Archive for January, 2007

Adam at Universal Hub kept an eye on how Boston was held captive by a guerilla marketing campaign for an animated television show. People are mostly pissed at Turner Broadcasting, the company behind the advertising campaign that set off the bomb scare. Here’s a summary of the bomb scare and the problems it caused across [...]

New York Times Company has written down the value of the New England Media Group – the core of which is The Boston Globe – by $814 million. NYTCo. acquired the Globe for $1.1 billion in 1993. I don’t know what current value NYTCo is putting on the newspaper, but I imagine it’s a good [...]

HubPolitics is all excited about the T’s 450 surveillance cameras which have helped solved “about a dozen crimes” so far and wonders “How long before someone complains about civil rights violations or something else completely absurd?” My completely absurd complaint is that cameras do little to prevent crimes and not a dadgum thing to stop [...]

Doesn’t do much, but still… Clark Kent.

The Bostonist dives into the minimum wage debate, spurred on by Senator Ted Kennedy’s outburst on the Senate floor: As for arguments against an increase in the minimum wage, which hasn’t risen nationally in 10 years, all Bostonist can say is you try to live on $5.15 an hour for a week, especially in a [...]

The MetroWest Daily News reports on Framingham’s, Marlborough, Malden’s, and Milford’s efforts to clamp down on illegal housing: Authorities in those towns say they are trying to curb overcrowded apartments or illegal rooming houses to protect the health and safety of the people who live there, along with their neighbors. While each town relies on [...]

One of the many plays big and small that contributed to the outcome in the AFC Championship game between New England Patriots and Indianapolis Colts was a pass-intereference call on Patriots cornerback Ellis Hobbs in the deep right corner of New England’s end zone. Hobbs was flagged when he jumped, turned towards Wayne, and was [...]

Not that much needs to be said about Hannibal the Cannibal after that awful movie, Hannibal or whatever it is called, but if anything needs to be said, Udolpho says it.

Boca Grande has opened up shop in Kenmore Square. Boca Grande is a notch above popular Ana’s Taqueria in my opinion, but I have a hard time dealing with the Boca Grande food preparers. They speak a heavily accented mas rapido English that’s barely comprehensible and to make matters worse they don’t comprehend much of [...]

A financial show on Fox News Channel caught my attention this morning when one of the panel members on a stock market show mentioned Radio One Inc. Radio One is the company that last year sold WILD-FM in Boston to Entercom, which immediately changed the reprogrammed it as a simulcasting rock station. Boston’s African-American community [...]