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Author Archives: Campaign Outsider
Campaign Outsider Presidential Bakeoff 2020™ (Part 3)
Latest in our ongoing series Itemizing this one deduction as NBC gets ready for the first Democratic debates on June 26-27 by assigning one moderator for every two candidates (that would be five – count ’em, five – moderators if you’re … Continue reading
The Arts Seen in NYC (‘Summer with the Averys’ Edition)
Well the Missus and I trundled down to the Big Town last weekend to check out this that and the other thing and, say, it was swell. After the usual funhouse ride through Six Flags Over Midtown Manhattan, we headed … Continue reading
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Tagged Almeida Theatre, Bertie Carvel, Bruce Museum, Bryant Park, Camp: Notes on Fashion, Donald Margulies, Dora Maar, Edmund de Waal, Elective Affinities: Edmund de Waal at The Frick Collection, Elie Nadelman, Fox Broadcast Network, Fox News Channel, Gagosian Gallery, Ink, James McNeill Whistler, John Richardson, Jonny Lee Miller, Larry Lamb, Lincoln Kirstein's Modern, Long Lost, Man in the Open Air, Manhattan Theatre Club, March Avery, Marie-Thérèse Walter, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Milton Avery, Minimalism/Maximalism, Pablo Picasso, Phenomenal Nature: Mrinalini Mukherjee, Philip Johnson, Picasso's Women: Fernande to Jacqueline, Play It Loud: Instruments of Rock & Roll, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Rupert Murdoch, Sally Michel, Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, Sharks! Myths and Realities, starchitect, Summer with the Averys [Milton | Sally | March], Susan Sontag, The Art Newspaper, The Frick Collection, The Met Breuer, The Mirror, The Museum at FIT, The Red Flame Diner, The Sun, Whistler as Printmaker: Highlights from the Gertrude Kosovsky Collection, Yoga Night
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Juul Labs’ Vape-and-Mirrors 21+ Advertising Campaign
Juul Labs, which owns 75% of the e-cigarette market and is valued at over $38 billion, has been running a series of full-page ads in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal that are at best misleading – and … Continue reading
Dead Blogging Sondheim’s ‘Pacific Overtures’ at Lyric Stage
Well the Missus and I trundled down to the Lyric Stage Company to catch Stephen Sondheim’s Pacific Overtures (music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by John Weidman) and say, it was . . . subarashi. This startling, entertaining, and thrilling masterpiece … Continue reading
Rest in Peace Anne Adams, Television Producer Extraordinaire
I loved working with Anne Adams at WGBH’s Greater Boston, where she was supervising producer from 1998 to around 2006. She was smart, funny, and cynical – everything you could ever ask for in a co-worker. And now she’s gone. … Continue reading
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Tagged Anne Adams, Boston Globe, Bryan Marquard, Depression: Out of the Shadows, Greater Boston, Peter Masalsky, WGBH
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Campaign Outsider’s Presidential Bakeoff 2020™ (Part 1)
Itemizing a few deductions on the state of the Democratic Presidential Primary now that the number of declared candidates has hit the Big Two-Oh. From the New York Times: Then there are … Continue reading
Oh No the New York Times Di’int Print ‘Fucked’ on Page One!
Hey, the Nude York Times is one thing. But the Crude York Times is something else. From today’s front page: Of course, that should come as no surprise after the Grey Lady printed Donald Trump’s Access Hollywood grab ’em boast verbatim … Continue reading
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Tagged Access Hollywood, Crude York Times, Donald Trump, Grey Lady, The Nude York Times
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The Nude York Times (Lucian Freud ‘Monumental’ Edition)
From our Grey Lady pearl-clutching desk As the hardblushing staff has dutifully noted for the past handful of years, the New York Times is increasingly willing to bare all in the name of art – or commerce – in its … Continue reading
New York Times Doubles Down On Its Half-True ‘Truth’ Ad
As the hardworking staff noted on Saturday, for the past two years the New York Times has been one of the leading voices in the news media’s Pep Squad for Truth – those preaching-to-the-choir ad campaigns aimed at convincing the … Continue reading
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Tagged Caliphate, Elizabeth Redden, George Washington University, Inside Higher Ed, Iraq, Islamic State, Maryam Saleh, MESA, Middle East Studies Association’s Committee on Academic Freedom, New York Times, Pep Squad for Truth, Rukmini Callimachi, Sara Farhan, The Intercept, The ISIS Files
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