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Somerville mayor Curtatone wears unexpected disguise to city Halloween parade
By cdevers - 10/24/11 - 12:10 amFollowing the recent unpleasantness, Somerville mayor Joe Curtatone surprised the crowd at the city's Halloween parade with an unexpected disguise today.
Somebody in Framingham doesn't like Patch
By adamg - 12/2/10 - 9:41 amFake Patch, from the folks behind one of the area's oldest local sites.
Two Vastly Different Headlines, Same Story
By david_yamada - 1/30/10 - 9:02 amThis morning's boston.com ran this headline and subhead describing yesterday's Presidential appearance at the Republican Congressional retreat in Baltimore:
Obama, GOP exchange scoldings in rare debate
President Obama denied he was a Bolshevik, Republicans denied they were obstructionists, and both sides denied they were to blame for toxic politics. (New York Times)
Here's the headline and subhead on nytimes.com describing the same event:
Off Script, Obama and the G.O.P. Vent Politely
By PETER BAKER and CARL HULSE
President Obama attended a House Republican retreat for a robust debate on policies and politics with the opposition, a rarity in the scripted world of American politics.
Former Bay Stater's gritty retrospective on the personal meaning of Michael Jackson
By david_yamada - 6/29/09 - 9:02 pmI must confess that Michael Jackson's death did not send me scurrying to the media in search of retrospectives or remembrances, until Michael Thomas wrote this op-ed piece in Sunday's New York Times. Michael is a former Bay Stater who related his days of growing up in Waltham and idolizing the Jackson 5 to family struggles he's experienced in his own life:
