We left the Calderwood Pavillion in the South End tonight thinking that Ryan Landry's "M" could be by far the worse play we've ever seen, at the Huntington or anywhere else. My husband and I, who love theater and have attended productions of all kinds and quality in cities near and far, have been loyal subscribers to the …
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Newark's charismatic mayor, Cory Booker, took the stage Sunday at Salem State University's Speaker Series. A man on the move politically (he's planning a run for retiring Frank Lautenberg's U.S. Senate seat in 2014), he's on the move physically. Using a hand-held mike and roaming the stage at the Lynn Auditorium, Booker held forth for close …
Political correctness run amuck: President Obama felt compelled to apologize to California Attorney General Kamela Harris for calling her "by far the best looking attorney general in the country." Frankly, the only person who might legitimately feel slighted is Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley, a "good looking" woman in her own right. But those who …
The Red Sox opening day victory......what could be better? I posted the team's first-place standing on my refrigerator, thinking it might all be downhill from there. But I felt great. Never mind that the dreaded Yankees are broken old men. The Wall St. Journal's estimable sports writer Jason Gay called them "aging and atrophied .... creaky and getting …
Yesterday North Korea announced it's restarting its nuclear reactor so it can build its nuclear weapons arsenal. This follows North Korea's increasingly bellicose posturing over the last couple of months, including a nuclear bomb test in February. The United States and South Korea have been carrying out military exercises in the region. North Korea is …
The Red Sox and Yankees wore insigniae commemorating the Newtown massacre and observed a moment's silence. It was a virtually meaningless gesture. There's only one thing that will help. And that's to do at a national level a deal like that agreed on yesterday by Connecticut lawmakers. Although crime is generally down, in recent years, mass killings …
Continue reading In remembering Newtown, only one thing matters
Sometimes it's easy to categorize U.S. Senate candidates Ed Markey and Stephen Lynch. Congressman Markey is the unreconstructed liberal, right? His values on gun control, abortion, climate change, gay rights, and virtually everything else are unequivocally left of center. And Steve Lynch is the conservative in the race - especially when it comes to social …
Congratulations to Boston's longest serving mayor. In the 1970's, as a young aide to state Senator Joe Timilty, he told a few Beacon Hill colleagues his goal was to be mayor of Boston. They laughed at what seemed an unlikely prospect, but he did it, and he did it his way. With respect to the …
Score Boston Mayor Tom Menino:1; Boston Globe:0 on the proposal to bring the Olympics to Boston in 2024. Opined an editorial, a chance to host the Olympics is "too rare to pass up without further consideration." Really? As the Mayor restated Thursday on WGBH's Greater Boston, the city has too many other, higher priority needs - …
The announcement yesterday that the Boston Phoenix is ceasing publication marks the end of an era, an era of substantive, long-form journalism. Jim Barron and I wrote for the paper back in the 1970's. It was the place to be, along with The Village Voice, the best of alternative journalism. Back in 1975, Jim Barron and …
Marjorie Arons-Barron 