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Monthly Archives: April 2011
WSJ: Hi-LoDown On Jamaica Plain Food Fight
This weekend’s Wall Street Journal features an op-ed that purports to tell the whole truth about the Whole Foods rumpus in Jamaica Plain. WSJ version of the back story (see also here via the hardworking staff): For 47 years, the … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston, H-Lo, Jamaica Plain, Juppies, sturm und drangstore, Wall Street Journal, Whole Foods
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Campaign Outsider Word o’ the Day (pat. pending)
From Saturday’s Boston Globe G section: Celebrating a proud, joyful Haiti Brown, RISD exhibit offers hopeful perspective of strife-ridden country The exhibit in question is titled “Reframing Haiti: Art, History and Performativity.” Performativity? Is that even a word? The hardsearching … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe, Brown University, G, performativity, Reframing Haiti, RISD, The Free Dictionary
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Chop-Chop To Class Warfare At Boston Herald
Our feisty local tabloid is always up for a good class warfare rumpus, and Saturday’s edition of the Boston Herald gets way uppity: Front page: Page 2: Blue bloods boil over noise of medical helicopters Well-heeled residents of tranquil, cobblestone-lined … Continue reading
SaveFacebook: No More Prom Dress Distress
A new Facebook app establishes a registry to eliminate the heartache of Prom Dressalike Syndrome. From The Daily Mail: Prom dress dibs: How girls are using Facebook to ensure fellow students don’t turn up in the same gown Turning up at … Continue reading
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Tagged Facebook, Fashism.com, Got Dibs, Lord & Taylor, Prom Dressalike Syndrome, prom dresses, The Daily Mail
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Let The Wild Rumpus Begin! (Stanley Cup Edition)
This is the hardwatching staff’s favorite time of the sports year: Round One of the Stanley Cup playoffs. Eight – count ’em, eight – best-of-seven series, during which hockey fans become acquainted with teams they haven’t seen all year (hello, Nashville … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Bruins, Nashville Predators, night owls whoting, Stanley Cup playoffs
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To No Trump
Awkwarddd! Seems Jared Kushner, publisher of the snarkerazzi New York Observer, is Donald Trump’s son-in-law (via Ivanka), which snarkerazzi website Gawker has been eager to point out. Pouty fathead Donald Trump is a tailor-made character for the New York Observer, which purports to … Continue reading
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Tagged Donald Trump, Gawker, Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner, New York Observer, snarkerazzi
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Stories The Hardworking Staff Is Not On This Earth Long Enough To Read (II)
Again, via Mediaite: Glenn Beck’s TheBlaze.com Gets Inside Keith Olbermann’s Head Why does the hws even mention this dreck? Because we can’t believe this is what the news media delivers these days. The great A.J. Liebling said, “The function … Continue reading
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Tagged A.J. Liebling, Glenn Beck, Keith Olbermann, Mediaite, The Blaze
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Campaign Outsider Poem o’ the Day (pat. pending)
Via (God forgive me) Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac: Truth in Advertising by Andrea Cohen If we’d moved her, she’d still have ’em, the ad for Acme Moving says, with a photo of Venus de Milo. But who, intact, would Venus be? … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrea Cohen, Garrison Keillor, The Writer's Almanac, Truth in Advertising
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It’s Good To Live In A Two-Daily Town (Katie Couric Edition)
So Kate the Grate was in town Monday for the Tufts University Edward R. Murrow Forum, and here’s how the Boston Herald covered her appearance: Katie Couric: Working with Matt Lauer would be ‘fun’ A tanned, stiletto-heeled Katie Couric was … Continue reading
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Stories The Hardworking Staff Is Not On This Earth Long Enough To Read
Via Mediaite: Keith Olbermann Predicts Glenn Beck’s Descent Into Oblivion (In Homemade Video Clip) This from a man who just migrated from MSNBC to Current TV. (Raise your hand if you have any idea where Current TV can be found … Continue reading
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