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The Boston Globe

  • Blogs

    January 9, 2012

    Mitt Romney Likes Being Able to 'Fire People'

    Let's start with a hypothetical: Say you want to be president of the United States, but are said to give off an unappealing, out-of-touch, millionaire businessman vibe, making it hard to relate to most Americans. If this happens to be the case, a thing that you might strongly consider avoiding on ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 13, 2011

    Cops: Food Stamps Traded for Blow and Cash

    Not a positive idea. ​So you can't use food stamps to go to Hawaii -- but you might be able to feed your cocaine habit with them. Cops in Lynn, Mass. -- a Boston suburb -- say eight people used Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program(SNAP) benefits for coke and cash, according to the Bosto ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 1, 2011

    Da Capo's Second-Best Music Writing 2011: 112 Of Last Year's Most Notable Music Stories

    The 2011 edition of Da Capo's annual anthology Best Music Writing— which this year was guest edited by The New Yorker classical writer and The Rest Is Noise author Alex Ross; Daphne Carr has been the series editor since 2006—contains 32 essays and is augmented by a a jumbo-sized "Other N ... More >>

  • Books

    November 23, 2011

    Holiday Guide: Readings to Feed Your Wintertime Fears

    Bookshelf cower power

  • Blogs

    October 11, 2011

    More than 100 Occupy Boston Protesters Are Arrested So As Not to Damage Shrubs

    ​Occupy rallies and protests have been happening all over the country since the movement began at Wall Street 25 days ago, with arrests occasionally punctuating the effort, as we saw last Wednesday after the massive march from Foley Square to Zuccotti Park. One of the latest mass arrest incide ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 15, 2011

    Padma Paid to Get Off Stage; Olive Garden and Red Lobster to Cut Salt, Calories

    ​Padma Lakshmi, who hosted The Moth's storytelling event at Cooper Union Tuesday night, was reportedly paid to get off the stage due to a "grating" performance. [NY Post] The Olive Garden, Red Lobster, and others are hopping on Michelle Obama's healthy-eating bandwagon and pledging to reduce ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 8, 2011

    FDA Gets Into Gluten-Free; Food Is the New Rock

    ​New research suggests that babies develop their palates in the womb and that what a woman eats while pregnant could affect her child's tastes later in life. [NPR] The FDA will soon start to regulate gluten-free foods. Currently, a gluten-free label doesn't necessarily ensure that a product a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 19, 2011

    A Real-Life Cupcake War; Introducing Scent Marketing

    ​Candace Nelson, a judge on the Food Network's Cupcake Wars and the founder of Sprinkles Cupcakes, is suing the owners of Pink Sprinkles in Fairfield, Conn., for trademark infringement. [Boston Globe] A new McDonald's in Spring Valley, a Las Vegas suburb, is hosting live jazz nights -- dubbed ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 18, 2011

    Pulitzer Prize Winners Win Pulitzer Prizes, Money; Roger Ailes Spies on Employees

    via​Did you win a Pulitzer Prize today? Us either. If you're from the Chicago Tribune, Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald or The Tennessean, you also did not win, even though you were in fact nominated in the category of Breaking News Reporting. That $10,000 prize -- "For a distinguished example ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 21, 2011

    Nuns Get Litigious, Sue Boston Archbishop

    We have to run a photo of the Flying Nun with every nun story. It's the law.​The Daughters of St. Paul are suing Cardinal Sean P. O'Malley, the archbishop of Boston, in an attempt to get out of an archdiocese-run pension fund. The Boston Globe reports that the group, which consists of around 1 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 16, 2011

    Christina Taylor Green's Organs Save Another Little Girl

    ​Some of the organs of Christina Taylor Green, the nine-year-old girl who died in the Tucson shootings last week, were donated to a little girl in Boston. Christina's father told the Boston Globe, "We're proud parents once again of our daughter, who has done another amazing thing."

