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Dead Blogging Photograph 51 At The Central Square Theater
Ever encounter a science teacher who made DNA interesting, entertaining, and just a little bit sad? Us neither. Until the hardworking staff (and the Missus) took in the Nora Theatre Company’s production of Photograph 51 at the Central Square Theater. From … Continue reading
It’s Good To Live In A Two-Daily Town (Tim Thomas Edition)
Tim Thomas, who sounds like the NHL’s first mobbed-up goaltender (“I going to use my right to remain silent”), gets very different treatment in the Boston dailies today. Boston Globe columnist Kevin Paul Dupont cuffs Thomas around on the sports … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Facebook, Howie Carr, Kevin Paul Dupont, Tim Thomas
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Butterfinger Bites Back
From our Revenge Is Sweet desk: Last week, as you doubtless remember, the online pawn shop Pawngo became sort of Pwn-go: [Last Wednesday, Pawngo] decided to have a little fun with Boston-area sports fans by dumping some Butterfingers addressed to Wes … Continue reading
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Tagged @bostonponder, Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Butterfinger, CBS Sports, Patriots Nation, Pawngo, Pwn-go, Wes Welker
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It’s Good To Live In A Three-Daily Town (Super Bowl Hand-Off Edition)
Super Bowl Fever Grips Hub! And the hands doing the gripping belong to Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski, whose outsized mitts were the subject of a story in Thursday’s New York Times (an honorary local daily by way of its … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Gronk, hands, New England Patriots, New York Times, Rob Gronkowski, Super Bowl
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It’s Good To Live In A Two Daily Town (Kevin White R.I.P. Edition)
From our Boston Herald as Lively Index to the Boston Globe desk: The respective front pages of the Herald and the Globe on the death of legendary Boston Mayor Kevin White: The text tells the tale, though: the Herald was … Continue reading
It’s Good To Live In A Two-Daily Town (Rose Kennedy Greenway Edition)
For the past few days, the Boston Herald has been blowtorching the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway Conservancy over its excessive executive salaries and obsessive lack of transparaency. First there was the errant e-mail: Then, the coverup: All the while, the … Continue reading
It’s Good To Live In A Two-Daily Town (Brown/Warren Ceasefire Edition)
Now that the goo-goos have stopped cooing for a moment about the Super PAC disarmament pact between likely U.S. Senate rivals Scott Brown and Elizabeth Warren, it’s time for the real world to weigh in – specifically free speech advocates … Continue reading
Cozy Business At The Boston Globe?
The hardworking staff is not jumping to any conclusions here, but consider this confluence of coverage: Sunday’s Boston Globe featured this Q&A with Jennifer Chayes, managing director of Microsoft Research New England: Where creativity meets technology Jennifer Chayes is the … Continue reading
NYT Enters The (Dela)Hunt
The (Bill Dela)Hunt started with this Boston Globe piece on Saturday: Delahunt, champion of wind project, now may profit from it In Congress, he helped Hull secure $1.7m; as consultant, he’s in line for no-bid contract As a congressman, William … Continue reading
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Tagged Bill Delahunt, Boston Globe, Hull, New York Times, wind energy
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