Boston Blogs is a service of the Boston Blog Network - the wicked best Boston blogs on the planet. Find out how to join or advertise on the network. Below, find the latest postings from network members.
Blue Mass. Group
,
I think this is fabulous news.
Gov. Deval Patrick says he's "open" to doing battle in the lion's den of conservative talk radio.... [Said Patrick:] "I'm proud to be a Democrat. But I didn't run to be governor of the...
JimSullivanINK
,
ongoing Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island is a well-crafted mystery – though likely not a film that will be remembered as one of his very best. Some critics seem eager to blow the whistle when a master takes a...
JimSullivanINK
,
Fri. March 26 Guggenheim Grotto - a duo from Ireland, Kevin May and Mike Lynch - hit the states last January '09 and they're back again in our parts tonight at the Real Room in Burlington Friday March 26, They began...
JimSullivanINK
,
Wed. March 17 Rock ‘n’ roll is such a fragmented entity these days, a huge field populated by many sub-genres. Here’s one – power pop – that’s made a comeback, of sorts, lately. Folks got...
JimSullivanINK
,
Wed. March 17 KISS is the greatest marketing machine the rock world has ever known. I glimpsed this back in the mid-'70s when I first saw KISS live, bought the Love Gun album, with its cardboard gun and its groan of a...
JimSullivanINK
,
Sat. April 3You know his name. You've heard his music if you lived through '80s new wave. But you may be surprised by what he's doing now. Greg Hawkes, former keyboardist for the Cars, will be playing a set of...
JimSullivanINK
,
Sat. March 20 It's the fifth consecutive year for Brian O'Donovan's A St. Patrick’s Day Celtic Sojourn. a lively Celtic event which features traditional and contemporary Irish music, dance and...
JimSullivanINK
,
Sat. May 8 We saw English singer-songwriter-guitarist Findlay Brown along with maybe 50 other folks at T.T. the Bear’s Place earlier this year. On his just-released second album, “Love Will Find You,” Brown...
HubArts.com
,
If you're one of the people who got to know Esperanza Spalding and/or her music during her time at Berklee - or even if you're not - you'll want to grab a copy of the March 15 New Yorker. John Colapinto profiles...
Media Nation
,
The pain keeps on coming at CNHI, a Birmingham, Ala.-based newspaper chain that owns four Massachusetts dailies: the Eagle-Tribune of North Andover, the Daily News of Newburyport, the Salem News and the Gloucester Daily...
Media Nation
,
Media Nation has received a copy of an internal memo sent to GateHouse Media publishers by company executives with regard to the odd case of Claire O’Brien, the Kansas reporter who was fired in the midst of a dispute...
Pundit Review
,
Bruce McQuain from Blackfive joined us once again for Someone You Should Know, our weekly tribute to the troops. Bruce spent 28 years in the U.S. Army and he is a veteran of the Vietnam war. He brings a perspective and...
Media Nation
,
Is North Shore congressional candidate William Hudak putting words in U.S. Sen. Scott Brown’s mouth again?
According to the Salem News, Hudak, a right-wing Republican who once posted signs in his Boxford yard comparing...
Off On A Tangent
,
I'll be heading down to SXSW tomorrow and am looking forward to it. I can't imagine how many people I'm going to meet there. Looking forward to meeting peole who have read Get Seen.
I'd also like to record some...
Media Nation
,
The Boston Globe’s Dan Shaughnessy writes an absolutely toxic column on Nomar Garciaparra, and I can’t say I disagree with all of it. But then there’s this, about the 2004 injury that contributed to his...
BSMW Blog Headlines
,
by Chris Warner, Patriots Daily Staff
Last year at this time, Darius Butler was a highly-ranked cornerback unsatisfied with his combine performance. After improving his 40-time at UConn’s pro day, most draftniks figured he’d...
Off On A Tangent
,
Benjamin Wayne writes a guest post on Techcrunch that includes an explanation of Google's Video Sitemap, How To Use Video SEO To Jump To The Top Of Google Search Results:
Submission, Not DiscoveryWith traditional web pages...
Massachusetts Liberal
,
There's shock in both the mainstream media and the Twitterverse this morning: Deval Patrick practiced politics in the Statehouse!The decision by Patrick to stop being a punching bag and jabbing back at his opponents was...
Clueless in Boston
,
Yes, that is a plastic water bottle he is chomping away on. His owner said he just likes it. I failed to get the dog's name, but the title I chose seems appropriate to me.
Boston blog news
,
Life is like a routine. Take my dad for example. He’s an Orange County dentist. He wakes up at exactly five every morning. He jogs for about an hour around our block, go home, take a shower, eat his breakfast, and leaves for...
The Beantown Bloggery
,
I don't drink a lot of coffee. Actually, I don't drink much caffeine at all. Instead, I try to get enough sleep so that I don't need it. It doesn't always work though. The last package of coffee that...
The Beantown Bloggery
,
Pics of the BLO’s comedy about making an opera, Ariadne auf Naxos. The opera opens this Friday through the 23rd at the Citi Performing Arts Center Shubert Theatre in Boston. Photo credit goes to Jeffrey Dunn for Boston Lyric...
Blue Mass. Group
,
In testimony this afternoon, and in a press availability immediately afterward, Governor Patrick strongly urged the legislature to pass his jobs bill that would (among other things) control health insurance premium hikes and...
JimSullivanINK
,
Wednesdays in March The biggest band on the Cape - well,they certainly have a lot of players - is at the Midway Cafe on Wednesdays, the month of March. This wild bunch is known as the Chandler Travis Philharmonic. What gives...
The Third Decade
,
The boys at Boloco continue to impress me with their customer response! After my last post, I received an email from the CEO. In a nutshell, he said that the company has taken a look at Dudley Square before and is interested...
