save City Hall: Fight or blight?
All too many Bostonians dismiss City Hall as a windswept monstrosity.
By: DAVID EISEN
 Getting your kicks on Harvard Ave: Sneakers!
Allston-Brighton isn’t the first neighborhood that comes to mind as a place to get a pair of crazy-cool sneakers.
By: CAMILLE DODERO
 Observing Global Orgasm Day: Show you care
Sure, everyone looks forward to winter solstice because we know that after weeks of dreary darkness, they days will get longer and brighter.
By: MICHAEL BRONSKI
 This is what pure commerce looks like: Gaming the system
When last we checked in with Alex Tew, the 22-year-old Brit — whose ingenious MillionDollarHomepage.com made him a millionaire in barely four months — confided to us that he was hard at work on a “top secret” project he aimed to launch before the year was out.
By: MIKE MILIARD
 Romney’s real friends: Cash flow
As you probably know, word has leaked out that Mitt Romney once considered homosexuals to be actual human beings; this is giving him a little trouble with the social conservatives he’s trying so desperately to woo for his presidential run.
By: DAVID S. BERNSTEIN
 Manhandled no more: Running with a PAC
A few years ago, if you googled student-loan giant Sallie Mae and the word “lawsuit,” a live-journal blog called Southern Girl Babbling would turn up.
By: CATHERINE TUMBER
 The strange dust-up over ‘Beat the Press’: Do you love me?
In case you missed it — and you probably did — a very small segment of the Massachusetts media was aflame with controversy this week.
By: ADAM REILLY
 Death-by-bullet tally hits 50: Shooting gallery
The murder of 18-year-old Jonathan Calvin Jacques early Sunday morning was Boston’s 50th shooting homicide of 2006, the highest total in more than a decade — and there’s still a month left in the year.
By: DAVID S. BERNSTEIN
 The Herald forgets about the alleged Marshfield massacre plot: Lost Boys
Remember Toby Kerns? What about Joe Nee?
By: ADAM REILLY
 Where’s the brotherly love for gays and lesbians?: Equal rites
I enjoyed Brokeback Mountain and thought it did a good job of trying to give the rest of the world a window into the joys and sorrows of men loving men.
By: MARY ANN SORRENTINO
 What kind of gun does a $200 Target gift card get you?: Guns of Boston
When this summer’s hugely hyped “Aim for Peace” gun-buyback program ended in July, Mayor Thomas Menino announced that “the firearms we received were exactly the type of firearms we wanted.”
By: DAVID S. BERNSTEIN
 Poor Little Rich Girl expands in Davis: Goodbye porn room, hello cool shoes!
"Be Nice or Go Away" reads the sign above the cash register at Poor Little Rich Girl in Somerville.
By: CAMILLE DODERO
 Closeout resale: Try, try again
By: SCOTT GETCHELL
In 2006, women still get a raw deal: Gender
What reparation can women seek — like the 40 acres and a mule due slaves after the American Civil War — to compensate our 2000 years of discrimination?
By: MARY ANN SORRENTINO
 Mitt to Bay State: elect this: Romney’s unkindest cuts
Last Thursday, Mitt Romney railed against state legislators for subverting the constitutional process to get what they wanted at the Constitutional Convention.
By: DAVID S. BERNSTEIN
 After South Dakota: Abortion battles
On the eve of the midterm elections, one church in South Dakota held round-the-clock prayer vigils imploring God to keep the state’s toughest-ever law criminalizing abortions on the books.
By: MARY ANN SORRENTINO
 What will a Democratic Congress mean for digital freedom?: Electronic blue
The Democrats’ sudden ascension to power in both houses of Congress for the first time since 1994 is undeniably good news for a host of progressive causes.
By: MIKE MILIARD
 Apenest doesn’t want your sprinkle: Print this!
One day, Brian Willmont decided he wanted to make an art magazine.
By: CAMILLE DODERO
 Just Visting: An occasional shout-out from people passing through town
What's the difference between Mexican and American comedy?
By: MARK OSTOW
 The end of an era in Allston: Gone but not forgotten
Down in his colossally cluttered cellar, Don McBride sits behind a kit and unleashes a roiling salvo worthy of Gene Krupa.
By: MIKE MILIARD
 Five keys for BPD’s new top cop: Ed Davis
Edward Davis was always the obvious choice for Mayor Tom Menino’s next police commissioner.
By: DAVID S. BERNSTEIN
 Bold, fruity, and unsophisticated: The battle over wine
What’s the harm in a glass of wine?
By: VANESSA CZARNECKI
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