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New Hope For Ben Affleck and Argo?

Ben Affleck was surprisingly shut out of an Oscar nomination for Best Director last week, but he's not down yet. He stunned all the experts by copping Best Picture and Best Director at last night's Golden Globes as Lincoln looked distinctly un-Presidential. (As I just noted on CNN, the only award t ... More >>

Tom Colicchio Spoils 'Top Chef' Results On Twitter; Tyler Florence Cooks For Obama

Tom Colicchio spoiled the episode of Top Chef Masters immediately as the episode ended on the East Coast, forgetting that Pacific Standard Time viewers had yet to see it. According to zap2it.com, Colicchio tweeted "Congratulations to my friends Kerry Heffernan and Chris Cosentino for making it to th ... More >>

Boston A "Football Town?" Not Even Close

Whenever I read something about football that sounds like it was written in a barroom by someone as sloshed as Rance Preibus at the RNC, it invariable comes from ColdHardFootballFacts.com. The latest beer-soaked rant comes from Kerry J. Byrne on August 26: "There is this mythology in certain circle ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Holiday Guide: Readings to Feed Your Wintertime Fears

Bookshelf cower power

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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."

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 >>

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.

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 >>

10th Annual Film Critics' Poll: The Abridged Results

94 critics voted. The results are in.

The Nation's Newspapers Slammed By Circulation Plunge

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Daily Flog: Barack Obama -- already a virtual star

'Times': An Unhealthy Trend

Exiles From Main Street

Spaced out: The collective costs of suburban sprawl

Not Another Teen Movie

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

White Phosphorus, Caged Lions, Peeling Skin

Allegations of torture, war crimes make Iraq campaign uglier yet

Unpopular Vote

A compilation of electoral college crash courses

Deconstructing the Bush Agenda on the Economics of War

Peace . . . and Quiet

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

Declarations of Independence

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

Dear Mitt

One Queer's Message to the Massachusetts Governor

Macho Men

An Informed Citizenry

Telling Trend Takes Hold

Secret Santa

What Editors and Writers Wish For in 2003

Ashcroft’s Master Plan to Spy on Us

'Citizens Will Not Become Informants'

Lethal Lasers, Alien Fossils

A Roundup of Undercovered Technology News

El Fanático

Who’ll Be Blacklisted Next?

‘It’s a Plain Old Censorship Campaign’

Letters

Sports