Tag Archives: New Republic

The Arts Seen in Philly (Tim & Julia’s Excellent Wedding Edition)

Posted on July 25, 2017 by Campaign Outsider

Well the Missus and I trundled down to Philadelphia this past weekend for the wedding of our nephew Tim and, say, it was swellegant. On the endless drive down there (hey, Friday . . . summer . . . 95 … Continue reading →

The Arts Seen in NYC (Long Day’s Journey Edition)

Posted on April 24, 2016 by Campaign Outsider

Well the Missus and I trundled down to The Big Town last weekend and, say, it was swell. Except for the drive to get there, of course. We hit four – count ’em, four – major traffic jams on the … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Alice in Wonderland, Anton Raphael Mengs, Antwerp, Arthur Miller, Beauty—Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial, Ben Brantley, Ben Wishaw, Charles Perrault, Chartres, Ciarán Hinds, Comme des Garçons, Cooper Hewitt, Crime Stories: Photography and Foul Play, duquesa de Huescar, Edgar Degas: A Strange New Beauty, Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, Eugene O'Neill, Fairy Tale Fashion, Fashion Institute of Technology, FIT, Gabriel Byrne, Hans Christian Andersen, Human Head Cake Box Murder, Ian Volner, Isaac Mizrahi, Isaac Mizrahi: An Unruly History, Jessica Lange, Jewish Museum, Job Smeets, John Dillinger's Feet, John Gallagher Jr., Long Day's Journey Into Night, Manish Arora, Marcel Broodthaers: A Retrospective, Marie Antoinette, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Michael Shannon, MOMA, Museum of Arts and Design, Museum of Modern Art, New Republic, New York Times, Nynke Tynagel, Portrait of Mariana de Silva y Sarmiento, Roundabout Theatre Company, Saoirse Ronan, snaphappy hordes, Sophie Okonedo, Studio Job, Studio Job MAD HOUSE, Terry Teachout, the Brothers Grimm, The Crucible, The Frick Collection, The Little Mermaid, The Met, The Met Breuer, Thierry Mugler, Thom Browne Selects, Train Crash, Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible, Van Dyck: The Anatomy of Portraiture, Vigée Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary France, Wall Street Journal, Walter Kerr Theatre, Weegee | 1 Comment

When a Nation Forgets Its Own Clichés . . .

Posted on June 19, 2014 by Campaign Outsider

. . . well, that’s just sad. The hardnoting staff has a habit of recording mangled phrases in the press, and here’s our latest batch. • From Boston Magazine last July, about the 2014 Massachusetts gubernatorial race: “[Martha Coakley’s] apparent reversal … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged @MickeyBPowerPop, Allen Craig, Arsenio Hall, Bill Clinton, Boston Bruins, Boston Globe, Boston magazine, Brian Krause, CNN, Condoleezza Rice, Daniel Nava, David Desharnais, Doug Band, First Read, International Cherry-Pit Spitting Contest, Iowa, Jeremy Roenick, John Kerry, Johnny Carson, mangled phrases, Martha Coakley, Mexican immigrants, Montreal Canadiens, MSNBC, New Republic, NPR, Quebec, Red Sox, Rep. Steve King, SCOTUS, Secretary of State, St. Louis Cardinals, Stanley Cup, stare decisis, Wall Street Journal, Will Middlebrooks | 5 Comments

When A Nation Forgets Its Own Clichés . . .

Posted on June 25, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

Well, that’s just sad. The hardworking staff has a habit of recording mangled phrases in the press, and here’s our latest batch. • About a week ago, the Boston Globe ran a story about CBS’s decision to stop broadcasting the … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged ABC, APM, Boston Globe, Boston Pops, CBS, CBS This Morning, Cheryl Miller, Chris Christie, Chris Hughes, David Mugar, Eli Manning, Hall of Fane, July 4th fireworks, Legal Sea Foods, Marketplace, Mohamed Morsi, MSNBC First Read, New Hampshire Journal, New Republic, New York Times Magazine, NPR, Peyton Manning, Reggie Miller, Roger Berkowitz, The Note | 8 Comments

The Case Against E-Readers

Posted on July 24, 2011 by Campaign Outsider

The hardworking staff owns a Kindle and an iPad, so we’re not saying ebooks have no place in the literary world. It’s just that ebooks don’t replace the real thing. From the Weekend Wall Street Journal: What an E-Reader Can’t … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged e-readers, eBay, New Republic, Own Your Own Home, Ring Lardner, Shill of the Hunt, Thrill of the Hunt, Wall Street Journal | 6 Comments

Grand Old Patience: Republican Presidential Campaigns In Waiting

Posted on April 30, 2011 by Campaign Outsider

Two unlikely GOP presidential maybes – short-sighted vulgarian Donald Trump and out-of-sight Jon Huntsman – have campaign machinery ready and willing to promote their candidacies. From Friday’s Wall Street Journal: Campaign Awaits Its Candidate U.S. Ambassador to China Jon Huntsman … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Donald Trump, hit man, Jon Huntsman, New Republic, Roger Stone, Wall Street Journal | Leave a comment

It’s A Small Small Journalism World

Posted on July 1, 2010 by Campaign Outsider

They say that politics in the academic world are so vicious because the stakes are so small. Lemme tellya, academia’s got nothin’ on journalism. Witness the Journolist rumpus. The Washington Post hired David Weigel to cover the conservative political movement … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Andrew Breitbart, David Weigel, Jonathan Chait, Journolist, New Republic, self-cleaning oven, Washington Post | 2 Comments

Campaign Outsider Update Event™

Posted on May 29, 2010 by Campaign Outsider

Whenever the hardworking staff at Campaign Outsider is faced with three posts to update, we promptly issue an official Update Alert© and host an official Update Event (pat. pending). To wit: Mark Zuckerberg’s Facetime Farce, Revisited When we posted about … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged All Things Considered, anti-Israel, Bogus Promises, Boston Globe, BP, Facetime, Mark Zuckerberg, Marty Peretz, New Republic, NPR, Update Alert | Leave a comment

Palin By Comparison

Posted on February 19, 2010 by Campaign Outsider

Is it good or bad for Sarah Palin (R-No Hopey, No Changey) that she’s being attacked from the left and from the right? Lefty Leon Wieseltier of The New Republic has the No Hopey beat covered. Righty Dorothy Rabinowitz of … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Dorothy Rabinowitz, hopey changey, Leon Wieseltier, New Republic, Sarah Palin, Wall Street Journal | 1 Comment