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Monthly Archives: July 2013
The Art Seen In NYC
Well the Missus and I trundled down to The Big Town last weekend and here’s some of what we caught. Munch/Warhol and the Multiple Image We saw this exhibit at Scandinavia House the day before it closed. Via Norway.org: Organized … Continue reading
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Tagged American Folk Art Museum, Andy Warhol, Bill Traylor, David Hockney, Edvard Munch, Fashion Jewelry, FIT, Judith Light, Le Corbusier, MAD, Madonna, MOMA, Munch/Warhol and the Multiple Image, Norway.org. Scandinavia House, Other Desert Cities, Retrospective, Robert Irwin, Scrim Veil, Self-Portrait with Skeleton Arm, The Assembled Parties, The Brooch.Eva Mudocci, The Jugglers, The Scream, Tony Award, Whitney Museum
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Correction o’ the Day (NYT North Korea Rescue Edition)
Tuesday’s New York Times featured this piece by Jane Perlez: Six Decades Later, a Second Rescue Attempt Ex-Navy Pilot Visits North Korea to Seek Colleague’s Remains BEIJING — As more than 100,000 Chinese soldiers swarmed over far fewer American Marines … Continue reading
Hark! The Herald! (More Internet Radio Edition)
From our Walt Whitman desk Hey, kids! Mark your calendars! It’s Day Two of the Great Herald Radio Countdown. As the hardreading staff noted yesterday, the Boston Herald devoted two full pages of Monday’s edition to the gala announcement of an Internet radio stream … Continue reading
Hark! The Herald! (Internet Radio Edition)
From our Walt Whitman desk Say, that’s some big news about the feisty local tabloid launching Boston Herald Radio, yeah? All the details were, well, detailed in the Herald Radio Countdown that ran in Monday’s edition: Herald internet radio to get Boston connected The … Continue reading
BU Nighthawks Rejoice! Insomnia Cookies Is Coming To Campus!
The building next door to the hardteaching staff’s office at Boston University has a sign announcing that coming soon is Insomnia Cookies, which delivers fresh baked goods in the wee hours of the morning. Website: The hardteaching staff looks … Continue reading
Boston Editorial Cartoonists Enter WeinerWorld
Boston is blessed not only with two daily newspapers, but with two very talented editorial cartoonists: Dan Wasserman at the Boston Globe, and Jerry Holbert at the Boston Herald. (You can count on two hands the number of daily newspapers … Continue reading
Please, MLB: Ban A-Roid For Life
New York Yankees cancer Alex Rodriguez is engaged in another slapfight with the ballclub over his return to the mothership, detailed in this New York Times piece: Rodriguez and Yankees Clash Again Over His Status ARLINGTON, Tex. — No one … Continue reading
That’s Just So Sad! (Prince of Cambridge Edition)
It’s no use decrying the Babypalooza surrounding Kate ‘n’ Bill’s Blessed Event. (Links? Roll your own.) The corn is off the cob on that story. But we can certainly decry this full-page ad that appeared in Wednesday’s Boston Herald (and … Continue reading
Is Google Gmailing You Ads?
So it turns out Google’s not just reading your gmails, it’s sorting them too. Here’s the message Google has sent to all its Gmailers: Of course, lots of people are Gpissed about it, as Winston Ross’s piece in the Daily Beast noted . . … Continue reading
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Tagged Gmads, Gmail, Google, Matt Buchanan, Priority Inbox, Sneak ADtack, The Daily Beast, The New Yorker, Winston Ross
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Emile Griffith, R.I.P.
Legendary boxer Emile Griffith (85 victories, 24 losses, 2 draws, multiple championships) died this week at the age of 75. The cause was kidney failure and complications of dementia according to this New York Times Page One obituary (headline from print … Continue reading
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Tagged Benny "Kid" Paret, Emile Griffith, Madison Square Garden, maricon, New York Times, Norman Mailer, Ring of Fire
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