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Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show: What the-!
Well the Missus and I watched the doggies at the 139th Westminster Kennel Club Show the past two nights and say, it was swell. But we never expected it to be. For starters, we couldn’t stand half of the seven finalists. … Continue reading
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Tagged 139th Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, Best in Show Judge, Charlie, David Merriam, Madison Square Garden, Matisse, Miss P, New York Times, Old English sheepdog, Patricia Hearst-Shaw, Patty Hearst, Portuguese water dog, Richard Sandomir, Skye terrier, Swagger, Uno, USA Today
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Ban the Museum Selfie Shtick!
William Grimes’s front-page piece in Sunday’s New York Times pinpoints one of the great tragedies of our times. Museum Rules: Talk Softly, and Carry No Selfie Stick In a famous lab trial, a chimp named Sultan put two interlocking sticks … Continue reading
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Tagged American Gothic, Art Institute of Chicago, Grant Woods, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Jeff Koons, Katy Perry, Koons Is Great for Selfies!, Magritte, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Times, selfie sticks, Sree Sreenivasan, Temple of Dendur, Whitney Museum of American Art, William Grimes
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White House Historical Association Spanks Hardworking Staff
As you splendid readers might remember, yesterday the hardworking staff posted the first of what we hope will be an ongoing series: Whiskey Tango Foxtrot Ads in the New York Times. It read, in part: The New York Times is … Continue reading
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Tagged 2015 White House Christmas Ornament, Boston Globe, Calvin Coolidge, Capital, Edward R. Murrow award recipient, Harry Truman, History Channel, Lara M. Kline, National Christmas Tree Lighting, New York Times, Vice President for Marketing and Communications, White House Historical Association
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Whiskey Tango Foxtrot Ads in the New York Times
First in what we hope will be a long-running series The New York Times is repository for all manner of inexplicable advertising (see our Civilians Who Run Full-Page Ads in the New York Times series for representative samples), so the … Continue reading
How Many Millennials Actually Watch Jon Stewart?
Conventional wisdom holds that Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show on Viacom’s Comedy Central is so valuable because it’s a magnet for millennials, the magic 18-29 demographic that marketers lust after. From yesterday’s Wall Street Journal piece about “growing concerns on Wall Street that … Continue reading
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Tagged American Horror Story, Archer, Bill Carter, Brian Williams, Comedy Central, Ethan Epstein, First Draft, Hollywood Reporter, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Jon Stewart, Louis, millennials, New York Times, Pew Research Center, Scott Pelley, State of the News Media, The Daily Show, The Weekly Standard, Viacom, Wall Street Journal
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NYT Gets Drop on Boston Globe Re: Ted K Institute Opening
The Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate is about to open in the wake of a family feud that has gone largely unnoted in the news media lately, but was all the rage two years ago. Regardless, yesterday’s New … Continue reading
Boston ‘Dream’ Doc Thomas Graboys Gets Elegant Farewell
Tom Graboys was someone special. From his sweet Boston Globe sendoff by Bryan Marquard: Dr. Thomas Graboys, 70; cardiologist, writer On hospital rounds Dr. Thomas Graboys listened carefully to a chorus of beating hearts, placing his stethoscope on the warm, damp … Continue reading
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Tagged Abigail Zuger, Bernard Lown, Boston Celtics, Boston Globe, Bryan Marquard, Caren Solomon, Caroline Rigby Graboys, Dream Team, Dysrhythmics, Lewy body disease, Life in the Balance, Masters of the Universe, New York Times, Parkinson's disease, Penelope Graboys Blair, Peter Zheutlin, Reggie Lewis, Sam Roberts, Sarah Valeo, Thomas Graboys, Tom Wolfe, Victoria Tenney Graboys, William Rigby
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Pinterest Goes Native for a Little Pin Money
There are currently 70 million Pinterest pinners, and every one of them is about to get spinned to the marketing post. From BostInno‘s Rebecca Strong: Pinterest is Getting More Ads but You Might Have Trouble Spotting Them Advertisers’ posts may … Continue reading
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Tagged ABC Family, BostInno, Dana Shank, Expedia, Gap, General Mills, holy grail, Kraft, Kraft Foods, Lululemon, native advertising, Nestle, New York Times, Pinterest, promoted pins, Rebecca Strong, Sneak ADtack
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The World’s Oldest Living Altar Boy (Mario Cuomo Edition)
St. Ignatius Loyola Church, the Kim Kardashian of the Upper East Side that’s about to swallow the far more worship-worthy Church of St. Thomas More, is back in the news today. (As the hardlapsing staff has previously noted, we were an … Continue reading
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Tagged Bishop Furlong, Capital New York, Cardinal Sean O'Malley, Carnegie Hill, Cathaholic, Christopher E. Baldwin, Ed Koch, Ed Sullivan, Fordham Prep, Frank Campbell Funeral Home, gangster Frank Costello, George Gershwin, Greta Garbo, Heath Ledger, Jackie's Agnes, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, James Cagney, Joan Crawford, Joan Rivers, Judy Garland, Kim Kardashian of the Upper East Side, L’Wren Scott, Leona Helmsley, Malcolm Forbes, Mario Cuomo, New York Times, Peggy Noodnik, Peggy Noonan, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rev. Kevin Madigan, Rita Hayworth, Robert F. Kennedy, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, Saks Fifth Avenue, St. Catherine Siena, St. Francis Xavier Cabrini, St. Ignatius Loyola, St. John Nepomucene, St. John the Martyr, St. Thomas More, St. Vincent Ferrer, Wall Street Journal, William Randolph Hearst
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