Portfolio’s November cover boy is American Apparel founder Dov Charney. It’s not a popular choice with the “We like real journalism in times of economic crisis” crowd.
Don’t worry, Dov. The reception’s much warmer here in my Department of Self-Promotion.
Charney sits on the national committee of the National Immigrant Bond Fund, which I spotlight in the November [...]
Entries from October 31st, 2008
Portfolio Does Dov, Beats Bush
October 31st, 2008 · No Comments · Media, Politics
Tags:Boston Magazine·Portfolio
The Hill and the Hall Week in Review
October 31st, 2008 · No Comments · Politics
(Cross-posted, for the last time, from Boston Daily)
It’s been a hell of a year for scandal on Beacon Hill. Jim Marzilli went on a sexy rampage, there’s a grand jury investigating the Speaker’s former campaign treasurer, and the House Majority Leader might not be far behind.
The man who’s opposing him for control of the House [...]
Tags:Allegedly!·Boston City Council·Boston Magazine·Crooks·Demagoguery·Dianne Wilkerson·Legislature·Overheard·Therese Murray·You Just Got Nailed
T Keeps it Cool
October 30th, 2008 · No Comments · Uncategorized
It was miserable outside today, as it has been most of the week. So, obviously, when I walk into the Hynes T stop, the circular fan was running at full blast.
Because what Boston needed more than anything else today was a nice, cool breeze. Thanks for that. Really.
Google Ads Read the Newspapers
October 30th, 2008 · No Comments · Media, Politics
The following Google ad just plopped itself atop my Gmail inbox. Right after I’d wrapped up a couple hours of phone calls about Dianne Wilkerson, everybody’s favorite knee-cracking, bra-$tuffing state senator.
Dictionary.com Word of the Day – hubris: overbearing pride or presumption.
Huh. Hell of a coincidence, that.
Local Blogger is Famous on a Blog
October 29th, 2008 · No Comments · Media
Look who hit the big time. It’s my Boston Daily editor Paul Flannery, standing on the parquet at midnight and analyzing the C’s for the cameras.
On the internet! Dude’s totally famous on that internet. Sure his “I’m famous online” check is on its way any day now.
Tags:Boston Magazine·Internets
One Falls on the Right…
October 28th, 2008 · No Comments · Politics
…And now one on the left.
Ted Stevens: Guilty.
Dianne Wilkerson: Not close behind.
Tags:Crooks·Dianne Wilkerson
Killer In Me, Killer In Me
October 28th, 2008 · No Comments · Music
New album of the month is, undoubtedly, King of Rosa, the just-unwrapped LP from Boston Portland folk rockers the Dead Trees. The new songs stand up to anything they’ve done before – and go way beyond.
I wish I could throw a couple mp3s up here. Severe internet dumbness prevents that feat. So instead, here’s the [...]
Tags:Music
But I’m Irish!!!
October 26th, 2008 · No Comments · Politics
The wife checks in from Castle Island, where GOP Senate candidate Jeff Beatty is working the hot dog-eating, weekend dog-walking crowd for votes.
His pitch: “I need your support. I’m running against John Kerry. I’m Irish!”
Tags:John Kerry·Overheard
OBEY Does Boston
October 25th, 2008 · No Comments · Media
Shepard Fairey was in town last week prepping for his upcoming ICA exhibition. And he was kind enough to paint up the side of the Dig’s South End offices while he was here.
After the jump, a couple hastily-snapped cell phone pictures of the Giant’s posse touching up their work. Good looking stuff.
Tags:OBEY·Slums·Vandalism·Weekly Dig
The Hill and the Hall Week in Review
October 25th, 2008 · No Comments · Politics
(Cross-posted from the Commie rag Boston Daily)
Normally, this time of year, lawmakers would be at home defending their seats against their nonexistent opponents. This is not a normal year. And so the week began on Monday morning—“Wait ’til Next Year Day,” as the whiteboard outside the State House cafeteria christened it—with a five-hour marathon hearing. [...]
