This post made my day. Unfortunately (fortunately?), hawkers of the Boston Metro have stayed low-concept.
The Globe Magazine may be hitting its stride finally, with this fascinating piece on the Massachusetts housing market. It really captures the oddness of this boom. I for one never thought I’d be living in a city with the most million-dollar homes per capita in the nation (Cambridge) or a literal stone’s throw from a […]
Tomorrow is Election Day for the primary races in Massachusetts. Given that this is more or less a one-party state, that means the likelihood that primaries are the de facto elections. In Boston, there’s really only one race that’s up for grabs: the Suffolk County sheriff. Neither candidate - current appointee Andrea Cabral or challenger […]
In case you missed the New York Times Food section this week, this has to be the most absurdly complicated salad recipe ever. You know you’re in trouble when you have to squeeze the juice from grated ginger - and that’s only for the shallot garnish. What, exactly, is so wrong with a vinaigrette?
And why […]
In case you were having a hard time following the issue (I was), Slate has Massachusetts’ public defender crisis all sorted out for you. In essence, the state has itself to blame for the problem, because it has opted for a defender-for-hire system instead of keeping on regular public defenders. The blame crosses party lines, […]
September is always an exciting time for filmgoing in the city, as I’m reminded by the release of the schedule for the annual Boston Film Festival. My experience in past years is that while crowds might flock to the big name films and the premiere nights, the rest get ignored. Which is a shame, because […]
This weekend, the New York Times had an op-ed from two sociologists, Michael Hout and Andrew Greeley, attacking the idea that Evangelicals are the Republican Party’s base. “We are repeatedly told,” they write, “they form the president’s unshakeable electoral base. But in truth, this claim is vastly simplistic: the fashionable image of masses of white […]
I really didn’t mean to have another post bashing the Log Cabin Republicans. But Matt Yglesias has posted his revisionist theory of gay Republicans: they’re not all that self-hating or crazy.
The thing of it is that, in practice, the state of gay rights and (perhaps more importantly) the extent to which gays and lesbians are […]
Last night’s speech from President Bush:
His taxes - his policies of tax and spend, of expanding government rather than expanding opportunity, are the politics of the past. Our politics - the policies of credit cards, of debt and deficit, we’re the politics of the future. We are on the path to the future, and we’re […]
Between a busy week and problems I’ve had with the UHF on my TV set (I use only cutting edge technology), I’ve yet to actually watch the Republican National Convention proceedings. I’ll rectify that tonight (suggestions for suitable drinking game welcome), but in the meantime I’m just sorting through news and blog coverage. A couple […]
Last night Greater Boston interviewed Gov. Romney, asking about the convention and his possible positioning for a Presidential run. What leapt out was one sentence he said - “American values have recently come under attack” from the Democrats - which simply had to be a reference to gay marriage. Emily Rooney said as much, while […]
Over at Oxblog, David Adesnik actually goes back to Kerry and Edwards’ speeches and makes a good point. Riffing off a Josh Benson criticism of Schwarzenegger’s 8th grade civics class motif, Adesnik writes:
As OxBlog said, the [Schwarzenegger] speech was shopworn and predictable. However, all of Arnold’s talk about free enterprise made me ask, “Did Kerry […]
…well, not yet.
One of the oddest dislocations about living in a city undergoing a housing bubble is the dizzying transformation of neighborhoods. But, having experienced so much of that the last few year, it’s now shocking to me to see when gentrification efforts fail. Witness these latest attempts in JP and Mission Hill that get […]