What Was and What Will Never Be (Again)

How the Boston Phoenix Kept Its Readers But Lost Its Advertisers. (MediaShift, 3/19/2013)

Excerpt: But beyond those factors, the community that sustained the Phoenix has passed from the scene. At one time the Boston area was awash in 

• concert venues
• record stores
• guitar emporiums
• independent book stores
• head shops 

-- the kinds of businesses that reached their customers by advertising in alternative weeklies. Now they are almost entirely gone.

In the heyday.