Four stars for news and TWO FULL PAGES of comics. My apartment complex gets the Globe delivered…read moreevery day and I'll usually glance over the cover while I'm waiting for my colleagues to catch up. The last couple of days, I've been stuck in the apartment all day so when I popped out for coffee, I bought a paper at the 7-Eleven. Obviously, much of it is slanted towards Massachusetts happenings and it seems to go a leeeetle bit liberal towards the current occupant of the White House. Other than that, the news is good and you can't beat the coverage of the Boston sports teams.

i had the sunday paper delivered and had it charged to my credit card. never received the paper…read more i then complained to them and cancelled the paper but my credit card is still getting charged!!

Please please please get rid of Jeff Robbins. I love your paper but when I read his vindictive…read morebelligerent rants about Trump I want to throw up on him. Tell him to go to the Globe where he can commiserate with the commu nist hacks over there. He makes no COMMON Sense.

I had a trial digital subscription for 6 months. I cancelled the subscription before the trial…read moreperiod was up. A month later I see a charge from the Herald on my credit card statement. They charged me for a renewal BEFORE the trial subscription had ended. Called them up to refund my money. They refused despite the evidence saying they have no refund policy in place. Buyer beware. They will steal your money.

2 star SAT review…read more the IB is to boston : the Phantom gourmet is to dining out. there you go, if you advertise in IB you are the best, if not, your not worth the ink its printed with. hey its free amusing and always worth picking up to read ezra article (maybe the 2 stars itself) and the sometimes witty improper personals. from time to time the articles are worth a read, but its either that or look at the twitching person father down the t car. i hate the cut out pictures& montages that look like the emerson's senior project.

A question for those who have been an owner or manager of a business: Do you ever have the fear…read morethat one of your employees will do something so stupid or act very rudely? And the sad thing thing is managers can't be everywhere at all times to watch out for the idiocy of their employees. I'll get to the point now. I love the magazine as it used to make my plans each week. Even Ezra made sense every now and then. I even sent a photo of me posing with an issue in Melbourne (Boston's sister city). It was a great publication to find out about events as well as new eating establishments and stomping grounds. So when a friend of mine from San Francisco was planning to open a sushi restaurant in Boston, I said I would looking to advertising rates at certain publications. I called up the Improper and spoke to the ad exec. I explained that the restaurant is still in the business plan phase and I am helping make a budget and Idon't know anything else. She kept asking for the owners' names plus chefs, investors. I told her I didn't know and reiterated that it is still in the planning phase. She then asks where is it going to be? What style of decor? Can I fax a menu to her? I politely explained that I didn't know while here tone was condescending, aggressive, and she used some profanity. At this point I hung up. Don't people realize that you get more bees with honey and vinegar? I think that there is a certain respect you have for people in general. But I feel bad for the management/owner of the Improper as one of the uncouth rogue employees acted idiotically. I don't see why she was so rude there was no point in it and I am less likely to give money to someone who is rude.

After offer of digital subscription, I was charged more than 12 payments of 27.27. Per 4 weeks. I…read morecalled and no credit given though, they verified I Had not looked at paper. Promotion is a scam

worse than bad customer service!!!. i am an 86 year old, handicaped woman, who was suckered in by…read morethe boston globe, by an promotion of paying $1.00 to view the full article, of only one article, on the bos. globe. it was nec. for me to provide my credit card number to pay the $1.00 fee. i only learned yest. , providing my cc number allowed the boston globe to charge me $27.72 per month, for each month thereafter!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i called the b.g., spoke with jason who advised he could do nothing about it. i req. speaking with his supervisor who advised she could do nothing....i req. to speak w/the excalation dept. and stephany advised it will/would take over a week to hear from them. i merely requested stephany's ist initial of her last name...was advised it is b.g. req. not...not...not allow her to provide 1st initials!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i am owed $110.88 by the bos. globe!!!!!!!!!!! i will be spreading this info on all social media platforms. the boston globe, john w. henry and his wife/linda, are multi-billionaire, thieves!!!!!

I have an interesting relationship with Boink! Magazine…read more About two summers ago I was casually dating a boy who thought he was REALLY attractive. Now, to be honest, he was an attractive guy, nice abs, in good shape, but I think in his head he was like MALE MODEL HOT! He told me that he had submitted his photos to Boink! and that they had called him back about a photo shoot. At the time I thought it was a bit odd, but just laughed it off. Then came the night of the photo shoot! I was walking home from dinner with friends when he called. Boy I am dating: Babe, it went soooo well tonight! Me: Oh yeah? :: sarcasm in my voice:: Tell me about it! Boink! Model: Babe, I looked so hot, I looking like a f*cking greek god! A f*ucking GREEK GOD! Me: Oh yeah! :: thinking, OH NO! :: Boy I plan on dumping: Yeah, babe, it went so well I can't wait to see the pictures! Yeah Babe, not my style, it ended shorty after. When the magazine came out my roommates threatened to plaster my walls with it! I guess the cool/creepy thing about Boink! is you never know who you might find on the pages and then in the seat on the train next to you. I only skimmed some of the articles, and honestly some of the photo shots were just poorly done. BUT I give them 3 stars for trying to do something different, especially in a conservative town like Boston! We need people to push our buttons, just as long as they don't say babe too much ;)

