The Real Paper
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The Real Paper was a Boston-area alternative weekly newspaper with a circulation in the tens of thousands. It ran from August 2, 1972, to June 18, 1981, often devoting space to counterculture and alte
Ad from The Real Paper for Orson Welles Cinema (June 13, 1973)
The Phoenix (newspaper)
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The Phoenix was the name of several alternative weekly periodicals published in the United States by Phoenix Media/Communications Group of Boston, Massachusetts, including the now defunct Boston Phoen
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…competitor Boston After Dark. Hoping to eliminate his direct competition. Mindich renamed his paper The Boston Phoenix After Dark, later shortened back to The Boston Phoenix. The entire former staff of The Phoenix was now unemployed, the lone exception being the late sportswriter George Kimball, who went to work for Mindich…
The cover of the March 15, 2013, Boston edition of The Phoenix, the newspaper's last issue