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Whether your Beacon Hill representative is a Budweiser-shaped high
school jock leftover with a bald spot bigger than his brain, or a
do-good female activist with ornate lapel pins for every day of the
month, chances are he or she misrepresented your voice this afternoon,
when 137 out of 160 legislators voted to anoint Winthrop ...
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When George Bush
was elected president in 2000, thinking folks were angry that so-called
everyday Americans voted Republican because, allegedly, they wanted to chug
beers with him. While alcoholics are
always more fun, some thought that was a poor reason to choose a leader.
But make no
mistake. When selecting your Beacon ...
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I’m ransacking my apartment for vitals needed on this inaugural
whistle-stop shimmy down to Washington. This sort of rogue
day-and-a-half accommodation-less adventure mostly just calls for
vagabond basics such as gum and deodorant (as opposed to toothpaste and
soap), but there’s still important gear to remember.
Twenty
years ago, I’d ...
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You know how everybody thinks that their tattoo technician is the sweetest? Well, mine – Brian Hemming of Regeneration in Allston (and formerly of Pino Bros) – really is that dude.
Check non-epidermal artwork by Brian and his Regeneration comrades this Saturday (01.17.2008) at LAB in Allston starting at 7pm. The show is called Snowblind, ...
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Going into this evening’s State of the Commonwealth address, Governor Deval Patrick knew that he would have to shine a little light on the dire predicament that Massachusetts and many of its residents find themselves in this winter. In short – he had to make lemonade out of local aid, and talk more about a green economy than the lack of green ...
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How To Orchestrate A Winning State of the City Address (while keeping out all dissent and opposition) in Eight Easy Steps
-By The Honorable Thomas M. Menino, Mayor of Boston*
1 – Despite its inability to fit more than a thousand or so onlookers, hold the event inside the Great Hall; that way you can announce a 7:30pm start time and have the ...
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Unless I’m
mistaken, or there’s a McDonald’s in Beverly Hills where pricey real estate
renders Big Macs unaffordable to the Chihuahua-less segment of the population,
Burger King has crossed a serious hurdle by offering the first value meal to eclipse
the ten-dollar mark.
For lunch today
I feasted on a triple-decker Angry Whopper ...
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It would be tough
to concoct a more damning lead for this dispatch than Matt Viser did for his piece
in today’s Boston Globe: “House
Speaker Salvatore F. DiMasi has made public statements that are directly at
odds with the findings of state investigators. His close friends are under
scrutiny by state and federal prosecutors, and one ...
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I’m breathing
deep sighs of relief. Not just because of the sudden beach weather, but because the media is no longer perceived as the
sharpest thorn in black Boston’s
backside. At least not yesterday; and at least not from where I sat at last
night’s small assembly at the YMCA on Martin
Luther King Boulevard in ...
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Everybody knows
at least one person who claims to know at least one person who was in the World Trade
Center on September 11,
2001. They truly believe all these
stories, and since social regulations dictate that we’re not allow to call
bullshit on them, most of us sit idly while people say things like, “He was
never late to work even ...
