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Big Question Looming As To Iron Man's Future

The problem with success is in trying to keep it, especially when your pricetag is so high and the sands of time are slipping through the hourglass. Robert Downey Jr. has had a triumph in the Iron Man films, and part 3 is such a blockbuster it's expected to surpass $400 million dollars--that's a lo ... More >>

Don't Rejoice Over Tyler Perry's Flop Movie

Tyler Perry Presents Peeples hasn't been bringing in the peeples to buy tickets, but let's not celebrate about that. The fact is, it's actually a challenging work that breaks new ground for Perry in that it doesn't pander to conservative church values. Writes Stephen Schaefer in the Boston Herald: ... More >>

Jessica Chastain In Miss Julie?

It could happen. In a press conference that was covered by Stephen Schaefer for the Boston Herald, the Oscar nominated actress (currently in Zero Dark Thirty and opening in the horror film Mama)--offered some clues about what her next film project might be. "I'm not sure yet," she said, choosing h ... More >>

Hillary's Blood Clot: Will It Affect Her Presidential Chances?

Hillary Clinton is considered a top choice for the Democratic Presidential candidate in 2016. But the blood clot she recently developed after a concussion has both sides offering their opinions as to whether this will hurt her chances (presuming she decides to run, of course). Not surprisingly, it ... More >>

Indian Giver: Rightbloggers' Yuks at "Fauxcahontas" Elizabeth Warren Turn to Trail of Tears

Liberal fave Elizabeth Warren is running for Scott Brown's Senate seat in Massachusetts. Just after she announced in September, polls showed her six points behind the incumbent; now, she's running about even with him. Yet if you'd only been following rightbloggers on this race, you'd assume that sh ... More >>

Food Prices to Rise Even Higher; Chefs Are Tweeting Up a Storm

​Opting for produce from small, local, organic farms cannot guarantee that you will avoid the food safety issues that go along with large-scale farming. [Washington Post] The USDA is reporting that food prices are expected to rise up to 4.5 percent, the sharpest increase since 1978. [Wall Str ... More >>

Rachael Ray Mag Changes Hands; Cantaloupe Death Toll Hits 23

​A food truck festival has been canceled in Boston this weekend due to the Occupy Boston protest downtown. [Boston Herald] A blogger for Politico went to 25 restaurants frequented by Michelle Obama to "have what she's having" and discovered the First Lady likes vegetables and dirty martinis. ... More >>

More Bad News For Madonna

​First she got that loathsome batch of hydrangeas and now comes Boston Herald critic Stephen Schaefer's pan of the Madonna-directed W.E., which he saw at the Venice Film Festival. Says Schaefer: The film is "beautifully bland and boring, not to say inane.

Chris Christie and Roger Ailes Have a Secret Relationship; It Sucks to Work For AOL

​Fox News boss Roger Ailes loves Chris Christie and has made no secret of his desire for the New Jersey governor to run for president in 2012. Christie maintains that he's 100% not running this time around, though that hasn't stopped a relationship from blooming between the powerful Republican ... More >>

Nat Hentoff: Hey, New York Times, Quit Calling the North Vietnamese "The Enemy"

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. June 29, 1972, Vol. XVII, No. 26 Know your enemy By Nat Hentoff "ENEMY REPORTED TO DESTROY 23 ARMORED PERSONNEL CARRIERS IN COLUMN" --New York Times, May 28 "KONTUM CLEARED OF FOE" --New York Times, June 6 Like many of you, I hav ... More >>

Don't Ask Don't Tell Opponents Pick Up Some Unlikely Support

While John McCain gets crankier and crankier about repealing Don't Ask, Don't tell, opponents of the policy have picked up a couple of unlikely allies on the right. After much lobbying, Sen. Scott Brown has finally come around and said he will consider voting to end Don't Ask (along with the usua ... More >>

The Great Pumpkin Shortage is Over; Ben & Jerry's No Longer 'All Natural'

​The great canned pumpkin shortage of 2009-10 has ended. Nestle, which sells about 85 percent of the canned pumpkin in the U.S., said increased demand was to blame for the shortage. [Boston Herald] As the FDA nears the approval of genetically modified salmon, questions over its safety have ar ... More >>

Stephen Colbert Gets Truthy with Congress; Rightbloggers Scream Like Stuck Eagles (And So Do MSM Reporters)

Long, bitter experience -- and long, bitter comments at this blog -- have taught us that if there's anything conservatives hate more than Big Gummint and homosexuals, it's someone making fun of them. The outrage that Boss Tweed expressed over "them damned pictures" of himself drawn by Thomas Nast is ... More >>

Dickson's Farmstand Meats Creates the "Samuel Adams Boston Lager Cut"

Beef up your beer.​Further reinforcing the link between beef and beer, Boston Beer Co., maker of Samuel Adams, has teamed up with Dickson's Farmstand Meats to create the Samuel Adams Boston Lager Cut, a premium cut of humanely raised beef designed to pair with the beer. "We narrowed it down t ... More >>

Is Shake Shack Heading North?

Curbed​The week before last, Miami. This week, Boston? The Boston Herald has gotten wind of possible plans for a Shake Shack outpost on Boston Common. Apparently Danny Meyer's Union Square Hospitality Group has submitted a proposal to open its fifth national location in a former "men's comfort ... More >>

Booze News: Moonshine Makes a Comeback; Drinking Fights Dementia

​Brown-Forman, the maker of Jack Daniel's, Southern Comfort, and Fetzer wine, has reported a bigger-than-expected 38 percent climb in fiscal first-quarter earnings after making big cost cuts. The company reduced its work force by 6 percent in response to consumers cutting back on drinking. [Wa ... More >>

The Ghosts of Teddy Kennedy

​You half-expected the Post this morning to have re- plated its front page with one of its many Page Six cartoons, the ones depicting a paunchy Teddy Kennedy, wearing heart-bedecked boxer shorts and chasing a perky blonde around the bedroom. Rupert Murdoch never forgave Kennedy for having ... More >>

U.S. Said to Take $1M to Drop Extradition Claim on "Serb Thug"

The New York Post has a Hillary Clinton headline that looks like a scandal: "BLOOD MONEY: Hill Behind $1M Serb Thug Deal." But followers of the "Serb Thug Miladin Kovacevic" story -- about the Serbian national who beat a Brooklyn kid into a coma in Binghampton, then fled to his native Serbia, where ... More >>

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Diamonds are Forever

Rudy Giuliani downplays the value of his jewelry collection

The New Mixtape

DVD magazines released straight to the street turn crime kingpins into hip-hop heroes

Rock the Cash Box

Music

Der Vild, Vild Vest!

Arnold Rides In With His Own Brand of Machine

Hip Hop War

The Minister vs. the Mogul

Sports

The Son Also Rises

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