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While you were out . . .

Yes, stuff happened in Boston during your summer break. But we’ve got it covered.
When you’re a student, it can seem as if reality just freezes when you leave town for the summer.

By: ADAM REILLY | September 04, 2007

Mitt’s thorny threesome

How will a trio of new media developments affect the Romney presidential campaign?
Whatever Mitt Romney is doing in a few years, he’ll always have the Summer of ’07.

By: ADAM REILLY | August 22, 2007

September Dawn

A descent into caricatures
The violence, when it comes, is shot in slow, luxuriant detail that feels almost pornographic.

By: ADAM REILLY | August 22, 2007

As a steady stream of Twin Cities sports superstars relocates to Boston, a hoops-crazy reporter asks himself: What price fandom?
If you're a die-hard sports fan, you’ve undoubtedly had moments where you view your obsession from the outside, like an anthropologist watching a painful circumcision ritual for the first time.

By: ADAM REILLY | August 20, 2007

When Rupert came to Boston

Revisiting the lessons of Murdoch’s Herald
Just how badly will Rupert Murdoch screw up the Wall Street Journal ?

By: ADAM REILLY | August 08, 2007

Edifice complex

Tom Menino has already remade Boston’s skyline. Now he wants to pack up City Hall and move it to Southie. Can anyone stop him?
You’re Boston Mayor Tom Menino, preparing to address the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce on a chilly morning in December 2006.

By: ADAM REILLY | August 02, 2007

Ebbing radicalism in Cambridge

Left behind
When conservatives obsess over the People’s Republic of Cambridge, this is the kind of thing they have in mind.

By: ADAM REILLY | July 25, 2007

Air apparent

WBUR has done a 180 under Paul La Camera, thanks, in part to some serious-news hires
With any institution in flux, it’s easier to pinpoint when things fell apart than when they were put back together.

By: ADAM REILLY | July 19, 2007

Getaway Carr

Why WRKO should cut Howie loose. Plus, journalism’s unsolvable PR conundrum
Howie Carr’s jump from WRKO-AM to WTKK-FM isn’t a done deal just yet.

By: ADAM REILLY | July 11, 2007

Yellow journalism

Pissing match in Peoria
One of the weirder journalistic feuds in recent memory erupted this past week, only to dissolve in a pool of urine as quickly as it blossomed.

By: ADAM REILLY | July 16, 2007

Good Shaq, bad Shaq

Is O’Neal’s fat-camp show kind or cruel?
Say this for Miami Heat center Shaquille O’Neal: in Shaq’s Big Challenge , signs abound that his intentions are good.

By: ADAM REILLY | July 10, 2007

Bacevich’s war

The politics of personal tragedy
Eight days after 9/11, NPR broadcast a commentary by Andrew J. Bacevich, a Vietnam War veteran, former Army colonel, and professor of international relations at BU.

By: ADAM REILLY | January 29, 2009

Drive free or die

The Romney camp’s ominous New Hampshire misstep. Plus, how should Bloomberg cover Bloomberg?
Reporter Mark Leibovich offered a parenthetical aside on a brush with former Massachusetts governor and would-be president Mitt Romney’s security detail.

By: ADAM REILLY | June 27, 2007

The Most Hated Man in Boston

What is it about The Globe ’s Dan Shaughnessy that makes ordinary, peaceable people want to kick his ass?
To understand the tortured tango that binds Dan Shaughnessy and his detractors, consider his item about Red Sox ace Curt Schilling’s blog, 38 Pitches.

By: ADAM REILLY | July 10, 2007