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NYT Op-It Girl Becomes Maureen Dawdle
Six months ago New York Times Op-It Girl Maureen Dowd got a new gig at the Grey Lady. Via Politico’s Dylan Byers: Maureen Dowd joins N.Y. Times Magazine New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd is joining the New York Times … Continue reading
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Tagged Dylan Byers, Maureen Dawdle, Maureen Dowd, MoDo, New York Times, Politico, Times Op-It Girl, writer's blech
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NYT’s Alessandra Stanley Just Doesn’t Get ‘House of Cards’
The Netflix cash cow House of Cards is back, to a much bruited review by New York Times television critic Alessandra Stanley. ‘House of Cards’ Season 3: More Policy Than Chicanery “House of Cards” began as a fun-house-mirror reflection of … Continue reading
Red Sox Great Pedro Martinez Moves to New York
Pedro Martinez will wear a Boston Red Sox cap in his Hall of Fame plaque, but that doesn’t mean he’s abandoning New York, where he played for the Mets after the Yankees folded like origami in 2004. From the Albany … Continue reading
Burying the Lede (NYT Cherry King Edition)
First in what we expect will be a long series This piece by Vivian Yee ran in Thursday’s New York Times. Except . . . Here’s the headline that appeared in the New England (and early?) edition: Marijuana … Continue reading
Stupidest. Fashion. Ad. Ever.
From Sunday’s New York Times Styles section. For the literati-impaired, that’s 80-year-old Joan Didion, a minor 20th Century American author best known for her collection of essays Slouching Towards Bethlehem. Several questions for the fine folks at Céline: 1) … Continue reading
Dead Blogging ‘Grounded’ at Central Square Theater
Well the Missus and I trundled over to Central Square to catch the Nora Theatre Company production of Grounded and man, it was fabulous. A hot-shot fighter pilot’s career in the skies, “alone in the blue,” is ended by an unexpected … Continue reading
The Atlantic Says Bay State (Hearts) Charlie Baker
Snow kidding: The current issue of The Atlantic features this piece by Molly Ball. The Bluest Republican Why staunchly Democratic Massachusetts loves its new GOP governor “Mark Wahlberg is asking me for a pardon?,” Charlie Baker said as he folded … Continue reading
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Tagged Bill Weld, boston.com, Charlie Baker, Mark Wahlberg, Martha Chokeley, Martha Coakley, MassLive, MBTA, Michael Dukakis, Mitt Romney, Molly Ball, Paul Cellucci, The Atlantic, Vivien Li, WBUR
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Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show: What the-!
Well the Missus and I watched the doggies at the 139th Westminster Kennel Club Show the past two nights and say, it was swell. But we never expected it to be. For starters, we couldn’t stand half of the seven finalists. … Continue reading
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Tagged 139th Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, Best in Show Judge, Charlie, David Merriam, Madison Square Garden, Matisse, Miss P, New York Times, Old English sheepdog, Patricia Hearst-Shaw, Patty Hearst, Portuguese water dog, Richard Sandomir, Skye terrier, Swagger, Uno, USA Today
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Ban the Museum Selfie Shtick!
William Grimes’s front-page piece in Sunday’s New York Times pinpoints one of the great tragedies of our times. Museum Rules: Talk Softly, and Carry No Selfie Stick In a famous lab trial, a chimp named Sultan put two interlocking sticks … Continue reading
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Tagged American Gothic, Art Institute of Chicago, Grant Woods, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Jeff Koons, Katy Perry, Koons Is Great for Selfies!, Magritte, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Times, selfie sticks, Sree Sreenivasan, Temple of Dendur, Whitney Museum of American Art, William Grimes
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Dead Blogging ‘Intimate Apparel’ at the Lyric Stage
Well the Missus and I trundled down to the Lyric Stage yesterday to catch its production of Intimate Apparel and say, it was more than swell. From [Lynn Nottage] the author of By the Way, Meet Vera Stark, Intimate Apparel … Continue reading
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