The Phoenix was named "Newspaper of the Year" in the alternative weekly division by the New England Press Association in its 2007 Better Newspaper Contest. "After 40 years, the Boston Phoenix remains a model for alts, bristling with attitude and loaded with coverage of entertainment, culture, politics, and tweaking of the daily press," the judges say. The Boston alt-weekly led the pack of AAN papers represented in the awards with 12 first-place finishes. Boston's Weekly Dig was close behind it's crosstown competitor, grabbing seven first-place awards. The Portland Phoenix and Worcester Magazine each finished first in three categories, while the Hartford Advocate and the Providence Phoenix each took home one first-place award.
Attorney Bob Joyce has started a campaign to rid Boston's West Roxbury neighborhood of the paper, according to the West Roxbury Transcript. Joyce claims that the Phoenix's adult ads don't jibe with the "values of the West Roxbury community." But Phoenix Media executive editor Peter Kadzis says Joyce's motivations are purely political. "Attorney Joyce is active in the anti-choice, anti-gay marriage movements," Kadzis tells the Transcript. "He is trying to halt the Phoenix from circulating for political reasons. His recent crusade against the paper's Adult section is merely an extension of those efforts." Joyce claims he has gotten the paper yanked from six neighborhood businesses, but one merchant who talked to the West Roxbury Bulletin says he doesn't plan to stop carrying the Phoenix. "As far as I know, West Roxbury is still part of the United States of America and the Constitution still covers us over here," says Gary Park of Gary's Liquors. "He is not going to tell me how to run my business."
On Wednesday, the Phoenix published David Bernstein's "Was It All a Dream?," which called into question whether Romney's father actually marched with Martin Luther King, Jr., as the presidential candidate had claimed in a recent speech and TV appearance. Dogged by reporters over the assertion, Romney yesterday backpedaled and admitted that he never did see such a thing. Yet a spokesperson tells the Phoenix that, even if Mitt never "saw" it, George Romney did march with King, despite historical evidence to the contrary. "I researched this question, and indeed it is untrue that George Romney marched with Martin Luther King," the assistant editor of the Martin Luther King Jr. Papers Project at Stanford University tells the Boston Globe.
Longtime music critic Brett Milano's new book, The Sound of Our Town: A History of Boston Rock & Roll, surveys 50 years of Beantown's popular music. "Brett's book is something this city has needed," a former program director for local radio station WBCN tells the Globe. "As a whole scene, maybe [Boston] didn't have the national impact of some other towns, but take Mission of Burma or the Pixies. Look how many people have said those bands are an influence. Sometimes we don't get the recognition we deserve."
The city mag publisher "didn't do everything perfectly, but there was a ton of stuff it did that was genius," Jeff Lawrence tells Business Week. Metrocorp, which also owns Boston magazine, bought a majority interest in the Dig in 2004, and Lawrence bought the paper back earlier this year. After watching how the bigger company spun out new revenue streams from its numerous brands, Lawrence is now thinking about how to introduce new ventures like phone-based Web content, a quarterly arts publication, Boston travel and entertainment guides for the Gen Y set, and alternative newspapers in other New England towns, all under the Weekly Dig brand. "I had access to their executive meetings and knowledge and history," Lawrence says. "Entrepreneurs don't often get that kind of opportunity."
Gerald Peary's For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism was screened this weekend at the Telluride Film Festival in Colorado, the Boston Globe reports. The documentary is produced by Geary's wife, Amy Geller, and features interviews with a variety of American film critics, including the Village Voice's J. Hoberman. "The movie's not done yet, but they liked it so much they invited us to show it as a work in progress," Peary tells the Globe.
This year, Donald Trump tops the list of the 100 unsexiest men in the world compiled by the Boston Phoenix. As "unsexiest," Trump has been proclaimed the winner of the Golden Gilbert, the trophy named in honor of last year's winner Gilbert Gottfried. The Phoenix says Trump "was the clear winner because he is both an ugly person and an unattractive man -- the worst of both worlds!" As an "honorary member of the rodded gender, thanks to a conspicuous Adam's apple and complementary set of brass balls," Ann Coulter placed 80th, four behind the Phoenix's male editorial staff.
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