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Monthly Archives: April 2010
The Late Boston Globe (Howie Carr Edition)
At about 2:25 Saturday morning, the lateworking staff at Campaign Outsider noticed this tweet from the indefatigable Dan Kennedy: Hearing there’s a big Boston media story brewing. Don’t know enough to say more. Saturday Globe? That’s the correct punctuation, Dan, … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe, Dan Kennedy, Howie Carr, suspended, Twitter, WRKO
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It’s Good To Live In A Two-Newspaper Town (Sonny Rollins Edition)
From our Not-To-Get-Technical-About-It desk: Friday’s (dead-tree) Boston Herald: Rock stars are often blockheads. They want to get paid, party hearty and occasionally make some art. Sonny Rollins is no rock star. A link to the last great jazz age, tenor … Continue reading
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Tagged 80th birthday, Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Sonny Rollins
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Style Bustin’
From our Sign o’ the Times desk: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Jan Saragoni Saragoni & Co. 617.497.2602 (office) 617.592.2877 (cell) jan.saragoni@saragoniandco.com “styleboston” Scores Two Regional Emmy® Nominations in Inaugural Season BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, April 14, 2010 – “styleboston” the weekly lifestyle … Continue reading
Break Up The Sharks!
What is it with the San Jose Sharks? They have to be the most consistently underperforming team since Chad & Jeremy. The hardworking staff at Campaign Outsider just watched the #1 seeded Sharks lose their first Stanley Cup playoff game to … Continue reading
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Tagged Colorado Rockies, San Jose Mercury News, San Jose Sharks, Stanley Cup playoffs
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Bay State Solons Opposed To Gambling . . . Their Careers
Casino gambling in Massachusetts is already claiming victims. From Wednesday’s Boston Globe piece headlined, “Changes killed with House lining up for casino bill”: After 17 years of serving in the back benches of the House, Representative Elllen Story, an Amherst … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe, Elllen Story, Massachusetts casino gambling, Robert DeLeo
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New Luck Times, Late Edition
Yesterday the hardworking staff at Campaign Outsider noted that New York Times reporter Katie Zezima had scooped the local dailies on Rev. James Scahill’s fire-Pope-Benedict-XIV-and-brimstone sermon at his East Longmeadow, Mass. parish. And the hardworking staff added this: Question: Did … Continue reading
This Is Not A Good Statue Of Kirby Puckett Jr.
Via Tuesday’s New York Times: Yes, it does depict Puckett winning Game 6 of the 1991 World’s Serious with a walkoff home run, described here on John Stodder’s From the Desert to the Sea blog: [I]n the 11th inning, Puckett … Continue reading
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Tagged John Stodder, Kirby Puckett Jr. statue, Minnesota Twins, Target Field
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It’s Good To Live In A Three-Newspaper Town (New Luck Times Edition)
Barnburner of a sermon at St. Michael’s Parish in East Longmeadow this past Sunday. We know that because New York Times reporter Katie Zezima was there to mash up the Rev. James J. Scahill’s jeremiad about the Roman Catholic Church’s … Continue reading
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Tagged James J. Scahill, Katie Zezima, New York Times, Stephen Kiesle
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Brookline Building Follies
Sunday’s Boston Globe included this Brookline zoning dustup: Chapel faces opposition in Brookline Building’s design too large, critics say Those critics would be the tony Fisher Hill set, who claim a proposed new Mormon chapel on Route 9 is “far too … Continue reading
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Tagged BLDG Boston, Boston Globe, Fisher Hill, Korean Church of Boston, Mormon chapel
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