  • Blogs

    November 29, 2010

    The Daily Kill Dossier: A Hit List of News Corp's Freshest Poaches

    ​As it's been noted, News Corp's daily newspaper built just for the iPad -- The Daily -- is on the way. It is Rupert Murdoch's newest child, the Draco Malfoy to his Voldemort. As such, they're hiring or trying to hire every editorial staffer this side of the Bangkok Bugle Tribune, which I just inv ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 11, 2010

    The BP Oil Spill, Re-enacted by Cats (Video)

    ​In case you haven't seen it yet, here we have the BP oil spill re-enacted by cats. Cats with British accents. This doesn't make the situation any better, but at least it made us laugh for a minute. Especially the part where they say "top kill." Video after the jump.

  • Blogs

    March 22, 2010

    Beard Awards Media and Journalism Finalists Are Announced

    The man himself.​The James Beard Foundation is announcing its James Beard Awards finalists via Twitter this morning. The list of chefs has just started rolling out (currently, regional finalists are being named), but the list of final nominees for the foundation's Media and Journalism Awards a ... More >>

  • Film

    December 22, 2009

    10th Annual Film Critics' Poll: The Abridged Results

    94 critics voted. The results are in.

  • Blogs

    October 27, 2009

    The Nation's Newspapers Slammed By Circulation Plunge

    94 critics voted. The results are in.

  • Blogs

    October 7, 2009

    David Chang On His D.C. Roots; Fried Chicken Craze Goes Asian

    ​David Chang opens up: he likes tofu and vegetables, and almost opened Momofuku in Georgetown, not far from his native Virginia. In fact, he still may do an outpost of Milk Bar there someday. [Washington Post] Patricia Yeo talks about her new gig at Ginger Park in Boston's South End. Having j ... More >>

  • News

    September 29, 2009

    How New York City's Seven Newspapers Are (Nearly) Surviving

    Print is undead—and NYC is the only city where you can still read all about it

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2009

    Brooklyn Gets Its Very Own Kurve

    You've probably heard of Kurve, the futuristic Thai-fusion spot in the East Village so odd that it's prompted speculation that it's actually an art installation, not a restaurant. Well, Brooklyn has its own Kurve now, a place so strange that it's almost worth a visit just to see it. Imagine a wa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 2, 2009

    Mickey D's Gets a New Burger; Dunkin' Donuts Halts Dunkaccino Sales

    McDonald's has a new burger on the menu, the first new permanent item since 2001. The Angus Third Pounder--which comes in Deluxe with American cheese, lettuce, and tomato; Bacon & Cheese; and Mushroom & Swiss varieties--seems to be competing with Burger King's Steakhouse Burger and other beefier bur ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 10, 2009

    Yankees 7-0 Loss to Sox Painful or Hilarious, Depending

    We try not to indulge our blackhearted Mets-fan schadenfreude too much, especially so early in the season. Nonetheless, from the Boston Globe: Another night, another buffeting of the Bombers. It's just no fun beating these New York Yankees anymore. Too easy. The 7-0 fail at Fenway was the Yankees' ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 10, 2009

    Times Co. Seeks 23% Cuts at Globe; Cartoonist Protests

    We thought the Boston Globe was home free, with union concessions in May keeping the paper going. But the New York Times Company, which runs the joint, wasn't content with the 8.3 percent giveback* and announced they were going to take 23 percent instead. And Times Co. is shopping the paper on th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 28, 2009

    Has Obama Shafted The Gays?

    Let's stop hurling dismay at beauty pageant losers for a second, considering the fact that our own President seems to have left the gays out to float on a block of ice too. As we know, Obama used to be in favor of same-sex marriages, but then he changed that to a far more politically expedient mid ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 12, 2009

    Booze News--Absinthe Makes a Comeback Despite Tasting Awful; Drinking Cheap Beer in a Bad Economy Benefits Big Breweries

    The Wall Street Journal looks at the absinthe releases and re-releases of the last couple years, since the "green fairy" has been re-legalized. Despite the interest in the wormwood liqueur, its flavor profile is new to the American palate and difficult to appreciate. [Wall Street Journal] Now that ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 6, 2009

    Times Saves Globe, Murdoch Mulls Charging for Online Papers

    The New York Times' financial troubles have been widely reported, especially by the fun-loving guys and gals at the New York Post, who avail a "Pinch-o-Meter" to track the degree of woefulness suffered by the paper and its publisher. But the Times had a rare piece of decent news today: they got conc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2009

