(Cross-posted from Boston Daily)
This city is dying for a great political race. What we’re getting instead is a race about race. And it’s going to be filthy.
Dianne Wilkerson is scrambling to retain her Senate seat. She lost last week’s Democratic primary to Sonia Chang-Diaz, and responded in familiar fashion: Surrounded by adoring supporters, she spoke [...]
Entries from September 26th, 2008
The Hill and the Hall Week in Review
September 26th, 2008 · No Comments · Politics
Tags:Boston City Council·Boston Magazine·Dianne Wilkerson·Idle Speculation·Mayor Menino·Politics as Bloodsport
The Hill and the Hall Week in Review
September 22nd, 2008 · No Comments · Politics
(Cross-posted from Boston Daily)
Democracy happened on Tuesday, and what a mess it left behind. John Kerry beat back some RFK lookalike. Longtime Senate fixture Dianne Wilkerson was overthrown by an astronaut’s daughter in a low-turnout race that broke largely along racial and neighborhood lines.
A machine boss’s daughter brought gubernatorial hellfire upon her head in [...]
Tags:Boston Magazine·Dianne Wilkerson·Ed O'Reilly·John Kerry·John Rogers·Legislature·Mayor Menino·Mitt Romney·Sal DiMasi
Democracy Happens; Tempers Flare
September 16th, 2008 · No Comments · Politics
Last month I detailed some ludicrous stuff that people had typed into the Google. That stuff, for no apparent reason, had subsequently led them to this very website. (Whatup, mayor munono?)
There’s a new leader in the clubhouse today. It’s Election Day, and somebody out there – you know who you are – decided to celebrate [...]
Epic Sox Rally Fails to Captivate
September 15th, 2008 · No Comments · Media
I snapped this picture from my cell phone during Saturday night’s Sox game. It was during the bottom of the eighth, and after a rousing rendition of Sweet Caroline, and the boys were putting dents in the Wall and slapping go-ahead rollers down the line and making everybody in Fenway lose it.
Everybody except for this [...]
Tags:Awful People·Boston Globe·Red Sox·self-referentialism·The Youth of Today
The Plot, Uh, Thickens
September 13th, 2008 · No Comments · Media
What do Jim Marzilli, a middle-aged Miami schools administrator, and a Globe metro reporter allegedly have in common?
Click here to find out. (Not safe for work. Or, I can only assume, your job security.)
Talking Head Trades Up
September 12th, 2008 · No Comments · Politics
Here’s David Wade, one of the two Democratic operatives assigned to shadow VP nominee Joe Biden, telling the Times why voters will just plum fall in love with a guy who tells paraplegics to stand up, marvels at the sea change immigration has wrought behind the counters of 7-Eleven, and who has been known to [...]
Tags:John Kerry
The Hill and the Hall Week in Review
September 12th, 2008 · No Comments · Politics
(Cross-posted from Boston Daily)
And you thought John Tomase had it bad.
On Wednesday morning, the Herald splashed with a terrifying scoop: The City Council was “mulling a scheme to keep their business secret from the taxpayers who elected them, creating a cone of silence that would make the Hub the only city in the commonwealth [...]
Tags:Boston City Council·Boston Magazine·Dianne Wilkerson·Herald·Legislature·Politics as Bloodsport·Therese Murray
My Five Minutes with Fox
September 12th, 2008 · No Comments · Media, Politics
The TV in the Dunkin’ Donuts next door is tuned to Fox News. Always. The cashiers selling cigarettes and lottery tickets are usually watching NESN, but for the caffeine-addled masses, it’s Fox and Friends or nothing. So, for one to five minutes every day, I get to see how the other half thinks. Or doesn’t [...]
Pauwels: From the Cutting Room Floor
September 10th, 2008 · No Comments · Beer
Yesterday I posted an interview with the brewmaster of Boulevard Brewing Company, Steven Pauwels. It’s from the September issue of Beer Advocate magazine. (Buy! Subscribe! Read!)
But, as these things go, not everything that we talked about made the cut. Word counts, etc. So here’s some picked up bits from the interview that didn’t make it [...]
Tags:Beer
Fresh Beer on Tap
September 9th, 2008 · No Comments · Beer
Hot n’ sexxxy issue of Beer Advocate magazine hitting the streets even as we speak. In it, you’ll find a bunch of words written by other people, as well as an interview with Boulevard Brewing Company brewmaster Steven Pauwels, written by me.
In it, Steven talks about why he ditched Belgium for Kansas City, why homebrewers [...]
Tags:Beer·self-referentialism
