The First Female President Of The Boston City Council In 30 Years
Maureen Feeney of Dorchester was elected as the first Boston City Council President in 30 years. This is a historical event because last woman who led the Boston City Council was in 1976 when Louise Day Hicks was President. It is also […]
Just read DiningOutBoston’s review of Haru’s new Boston location, in the Pru, it seems cool.
Also, check out Puritan City’s review of Haru
Though made in the postwar years, Louisiana Story seems like a capstone of American nonfiction filmmaking of the interwar years. It was as if father of documentary Robert Flaherty decided he could make a film in the mold of Pere Lorenz or the British documentariest - exalting man against Nature, man with Machine - and […]
The lieutenant governor candidates are yet to arrive here at the Lowell Telecommunications Corporation, who will be streaming it live starting at 2:30 and archived later. Mike (MassMarrier), sco (.08 Acres), Andy (MassRevolutionNow!), and Lynne (LeftinLowell) are liveblogging at a Blue Mass Group thread. I, for my part, have forgotten my Blue Mass Group […]
Just as a reminder, today’s the BlogLeft/Lowell Dems forum of the candidates for lieutenant governor, to take place at 2PM in Lowell. Check out Blue Mass Group for details and broadcast/streaming info. I expect to be liveblogging here.
Lately I’ve been reading an excellent book on film soundtracks, and it raised a point that I had given insufficient thought: that Tin Pan Alley musical forms perfectly matched the mass distribution that sheet music entailed, whereas the popular music forms that replaced it (jazz, rock, soul, etc.) perfectly match a mass reproduction that the […]
I miss the news for a couple of days and when I return, Merrittgate is heating up the Internet. I don’t really feel like wading into the grand issue of whether rockism = racism, but will point out that Jody Rosen seems to have a sensible reaction to the new “poptimism.”
[U]ltimately, the Blender list seemed […]
Perusing the IMDB user comments (on the film Privelege), I encountered the following:
A film society at my school showed this movie for free in a lecture hall last night. Though nothing beats a free movie, the guy running the whole thing introduced it as one that had been totally panned by critics, never released on […]
I’m heading off soon to a conference this weekend, so I thought I’d have Film Friday a day early. Since, my paper addresses Warner Brothers’ 1937 film Life of Emile Zola, I thought I’d show a few scenes.
Zola was yet another entry into a cycle of biopics that Warners specialized in. More than Story of […]
Mark Jurkowitz asks, as he asked on Greater Boston,
But I found reading “The Iran Plans” to be more frustrating than enlightening. As he portrays an administration — already militarily and politically bogged down in Iraq — using the same philosophy driven by the same people to think about repeating the same policy, two huge questions […]
I never save concert ticket stubs, but Abby has - seemingly to every show she’s been to. Funnily enough, she was at the same 1986 R.E.M./Let’s Active show (Fox Theatre, Atlanta) that happened to have been the first concert I attended, at the tender age of 14. What an ideal first concert. I remember being […]
Jay Fitzgerald (among others) points to a new map - put out by these folks - showing that contrary to word of a red state-blue state religion divide, people in the Southeast are less religiously adherent than people in Massachusetts.
It’s always good to match up political shorthand against empirical evidence, but color me unpersuaded. The map, […]
I’m not exactly sure what it says that tonight I’m attending not
my first, but my second Grey Gardens
party.
I’ve noted the Boston Walk of Fame proposal that’s being
considered and developed. I still think it’s a miserable idea. And
Concillor John Tobin apparently is still all for it.
But maybe
if I could suggest a compromise, or another way at looking at this,
how about a Boston Musical Heritage Trail? I’m picturing something
starting in the South End, going […]
In the comments, Keto from Colorblind Society responds to my last
post on immigration:
I agree that the dems also
have a nativist contingent. The difference is that their core
strategy (at the national level, at least) does not rest of fomenting
this element and related racial resentment… The repubs are their
own worse enemy, in this case.
Believe me, I’m not
trying […]