Coffee, Coffee, how I love thee! Today we met and tasted coffees from two different vendors, with two different ways and mannerisms. The first was here at 10 am, and he brought a thermos of his freshest brew, and a few bags of his product to leave behind. He was […]
Reading a book by Maureen Orth, a Vanity Fair Reporter, called “The Importance of Being Famous,” I came across this chapter on Woody Allen and Mia Farrow. “There was nothing fragile about Mia,” her mother says. And nothing remotely conventional. By the time she was eighteen, she was a porcelain […]
William Powers writes about the media’s waning affection for Google in National Journal today.Who’s next? I think the worm is about to turn on Google. The company’s ascent has been too rapid, its successes too extravagant. As I wrote this sentence a few days ago, Google’s stock price was $416, […]
John Lennon: Yoko’s Cash-In Continues, reports Roger Freidman on Fox News today. “All right, this is for hard even for yours truly to believe, but here goes. It looks as if Yoko Ono has licensed a John Lennon action figure that will be sold, I don’t know, in stores of […]
Kelsey Flynn is leaving the River! So here is today’s entry on her blog. “Please Hold Your Applause Until the End — Today was my last day on the River Morning Show on my own. All next week I’ll be accompanied by one of the five W-R-S-Idol semi-finalists. May I […]
Reading the Village Voice in NYC on Wednesday, I came across a story by Katharine Gates titled “A weekend Among Suburban Cannibals.” Really. The story detailed a group of people, men and women, who frequent cannibal porn websites and post on cannibal porn message boards. Yes, Virginia, there is indeed […]
The Perils Of Dating On The Internet: Skirt-chasing playboy Daniel Anceneaux spent weeks talking with a sensual woman on the Internet before arranging a romantic rendezvous at a remote beach – and discovering that his on-line sweetie of six months was his own mother! “I walked out on that dark […]
TV networks are turning to product placements to fight back against ad-skipping technologies like TiVo, but now some writers are putting up a fight, demanding more pay in exchange for scripting product plugs into their shows. Wired news had the story. “The complaints may seem like crocodile tears coming from […]
A 2005 recap, taking in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels with John Lithgow on Broadway and getting a column spiked by the Daily Hampshire Gazette.
After just 19 issues, Cambridge’s newest newspaper broke some hard news — about itself. Colleen Walsh of the Boston Globe wrote about it today. The avowed goal of Cambridge Day, an eight-page daily broadsheet, was to offer a mix of local news, comprehensive listings of goings-on about town, and a […]