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Cash ‘n’ Kerry (Patriots Playoff Edition)
So there was Sen. John Kerry (D-Am I Secretary of State Yet?) at Gillette Stadium rubbing elbows in the owner’s box with Robert Kraft and, presumably, girlfriend Ricki Noel Landed – sorry, Lander – and rubbing etc. on the field … Continue reading
Guns N’ Exposes
TechPresident presents the gun barrel of targeted exposure: The Guns and Gun Data Debate, Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying And Love the End of Privacy Public equals online. That mantra has been repeated often around here. Public equals online. Make … Continue reading
Dead Blogging The Boston Sunday Globe
The hardreading staff yields to no man in its respect for the journalism at the Boston Globe. But this Sunday’s edition struck us as a bit odd. Page One, via the Newseum’s Today’s Front Pages: The Medicare windfall piece? Excellent. Then there’s the Camp Menino feature, which … Continue reading
NYT’s Cruise To Nowhere
From Politico’s Playbook: N.Y. TIMES GOES CRUISING: A full-page ad in Friday’s Times offers a “European Cruise” from Oct. 12-24 (England to Paris to Bordeaux to Spain to Portugal) with Elisabeth Bumiller talking defense, Timothy Egan talking opinion and David Sanger … Continue reading
Creepy Commercial o’ the Week (Weight Loss Edition)
An outfit called Medifast is currently running this commercial on cable networks: How’d they do that? Business Insider had the answer: Filming began in January of last year with a group of Medifast customers who were willing to commit … Continue reading
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Dead Blogging The Annual Druker Lecture At The BPL
The Boston Public Library’s terrific Building Boston “citywide celebration of Boston’s public spaces” (which includes the fascinating Palaces for the People exhibit, reviewed here by the hardlooking staff), notched another success with yesterday’s Druker lecture – Celebrating Art and Design … Continue reading
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Tagged Abbey Room, Blur Building, Boston Public Library, BPL, Broad Museum, Building Boston, Culture Shed, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Druker Lecture, Elizabeth Diller, Hirshhorn, ICA, Museum of Image and Sound, New York High Line, Palaces for the People, Rio de Janeiro, Swiss Expo 2002
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That Dog Gone Tessa (Lehane Exits Brookline Edition)
According to our dogged local tabloid, Dennis (Call Me Javert) Lehane is giving up the Brookline canine patrol for his runaway pooch Tessa. From today’s Boston Herald (web edition): Lehane says he’ll take down missing dog fliers Crime scribe Dennis Lehane says … Continue reading
Hall of Shame Bakeoff: Joe Fitz vs. Dan Shaughnessy
No Hall of Fame inductees for you! And – wait for it – very different takes in the local dailies. Dan Shaughnessy’s Thursday Boston Globe column: A Hall of Fame ballot without a whiff of PED usage The poison ballot remained … Continue reading
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