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‘On The Media’ Nails Jell-O To The Wall
(Fun fact to know and tell: When asked why there’s a hyphen in Jell-O, the great Fred Allen said, “That’s where the banana goes.”) When we last left On the Media, NPR uber-personality Ira Glass had tasked the show with … Continue reading
Boston: The City That Never Works
Exhibit A: The endless proposals for a Boston City Hall Plaza Redesign. Exhibit B: Boston’s non-existent Bike Share program. Exhibit C: Boston’s non-existent Tommy’s Tower. Exhibit Umpteen: Boston’s Food Truck Challenge. From Saturday’s Boston Globe: Food trucks in Boston get … Continue reading
Public/Private Sector Compensation Bakeoff (Renée Loth Edition)
(More grist for the public employee salary mill) From Renée Loth’s Saturday Boston Globe op-ed: Although public sector workers as a whole in Massachusetts do earn more than workers in the private sector, the difference is largely explained by the … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe, private sector workers, public sector workers, Renée Loth, wage penalty
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Who Is Lori K?
Splendid readers: As the hardworking staff noted earlier, Lori K from Boston stood up to the New York Times paywall naysayers regarding the paper’s new metered system for its Web site. So can we get a witness to who Lori … Continue reading
NYT Shoutout To ‘Lori K From Boston’
The New York Times has finally (see Public Editor Arthur Brisbane’s critique here) gotten around to covering its impending Web site paywall. Friday Page One: Times Rolls Out Its Pay Design For Web Users The New York Times introduced a plan on … Continue reading
Dead Blogging Patti Smith At The MFA (II)
Picking up where the hardworking staff left off: During her thoroughly engaging appearance at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts Wednesday night, Patti Smith read loving excerpts from Just Kids, which chronicled her relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in the late … Continue reading
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Tagged Because the Night, Grateful, Jerry Garcia, John Coltrane, Just Kids, MFA, My Blakean Year, Patti Smith, Robert Mapplethorpe, Wing, Yoko One
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Suddenly Household Appliances Are The New Political Front
Forget public-employee collective bargaining rights as the major threat to the Republic. It’s actually household-appliance regulation that will end Life As We Know It. First there was this piece in the January 31 edition of The Weekly Standard. Another Triumph for … Continue reading
Dead Blogging Patti Smith At The MFA
Patti Smith banged out the house at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts. Then she brought it down. Smith delivered the annual Deborah and Martin Hale Visiting Artists Lecture to a packed Remis Auditorium Wednesday night, except it wasn’t so much a … Continue reading
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Tagged Chelsea Hotel, Fondation Cartier, Just Kids, Land 250, MFA, Patti Smith, Robert Mapplethorpe
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Boston City Hall Plaza Redesign, Part Umpteen (II)
We’ve gone over this before, yes? Regardless, here’s another proposal for transforming Boston’s City Hall Plaza, via Wednesday’s Boston Globe: The transformation of Boston’s City Hall Plaza is supposed to take shape before you even know it’s happening. Next year, … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston bike share, Boston City Hall Plaza, Boston Globe, Chan Krieger Sieniewicz, HDR, redesign
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That’s Just So Mean! (Bianca de la Garza Edition)
Seriously, why do newspapers insist on running gape-mouthed photos of public figures? Exhibit Bianca, from Wednesday’s Boston Globe Names feature: That’s just not right. (This regrettable journalistic practice has gone on for years, but the hardworking staff will dedicate itself … Continue reading
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Tagged Bianca de la Garza, Blooming Good Time, Boston Globe, Names, Thomas M. Menino
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