Boston Globe kicks Calendar section aside
By Ron Newman - Thu, 01/10/2008 - 9:18am.
After a run of at least thirty years, the weekly Boston Globe Calendar section is no more. Instead, as of today, we have the expanded Thursday Sidekick, containing some but not all of the features from the former Calendar.
Doesn't seem like a good move to me, but what do you all think?
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I'm not a big Globe fan so
I'm not a big Globe fan so the smaller their paper, the better. However, I must admit that the Calendar section always listed activities for all sorts of people -- unlike, say, the Globe Magazine which seems to focus on dream homes and designer clothes for their ultra-rich suburbanite readers. Between the Globe and Boston Magazine, they seem to have the beautiful people market cornered!
I had no idea
this was coming, but I think it makes sense if they can save paper/costs. The Sidekick seemed to be geared toward younger readers and the Calendar for older. Combining it makes sense to me.
On the one hand
It throws away 30 years of trained behavior: Hey, if you want to know what's going on this weekend, pick up Calendar on Thursday.
On the other hand, that Calendar-in-Sidekick shtick was annoying - if you really just wanted to read the comics, you had to get the calendar section out first; if you really just wanted the calendar stuff, you had to toss away Sidekick. Plus, the rich suburbanites who are the Globe's new BFFs probably don't care about icky events in the city, especially since the listings are in tiny type they can't easily read. Plus, plus, Sidekick was already running calendarish stuff anyway (but memo to Sidekick: If you find something wicked cool that you think we should try to go to, could you promote them a couple days in advance, rather than the day of?).
Hmm, I guess I don't have a point here. Ah, well, Calendar, fare thee well. Say hello to Confidential Chat for us.
The move makes a lot of
The move makes a lot of sense to me.
Who even reads Calendar anymore, and moreover, who still gets ideas for things to do from Calendar?
Any event in Boston worth knowing about is already on Boston.com/Going.com/Facebook or in The Improper or Stuff@Night.
Can't recall the last time I ever saw someone reading Calendar, anyway.
I do, or at least did
I find The Improper to be pretentious (and aimed several income brackets above me), and Stuff@Night to be utterly useless. So yeah, I read Calendar and the Phoenix and sometimes the Dig for event listings.
Now the sidekick is even more annoying.
I hate the Sidekick (off center folding, flimsy tabloid format, absolute crap filler (that is sometimes already featured in other sections) in the pages before the comics). This makes it worse. My routine is to fold it up and put it in my pocket and read it at lunch or in the bathroom. At least when the Calendar was in there, there was some distinction as to what I could pull out, now the lines are blurred and I walk around with what looks like a book in my pocket.
The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe is a Trotskyite rag.
What?
I have no idea what you mean by this comment.
Ron: Trotsky was a Marxist,
Ron: Trotsky was a Marxist, so he's probably referring to the Globe's general philosophy that Marxism is good, and that freedom and capitalism are bad.
or maybe
or maybe that liberalism is bad and conservatism is good, political values, as opposed expressing a preference about economic systems.
But you can also read the
But you can also read the Calendar listings on Boston.com, and then you could find out about stuff ahead of time....
meh
Don't really read it, aside from the occasional restaurant review, but those have been moved to the Food section on Wednesdays.
And I still don't like having the comics (only thing in Sidekick worth reading) relegated to in there. Plus they STILL never fold it correctly and end up messing up the first page of the comics.
It's a stupid idea, imo.
n/m
boston losses
I eqaute that to Lobel