Four stars for news and TWO FULL PAGES of comics. My apartment complex gets the Globe delivered…read moreevery day and I'll usually glance over the cover while I'm waiting for my colleagues to catch up. The last couple of days, I've been stuck in the apartment all day so when I popped out for coffee, I bought a paper at the 7-Eleven. Obviously, much of it is slanted towards Massachusetts happenings and it seems to go a leeeetle bit liberal towards the current occupant of the White House. Other than that, the news is good and you can't beat the coverage of the Boston sports teams.

i had the sunday paper delivered and had it charged to my credit card. never received the paper…read more i then complained to them and cancelled the paper but my credit card is still getting charged!!

After offer of digital subscription, I was charged more than 12 payments of 27.27. Per 4 weeks. I…read morecalled and no credit given though, they verified I Had not looked at paper. Promotion is a scam

worse than bad customer service!!!. i am an 86 year old, handicaped woman, who was suckered in by…read morethe boston globe, by an promotion of paying $1.00 to view the full article, of only one article, on the bos. globe. it was nec. for me to provide my credit card number to pay the $1.00 fee. i only learned yest. , providing my cc number allowed the boston globe to charge me $27.72 per month, for each month thereafter!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i called the b.g., spoke with jason who advised he could do nothing about it. i req. speaking with his supervisor who advised she could do nothing....i req. to speak w/the excalation dept. and stephany advised it will/would take over a week to hear from them. i merely requested stephany's ist initial of her last name...was advised it is b.g. req. not...not...not allow her to provide 1st initials!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i am owed $110.88 by the bos. globe!!!!!!!!!!! i will be spreading this info on all social media platforms. the boston globe, john w. henry and his wife/linda, are multi-billionaire, thieves!!!!!

I love this paper! It's the best way to know what's going on around town in Boston.read more

I have an interesting relationship with Boink! Magazine…read more About two summers ago I was casually dating a boy who thought he was REALLY attractive. Now, to be honest, he was an attractive guy, nice abs, in good shape, but I think in his head he was like MALE MODEL HOT! He told me that he had submitted his photos to Boink! and that they had called him back about a photo shoot. At the time I thought it was a bit odd, but just laughed it off. Then came the night of the photo shoot! I was walking home from dinner with friends when he called. Boy I am dating: Babe, it went soooo well tonight! Me: Oh yeah? :: sarcasm in my voice:: Tell me about it! Boink! Model: Babe, I looked so hot, I looking like a f*cking greek god! A f*ucking GREEK GOD! Me: Oh yeah! :: thinking, OH NO! :: Boy I plan on dumping: Yeah, babe, it went so well I can't wait to see the pictures! Yeah Babe, not my style, it ended shorty after. When the magazine came out my roommates threatened to plaster my walls with it! I guess the cool/creepy thing about Boink! is you never know who you might find on the pages and then in the seat on the train next to you. I only skimmed some of the articles, and honestly some of the photo shots were just poorly done. BUT I give them 3 stars for trying to do something different, especially in a conservative town like Boston! We need people to push our buttons, just as long as they don't say babe too much ;)

Lame. Some of the worst writing I have ever read, in…read moreamateurish, poorly-researched articles, filled with conjecture, opinion, and assumption passed off as fact. Boink is essentially a huge bait and switch-- you THINK it will be intellectually stimulating, yet hot and dirty at the same time. The switch comes when you realize that while yes, sometimes they show dudes and unattractive ladies, it's still mainly antiseptic, unsexy, Playboy circa 1989, and the writing filled with fratboy-and-girl bullshit, with the occasional strident fake-sex-advocate writing about the liberating qualities of whatever sex act he or she just tried out and will hopefully shock their parents with at Thanksgiving dinner. It comes down to lack of science, lack of sexy, huge lack of perspective, and lack of literacy. We all (hopefully) go through a sexual awakening where we try new things, talk to our friends, and develop our identities. Fortunately, most of us don't publish a boring, stupid, frigid sex magazine to commemorate the experience.

The Advocate is a great newspaper to advertise in.. it is more of a shopper now than what it was…read moreduring its great early days in Chelsea 1990-91 when it got started. I wish it was circulated more.

The Revere Advocate newspaper or rag is operated by James Mitchell, He claims he is a newspaper…read morepublisher for several smalls, but nothing of substance. Certainly, not for the college educated crowd and geared more for the blue-collar worker. James Mitchell has a reputation for bullying his small staff of writers and for harassing his local advertisers into buying expensive ads.. A former friend of mine is still working for this slave driver and he wants his pound of flesh! She can do better! I am a newspaper brat, and I know the lingo and the ins and outs of running a successful company and James Mitchell, publisher elite is not publishing material! Boring! Boring! Boring!

2 star SAT review…read more the IB is to boston : the Phantom gourmet is to dining out. there you go, if you advertise in IB you are the best, if not, your not worth the ink its printed with. hey its free amusing and always worth picking up to read ezra article (maybe the 2 stars itself) and the sometimes witty improper personals. from time to time the articles are worth a read, but its either that or look at the twitching person father down the t car. i hate the cut out pictures& montages that look like the emerson's senior project.

A question for those who have been an owner or manager of a business: Do you ever have the fear…read morethat one of your employees will do something so stupid or act very rudely? And the sad thing thing is managers can't be everywhere at all times to watch out for the idiocy of their employees. I'll get to the point now. I love the magazine as it used to make my plans each week. Even Ezra made sense every now and then. I even sent a photo of me posing with an issue in Melbourne (Boston's sister city). It was a great publication to find out about events as well as new eating establishments and stomping grounds. So when a friend of mine from San Francisco was planning to open a sushi restaurant in Boston, I said I would looking to advertising rates at certain publications. I called up the Improper and spoke to the ad exec. I explained that the restaurant is still in the business plan phase and I am helping make a budget and Idon't know anything else. She kept asking for the owners' names plus chefs, investors. I told her I didn't know and reiterated that it is still in the planning phase. She then asks where is it going to be? What style of decor? Can I fax a menu to her? I politely explained that I didn't know while here tone was condescending, aggressive, and she used some profanity. At this point I hung up. Don't people realize that you get more bees with honey and vinegar? I think that there is a certain respect you have for people in general. But I feel bad for the management/owner of the Improper as one of the uncouth rogue employees acted idiotically. I don't see why she was so rude there was no point in it and I am less likely to give money to someone who is rude.

The Somerville News is a wonderful independent paper and a great antidote to the Gatehouse Media…read moreconglomerate. Sure you have the typos, occasional grammatical errors, and in-town backscratching going on, but sometimes the paper gets a really good scoop and the editors care very much about fostering new talent and generally keep a very open mind for stories. The newstalk section can be pretty funny sometimes and also gives you a good feel for the soul of old-time Somerville. I guess some people might call the paper more "conservative" than The Somerville Journal. Whatever. In my opinion, it's just more INTERESTING and you get the sense that the powers that be at the paper are invested in infusing it with some personality. Sure they've been through some missteps in the past, but I think they recognize the responsibility that comes with running a paper and are up for the challenge. Here's hoping that this independent paper stays the course and has many more years in business.

From the owner: We are Somerville's only locally owned and operated weekly Newspaper that is delivered to over 160…read moreboxes, local stores and public buildings in Somerville Mass. The paper has been in business since January 1968 as The Somerville Times, in the mid 1970's the name change was made to The Somerville News, now again October 2013 we changed the name back to the original The Somerville Times.