Yes, of course he was back on the air this morning. And what did he learn from yesterday's faux-quit? "I am not going to pretend I'm a 26-year-old girl," he said.
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By adamg - 5/19/21 - 11:07 am
The last of the disco DJs apparently ended his career on Kiss 108 this morning after bitching about how he was told to stop cracking wise about Demi Lovato's new non-binary status earlier today. Read more.
By adamg - 4/28/21 - 1:06 pm
In 1968, Friend & Lover went up the charts with Reach out of the Darkness. They also did a song about Boston that, well, see how long you can listen to it.
H/t Rick.
By adamg - 3/31/21 - 10:27 am
Five musicians who had never met got together and wrote four new songs and performed them at the Sinclair, including this ode to old Kenmore Square. Performed in the Before Times, but just released today.
By adamg - 3/29/21 - 11:17 am
The Boston Licensing Board today suspended the liquor license for Macumba Latina, 477 River St., after BPD detectives found a long line outside and lots of people without masks inside, as well as a DJ, last night - all violations of state and city Covid-19 regulations. Read more.
By adamg - 3/27/21 - 9:13 pm
JP Honk performed in a socially-distanced circle this afternoon on Pinebank Promontory, overlooking Jamaica Pond. Read more.
By adamg - 3/25/21 - 9:46 pm
Cambridge Day reports local comedian Dana Jay Bein has gone public with the names of five trolls he says impersonated him online, "gaslighting a woman into a fake rendezvous and texting her toxic messages." Bein says, to start, he can prove that wasn't him because he was participating in a live Zoom comedy show at the time.
By adamg - 3/19/21 - 11:25 am
WBZ summarizes the places that can open starting Monday and the places that have to stay shut as Massachusetts goes into its newest Covid-19 phase.
By adamg - 3/10/21 - 9:38 am
Michael Ratty caught the setting up at the Buttery on Shawmut Avenue this morning for filming a scene in George Clooney's movie about a kid who loses his father and bonds with the guy's at his uncle's Long Island bar before heading off to Harvard, um, Yale.
By adamg - 3/3/21 - 3:20 pm
Eric Weinberger reports from New Haven on the Charles that some movie maker has recast an area near Harvard to look like Yale.
By adamg - 2/28/21 - 2:19 pm
In the before times, it was a thing: People would just gather in some crowded place and begin to dance, or sing or play instruments. Remember crowded spaces? Here are some videos of Boston flash mobs back in the day: Read more.
By adamg - 2/26/21 - 11:59 am
Mayor Walsh (yes, he's still here) announced yesterday that unlike the rest of the state, Boston will not be allowing live music to resume at smaller venues and restaurants on Monday, but will instead wait until March 22, "if public health data allows."
By adamg - 2/26/21 - 10:40 am
Thrillist talks to Frank Poindexter, general manager of Wally's on Mass. Ave. about how it's staying around when so many other small music sites in the Boston area have had to shut over the past year.
By adamg - 2/22/21 - 12:28 pm
Boston Calling says mark your calendar for Memorial Day weekend - in 2022, when it hopes to return after canceling the festival again this year due to exactly the reason you would expect.
After exploring all possible options for hosting Boston Calling this year, we have made the difficult decision in conjunction with local and state authorities to cancel the 2021 festival.
By adamg - 2/11/21 - 7:22 pm
Corea was 79. He grew up in Chelsea, and one of his first gigs was with Cab Calloway in Boston.
By adamg - 1/27/21 - 2:03 pm
Ken Rockwood talks music-hall buildouts with the licensing board.
The operator of a small Manhattan music hall hopes to open a similar facility at Van Ness and Kilmarnock streets in the Fenway. Read more
By adamg - 1/22/21 - 9:36 am
Something familiar about this Sacramento scene.
Charles Dennison IV was watching an episode of "Mr. Mayor" that involves a trip to Sacramento when he noticed an oddly familiar "Sacramento" hotel.
Roughly similar view from Google that will help you place it. Wonder if the Sacramento hotel is also slated to be replaced?
By adamg - 1/17/21 - 10:16 pm
"Little Walter" DeVenne, who started broadcasting doo-wop and oldies on the MIT student radio station in 1967 and then just kept going across the Boston radio dial before settling on WODS with "Little Walter's Time Machine," died yesterday from Covid-19, according to a posting on the Boston Radio Interest mailing list. Read more.
By adamg - 1/3/21 - 5:49 pm
Adam Castiglioni discovered that somebody's turned Devonshire Street downtown into a giant New York City cab stand, either because there were all these New Yorkers up here who are very particular about how they get back home or because somebody's filming something downtown where Boston stands in for New York (it's been done before).
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