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Our ‘Beat the Press Party’ Bakeoff (Stephen Colbert Edition)
The Thursday Curse struck again in the latest episode of the Great Boston MediaWatch Dogfight between the local hall monitors. Start with the Boston Herald’s Press Party, which featured this lineup in its Wayne’s World webcast on Thursday: On this … Continue reading
What Can Brown Do for New Hampshire? (Pickup Truck Edition)
On Monday former Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown (R-Elsewhere) will launch the first TV spot in his Quixotic Quest to become a Two State Senator (pat. pending) by beating Democratic incumbent Sen. Jeanne Shaheen in New Hampshire. From Politico’s Morning Score: SCOTT BROWN … Continue reading
Big Town v. Bean Town (Guggenheim Fellowship Edition)
Every year the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation awards fellowships “to assist research and artistic creation.” And, as is its wont, the Foundation ran a full-page ad in the New York Times to announce its 2014 recipients. Massachusetts artists, scholars, … Continue reading
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Tagged Brooklyn, Christopher Castellani, Elena Ruehr, Five Boroughs, Grub Street, Guggenheim Fellowships, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Leading Men, MIT, New York, New York Times, no promo, Patty Chang, Roomful of Teeth, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Sven Hedin, the Big Town, The Wandering Lake, The Wandering Lake: Into the Heart of Asia
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Quote o’ the Day (Jason Gay Ol’ Time Edition)
Difficulty is part of golf’s mystique; suffering is baked into the experience; exasperation part of the addiction. Humility is why golf is golf. Golf is not supposed to be always fun. If golf was supposed to be always fun, it … Continue reading
Correction o’ the Day (At Play in the Fields of the Times Edition)
The prolific author Peter Matthiessen died last week and the obituaries came fast and, in some cases, loose. From Wednesday’s New York Times Corrections: FRONT PAGE An obituary in some editions on Sunday and in early editions on Monday about … Continue reading
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Tagged At Play in the Fields of the Lord, Bitcoins, Dog Soldiers, Ernest Hemingway, Far Tortuga, George Plimpton, Goodreads, Hotchkiss School, In the Spirit of Crazy Horse, New York Times, Peter Matthiessen, Roger Stone, St. Bernard's, The Old Man and the Sea, Viking Press
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The Kick-Ash ’70s Concert We DID Catch in Cincinnati
The hardmewling staff has lately been lamenting the Allman Brothers concert we missed at Cincinnati’s Ludlow Garage in 1970. Which got us to thinking about a concert we did catch in either April, 1973 or November, 1973 at Cincinnati’s Music … Continue reading
Baseball Players Are Not Heroes
The hardlywatching staff had the TV on in the background last night when we heard a local newscast refer to the Red Sox Home Opener “honoring the heroes on and off the field” – that is, commemorating 1) the 2013 … Continue reading
