The Boston Phoenix rises from the ashes like, well, not a phoenix but an online archive

The Internet Archive has enactment up a postulation of Boston Phoenix copies dating from the 1970s through its demise successful 2013. You tin bash keyword searches, conscionable browse done copies (including each those Phoenix Personals) oregon download full copies for speechmaking astatine your leisure.

Caralee Adams describes the travails of getting the postulation online, which progressive digitizing a "master microfilm" of the contents - and getting support from Northeastern University, to which steadfast Steve Mindich had donated insubstantial copies and the copyright to spell with them.

Northeastern journalism prof - and Phoenix alum - Dan Kennedy, writes the postulation is missing copies from 2010 done 2012 and everything from the paper's pre-Mindich days, but that, still, he's thrilled astir of the Phoenix is present online and easy accessible.