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Rest in Peace Anne Adams, Television Producer Extraordinaire
I loved working with Anne Adams at WGBH’s Greater Boston, where she was supervising producer from 1998 to around 2006. She was smart, funny, and cynical – everything you could ever ask for in a co-worker. And now she’s gone. … Continue reading
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Tagged Anne Adams, Boston Globe, Bryan Marquard, Depression: Out of the Shadows, Greater Boston, Peter Masalsky, WGBH
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When a Nation Forgets Its Own Clichés (‘Tamper Down’ Edition)
From our That’s Just Sad desk Every now and again the hardclipping staff chronicles the mangled phrases uttered by the differently clichéd among us and, man, they are legion. Here’s our latest batch, in reverse chronological order. • The other … Continue reading
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Tagged 2016 Blast, All Things Considered, American Idol, Andrew Cuomo, Arnie Arnesen, Ayla Brown, Boston Celtics, Boston Globe, Campaign Pro, DACA, Donald Trump, dystopian classics, Empire State, Gail Huff, Gary Johnson, Hillary Clinton, John Bolton, Lester Holt, Mario Cuomo, Mario Not, Marionotte, Marty Walsh, Mediaite, Mistah Mayah, Morning Score, New Hampshire, New York Playbook, New York State Fair, New York Times, Nolan D. McCaskill, NPR, Politico, Sam Spade, Scott Brown, silver tsunami, Steven Colbert, Under the Radar, WGBH
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Dead Blogging Beethoven’s Ninth in Copley Square
Well the Missus and I trundled downtown yesterday to catch the Handel + Haydn Society’s performance of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 at the Boston Globe/WGBH Summer Arts Weekend and, say, it . . . swelled. Thanks to the incomparable Brian O’Donovan and … Continue reading
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Tagged 2015 Summer Workshops, Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, Boston Globe, Brian O'Donovan, Calderwood Pavilion, Catch As Catch Can, Copley Square, Denny Dale Bess, Handel + Haydn, Huntington Playwriting Fellow, Huntington Theatre Company, John Steber, Marianna Bassham, Matthew Boston, Mia Chung, Skin in the Game, Summer Arts Weekend, The Orphan of Zhao, This Exquisite Corpse, We Spend Our Lives., WGBH, You for Me for You
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Dead Blogging ‘Picasso to Warhol’ at Lowell Textile Museum
Well the Missus and I trundled up to Lowell over the weekend to catch Artist Textiles: Picasso to Warhol at the American Textile History Museum and, say, it was swell. From their website: The American Textile History Museum in Lowell, Massachusetts … Continue reading
WBUR Dope Slaps WGBH
As the hardworking staff drove through Allston yesterday, we noticed this billboard over the Mass Pike (sorry, no picture – I was driving, yeah?). No Rant. No Slant. WBUR 90.9 FM Boston’s NPR News Station You know that’s not aimed … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Public Radio, Jim Braude, Margery Eagan, No Rant No Slant, WBUR, WGBH
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Herald Press Party Heeds Hardworking Staff, Moves Back to Friday
For months now we’ve been urging the Boston Herald’s Press Party to shake off the Dreaded Thursday Curse by moving its Wayne’s World webcast back to Friday. This week, they did. From Friday’s edition: Well . . . nothing, except this … Continue reading
Our ‘Beat the Press Party’ Bakeoff (Stephen Colbert Edition)
The Thursday Curse struck again in the latest episode of the Great Boston MediaWatch Dogfight between the local hall monitors. Start with the Boston Herald’s Press Party, which featured this lineup in its Wayne’s World webcast on Thursday: On this … Continue reading
Our ‘Beat the Press Party’ Bakeoff (Boston’s Tragic Fire Edition)
The Great Boston MediaWatch Dogfight proceeded apace last week, with the media hall monitors grading news coverage of Tuesday’s horrific Back Bay inferno that left two Boston firefighters dead and over a dozen injured. From the Boston Herald’s Press Party (starting at 1:05): … Continue reading
Our ‘Beat the Press Party’ Bakeoff (Boston Herald Liable for Libel Edition)
This week’s Great Boston MediaWatch Dogfight features a very special topic: The legal beatdown of the Boston Herald for libeling a local woman in its 2009 report that she engaged in “sexual acts” with a convicted murderer at Bridgewater’s Old … Continue reading
Our ‘Beat the Press Party’ Bakeoff (Deval Patrick ‘Maybe’ Edition)
This week’s Great Boston MediaWatch Dogfight features very different versions of Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick’s showing some leg to Politico last Sunday about a future presidential run. The Boston Herald’s Press Party called out “Deval’s doublespeak” in its Wayne’s World webcast on Thursday. … Continue reading
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