NESN, the cable network that broadcasts the Red Sox games, will toss a change up after tomorrow night’s contest with the Baltimore Orioles — airing a reality/dating show called “Sox Appeal.” It basically turns Fenway Park into its alter ego, Boston’s best outdoor bar. It also highlights a personal gripe of mine, are [...]
Archive for July, 2007
Just Watch The Game
July 31, 2007
Code Of Silence
July 30, 2007
If you believe the Boston Globe’s list of hardcover bestsellers “A Thousand Splendid Suns” outsold “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” last week. Yeah, right and pomegranate juice outsold Bug Light at the corner liquor store too. No slag on Khaled Hosseini but I think J.K. Rowling might have moved just a few more books [...]
Police Log
July 27, 2007
Okay, so you’re going to see The Police at Fenway this weekend — you’re gonna see a great show, but man are you paying for it. Anyway, here’s some stuff you might want to consider.
If you’re seats are along the right field or left field line, watch out for your knees. The seats at Fenway [...]
Lost In Transition
July 26, 2007
“Lost” fans we’ve still got about 5 months to go before our schizoid TV series returns to the airwaves, but bits and pieces about Season 4 are beginning to bob to the surface. At the Comic-con International convention in San Diego today, the show’s chief producers will officially announce the return of the character Michael. [...]
Highly Animated
July 25, 2007
Massachusetts had a shot at bragging rights for the hometown of The Simpsons but wound up losing out to our sugar shack neighbors to the north. Springfield, Vermont certainly has a better quirk factor than our Bay State equivalent, but if you’ve ever been to the the Pioneer Valley you’d certainly see plenty of Homer-esque [...]
Tuesday Blues
July 24, 2007
It’s pretty tough to get excited about a Tuesday .. especially the first one after vacation, but the entertainment world takes no time off, and that’s a good thing — sometimes you just gotta break up that work week.
So what’s cooking tonight. Well you can still get tickets for the Chris Cornell show at the [...]
A Little Ga Ga
July 23, 2007
Boston’s summer concert season hits its high point (at least when it comes to ticket prices) this weekend when The Police set up shop at Fenway Park. Me? I’m gonna pass, and set my sights on the fall. That’s when, for about 3 hundred dollars less, I can see Spoon at The Roxy on October [...]
Harry At Midnight
July 20, 2007
My first meeting with Harry Potter was reading “Sorcerer’s Stone” aloud to my kids. The universe was brand new to me (I mispronounced Slytherin, as SLY-therin, Drak-co rather than Dray-co for Malfoy) but hey, I did my best. We did a chapter a night, and it didn’t take long to figure out the J.K. Rowling [...]
Emmy-nence Front
July 19, 2007
“Everything Comes Down to Poo,” that’s one of the nominees for outstanding original music and lyrics in the 2007 Emmy Awards chase, and it pretty much sums up my feelings about the annual event. Don’t get me wrong, that tune came from one of the more inspired episodes of one of the best comedies on [...]
Not For Prophet
July 17, 2007
For a guy with a biblical name actor Isaiah Washington has sure made an unholy mess of his career. His now famous multi-use of an anti-gay slur cost him his job on ABC’s “Grey’s Anatomy” and, in my opinion, rightly so. Yeah, yeah he made the required mea culpas, but I’ve never been one for [...]
