Boston After Dark is first published.

Published initially from offices on Boylston Street, it begins as a weekly four-page listing of arts and cultural events. Joe Hanlon is the first editor. Stephen Mindich becomes sole owner and publisher in 1972, then purchases the alternative weekly Cambridge Phoenix, setting off a strike by that paper’s employees and subsequently merging it with BAD to become the Boston Phoenix in 1972.* The newspaper merges with a sister publication, Stuff, and becomes a magazine on September 20, 2012. The last issue appears on March 22, 2013.