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Monthly Archives: April 2013
Not-So-Grand Openings On The Boston/Brookline Border
Beacon Street between St. Mary’s and Carlton is a beehive (not to be confused with the Busy Bee) of foodie action right now. Tomorrow Whole Foods opens its 22nd Massachusetts store in the space formerly occupied by the late, lamented … Continue reading
Hark! The Herald! (U.S. Senate Debate-o-Rama)
The Boston Herald has officially become a perpetual self-promotion machine. Case in point: The feisty local tabloid 1) co-sponsored a UMass-Lowell debate last night between Democratic U.S. Senate candidates Ed Markey and Stephen Lynch (that’s good); 2) streamed it live … Continue reading
Hark! The Herald . . . Ignores Itself! (Wingo Square Edition)
Some of the Boston Herald staffers got together yesterday at the feisty local tabloid’s former South End headquarters to kiss the old dump goodbye. It’s slated for the wrecking ball this week, so about 30 current and former staffers gathered … Continue reading
For All You Know, Facebook Owns Your First-Born Child
The New York Times reports that “despite how much we say we value our privacy — and we do, again and again — we tend to act inconsistently,” which is the Times-nice way of saying stupidly. To half-wit: Letting Down Our Guard … Continue reading
Gronkocalypse 3!! (Globe Rips Off Herald Division)
From our Gronkmageddon desk Sunday’s Boston Herald played its New England Patriots scoop Gronk-and-center in the Sports section: The Ron Borges/Karen Guregian report . . . Read the rest at It’s Good to Live in a Two-Daily Town.
Dead Blogging Joseph Wheelwright At The Boston Sculptors Gallery
Well the Missus and I trundled down to the South End yesterday to see Joseph Wheelwright: Roots at the Boston Sculptors Gallery and it was swell. Wheelwright “carves stones into monumental heads and turns trees upside-down to make walking giants. He … Continue reading
Why God Made TV Critics
Two of the hardworking staff’s favorite television critics have very different takes on the sixth season premiere of AMC’s Mad Men. The Wall Street Journal’s Dorothy Rabinowitz: Don Draper’s Inferno The sixth season of “Mad Men” brings a whiff of … Continue reading
Our ‘Beat The Press Party’ Bakeoff (Spotlight The Globe Edition)
It’s time once again to review the Great Boston MediaWatch Dogfight, especially the rumpus over the Boston Globe’s Spotlight report, Driven to the Edge. Start as usual with the underdog Boston Herald, which has been hounding its crosstown rival all … Continue reading
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