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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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Rest in Peace Anne Adams, Television Producer Extraordinaire
I loved working with Anne Adams at WGBH’s Greater Boston, where she was supervising producer from 1998 to around 2006. She was smart, funny, and cynical – everything you could ever ask for in a co-worker. And now she’s gone. … Continue reading
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Tagged Anne Adams, Boston Globe, Bryan Marquard, Depression: Out of the Shadows, Greater Boston, Peter Masalsky, WGBH
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Boston News Media’s Althea Garrison Transgender Copout
Yesterday’s Boston Globe Page One piece said it best. Michael Levinson’s report also addressed the indefatigable elephant in the room. Before serving as a state representative from 1993 to 1995, she was outed as transgender when the Boston Herald got … Continue reading
WSJ Beats Boston Dailies on Bulger Wrongful Death Suit
Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal featured this Zusha Elinson piece about the latest verse in The Ballad of Whitey Bulger. Bulger Was Wary Of Prison Transfer Boston mobster James “Whitey” Bulger seemed to have good news when he called his attorney … Continue reading
Times of London Whacks Irish Times for Kevin Cullen Coddling
As the hardworking staff has repeatedly noted, the Irish Times has been derelict in its due diligence about Boston Globe columnist Kevin Cullen’s reporting for that paper about the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings. And now the Times of London is … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe, Boston Marathon bombings, Irish Times, Kevin Cullen, Newstalk, The Times of London, UK
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Irish Times Sentences Kevin Cullen to . . . One Correction
Back in April when the whole Kevin Cullen rumpus began, the headscratching staff wondered if the Irish Times would scrutinize its Cullen column that ran in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings, a piece that featured unverified details different from … Continue reading
Seems The Irish Times Is Not Reviewing Kevin Cullen’s Work
Earlier this week the hardworking staff noted the rumpus around Boston Globe columnist Kevin Cullen’s shifting coverage of the Boston Marathon bombings. Central to the issue is Cullen’s dual versions of the role he says Dorchester firefighter Sean O’Brien played … Continue reading
Is The Irish Times Reviewing Kevin Cullen’s Reporting For It?
The rumpus over Boston Globe columnist Kevin Cullen’s Boston Marathon bombings coverage has gone trans-Atlantic, as this Irish Times piece illustrates. ‘Boston Globe’ columnist Kevin Cullen put on administrative leave Journalist’s coverage of Boston Marathon bombings to be examined after … Continue reading
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Tagged @DanKelley66, BBC, Bill Richard, Boston Globe, Boston Marathon bombings, Gerry Adams, Irish Times, Jane Richard, Kevin Cullen, Kirk Minihane, Martin Richard, Matt Patterson, NECN, Northern Ireland, NY Daily News, Running towards the bombs, Sean O'Brien, The Troubles, WBZ, WEEI
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Dunkin’ Channeled Boston Globe in Dumping Hill Holliday
Wednesday’s Boston Globe featured this Jon Chesto piece on its first Business page. Snappy lede: “Hill Holliday no longer runs on Dunkin’.” The Canton-based chain dropped its ad agency of two decades and moved its account to New York shop BBDO Worldwide. “Every … Continue reading