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I Just Saw an SUV Repo’d – or Stolen – Next Door (Take 2)
Actually, it was neither. Yesterday I noted that a silver SUV had been hooked up and hauled away from the parking lot next door in a midnight tow truck trawl. I subsequently quizzed two older gents in said parking lot about … Continue reading
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I Just Saw an SUV Repo’d – or Stolen – Next Door
Time: 11:50 pm Friday Night Place: Halfway between Brookline Village and Coolidge Corner Players: Two guys and a blonde with a world-class ponytail. Action: Two tow trucks pull up to a parking lot behind the apartment complex next door. There are … Continue reading
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Tagged Brookline police, Brookline Village, Coolidge Corner, repo'd, SUV
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Benjamin Moore Paints the Olde Towne Boston Red
. . . and Green Monster, Boston Blue, Baseline White and Foul Pole Yellow. From MediaPost’s Out to Launch: NEW! Red Sox Fans, Rejoice. Benjamin Moore Launches Fenway Collection With Colors Like Boston Red Benjamin Moore is the official paint of the … Continue reading
Time Inc.’s Norman Pearlstine Is Two-Timing His Readers
From our Late to the Party Pooper desk For almost a year now, the hardtracking staff has been dutifully recording the Fall of the House of Luce, as Time Inc. leases out its editorial content to advertisers. The latest installment comes in … Continue reading
Dead Blogging ‘Over There!’ at the MFA
Well the Missus and I trundled over to the Museum of Fine Arts the other day to catch a gallery talk about Over There! Posters from World War I and, say, it was swell. Curator Patrick Murphy took us on … Continue reading
Hey, Jeff Bezos: Welcome to the Amazone!
For several months now, online giant Amazon has been leaning on publishing pygmy Hachette in order to exact more, well, tribute for its bookselling. Improbably, Hachette has fought back, taking a hatchet to the Beast of Bezos. From Deadline Hollywood: Grisham, … Continue reading
Sharkn-AD-o 2: SyFy Flexes in NYT
In the wake of the boffo debut of Sharknado 2 last week, SyFy ran this full-page ad in yesterday’s New York Times: Our favorite bit: Miley and Kimye, shark your hearts out.
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Tagged Kimye, Kimye wedding, Miley Cyrus, MTV, New York Times, People.com, Sharknado 2, SyFy, Twitter, VMAs
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Legal Sea Foods: We’re No Chain, Gang
Legal Sea Foods, the local restaurant chain whose menu is largely as tasteless as its ad campaigns, is biting back with a new series of TV spots. From Thursday’s New York Times: Call It What You Like, but Not a … Continue reading
Correction o’ the (Yester)Day (La Famiglia Cuomo Edition)
From Thursday’s New York Times Department of Corrections: NEW YORK Because of an editing error, an article in some editions on Tuesday about the lowering of the speed limit on Broadway to 25 miles per hour misidentified the governor of New York, … Continue reading
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