Boston Phoenix to end publication
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This week’s print edition of The Phoenix, which only six months ago reinvented itself, will be its last, and the last online issue will be on March 22.
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Yvonne Abraham
Remembering the Phoenix
My years there were the best, most intensive education -- in journalism, in life, in friendship. And now that great academy is gone.
In major win for Bulger defense, judge removed
“Whitey” Bulger’s lawyers argued that US District Judge Richard Stearns should be removed because he was a federal prosecutor in Boston in the 1980s.
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‘West of Memphis’ gets close to closure
Director Amy Berg’s film about the West Memphis Three takes the measure of the whole story, letting its entire awful shape come into focus.
Menino seeks school at former Romney headquarters
Mayor Menino wants to use the North End building that formerly housed Mitt Romney’s campaign headquarters as the site for a new school.
A new pope
O’Malley eager to head home
O’Malley eager to head homeCardinal Sean P. O’Malley sounded relieved that he had not been elected pope, saying the job entails being “prisoner in a museum.”
On Football
Patriots were right to let Wes Welker go
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On basketball
Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett still going strong
The two teenage buddies who took dramatically different paths to get here are now among the top 20 scorers in NBA history.
Metro
O’Malley’s brethren embrace choice
At the San Lorenzo Friary in Jamaica Plain, the friars watched as the new pope was announced and chose the name Francis.
Columnists
Nation & World
Physicists say they have found a Higgs boson
Researchers believe they have found the subatomic particle that is a crucial building block to the universe.
Politics
Man who recorded Romney’s ‘47 percent’ comment speaks out
The bartender working the private fund-raiser says he didn’t make the secret recording as a political partisan.
Business
Short demand for long putters as vote on ban nears
Demand is down for long putters at local pro shops as people wait to see whether the anchored putting technique will be banned.
Arts
Movie Review
A 10-year-old views family discord in ‘Thursday Till Sunday’
Chilean filmmaker Dominga Sotomayor’s feature debut is beautifully photographed by Bárbara Álvarez, but the dialogue is spare and the pace slow.
Style
Bargain Bin
Store up on savings at Kartell
Ami Albernaz runs down specials and sales at area stores and shops, including Kartell’s semiannual sale.
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