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Correction o’ the Day (NYT Killer Cellphones Edition)
First came this Nick Bilton Disruptions column in Thursday’s New York Times. New Gadgets, New Health Worries In 1946, a new advertising campaign appeared in magazines with a picture of a doctor in a lab coat holding a cigarette and … Continue reading
Hey! NYC’s MTA Sucks Just Like Boston’s T!
The hardworking staff has long held that the MBTA – Boston’s public (not to be confused with rapid) transit system – is like someone’s hobby. But it’s not just our system that’s the modern-day equivalent of a swayback mare. From Emma G. … Continue reading
The 13th – and Final – Tommy Ashton Basketball Tournament
My cousin Tommy Ashton was murdered in the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center. From the landmark New York Times Portraits of Grief: Saddest day ever. Since then, Tommy’s sisters Colleen and Mary have shepherded the Thomas Ashton Foundation, which has an … Continue reading
Sorry, We Just Really Like This
From the Boston Sunday Globe Comics page: Thank you, Dan Piraro.
Dead Blogging ‘Gordon Parks: Back to Fort Scott’ at the MFA
Well the Missus and I trundled down to the Museum of Fine Arts the other day to catch Gordon Parks: Back to Fort Scott and, say, it was . . . stirring. From the MFA website: Gordon Parks, one of the … Continue reading
Quote o’ the Day (NYT Anonymouse Edition)
The (ab)use of anonymous quotes by the New York Times is closely followed not only by the Times Public Editor Margaret Sullivan, but also by former New York Sun managing editor Ira Stoll at his SmarterTimes blog. Neither of them, however, … Continue reading
Erik Larson on ‘The Maltese Falcon’: Best. Novel. Ever?
The Wall Street Journal’s Book Club has a real doozy this week: hardboiled author Eric Larson on the father of hardboiled fiction, Dashiell Hammett. ‘One of the Best Novels, Period’ There was a time when Erik Larson could recite from memory an … Continue reading
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Tagged Brigid O'Shaughnessy, Caspar Gutman, Chicago World's Fair, cinema noir, Dashiell Hammett, Eric Larson, Goodreads, hard-boiled detective novels, Homer, Humphrey Bogart, Joel Cairo, John Huson, Mary Astor, Peter Lorre, Raymond Chandler, Sam Spade, Sydney Greenstreet, The Devil in the White City, The Maltese Falcon, Virgil, Wall Street Journal, WSJ Book Club
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More Brutal Treatment of Paul Rudolph’s Architecture
The hardworking staff has previously noted the beleaguered buildings designed by midcentury modernist architect Paul Rudolph, which include two local landmarks: the old Blue Cross Blue Shield building at 133 Federal Street and the Government Service Center. Now comes the … Continue reading
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Tagged 133 Federal Street, After You Left/They Took It Apart, Art & Architecture Building, Blue Cross Blue Shield building, Chris Mottalini, CURBED, Gene Kaufman, Government Service Center, Julie V. Iovine, Martin Filler, Michael Kimmelman, New York Review of Books, New York Times, Orange County, Orange County Government Center, Paul Rudolph, Renzo Piano, Steve Belkin, Steven Neuhaus, The Architecture of Paul Rudolph, Timothy M. Rohan, Tommy's Tower, Tuskegee University Chapel, Wall Street Journal, Yale University
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Tom Mashberg Is Still Trying to Catch a Thief
From our Late to the Search Party desk Former Boston Herald reporter Tom Mashberg has chased the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum art snatch from March of 1990 to, well, three days ago. From Sunday’s New York Times Arts section: Still Missing After … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthony Amore, art heist, Boston Herald, Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee, Degas, F.B.I., Geoff Kelly, George A. Reissfelder, Hubert von Sonnenbburg, Irish Republican Army, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Manet, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Myles Conner, New York Times, Rembrandt, Tom Mashberg, Vatican, Vermeer, William P. Youngworth III
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