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.

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.

I would like to tell the people in Hull you are being charged twice for your sewer bill.Weir river…read moreis charging you three dollars for purification per unit on your bill. Hull is charging you for the same purification $14 per unit. take a good look at your sewer bill. I noticed the charges why should be charged twice for the same service? The people in Cohasset and situate only pay the water company for the usage. They do not have any sore bill. I'm gonna show you a bill and you can compare it.

Great community weekly newspaper. I never miss an issue. The news stories are well written,…read moretimely & poignant with great photos. The community events section is thorough & informative, and always interesting editorial pieces & cartoons at $0.75/ week is as good as it gets. As an aside, the paper offers affordable advertising for local companies and the owners/ staff are not only approachable, but clearly care about the town as evidenced by their wide patronage at local establishments. The annual summer guide is also a must-have for every home.

Almost nobody outside of Waltham knows about this station and only a small number of local…read moreresidents have stumbled across it at 100.1 FM. Yet this station, the radio voice of Brandeis University is a welcome relief from the slick overprogrammed junk filling the commercial airwaves. WBRS provides a bit of everything for its listeners. In the mornings there is contemporary rock music, especially some of the older punk stuff and edgy independent tunes that other stations are afraid to play. Later on a listener might hear ethnic, folk, or reggae or, perhaps some sports talk from a couple of college students. It's eclectic and creative, with an emphasis on content. While most radio stations are constrained by a tightly programmed format WBRS breaks free from these bounds. It's a reminder of how smaller stations can be more entertaining than the children of media powerhouses. Only reason it loses one star is because of its low-power transmitter.

The best little radio station ever. WBRS, WERS, and WZBC were the three stations I listed to most…read morewhen I lived in the Boston area. (WMBR was up there, too)

Can't stream Howie Carr LIVE on the afternoon drive time on WRKO anymore? If I want straight news…read moreI'll just listen to WBZ. Where did he go? Only short podcast, only good thing is not commercials.

It's a radio podcast station. Extremely informative. Enjoyable because of the mix of content.read more