Tag Archives: New Yorker

The Arts Seen in NYC (Central Park Edition)

Posted on June 4, 2014 by Campaign Outsider

Well the Missus and I trundled down to the Big Town over the weekend and say, it was swell . . . weather. It’s not so much that what we caught at the museums was bad. But what we caught outside … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 1909–1944: Reconstructing the Universe, Act One, Andrea Martin, Belvedere Castle, Bill Cunningham: Facades, Central Park, Charles James: Beyond Fashion, Cindy Sherman, Daniel Goodman, Editta Sherman, Gauguin: Metamorphoses, Guggenheim, Italian Futurism, Jewish Museum, Jonathan Galassi, Judith Thurman, Lygia Clark: The Abandonment of Art 1948–1988, MAD, Masterpieces and Curiosities: Diane Arbus’s Jewish Giant, MOMA, Multiple Exposures: Jewelry and Photography, Museum of Modern Art, New York Review of Books, New Yorker, New-York Historical Society, Re:Collection, Self-Taught Genius: Treasures from the American Folk Art Museum, Strawberry Fields, The Black Fives, The Met, Tony Shaloub, Weekly Standard | 4 Comments

Someone Please Put Alex Rodriguez Out Of Our Misery

Posted on January 31, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

From our Couldn’t He Be Al-EX Rodriguez? desk The hardretching staff – a Made Yankee Fan in Boston since 1974 – has long considered Alex Rodriguez a cancer upon the Pinstripes, and that’s never been truer than now. From New … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged A-Rid, A-Rod, Al-EX Rodriguez, Alex Rodriguez, ESPN, Ian Crouch, Made Yankee Fan in Boston, New Yorker, The New Yorker | 4 Comments

Quote o’ the Day (Simply Scott Brown Edition)

Posted on September 13, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

From Jeffrey Toobin’s New Yorker profile (boink! sorry, paywall) of Elizabeth Warren: [Scott] Brown is a reassuring, if not exactly dynamic, presence. He speaks softly, and he doesn’t put on airs. Seriously? Scott Brown, who hobnobs with kings and queens? … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Elizabeth Warren, Jeffrey Toobin, New Yorker, Scott Brown, The Professor | 1 Comment

The New Yorker: Red Sox Bums Russian

Posted on August 27, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

As if Boston weren’t in enough baseball turmoil, now it turns out that the Red Sox are the Evil Empire. Or so says the New Yorker: THE RED SOX ARE THE U.S.S.R. One of the greatest rivalries in professional sports … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Adrian Gonzalez, Bobby Valentine, Boston Red Sox, Brian Cashman, Carl Crawford, Josh Beckett, New York Yankees, New Yorker, U.S.S.R. | 5 Comments

Quote o’ the Day (Paul Ryan Edition)

Posted on August 12, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

Now that GOP Great White Hope Mitt Romney has tapped Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Hey, Privatize This), lots of folks are bookmarking Ryan (!) Lizza’s recent New Yorker profile of the Ayn Rand acolyte. But it’s also worth taking a … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Ayn Rand, Crystal Ball, Larry Sabato, Mitt Romney, New Yorker, Paul Ryan, privitize, Ryan Lizza, Weekly Standard | 1 Comment

Marina Abramovic Blushathon (The Artist Is Present Edition)

Posted on June 21, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

The hardblushing staff has followed performance artist Marina Abramovic over the past few years, so we feel constrained to note the flurry of coverage for the new documentary The Artist Is Present. Representative sample, via the New Yorker. Representative image, via … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Blushathon, Google, Marina Abramovic, New Yorker, The Artist Is Present | 5 Comments

Thomas Kinkade: Light-Fingered Painter

Posted on April 9, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

Self-styled “painter of light” Thomas Kinkade died last week, as the Sunday New York Times obits duly noted: Thomas Kinkade, Artist to Mass Market, Dies at 54 Thomas Kinkade, the prolific painter of bucolic and idealized scenes who estimated that his … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged New York Times, New Yorker, painter of light, Susan Orlean, Thomas Kinkade | 7 Comments

Forget Building 19. MIT’s Building 20 Was The Real Deal.

Posted on February 4, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

From our Late to the Party desk: Sharp piece (sorry, subscription required) in the January 30 edition of the New Yorker about the myth that non-judgmental brainstorming is the “ideal [creative] technique, a feel-good way to boost productivity.” There’s a problem … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Bose Corporation, brainstorming, Building 20, Groupthink, high-speed photography, Jonah Lehrer, microwave, MIT, New Yorker, Noam Chomsky, Pixar, Radiation Laboratory, Steve Jobs | Leave a comment

Remembering The Great Cincinnati Summer Pop Festival Of 1970

Posted on July 8, 2011 by Campaign Outsider

After the hardworking staff posted this memo from a New Yorker editor adrift in Red Sox Nation, splendid reader Steve Stein commented about his own displaced experience years ago in Cincinnati: I did 7 years in Cincinnati (well, Dayton, ’76-’82) and … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 1970, Alice Cooper, Bob Seger, Cincinnati Summer Pop Festival, City Beat, Crosley Field, Grand Funk Railroad, Iggy Pop and the Stooges, Mountain, New Yorker, Riverfront Stadium, Steve Stein | 15 Comments

A New Yorker (Editor) In Red Sox Nation

Posted on July 7, 2011 by Campaign Outsider

This email poured into the Global Worldwide Headquarters of Campaign Outsider today: Dear Laughter Lovers, Well, as promised, I’m up in Boston at the International Society for Humor Studies Conference. The conference proper hasn’t started yet, so I don’t have anything specific … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Bob Mankoff, Boston University, International Society for Humor Studies Conference, New Yorker, Red Sox Nation | 7 Comments