Yes it is a privilege just to be nominated, but screw that, we want to win. We’re shallow and insecure and crave the validation of a promotional campaign designed to get free publicity and drive traffic to the Phoenix website. We are being manipulated and used and we know it, but we just want all […]
Thank you readers!!! Once again you have taken the time out of your busy lives to make us Best Blog in the ‘City Life’ category of the Providence Phoenix Best of 2010 Readers’ Picks poll. We are particularly honored knowing how stiff the competition is. As we make abundantly clear day after day, we are
The scene today down at Phoenix headquarters can only be imagined, but what a headache tomorrow morning when they all wake up and realize that news editor, Ian Donnis, has actually left the building. Ian has posted a farewell blog today at The Phoenix. He will be hard to replace. The need for a strong
Peter Keogh’s two-star ‘Quantum of Solace’ review in The Providence Phoenix opens, When a chase sequence near the beginning of this latest Bond film arouses less excitement than the horse race it’s intercut with, you know something is missing. In all fairness, the Siena Palio is quite a horse race. The residents of the city
I’ll get this right out there — the current flock of chirpy-quirky Betty Boop girl singers makes me want to rip my ears off. (I have to mute the new MacBook Air ad, who is that?) I prefer loud guitars playing songs that start fast and then speed up. Sometimes an article is designed for