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Ask Dr. Ads: What’s Up With The NYT ‘Philomena Gets Her Irish Up’ Ad?
Well the Doc opened up the old mailbag today and here’s what poured out. Dear Dr. Ads, The new film Philomena has opened to great reviews, except maybe for one, as this New York Times movie ad noted on Thursday. Don’t you think … Continue reading
Ask Dr. Ads: What’s Up With BlackBerry’s ‘Department of Defense’ Ads
Well the Doc opened up the old mailbag today and here’s what poured out. Dear Dr. Ads, So I’m reading the New York Times the other day and what do I see but this full-page ad: Wait – BlackBerry? Gold … Continue reading
Ask Dr. Ads: What’s Up With The ‘Bees Can’t Wait’ Ads?
Well the Doc opened up the old mailbag today and here’s what poured out. Dear Dr. Ads, I saw this ad in the New York Times (and the Boston Globe) the other day and I just don’t get it. Here’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Ask Dr. Ads, Beyond Pesticides, Boston Globe, Center for Food Safety, Ceres Trust, EPA, H.R. 2692, New York Times, Pesticide Action Network, Save-Bees.org, Saving America's Pollinators Act, Surgeon General of the United States, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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More Than One Hitch To Baker/Polito Union
The shotgun wedding between Republican gubernatorial candidate Charlie Baker and lieutenant governor hopeful Karyn Polito had its engagement announcement in Monday’s Boston Globe. Running mate issue gets thornier for Charlie Baker Karyn E. Polito, the former Republican legislator who lost a 2010 … Continue reading
Dead Blogging ‘Avant-Garde Japanese Fashions’ And ‘Impressionists On The Water’ At PEM
Well the Missus and I trundled up to the Peabody Essex Museum over the weekend to catch Future Beauty: Avant-Garde Japanese Fashion (through January 26, 2014) and Impressionists on the Water (through February 17, 2014), and, say, they were . . . underwhelming. From … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe, Caillebote, Claude Monet, Future Beauty: Avant-Garde Japanese Fashion, Impressionists on the Water, Issey Miyake, Peabody Essex Museum, PEM, Radio Boston, Rei Kawakubo, Renoir, Sacha Pfeiffer, Sebastian Smee, Signac, Sisley, WBUR, Yohji Yamamoto
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Zippy To Speak Out On Boston Globe’s Dumping ‘Zippy’
After the hardworking staff posted this yesterday about the Boston Sunday Globe’s scandalous jettisoning of Zippy from its comics pages, we wrote to Bill Griffith to let him know we were on the record with our protests. And here’s what … Continue reading
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Tagged Bill Griffith, Boston Sunday Globe, Doug Most, Zippy, Zippy for President
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That’s Just So Mean! (Katie Couric Edition)
From today’s New York Post (via Pew Research Daily Media Briefing): Katie Couric’s demographic might not make it to Yahoo! It’s easy to see what Katie Couric sees in Yahoo! as she becomes its global anchor. She is bidding to … Continue reading
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Tagged Katie Couric, Marissa Mayer, NBC Today, New York Post, Pew Research Daily Media Briefing, Yahoo
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Boston Sunday Globe Dumps Zippy The Pinhead (‘Are We Having None Yet?’)
This is an outrage. From yesterday’s Boston Globe: Seriously? Here’s WuMo from yesterday’s Globe comics page: And here’s yesterday’s Ask Shagg: How stupid are those strips? And how Zippy is this (via – God help us … Continue reading
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Tagged Ask Shagg, Boston Sunday Globe, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, WuMo, Zippy the Pinhead
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Ask Dr. Ads: What’s Up With Patagonia’s ‘Worn Wear’ Ad? (Blacklash Friday Edition)
Well the Doc opened the old mailbag today and here’s what poured out. Dear Dr. Ads, I was reading the New York Times on (Black) Friday when I came across this full-page ad: That’s a real head scratcher, isn’t it, … Continue reading
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