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Dunkin’ Channeled Boston Globe in Dumping Hill Holliday
Wednesday’s Boston Globe featured this Jon Chesto piece on its first Business page. Snappy lede: “Hill Holliday no longer runs on Dunkin’.” The Canton-based chain dropped its ad agency of two decades and moved its account to New York shop BBDO Worldwide. “Every … Continue reading
A Jason Gay Ol’ Time (Red Sox/Yankees Rivalry Edition)
From our blessedly endless series Leave it to the redoubtable Wall Street Journal columnist (and Massachusetts native) Jason Gay to nail the New! Improved! Boston Red Sox/New York Yankees basebrawl rivalry. Gay’s latest piece begins in his usual leisurely style. … Continue reading
Boston Almost Beats Brooklyn in Guggenheim Fellowships
Well, the Boston area, anyway. Yesterday’s New York Times featured this full-page ad listing the 2018 Fellows (United States and Canada) appointed by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. By our count, the Greater Boston area garnered 17 Fellowships, while … Continue reading
New York Times Beats Boston Globe on MFA Mummy DNA
The Boston news bakeoff between the Big Town and the Beanie Town usually goes to the local broadsheet, but not yesterday. The New York Times Science section featured this piece by Nicholas St. Fleur. Cracking a Cold Case The F.B.I. … Continue reading
Donald Trump Flacks Howie Carr Book Flacking Donald Trump
Our kissin’ cousins at Two-Daily Town have amply chronicled Boston Herald columnist Howie Carr’s relentless pilot fishy suck-up to the Onanist-in-Chief. Now the Accidental President has returned the favor. Late last night @realDonaldTrump tweeted this. In reality nobody’s talking about it, … Continue reading
The Arts Seen in NYC (Backwards Museum Mile Edition)
Well the Missus and I trundled down to the Big Town the other weekend to see what we could see and say, it was . . . cold. But the artwork was swell. We hit the city around three o’clock … Continue reading
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Tagged Access + Ability, Before the Fall: German and Austrian Art of the 1930s, Birds of a Feather: Joseph Cornell's Homage to Juan Gris, Claude Monet, Cooper Hewitt, Edward Gorey, George Balanchine, Golden Kingdoms: Luxury and Legacy in the Ancient Americas, Gorey's Worlds, Grant Wood, Grant Wood: American Gothic and Other Fables, Lilies of the Alley, Louise Nevelson, Mel Bochner, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Mod New York: Fashion Takes a Trip, Museum Mile, Museum of the City of New York, Neue Galerie, New York City Ballet, New York on Ice: Skating in the City, New York Silver Then and Now, Norell: Dean of American Fashion, Parc Monceau, Peter Schjeldahl, Pockets to Purses: Fashion + Function, Public Parks Private Gardens: Paris to Provence, Quicksilver Brilliance: Adolf de Meyer Photographs, Rod Keenan, Scenes from the Collection, the Big Town, The Body: Fashion and Physique, The Joys of Yiddish, The Met, The Museum at FIT, The New Yorker, The Red Flame, Wadsworth Atheneum, Whitney Museum
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It’s InternADtional Women’s Day at the New York Times!
As the New York Times notes in this piece today, the 2018 version of International Women’s Day has a special dimension to it. International Women’s Day 2018: Beyond #MeToo, With Pride, Protests and Pressure ROME — In the era of … Continue reading
Serena Williams Now Looks to Re-produce On the Tennis Court
For those of you keeping score at home, it’s been five months since Serena Williams almost died giving birth to her daughter, Olympia. But now Williams is ready to see her tennis career reborn, as Sports Illustrated notes. Williams restarts … Continue reading
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Tagged Academy Awards, Indian Wells, New York Times, Nike, Olympia, Oscars, Serena Williams, Sports Illustrated, Until We All Win, WTA
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Dead Blogging ‘Inventur’ at the Harvard Art Museums
Well the Missus and I trundled over to Cambridge the other day to catch Inventur—Art in Germany, 1943–55 at the Harvard Art Museums and, say, it was wunderbar. From their website: The first exhibition of its kind, Inventur examines the highly … Continue reading
Mitt Romney: U.S. Senate Hopeful, U.S. Senate Huckster (3)
Latest in our ever-expanding series As someone said about the blizzard of Barackaphernalia at the 2008 Obama inauguration, “When Americans want to celebrate, they turn to merchandise.” But Mitt Romney (R-Wherever) is getting downright pushy about merchandising in his nascent … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe, Dan Wasserman, Mitt Romney, R-Wherever, Romney for Utah, Seamus
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