Tag Archives: New York Times

David Guttenfelder Wins NYT ‘Year in Pictures’ Bakeoff

Posted on January 6, 2023 by Campaign Outsider

For the past decade, the hardworking staff has been the Shutterbug Boswell of New York Times photographers, annually tallying who shot what in the paper’s Year in Pictures Special Section. This year’s section is especially fraught, given the violence and … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Chang W. Lee, Dana Jennings, Daniel Berehulak, David Guttenfelder, Finbarr O'Reilly, Lynsey Addario, New York Times, Shutterbug Boswell, The Year in Pictures 2022 | Leave a comment

My Soirée With Napoleon, Madame Curie & Other Luminaries

Posted on December 29, 2022 by Campaign Outsider

So I was leafing through the New York Times Book Review the other day when I came across this piece about The Dinner Party Writers Dream Of. This year, our By the Book series of author interviews turned 10 — … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Amelia Earhart, Austen, Baldwin, Book Review, Harry Houdini, Jonah, Lewis & Clark, Madame Curie, Marie Antoinette, Methuselah, Morrison, Napoleon Bonaparte, New York Times, Octavia Butler, Proust, Sappho, Shakespeare, The Dinner Party Writers Dream of, Tolstoy, Twain | 2 Comments

R.I.P. Angela Lansbury: The Missus & I Loved You on Broadway

Posted on October 19, 2022 by Campaign Outsider

As the Missus said last week, thank God Angela Lansbury didn’t pass away during – and I’m paraphrasing here – England’s Long Goodbye to QE II. Then again, Angela Lansbury’s timing was always impeccable. It allowed, for example, Daniel Lewis’s lovely … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged A Little Night Music, A Little Priest, Angela Lansbury, Blithe Spirit, Candice Bergen, Catherine Zeta-Jones, CUNY Theater Talk, Daniel Lewis, Ginger Rogers Century Exhibition, Gore Vidal, Helena Bonham Carter, Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center, James Earl Jones, Jesse Green, John Larroquette, Len Cariou, Madame Arcati, Mame, Marian Seldes, Michael Riedel, Mrs. Lovett, New York Times, Noël Coward, Patti LuPone, Queen Elizabeth GrieveArama, Scott Tobias, Stephen Sondheim, Susan Haskins, Sweeney Todd, The Best Man | Leave a comment

NYT’s ‘MAS*H’ Retrospective Lacks 20/20 Heinz Sight

Posted on September 18, 2022 by Campaign Outsider

Page One of yesterday’s Arts section in the New York Times featured James Poniewozik’s big takeout on the 5oth anniversary of the seminal television dramedy, “M*A*S*H.” ‘M*A*S*H’ at 50: War Is Hell(arious) Five decades ago, “M*A*S*H” anticipated today’s TV dramedies, … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged American Heritage, Death of a Racehorse, Grantland Rice, H. Richard Hornberger, James Poniewozik, Jeff MacGregor, M*A*S*H, MASH4077TV, Nathan Ward, New York Times, Once They Heard the Cheers, Pete Hamill, Richard Hooker, Robert Altman, Sports Illustrated, The Professional, Tom Wolfe, W.C. Heinz, What a Time It Was, When We Were One | Leave a comment

The New York Times ‘Omituary’ of Hells Angel Sonny Barger

Posted on July 3, 2022 by Campaign Outsider

Hells Angels poster thug Sonny Barger has finally joined the choir invisible, as New York Times obituary reporter Clay Risen detailed the other day. Sonny Barger, Face of the Hells Angels, Dies at 83 He cultivated the motorcycle club’s outlaw … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Canadian Broadcast Corporation, Clay Risen, Fritz Clapp, Hell's Angels, Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga, Hunter S. Thompson, Leo Litwak, New York Times, Sonny Barger, the choir invisible | Leave a comment

New York Times Details the Double Toll Drone Killings Take

Posted on April 18, 2022 by Campaign Outsider

The history of warfare is a steady progression of distancing, as battles evolved from close combat to push-button carnage. On Page One of yesterday’s New York Times, Dave Philipps captured the current war footing. The Unseen Scars of the Remote-Controlled … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Celeste Oliva, Central Square Theater, chair force, Dave Philipps, drones, Everyman Theatre, George Brant, Grounded, Kevin Larson, Lee Mikeska Gardner, New York Times, Nora Theatre Company, remote-controlled kill, The Economist, tour de chair force | 1 Comment

Dead Blogging ‘Real Photo Postcards’ at Boston’s MFA

Posted on April 10, 2022 by Campaign Outsider

Well the Missus and I trundled over to The Fenway the other day to catch the big Turner’s Modern World exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts and say, it was meh. (Then again, you can judge for yourself with … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Boston Globe, Eastman Kodak Company, Jason Farago, Leonard A. Lauder Postcard Archive, Murray Whyte, Museum of Fine Arts, New York Times, postcard camera, Real Photo Postcards: Pictures from a Changing Nation | Leave a comment

NYT ‘How I Learned to Drive’ Ad a Bit Like Proust’s Madeleine

Posted on February 28, 2022 by Campaign Outsider

So yesterday I was working my way through the Sunday New York Times (an activity that the extremely sage Dr. Ads says should trigger a federal subsidy) when I came across this full-page ad in the Arts & Leisure section. … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged A.R.T., American Repertory Theater, Arliss Howard, Ask Doctor Ads, David Morse, Dr. Ads, How I Learned to Drive, madeleine, Marcel Proust, Mary-Louise Parker, New York Times, Paula Vogel, Proof | Leave a comment

NYT Photographer Tyler Hicks on Track to Win Another Pulitzer

Posted on February 27, 2022 by Campaign Outsider

Plug “Tyler Hicks Pulitzer Prize” into the Googletron and here’s what pops up. Hicks in in Ukraine right now doing what he does so amazingly well. Here’s part of what he captured for yesterday’s New York Times. Here at the … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged C.J. Chivers, Esquire, Mark Warren, New York Times, Pulitzer Prize, Tyler Hicks, Ukraine | Leave a comment

Why Rafael Nadal Is the Most Admirable Person in All of Sports

Posted on January 30, 2022 by Campaign Outsider

The hardrooting staff has written often about Rafael Nadal, one of our all-time favorite athletes along with New York Yankees icon Mickey Mantle (our youthful crush) and Mantle’s New York Rangers doppelgänger Rod Gilbert. But Rafa is even more special. … Continue reading →

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