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Boston: A Thanksgiving Love Letter

By Mediacrity - 11/22/12 - 11:39 am

I wrote this love letter to Boston and, since I lack my own blog these days, I'm thankful for this platform to share it with a wider audience. Thanks, Adam!

In thinking about what I'm most thankful for this year, aside from the usual family, friends, health, and good fortune (not to diminish the importance of those), I was overwhelmed remembering all the people and experiences that helped shape 2012 into one of the best years of my life, when it could easily have been counted among the worst. I could sit for hours talking about each one and still not get them all. Then I realized it all keeps coming back to one thing: this city.

Boston, I am thankful for you living up to every expectation and ideal I had of you from when I was a little girl and dreamed of living in you when I grew up. I am thankful for your varied neighborhoods, your suburbs, your parks, your streets, your rollercoaster weather patterns, your tourist traps, your hidden gems, and your breathtaking scenery. I'm thankful for your weird laws and character of a mayor and even your maddening transit system. I'm thankful for your "freedom trail" (read: bars). The TV doesn't lie. Everyone really DOES know your name sometimes.

The leaks beneath our feet

By adamg - 11/21/12 - 6:21 pm

Researchers drive around Boston, find 3,300+ natural-gas leaks.

Turkey maps of the Boston area

By adamg - 11/21/12 - 6:15 pm

Bostonography presents seasonal maps of the region.

Skillshare: Feeling Burnt Out? Self-Care is a Revolutionary Act!

By Socializing4Justice - 11/21/12 - 9:36 am

Every now and again you reach a point where you feel completely drained by your efforts to create positive change in the world. Join Socializing for Justice on December 3, 6:00 - 8:30 PM to learn how to refuel so you're in it for the long haul.

Event fee: $10-$20 cash at the door, or pay $10 online in advance to reserve your seat. (New feature!)

Register at www.sojust.org - Newcomers always welcomed!

SoJust hosts events that draw progressives of all stripes that share common values but may work on different issues. We create social spaces that allow for the possibility of cross-issue connections and run a Skillshare Series, hosted by The NonProfit Center*, which increases our individual capacity for movement building.

6:00-6:30 Socializing - bring your own dinner (microwave and water cooler available)
6:30-8:30 Training and Q & A

Feeling Burnt Out? Self-Care is a Revolutionary Act!

Turkeys didn't always come wrapped in plastic

By adamg - 11/20/12 - 11:23 am

Turkey shopping in Boston.

That's some telephone pole

By adamg - 11/20/12 - 8:52 am

Where and when?

Oh, looky here: FCC rule change would let Murdoch re-buy the Herald

By adamg - 11/19/12 - 6:35 pm

Not that we have any evidence he's thinking of it, but it's good to know one-time protege Pat Purcell would have options for his scrappy little tabloid under a proposal to allow cross ownership in the nation's 20 largest TV markets. You may recall how Uncle Rupe had to decide between Channel 25 and the Herald back in the days when he and Ted Kennedy didn't get along.

Man shot to death in Brighton

By adamg - 11/19/12 - 5:47 pm

UPDATE: Arrest made in the death of Leroy Cooper.

Official with firsthand knowledge of highway safety issues no longer in charge of highway safety issues

By adamg - 11/19/12 - 9:19 am

The Globe reports.

New T general manager promises she's no Idi Amin

By adamg - 11/18/12 - 10:09 am

The Globe scores an interview with Beverly Scott, who says she'll be tough but open when she takes over at the T.

Boston Business Journal owner buys local news site

By adamg - 11/16/12 - 1:07 pm

BostInno to become sib of the Journal (also, Parade).

The mayoral candidate being left off early MSM reports

By adamg - 11/16/12 - 8:31 am

Mike Ball discusses Will Dorcena, who announced he was running for mayor in 2013 earlier this year, but who was left off most of the gossip reports about who might run if Menino doesn't.

Some 6,000 people download T mobile ticketing app

By adamg - 11/14/12 - 9:08 pm

The MBTA tweets about its new ticketing app for North Station commuters:

In less than 3 days we have sold more than $10K in #MBTA mTickets, app downloaded more than 6K times!

Mayor to remain in hospital for foreseeable future

By adamg - 11/13/12 - 3:35 pm

Now it's not so much the virus as the back problem he developed while in the hospital for the virus, Gintautas Dumcius at the Dorchester Reporter tweets.

Posted: Globe editor

By adamg - 11/13/12 - 11:07 am

The Globe reports Editor Marty Baron is leaving the Globe for the Washington Post.

Two cars torched in Allston

By adamg - 11/11/12 - 11:28 am

Destroyed cars. Photo by BFD.Destroyed cars. Photo by BFD.

Fringe continues to mock Boston geography

By adamg - 11/11/12 - 10:39 am

Amber Ying chronicles all the Boston-related mistakes Fringe made on its latest episode, most spectacularly the character who was taking a Red Line bus to Worcester.

What the Globe didn't tell you about the psychologist the new head of the T met with

By adamg - 11/11/12 - 10:19 am

UPDATE: File this under: Hello, Sweetheart, Get Me Rewrite. The headline on the online version of the story, which is what set me off, is "New T manager underwent professional counseling in Atlanta," which has a much different tenor than the print headline: "T's pick for chief faced scrutiny."

Read the lead story in the Globe today and you're left with the impression that the Globe is like: OMG, we just hired a crazy lady to run the T!

We're getting a publication that uses 'Beantown' in its name unironically

By adamg - 11/10/12 - 11:01 pm

Beantown Mom, "a start-up luxury/glossy print magazine for moms in the Greater Boston area," is looking for a managing editor.

Game-show idea: Dumpster diving for dollars

By adamg - 11/10/12 - 6:14 pm

Where to dumpster dive in the Boston area.

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