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The Strangest Restaurant Ever Comes To Boston
Every day on the way to our other job, the hardwalking staff trundles by the corner of Beacon Street and St. Mary’s, formerly occupied by a Japanese restaurant we can’t remember the name of but ate at once. (Really formerly … Continue reading
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Tagged Beacon Street, Boston, Gyu-Kaku, Japanese BBQ Dining, rehab, Richard Nixon, St. Mary's, Taiwan, Taurus Restaurant, Times Square
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Boston: We’re Number Whatever! (Best American Cities To Buy A House Edition)
The Daily Beast has published a slide show of the Best American Cities to Buy a House, From Minneapolis to Fargo. That alone should give you a hint of what’s to come. Setup: Home prices in cities around the country are … Continue reading
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Tagged Best American Cities to Buy a House, Boston, Daily Beast, Fargo, Minneapolis, New York
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WSJ Yanks Roger Clemens Out Of Boston
Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal, like every other newspaper yesterday, reported that former Boston Red Sox pitcher Roger Clemens had been cleared of charges that he lied to Congress about using steroids during his long and storied career. But the Journal … Continue reading
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Tagged acquitted, Boston, Houston, New York, Red Sox pitching records, Roger Clemens, steroid use, Toronto, Wall Street Journal
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Boston: We’re Number . . . Whatever In Segregated Schools!
From our Why the New York Times Is a Great (Local) Newspaper desk: Monumental takeout on New York’s public-school system in Sunday’s New York Times. Nut graf: In the broad resegregation of the nation’s schools that has transpired over recent … Continue reading
Crush Rush: Boston Gets Anti-Limbaugh Radio Blitz
Via Mediaite: Liberal Group Spends $100,000 On Anti-Limbaugh Radio Campaign The latest development in the backlash to Rush Limbaugh‘s comments about Sandra Fluke? A radio campaign. Media Matters is running two advertisements in eight cities — and spending at least $100,000 on … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston, Media Mattters, Mediaite, Rush Limbaugh, Washington Times
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We’re #1! Boston Is America’s Drunkest City
No more inferiority complex for Bostonians – The Daily Beast has issued its 2011 list of America’s Drunkest Cities, and Boston is the tightest of them all. And just so you know this isn’t drunk – er, junk – science, … Continue reading
A Boston Parking Spot Is A Better Investment Than Your Home
Maybe you can’t live in a parking space, but in Boston you can certainly profit from one. So says the Wall Street Journal: For Sale: 200 Sq. Feet, 0 BRs, No View: $125k Helen and Bob Alkon paid $1.3 million … Continue reading
We’re Number Last! (II)
Splendid reader Ed Mason points out some new elements in the Great GQ Dress-Down of Boston, the magazine’s 40 Worst-Dressed Cities in America feature. (The hardworking staff’s earlier post here.) Today’s Boston Herald reports on the uproar created by this sentence in … Continue reading
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Tagged 40 Worst-Dressed Cities in America, Boston, Boston Herald, GQ, Style Down Syndrome
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We’re Number Last!
Metrosexual bible GQ just published its list of the 40 Worst-Dressed Cities in America, at at the very bottom – ranking behind Cleveland, Buffalo, the Jersey Shore, Wasilla for heaven’s sake, and good God Burlington, VT – is . . … Continue reading
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