"Two weeks ago, the 46-year-old alternative weekly the Boston Phoenix vanished in a puff of newsprint, leaving in its place a new publication called simply The Phoenix, a news-culture-lifestyle magazine as glossy as the new condominium buildings sprouting in once working-class Southie. The city’s name — the sense of place — simply disappeared. The loss was a long time for coming."
SALON: Goodbye, alt-weeklies
W - The Phoenix
The sad, inevitable decline of The Boston Phoenix
Axed Cartoonist Blasts Village Voice Ownership, ‘Bain Capital of the Altweeklies’
2010 June: The Real Paper
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