Tag Archives: Boston Globe

Remembering Anne Rice (Biting Tom Cruise’s Neck Edition)

Posted on December 13, 2021 by Campaign Outsider

Popular and prolific author Anne Rice died last week at the age of 80, as Neil Genzlinger noted in this New York Times obituary. Anne Rice, Who Spun Gothic Tales of Vampires, Dies at 80 She wrote more than 30 novels, including … Continue reading →

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Revisiting Boston Garden, ‘The Old Barn on Causeway Street’

Posted on November 29, 2021 by Campaign Outsider

The building was forty-one years old [in 1969]. Hard years. In a cramped and shopworn corner of the city, one flight up from the train station, surrounded by elevated subway tracks and an elevated highway that kept sunshine and clean … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 1981 Eastern Conference Finals, 1982 Eastern Conference Finals, 1984 Heat Game, 1988 Eastern Conference Semifinals, Andrew Toney, Atlanta Hawks, Basketball for the Player the Fan and the Coach, Beat LA, Billy Knight, Bob Ryan, Boston Celtics, Boston Globe, Danny Ainge, Dominique Wilkins, FleetCenter, Hubie Brown, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Kevin McHale, Larry Joe Bird, Leigh Montville, Magic Johnson, Marvin Barnes, Mike Fratello, Nate Archibald, New York Knicks, Nightfall, Philadelphia 76ers, Red Auerbach, Shawmut Center, Sports Team History, Tall Men Short Shorts, TD Garden, The Boston Strangler, The Great Sidney Wicks/Curtis (Skid) Rowe Dumpster Fire, The Hick From French Lick, Tiny Archibald, Vanasse Hangen Brustlin | 5 Comments

So to Conclude: The Red Sox Were Not the Team o’ Destiny

Posted on October 24, 2021 by Campaign Outsider

But the Atlanta Braves still might be. First, the sad demise of the Crimson Hose, as narrated by the Boston Globe’s resident darn-those-Sox scribe Dan Shaughnessy. Red Sox ran out of karma, and it all started after the wristwatch taunt … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 2020 NLCS, Allman Brothers, Atlanta Braves, Boston Globe, Boston Red Sox, Dan Shaughnessy, darn-those-Sox, Hot 'Lantanas, Los Angeles Dodgers, Swat Caroline, Team o' Destiny, World's Serious | 1 Comment

Dead Blogging ‘Hans Hofmann’ at Peabody Essex Museum

Posted on November 15, 2019 by Campaign Outsider

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 →

Posted in Uncategorized | 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 | Leave a comment

Zippy the Pinhead Misses the Boat on Boston’s Lobster Mickey

Posted on November 12, 2019 by Campaign Outsider

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 →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Atlas Obscura, Bill Griffith, Boston Globe, Breanna Rowlette, Lobsta' Mickey, Lobster Mickey, Zippy the Pinhead | 4 Comments

Rest in Peace Anne Adams, Television Producer Extraordinaire

Posted on May 10, 2019 by Campaign Outsider

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 →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Anne Adams, Boston Globe, Bryan Marquard, Depression: Out of the Shadows, Greater Boston, Peter Masalsky, WGBH | 2 Comments

Boston News Media’s Althea Garrison Transgender Copout

Posted on January 11, 2019 by Campaign Outsider

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 →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Althea Garrison, Boston City Council, Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Brook Sutherland, Michael Levenson, transgender | Leave a comment

WSJ Beats Boston Dailies on Bulger Wrongful Death Suit

Posted on December 11, 2018 by Campaign Outsider

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 →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Billy Bulger, Boston Globe, Boston Herald, calumnist, Hank Brennan, Howie Carr, Howie Carrtoon, Mr. Carrtoon, Shelley Murphy, the Corrupt Midget, Wall Street Journal, Whitey Bulger, Zusha Elinson | Leave a comment

Times of London Whacks Irish Times for Kevin Cullen Coddling

Posted on June 28, 2018 by Campaign Outsider

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 →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Boston Globe, Boston Marathon bombings, Irish Times, Kevin Cullen, Newstalk, The Times of London, UK | Leave a comment

Irish Times Sentences Kevin Cullen to . . . One Correction

Posted on June 19, 2018 by Campaign Outsider

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 →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged @gmolloy, @suzannelynch1, BBC, Boston Globe, Boston Marathon bombings, Gary Molloy, Gerry Adams, IRA, Irish Times, Kevin Cullen, Martin Richard, Press Council of Ireland and Office of the Press Ombudsman, Sean O'Brien, Suzanne Lynch, WBUR | 1 Comment