Back then, the Boston Globe seemed stuffy and self-important, and the Phoenix set itself up as the scrappy anti- Globe, more tuned into street culture and the arts; funnier, looser, cooler.

The Boston Phoenix, which recently reinvented itself as a glossy magazine, will close. Here's the last print issue, which hit newsstands on Thursday. (Abby Elizabeth Conway/WBUR) ...

In a poignant signal of a fast-changing media landscape, The Boston Phoenix sent out a short and simple tweet Thursday afternoon: "Thank you Boston. Good night and good luck." With that terse ...

The Boston Phoenix was the survivor of a proud journalistic tradition dating back to the alt-weekly wars of the ’70s, in which the Phoenix battled against its former staffers on The Real Paper.