Lame. Some of the worst writing I have ever read, in…read moreamateurish, poorly-researched articles, filled with conjecture, opinion, and assumption passed off as fact. Boink is essentially a huge bait and switch-- you THINK it will be intellectually stimulating, yet hot and dirty at the same time. The switch comes when you realize that while yes, sometimes they show dudes and unattractive ladies, it's still mainly antiseptic, unsexy, Playboy circa 1989, and the writing filled with fratboy-and-girl bullshit, with the occasional strident fake-sex-advocate writing about the liberating qualities of whatever sex act he or she just tried out and will hopefully shock their parents with at Thanksgiving dinner. It comes down to lack of science, lack of sexy, huge lack of perspective, and lack of literacy. We all (hopefully) go through a sexual awakening where we try new things, talk to our friends, and develop our identities. Fortunately, most of us don't publish a boring, stupid, frigid sex magazine to commemorate the experience.

Thank you TBP for dubbing our band Witch Baby one of the "Best New Bands of 2012"!…read more http://contests.thephoenix.com/50States/2012/Hawaii/ I especially love the fact that the writer picked up on our musical influences! I guess she is on the same page we are. We recently went into the studio to record a song for a Flux magazine compilation: Flux Hawaii Summer Mixtape 2012 (http://fluxhawaii.com/mixtape/). In the end, I guess it's one of those things where you just never know who will be listening to your music. In our case, The Boston Phoenix.

I wish this were an encomium, and if I'd written this 10 or 15 years ago it surely would've been…read more Then the Phoenix was at the top of its game, a robust alternative weekly with exceptional arts writing, vital listings for clubs and local cinemas, and essential investigative reporting nonpareil (everyone forgets that they lit the long fuse on the Catholic Church scandal in Boston that the Globe got to take all the credit for). These days its a moribund shell of its former self - actually, that might be too generous, since hardly any remaining indicators of its former self are evident aside from the name. Gone is any semblance of actual journalism, the arts sections has shriveled down to what are essentially blurbs and tweets, and the listing have all but vanished. I'm not sure if any of it is salvageable. I can tell you that, when I was exiled briefly to the suburbia in the late 90s, and wasn't able to pick up a free copy on a college campus, I would actually pay for this out at a local newsstand in the sticks. I think it was 2 dollars. Best 2 dollars I spent every week. Now that it is actually free (and has been free everywhere for some time), it's not even worth spending the time or calories to open the bin by the T stop and pull one out. Not even to use as accelerant for my charcoal chimney, which requires newspaper in the bottom to ignite it. Turns out even the ink they use to print the Phoenix these days is piss poor quality, not even fit to be burned. I'd put the Phoenix on the media death watch for 2012, but it's apparent that it's already died, and no one told it, and its animated corpse is just lurching around waiting for a headshot to put it down.

I love this paper! It's the best way to know what's going on around town in Boston.read more

This is by far the worst of the free magazines, because it's all fluff and advertisements for…read moreplaces that appeal to the owners of vaginas and gay men, particularly those who have a sizable amount of flexible income to blow on the hippest martinis and overpriced shoes and spa outings. Yeah, that's not really my scene, but they do get the extra star for printing photos of some of us yelpers in it. And also, there was a fluff article of what your drink says about you, and a general consensus was made by the bartenders being interviewed for this piece of crap article that women who drink Manhattans are awesome. There is nothing better than a good Manhattan, or a good Sidecar for that matter, if you ask me. And yes, this magazine is completely over sexed to the point that it makes me want to take a shower immediately upon reading it. It's kind of like glossy, overly airbrushed, socialite porn.

I like Stuff (@ Night). It's a free magazine to the dwellers of Boston, and even in issues where…read morecontent is lacking, the ads alone are worth picking up a copy up and reading it over a free 10 minutes. Restaurants, bars, and local vendors advertise, and I use the magazine more often for a "to do" list of new spots to check out. I don't fully understand the name change-- now non-Boston natives think I'm talking about a different magazine all together. Supposedly, the magazine is about Stuff that happens during all day parts and not just nighttime, so a re branding was necessary. Meh. Once upon a time, my business was featured in the Hot 100 (cool!), but the photographer shooting us said I couldn't pose without looking like I had a double chin (not cool). Still, I like reading the (mostly) fluff pieces about the Boston nightlife scene, and can pick up a copy outside my local Foodmaster.