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Rafael Nadal Makes History, Roger Federer Makes $neakers
This past weekend Rafael Nadal led Spain to its sixth Davis Cup championship, winning all eight of his matches (five singles, three doubles) without dropping a set. Nadal’s 6-3, 7-6(7) victory over Canada’s Denis Shapovalov that clinched the title on … Continue reading
Springfield Museum Ghosts Contributors of Works to Exhibits
Well the Missus and I trundled west the other day to check out the – five, count ’em five – Springfield Museums and say, the exhibits were swell. But their attribution? Not so much. First we went to The Michele and Donald D’Amour … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham Kamberg, Alma Kamberg, BAUHAUS: 100 Years Later, Edward Steichen, Elliott Erwitt, Family of Man, Johannes Itten, Josef Albers, Museum of Modern Art, Oskar Schlemmer, Richard Coplan, Springfield Museums, Sweet: A Tasty Journey, The Art of Observation: The Best of Photographer Elliott Erwitt, The Michele and Donald D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts, Walter Gropius, Wassily Kandinsky, Wood Museum of Springfield History
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Dead Blogging ‘Hans Hofmann’ at Peabody Essex Museum
Well the Missus and I trundled up to Salem this past weekend to take in Hans Hofmann: The Nature of Abstraction (through January 5) at the expanded Peabody Essex Museum and say, the exhibit was swell although the #newPEM part was a … Continue reading
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Tagged #newPEM, Associate Curator of Exhibitions and Research, BAMPFA, Boston Globe, Curator of Fashion and Textiles, Hans Hofmann: The Nature of Abstraction, Iris Apfel, Lance Esplund, Lydia Gordon, Mark Feeney, Nancy Putnam, Order of Imagination: The Photographs of Olivia Parker, Peabody Essex Museum, Rare Bird of Fashion, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Wall Street Journal
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Zippy the Pinhead Misses the Boat on Boston’s Lobster Mickey
The hardworking staff yields to no man in our respect and admiration for Bill Griffith’s Zippy the Pinhead comic strip. But today’s strip in the Boston Globe is, well, kind of chuckleheaded. Notice the caption lower right: “Real Statue in … Continue reading
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Tagged Atlas Obscura, Bill Griffith, Boston Globe, Breanna Rowlette, Lobsta' Mickey, Lobster Mickey, Zippy the Pinhead
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GateHouse Media’s Free-Rent Sweepstakes a Gate-and-Switch
Imagine the hardworking staff’s delight when we received an email from GateHouse Media with the subject line Win a Mortgage-Free or Rent-Free Year! Excellent! (We’ll pass over in silence the inconvenient fact that up to $15,000 would … Continue reading
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Tagged Apollo Global Management, Cox Enterprises, FCC, Gannett, GateHouse Media, Journal Star, New York Post
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Made Yankee Fan in Boston: In Houston They Had a Problem
Game 6 of the 2019 American League Championship Series was a case study in Just What You Expected. Let’s start from the beginning: In the bottom of the 1st, Chad (The Arsonist) Green gave up a three-run homer to Yuri … Continue reading
Made Yankee Fan in Boston: Goin’ Back to Houston, Houst . . .
Yesterday, in our dour assessment of the New York Yankees’ performance in the 2019 ALCS, we said oy. Today we turn to this old Jewish proverb: One chops wood, the other says Hey! That’s our cue: Hey! The Yankees staved off … Continue reading
So Far the Yankees Have Folded Like Origami in the ALCS
As a Made Yankee Fan in Boston for the past 45 years, it pains me to say that the 2019 New York Yankees – easily the most likable squad in recent memory – have been their worst selves in this … Continue reading
Newly Renovated MoMA Is Museum of Modern Arguing
From our Beaten to Death with Croutons desk Here’s what everyone can agree on: New York’s Museum of Modern Art will unveil its four-month, $450 million, 47,000-square-foot expansion on October 21st. Beyond that, it’s strictly an art critic slapfight. Let’s … Continue reading
Trump Is a Chump™ (WSJ Trump Hotels Advertising Edition)
First, let’s stipulate that Donald Trump is the least self-aware U.S. president since post-stroke Woodrow Wilson. Let’s also stipulate that the Cheeto-in-Chief is more transactional than your neighborhood ATM. As one observer noted, Trump has no standards and no principles … Continue reading
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Tagged Cheeto-in-Chief, Donald Trump, post-stroke, Trump Hotels, Wall Street Journal, Woodrow Wilson
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