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Monthly Archives: March 2011
Dead Blogging Patti Smith At The MFA
Patti Smith banged out the house at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts. Then she brought it down. Smith delivered the annual Deborah and Martin Hale Visiting Artists Lecture to a packed Remis Auditorium Wednesday night, except it wasn’t so much a … Continue reading
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Tagged Chelsea Hotel, Fondation Cartier, Just Kids, Land 250, MFA, Patti Smith, Robert Mapplethorpe
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Boston City Hall Plaza Redesign, Part Umpteen (II)
We’ve gone over this before, yes? Regardless, here’s another proposal for transforming Boston’s City Hall Plaza, via Wednesday’s Boston Globe: The transformation of Boston’s City Hall Plaza is supposed to take shape before you even know it’s happening. Next year, … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston bike share, Boston City Hall Plaza, Boston Globe, Chan Krieger Sieniewicz, HDR, redesign
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That’s Just So Mean! (Bianca de la Garza Edition)
Seriously, why do newspapers insist on running gape-mouthed photos of public figures? Exhibit Bianca, from Wednesday’s Boston Globe Names feature: That’s just not right. (This regrettable journalistic practice has gone on for years, but the hardworking staff will dedicate itself … Continue reading
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Tagged Bianca de la Garza, Blooming Good Time, Boston Globe, Names, Thomas M. Menino
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Tea Party Is Mad As A Hatter
The Tea Party, which is to political movements what plaid is to Bermuda shorts, has a Tea-bag trifecta underway in Utah. From Tuesday’s dead-tree New York Times: 3 Leading Mormon Politicians Feel Heat From Tea Party at Home in Utah … Continue reading
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Tagged Dyson Ball, Jon Huntsman, Mitt Romney, New York Times, Orrin Hatch, STAR Forum, Tea Party, Utah, Utah Rising
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Acid Test (Owsley Stanley Obit Division)
Owsley “Bear” Stanley, legendary LSDealer to the counterculture stars of the 1960s, died on Sunday at age 76. Depending on which obituary you read, Stanley “was a prolific LSD producer” or “made and supplied the LSD that fueled acid rock … Continue reading
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Tagged Beatles, Boston Globe, Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix, Ken Kesey, LSD, LSDealer, New York Times, Owsley Stanley, Wall Street Journal
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It’s Good To Live In A Two-Daily Town (WGBH Union Edition)
What’s wrong with the Boston Herald? Last week the feisty local tabloid couldn’t keep WGBH off the front page, gleefully whacking the public broadcaster for “[scoring] more than $80 million in obscure federal handouts over the past half-dozen years.” But … Continue reading
The Twits Of Twitter
What the hell is wrong with people? Part 1: Aflac drops Gilbert Gottfried after he tweets jokes about Japan crisis After delivering a stream of jokes on Twitter mocking Japan’s devastating earthquake and tsunami, Gottfried was dropped by the insurer … Continue reading
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Tagged Aflac, Cappie Pondexter, Gilbert Gottfried, Japan, tweets, Twitter, WNBA
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Why NPR Should Stand For ‘No Precipitous Response’
Did NPR drop the hammer too quickly on vanquished CEO Vivian Schiller, who was scuttled in the immediate wake of the National Punked Radio sting by the pimplicious James O’Keefe? Good question, now that strange bedfellows Glenn Beck and NPR … Continue reading
WGBH=Workers Get Big Hatin’
The Wisconsin public employee unions may have felt the love during the Cheeseheads Held Hostage standoff, but it’s quite the opposite for the WGBH union (Association of Employees of the Educational Foundation, Communications Workers of America, Local 1300) that has resoundingly … Continue reading
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Tagged AEEF, Cheeseheads Held Hostage, CWA, public employee unions, WGBH, Wisconsin
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‘On the Media’ Ramps Up NPR Rumpus
From our Chasing Your Own Tail desk: Big J journalism hall monitor On the Media addressed, as it should have, the current woes of NPR (National Pander Radio), whose chief fundraiser got caught sucking up to some phony Muslim contributors, … Continue reading
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