Boston Phoenix closing

And a nice piece by Susan Orlean in the New Yorker about her time there

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2013/03/memories-of-the-phoenix.html

When I went to work at the Phoenix, in 1982, its offices were in a ratty old building at the end of the otherwise glamorous Newbury Street in Boston’s Back Bay. I don’t mean ratty in a figurative sense, either: there were rat traps tucked into most of the corners and nooks, and they weren’t ironic. The office had all the polish and orderliness of a very bad yard sale late in the afternoon. Everyone was shaggy