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Bob Lobel's first day as a DJ

By adamg - 9/22/08 - 9:14 am

Maureen Carney listened to Bob Lobel's inaugural broadcast as an oldies jock on WODS this morning:

... Karen Blake kept referring to him as the "guest host". They're still playing music and taking calls but that needs to be worked out a little smoother. No sooner does a caller get on the air then they have to go to a commercial break. Lobel seemed (at least to me) a little ill at ease, which is to be expected. It's been 30 years since he's done a daily radio show, and we all know he's not a morning person. ...

Uncle Dale replaced by Uncle Bob

By adamg - 9/19/08 - 2:36 pm

The Herald reports Oldies 103.3 is replacing Dale Dorman with Bob Lobel. Bob Lobel? Yes, Bob Lobel. He'll be hosting what the station describes as a "very fresh" drivetime show with Karen Blake. No word if it's all talk or if we'll get to hear Lobel introduce the music you grew up with.

Fringe Bridge

By Dave - 9/19/08 - 12:10 pm

Did anyone else catch the new show "Fringe" on Fox the other night?

It's set in the Boston area.

Last night they used some whiz-bang new technology to see the last thing that a murder victim saw before she died.

The technician recognized the image as a bridge, a particular bridge that was familar to her because she "used to live in Dighton" (pronounced 'ditton') "It's in Stoughton, in the warehouse district"...

Behold, the "Sargent Bridge In Stoughton" :

When art intersects life

By adamg - 9/19/08 - 8:57 am

Scott Stearns thought he was just stepping into the Kebab Factory for some lunch. He was really stepping into the novel he was reading.

'A Vision of Old Boston in All Its Angry Power'

By adamg - 9/18/08 - 10:07 am

That's the headline on the Times review of Dennis Lehane's latest novel, The Given Day, which manages to connect the 1919 Boston police strike with Babe Ruth (also, anarchists are involved, however, the Times doesn't mention if the Great Molasses Flood plays a role, although that was falsely blamed on Italian anarchists, not the Irish ones Lehane wrote about).

Via Jay Fitzgerald, who says he now can't wait to read the book.

OMG: Dane Cook Day is almost over

By adamg - 9/17/08 - 8:31 pm

Fortunately, Steve Garfield helps us remember every wonderful moment.

The box office is now closed

By adamg - 9/17/08 - 9:38 am
No more movies

16WadeSt captures the last marquee at the now closed Circle Cinemas in Cleveland Circle.

Everything that's wrong with our newest TV series

By adamg - 9/17/08 - 8:38 am

Paul Taylor fact checks Fringe:

... The Back Bay does not have its own police department. ...

A bad play about Shakespeare

By adamg - 9/14/08 - 8:13 pm

Ian finds nothing to like about How Shakespeare Won the West at the Huntington:

The Femme Show's Second Annual Boston-Area Appearance

By MelLarsen - 9/14/08 - 3:01 pm

October 10 and 11, 8:00 PM

Cambridge Family YMCA Theatre, 820 Mass Ave in Central Square
Tickets: $11 in advance, $12 at the door

Yet Another Movie about criminals in Southie wins rave reviews

By adamg - 9/14/08 - 9:53 am

Sam Bertusis reports that What Doesn't Kill You, a buddy-criminal movie set in South Boston ("where small-time crimes were as common as confessionals"), got high praise at the Toronto Film Festival.

Porter Square briefly enters time warp; travels back to early 1990s

By adamg - 9/13/08 - 10:09 pm

Some Assembly Required reports he was stopped for a light on Mass. Ave. this evening when a guy crossed in front holding two old-style boomboxes, both playing an old Nirvana song:

... [T]hey were probably tuned to the same radio station. Or given the hardware, who knows? Maybe he'd copied the music onto cassettes and pushed play on both decks at the same time. Rock on, my friend, rock on.

No more Dale in the morning?

By adamg - 9/13/08 - 11:40 am

Dale Dorman out from drive time on Oldies 103? His photo is already gone from the Weekday Crew section of the station's DJ page.

Arr, me hearties: Pirate radio station plots return; but should it expect to be boarded?

By adamg - 9/12/08 - 5:08 pm

A station calling itself WHOT plans to set up shop at 97.1 and promises plenty of hot hip-hop action - no doubt interfering with Talk 96.9's many listeners in the inner city. Radio traditionalists, however, hope the FCC has something to say about this, although given how effective the commission has been in getting Touch FM off the air, they probably shouldn't hold their breath.

Jim's Big Ego "free*" -- listen, love it, buy it for free*

By amusings - 9/10/08 - 10:52 pm

So I know this guy Jim Infantino. I met him in the late 80s when I managed a coffee house and slummed around with folk musicians. Twenty years on, he's a band now called Jim's Big Ego (see http://www.bigego.com ) An ego so big it needs three people on stage to get all that amazing music out there. He's (They've) got a new album coming out, and I figured I'd share it here because there are some folks who will really totally dig his political message and the music.

Here's your chance to get in the spotlight

By adamg - 9/9/08 - 9:08 pm

The Huntington Theatre has an old carbon-arc spotlight that it would rather give away than simply toss in the trash.

Via The Mirror Up to Nature.

Edge of Censorship

By adamg - 9/7/08 - 10:26 am
Where's Mel?

Paul Keleher happened to be in South Station yesterday when "Edge of Darkness" crews took over parts of the place to film their movie. He reports:

The South Station was full of electrical cables, equipment trunks, lighting arrays and cameras, not to mention a small army of the film crew. Security was very tight, yet polite. I was asked to stop photographing a few times.

Since South Station is a public place, Keleher declined.

Earlier:
Mel Gibson not welcome at one Roslindale house.

Movies--The Boston/American Experience:

By anon - 9/6/08 - 12:14 pm

Movies:

Not having posted a blog here on UniversalHub for awhile, I've decided to write a different kind of essay that, I believe, revolves just as much around the Boston area as any other blogs/posts here: The Movie experience:

Boston pirates go AHHHH

By adamg - 9/6/08 - 10:21 am
Buffetheads

Paul Keleher captured this band of pirates in Dover (!) on their way to today's earlier-than-scheduled Jimmy Buffet concert at Comcast Center.

Some real clowns in Copley Square this morning

By adamg - 9/5/08 - 8:31 am

Michael Burstein reports Copley Square was just full of clowns this morning, for Cirque du Soleil.

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