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Monthly Archives: September 2009
Ad o’ the Day (pat.pending)
On page 7 of the Sunday New York Times Style section, Lord & Taylor ran an ad that featured an attractive woman with a pocket pooch sitting on a couch and glaring at another woman clad in a form-fitting “Allen … Continue reading
Live and Let Learn
Say, that was some Dr. Jekyll and Mrs. Hyde performance submitted by Serena Williams at the U.S. Open Saturday night, yeah? First she went Chernobyl on the lineswoman who called a foot fault on Williams’s second serve at 15-30 in … Continue reading
Southern F(r)iction
Novelist Elizabeth Spencer has the Wall Street Journal’s Five Best feature this week, subheadlined: Elizabeth Spencer chooses her favorite works of Southern fiction Problem is, none of them were written by Flannery O’Connor. Look – somebody’s favorites are somebody’s favorites. But … Continue reading
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Tagged Five Best, Flannery O'Connor, Southern Fiction, Wall Street Journal
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Knocked From Pillar to Washington Post, Part 2
The Washington Post now has its scapegoat for the paper’s humiliating attempt last July to lease out its editorial staff in a series of macher-stroking dinners at WaPo publisher Katherine Weymouth’s no doubt lavish home. From the Post’s report on the beheading … Continue reading
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Tagged executive quits, Katherine Weymouth, Marcus Brauchli, Washington Post
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Dead (Walking Around) Money Walking
A Saturday Wall Street Journal piece headlined “New York Restaurant Loses Its Appetite for Cash” previewed the death of actual money: At the Greenwich Village restaurant Commerce, cash is off the menu. In the latest encroachment of credit and debit cards … Continue reading
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Tagged Commerce restaurant, New York Times, Walking Around Money
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9/11, In Memoriam
Many thanks to Dan Kennedy for posting the New York Times “Portraits of Grief” series on his (really) hardworking Media Nation blog. It reminded me that I should revisit the NYT portrait of my cousin Tommy Ashton, tragically murdered in … Continue reading
Separation of Real Estate and 4th Estate?
Forget about real-estate classifieds migrating to Craigslist. Seems they’re also relocating to Page One of the Boston Globe. Exhibit A: Thursday’s front-page Globe piece about the condominium fire sale at the hopelessly pretentious Natick Collection mall. Nouvelle at Natick, the … Continue reading
Fun Fact to Know and Tell
From Thursday’s Wall Street Journal piece headlined, “Kraft Covets Cadbury’s Know-How in India:” Cadbury estimates that more than half of India’s more than one billion people have never tasted chocolate. Shut up.
Checkin’ NECN
“Style Boston,” a truly Amateur Half-Hour program, debuted on regional cable news network NECN Wednesday night, and the thunk could be heard all the way to Worcester. The Boston Globe’s ever-upbeat Names page described “Style Boston” this way: The show, … Continue reading
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