    Jockbeat: A-Rod Revelations Continue to Underwhelm

    No wonder the New York Times wants to destroy the Boston Globe - it's the only paper on the East Coast that dares to print something good about Alex Rodriguez! Friday's Daily News came up with yet another shocking revelation from Selena Roberts's new book, namely that that Rodriguez "was an insecure ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 23, 2009

    Times to Cut Grants, Employees to Lose Free Museum Passes

    The Times is really feeling the financial heat. We have just seen an email from its Vice Chairman and Chief Operating Officer of the Times Regional Media Group, Michael Golden, informing staff that the New York Times Company Foundation is suspending its grant-making and the matching gifts program. T ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 20, 2009

    Harder for Women than Men to Control Food Cravings

    A new study finds that it may be harder for women than men to control their food cravings. [Newsday]In a Boston Globe op-ed, one man makes a plea for treating obesity as an addiction.[Boston Globe]A Japanese study group says cloned animals are safe for consumption.[Reuters]Food companies are recalli ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 12, 2008

    Daily Flog: Barack Obama -- already a virtual star

    A new study finds that it may be harder for women than men to control their food cravings. [Newsday]In a Boston Globe op-ed, one man makes a plea for treating obesity as an addiction.[Boston Globe]A Japanese study group says cloned animals are safe for consumption.[Reuters]Food companies are recalli ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 2, 2008

    Remembering When New Kid Jordan Knight Tried to Take Home a Boston Globe Reporter

    A new study finds that it may be harder for women than men to control their food cravings. [Newsday]In a Boston Globe op-ed, one man makes a plea for treating obesity as an addiction.[Boston Globe]A Japanese study group says cloned animals are safe for consumption.[Reuters]Food companies are recalli ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 23, 2008

    'Times': An Unhealthy Trend

    A new study finds that it may be harder for women than men to control their food cravings. [Newsday]In a Boston Globe op-ed, one man makes a plea for treating obesity as an addiction.[Boston Globe]A Japanese study group says cloned animals are safe for consumption.[Reuters]Food companies are recalli ... More >>

  • Books

    December 12, 2006

    Exiles From Main Street

    Spaced out: The collective costs of suburban sprawl

  • Film

    April 4, 2006

    Not Another Teen Movie

    Thank hell for little girls: Jailbait revenge fantasy is guilty pleasure, then pure torture

  • News

    November 15, 2005

    White Phosphorus, Caged Lions, Peeling Skin

    Allegations of torture, war crimes make Iraq campaign uglier yet

  • VLS

    November 1, 2005

    North by Northeaster

    After writing the rulebook, Stephen King throws it away

  • News

    October 19, 2004

    Unpopular Vote

    A compilation of electoral college crash courses

  • NYC Life

    September 14, 2004

    Deconstructing the Bush Agenda on the Economics of War

    A compilation of electoral college crash courses

  • News

    July 20, 2004

    Peace . . . and Quiet

    A mostly mellow day in Boston on the eve of the Democrats' convention

  • News

    June 8, 2004

    Declarations of Independence

    Since the reign of King George III, resistance has been our legacy—and to this day still is

  • News

    May 11, 2004

    Dear Mitt

    One Queer's Message to the Massachusetts Governor

  • News

    June 17, 2003

    Macho Men

    One Queer's Message to the Massachusetts Governor

  • News

    June 10, 2003

    An Informed Citizenry

    Telling Trend Takes Hold

  • News

    December 24, 2002

    Secret Santa

    What Editors and Writers Wish For in 2003

  • News

    August 6, 2002

    Ashcroft’s Master Plan to Spy on Us

    'Citizens Will Not Become Informants'

  • News

    January 9, 2001

    Lethal Lasers, Alien Fossils

    A Roundup of Undercovered Technology News

  • Music

    November 28, 2000

    El Fanático

    A Roundup of Undercovered Technology News

  • News

    August 1, 2000

    Who’ll Be Blacklisted Next?

    ‘It’s a Plain Old Censorship Campaign’

  • Specials

    May 9, 2000

    Letters

    ‘It’s a Plain Old Censorship Campaign’

  • News

    January 18, 2000

    Sports

    ‘It’s a Plain Old Censorship Campaign’

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