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Hall of Shame Bakeoff: Joe Fitz vs. Dan Shaughnessy
No Hall of Fame inductees for you! And – wait for it – very different takes in the local dailies. Dan Shaughnessy’s Thursday Boston Globe column: A Hall of Fame ballot without a whiff of PED usage The poison ballot remained … Continue reading
RIP: Mickey D’s Wingman
Friday’s New York Times featured a full-page-ad tribute to Fred Turner, the original grillman at the original McDonald’s, who passed away this week. Nut graf: From the time our founder Ray Kroc hired Fred as a grill man at our … Continue reading
Update: The Boston MFA’s African-American Artwork Sale
The hardworking staff got its chronology bollixed up in this post about the MFA, much to our chagrin and partly because of this misleading format on ArtDaily.org: It turns out that story is really from several years ago (although … Continue reading
That Dog Gone Tessa (Mean Brookline Edition)
Last week the hardwalking staff reported on the flood of Lost Dog flyers in the Brookline Village area compliments of local author Dennis Lehane, whose pursuit of his runaway pooch Tessa is positively Javertesque. Now comes the backlash. From today’s Boston Herald: Official … Continue reading
Boston’s MFA Acquires Three New African-American Artworks, Sells More Than A Dozen Others
The MFA buyeth, and the the MFA selleth away. From ArtDaily.org: MFA Boston Acquires Three Paintings By 20th Century African-American Artists BOSTON, MA.- The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), recently acquired three paintings by leading African-American artists of the … Continue reading
O Tempora! O Times! (A.I.G. Edition)
From our Hark! The Herald! Self Promotion desk The New York Times did a little horn tooting of its own yesterday, as Politico’s Playbook noted: NYT GETS RESULTS – N.Y. Times B1, bottom of page, “A.I.G. Says It Will Not … Continue reading
A (Jason) Gay Ole Time! (Lance/Oprah Edition)
Wall Street Journal columnist Jason Gay has thankfully weighed in on the upcoming Lance Armstrong/Oprah Winfrey cable TV summit: What Lance Wants From Oprah I would like to go on Oprah. So would you. Don’t lie. Oprah is Oprah. Come on. … Continue reading
Hark! The Herald! (Power Of The Press Edition)
The feisty local tabloid has the self-promotion machine in overdrive today. Page One (via the Newseum’s Today’s Front Pages): And here’s the spread from pages 4 and 5 . . . Read the rest at It’s Good to Live in a … Continue reading
WSJ Sends Off Ada Louise Huxtable In Style
The great Ada Louise Huxtable, who pretty much invented architecture criticism in her writing for the New York Times and Wall Street Journal, has died at the age of 91. Wednesday’s Journal features an impressive tribute to Huxtable: Her Critical Judgments Were … Continue reading
