Tag Archives: Boston Globe

You Can Kiss the Prouty Garden Goodbye

Posted on March 25, 2016 by Campaign Outsider

Our kissin’ cousins at Two-Daily Town were apparently premature in posting a reader’s comment that Boston Children’s Hospital was already in the process of demolishing the Prouty Garden, which the medical facility wants to replace with a billion-dollar expansion. Premature, … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Boston Children's Hospital, Boston Globe, Cognoscenti, DPH, Friends of the Prouty Garden, Jim McManus, Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Massachusetts Public Health Council, Maura Healey, Prouty Garden, Save the Prouty Garden, Slowey/McManus Communications, Two-Daily Town, WBUR | 2 Comments

Ave Atque Vale, the Queen of Prince Spaghetti

Posted on February 7, 2016 by Campaign Outsider

The city of Boston said hail and farewell to one of its signature characters this past week. From Steve Annear’s Boston Globe obituary: Mary Fiumara, 88; mother from Prince Spaghetti commercial Her call, two words, turned Mary Fiumara into an icon of … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 89th and 3rd, Anthony Martignetti, Boston Globe, Jackie's Agnes, Mary Fiumara, North End, Prince spaghetti, Steve Annear | 6 Comments

Bad News for St. George’s, Rare Good News for St. Paul’s

Posted on December 25, 2015 by Campaign Outsider

It’s been all Prep School Reprehensible this year, what with the shameful Senior Salute at St. Paul’s School in New Hampshire and the stunning revelations about The Dark Hallways of Horace Mann chronicled this month in The Atlantic by Caitlin Flanagan. Then came yesterday’s front-page Bella English … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Advertising Age, Alexandra Bruell, Bella English, Boston Globe, Caitlin Flanagan, Horace Mann, Max Baron, New Hampshire, Prep School Confidentail, PrepReps, Rhode Island, St. George's School, St. Paul's School, The Atlantic, The Dark Hallways of Horace Mann | Leave a comment

Politico’s Jack Shafer Throws Shade at the Boston Globe

Posted on December 13, 2015 by Campaign Outsider

In his latest column, Politico media maven Jack Shafer gets all farbissen about this past week’s Great Newspaper Migration. Why Is the Washington Post So Obsessed With Its Move? It’s easier to write an obituary for a building than a … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Bob Woodward, Boston Globe, Carl Bernstein, Gordon Goetemann, Great Newspaper Migration, Jack Shafer, Joel Achenbach, John Kelly, Len Downie, Marc Fisher, Marcus Brauchli, Michael Cavna, Norma Desmond, Politico, Post mortem, Sam Adams, Spotlight, Washington Post | 3 Comments

Dead Blogging ‘Leap Before You Look’ at the ICA

Posted on October 18, 2015 by Campaign Outsider

Well the Missus and I trundled downtown yesterday to catch Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933-1957 at Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art and say, it was . . . actually accessible. As I’ve mentioned before, I’m not really smart … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Alexander Reed, Anni Albers, Asheville, Black Mountain College, Boston Globe, Buckminster Fuller, Carol Kino, Charles Olson, Elaine de Kooning, Gwendolyn Lawrence, ICA, Institute of Contemporary Art, Jacob Lawrence, John Cage, Josef Albers, Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933-1957, Merce Cunningham, Robert Creeley, Robert Motherwell, Robert Rauschenberg, Ruth Asawa, Sebastian Smee, Wall Street Journal, Watchmaker, Willem de Kooning | 1 Comment

The Arts Seen in Western Mass. (Summer of Whistler Edition)

Posted on August 12, 2015 by Campaign Outsider

Well the Missus and I trundled out to the Berkshires for a couple of days last week to catch this & that and, say, it was . . . swelling with people. Upon our arrival in Williamstown we headed right to … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Andreas Brown, Andy Warhol, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Boston Globe, Charles Prendergast, Clark Art Institute, Clark Museum, George Segal, Gotham Book Mart, James McNeill Whistler, Kathryn Price, Mark Feeney, Maurice Prendergast, Norman Rockwell Museum, Open Doorway, Roz Chast: Cartoon Memoirs, selfie, The Berkshires, The Clark Art Institute, The Loosening of Time, The Wheel of Doom, Three Centuries of American Art, Van Gogh and Nature, Van Gogh-Go, Wall Street Journal, Warhol & Collecting Books, Warhol by the Book, WCMA, Whistler Close-Up, Whistler in Paris London and Venice, Whistler's Mother: Grey Black and White, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Yale University Art Gallery | 3 Comments

Boston City Hall Plaza Gets Some National Love

Posted on August 2, 2015 by Campaign Outsider

Much-maligned Boston City Hall Plaza has been getting some good press lately, especially in the Boston Globe, for efforts to spruce/lively it up. And now Boston Mayor Marty Walsh’s relentless red-brick-revival is garnering national recognition, via the Wall Street Journal’s Jon Kamp. … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Ada Louise Huxtable, Boston City Hall Plaza, Boston Globe, Boston's Brutalist Boondoggle, hall of shame, Jon Kamp, Marty Walsh, Project for Public Spaces, Wall Street Journal | Leave a comment

Dead Blogging ‘Colossal’ at Company One Theatre

Posted on July 31, 2015 by Campaign Outsider

Well the Missus and I trundled down to Calderwood Pavilion in the South End last night to catch the Company One Theatre production of Colossal and man, it was moving – in virtually every sense of the word. Andrew Hinderaker’s play … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Alex Molina, Andrew Hinderaker, Anthony Goss, Boston Globe, Calderwood Pavilion, Colossal, Company One Theatre, Damon Singletary, Greg Maraio, Intimate Apparel, Joel Brown, Kathryn Lieber, Lyric Stage Company of Boston, Marlon Shepard, Summer L. Williams, Tommy Neblett | Leave a comment

Dead Blogging Beethoven’s Ninth in Copley Square

Posted on July 27, 2015 by Campaign Outsider

Well the Missus and I trundled downtown yesterday to catch the Handel + Haydn Society’s performance of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 at the Boston Globe/WGBH Summer Arts Weekend and, say, it . . . swelled. Thanks to the incomparable Brian O’Donovan and … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 2015 Summer Workshops, Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, Boston Globe, Brian O'Donovan, Calderwood Pavilion, Catch As Catch Can, Copley Square, Denny Dale Bess, Handel + Haydn, Huntington Playwriting Fellow, Huntington Theatre Company, John Steber, Marianna Bassham, Matthew Boston, Mia Chung, Skin in the Game, Summer Arts Weekend, The Orphan of Zhao, This Exquisite Corpse, We Spend Our Lives., WGBH, You for Me for You | Leave a comment

Headline New Network: This One’s Better

Posted on July 16, 2015 by Campaign Outsider

First in what we expect will be a long-running series Boston Globe columnist Scot Lehigh had a smart column on yesterday’s op-ed page. Except – all due respect, Editorial Page Editor Ellen Clegg – here’s what the headline should have … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Boston Globe, Donald Trump, Ellen Clegg, Neil Young, Scot Lehigh, The Needle and the Damage Done | 5 Comments