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Monthly Archives: November 2010
The Boston Globe-Wrapper
Sad to say (and see), the Boston Globe has become a wire-service publication wrapped in local content. Exhibit A: Tuesday’s edition, which featured the usual front-page Globe Staff content (in this case, five pieces): But from there, readers get 15 … Continue reading
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Tagged Associated Press, Boston Globe, Boston Globe-Wrapper, New York Times, Washington Post
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The Wall Street Times
Wall Street Journal, meet the New York Times: “Harry Potter and the Adult Market” WSJ piece: ‘Potter’ Charms Aging Audience “The key to this franchise is 18-34 year olds and their aging process,” says Dan Fellman, president of domestic distribution … Continue reading
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Tagged Black Friday, Black Thursday, Desert Island Discs, Harry Potter, New York Times, Wall Street Journal
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Obituary Lede o’ the Week (pat. pending)
From Monday’s New York Times: Lawrencia Bembenek, ‘Bambi’ in Murder Case, Dies at 52 Lawrencia Bembenek, a former Playboy bunny and Milwaukee police officer whose conviction for the murder of her husband’s ex-wife and audacious escape from prison became tabloid … Continue reading
My Florida Recount Memory
From Sunday’s New York Times: Ten years ago this month, all eyes were on Florida as lawyers, election officials and campaign workers bickered over the hanging chads and dimpled ballots, the suits and countersuits, that would determine whether the next … Continue reading
Mitt Romney Laundering Money In Alabama?
From Sunday’s New York Times: The fact that Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor who is weighing a run for president in 2012, has an active political action committee in Alabama might seem puzzling. It is, after all, not a critical … Continue reading
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Tagged Alabama, Free and Strong America, Free to Strongarm America, Mitt Romney, New York Times, PAC
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The Bristol Stomp
From our Palindrome desk: Official Campaign Outsider Survey®: Is Bristol Palin Being Propped Up On ‘Dancing with the Stars’ By Tea Partiers Or What? Bristol – and Mama Sarah – say, sort of, no. From an Associated Press piece in Saturday’s … Continue reading
MFA’s Art Of The Americas Wing Boffo In NYT
New York Times art critic Holland Cotter totally hearts the new Art of the Americas Wing at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts. BOSTON — Five years after breaking ground, the new Art of the Americas Wing at the Museum of Fine … Continue reading
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Tagged Art of the Americas Wing, Holland Cotter, MFA, New York Times
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Dead Blogging My Trip To The RMV
The Place: Registry of Motor Vehicles, Watertown Mall The Objective: Renew my driver’s license, which expired four months ago but I didn’t realize (because the RMV no longer sends you a letter saying, “Your driver’s license is about to expire”) … Continue reading
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Tagged Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles, RMV, Watertown Mall
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Howie Carr(less) Fudges 2010 Election Results
The hardflying staff returned to Boston to find another in a series of Howie Carr man-crush pieces about Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown (R-Boston Herald). From Wednesday’s feisty tabloid: Scott Brown may have been a hidden winner in the GOP wipeout … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Herald, Christine O'Donnell, Howie Carr, Joe Miller, John Raese, Scott Brown, Sharron Angle, ShillBabyShill
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