Monthly Archives: December 2014

Quote o’ the Day (Bruins Wild Card – Really? – Edition)

Posted on December 18, 2014 by Campaign Outsider

From our Late to the Shooting Party desk The headscratching staff yields to no man in our admiration for Boston Globe sports scribe Amalie Benjamin, but her game report yesterday cannot go unnoted. Bruins falter in shootout Roy’s goal gives … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Amalie Benjamin, Boston Bruins, Boston Globe, Derek Roy, Nashville Predators, NHL wild card, Pekka Rinne, Tuukka Rask | 1 Comment

NYT: Bostonians Don’t Care How They Look

Posted on December 17, 2014 by Campaign Outsider

From our Late to the Spending Party desk The hardworking staff has been occupied with one thing and another lately, so we missed this piece in the New York Times Sunday Review section. What People Buy Where CONSPICUOUS consumption is everywhere, … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged alimony, Baltimore, Boston, Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Expenditure Survey, Dallas, Elizabeth Currid-Halkett, New York City, New York Times, Phoenix, San Francisco, Starstruck: The Business of Celebrity, Sunday review | 2 Comments

Round Midnight at the Global Worldwide Headquarters (Guitar-Gently-Weeping Prince Edition)

Posted on December 16, 2014 by Campaign Outsider

Hard on the heels of the hardtracking staff’s post about the classic guitar duet between George Harrison and Eric Clapton comes this performance of “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” – featuring Prince, Tom Petty, Steve Winwood, Jeff Lynne, and Dhani Harrison (the … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 2004 Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame Inductions, Alex Kingsbury, Dhani Harrison, Eric Clapton, George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Prince, Radio Boston, Steve Winwood, Tom Petty, WBUR, While My Guitar Gently Weeps | 3 Comments

NYT’s David Barboza Is One Kick-Ass Reporter

Posted on December 15, 2014 by Campaign Outsider

The hardworking staff has long admired the work of New York Times correspondent David Barboza, who, according to the Times website, “was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting ‘for his striking exposure of corruption at high levels of the Chinese … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Altria, China, David Barboza, e-cigarettes, FDA, like Brown on Williamson, MarkTen, New York Times, nicotimes, Nu Mark, Philip Morris, Pulitzer Prize | 1 Comment

Wall Street Journal’s ‘Eve of De(con)struction’

Posted on December 14, 2014 by Campaign Outsider

The hardworking staff freely admits that we’re hooked on the Wall Street Journal’s great Anatomy of a Song series. Representative samples: Friday’s addition, by Steve Dougherty: Still on the ‘Eve of Destruction’ When it reached No. 1 on the Billboard … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Anatomy of a Song, Barry McGuire, Eve of Destruction, Hal Blaine, Lou Adler, New Christy Minstrels, P.F. Sloan, Phil Sloan, Steve Dougherty, Wall Street Journal, Wrecking Crew | Leave a comment

Round Midnight at the Global Worldwide Headquarters (Earworm-Chasing ‘Badge’ Edition)

Posted on December 14, 2014 by Campaign Outsider

Whenever the hardworking staff gets an earworm (see, for example, here), we turn to the greatest rock-and-roll love-triangle tune ever to unearth it. (Great photos.) George Harrison aced out Eric Clapton and married Patti Boyd in 1966. Forty years … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Badge, Billy Joel, Cream, Eric Clapton, George Harrison, Layla, Only the Good Die Young, Patti Boyd | 3 Comments

Boston’s MFA: We’re Not Stalking Our Visitors

Posted on December 13, 2014 by Campaign Outsider

Friday’s Wall Street Journal featured this eye-popping piece by Ellen Gamerman on museums and Big Data. When the Art Is Watching You Museums are mining detailed information from visitors, raising questions about the use of Big Data in the arts One morning … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Big Data, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Edward Gargiulo, Ellen Gamerman, Goya beans, Goya exhibit, Goya: Order and Disorder, Margit Hotchkiss, MFA, Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, Wall Street Journal | 1 Comment

WSJ: Renzo Is Harvard Art Museum’s Piano Man

Posted on December 12, 2014 by Campaign Outsider

(With apologies to Billy Joel) Sing us a song, you’re the piano man, Sing us a song tonight. Well we’re all in the mood for a melody, And you’ve got us feeling alright. As the hardworking staff previously noted, the new … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Billy Joel, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Fogg Museum, Harvard Art Museums, Julie V. Iovine, Piano Man, Renzo Piano, Wall Street Journal | Leave a comment

Jimmy Faillon – Sorry, Fallon – Gives Murky Mark a Free Pass

Posted on December 11, 2014 by Campaign Outsider

Marked Mark Wahlberg, who has to be wishing he never sought a pardon for his entirely racist past, turned up on the Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon last night to promote his new movie, The Gambler. And hit the jackpot – … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged David Letterman, Jay Leno, Jimmy Failon, Jimmy Fallon, Mark Wahlberg, Marked Mark Wahlberg, Murky Mark, The Gambler, Tonight Show | Leave a comment

When a Nation Forgets Its Own Clichés . . .

Posted on December 10, 2014 by Campaign Outsider

. . . well, that’s just sad. The hardworking staff has plied the differently clichéd beat for quite some time now, but this week we had our first twofer: A pair of mangled phrases in the course of one day. Begin with this piece from … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Barack Obama, Boston Daily, Boston magazine, differently clichéd, Drudge Report, drudged up, Guantanamo, Kate Bush, Maple Leafs, Mark Wahlberg, Marked Mark Wahlberg, no third way, Phil Kessel, Politico, PRI, Sam Spade, Steve Annear, The Blackstonian, The Maltese Falcon, The World, Toronto Star, Xi Jinping | 3 Comments