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Flashbacks: Boston chess champ squares off against a computer, the painful musical pairing of Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson, and the squabble over the Boston Tea Party Bicentennial festivities

Flashbacks: Boston chess champ squares off against a computer, the painful musical pairing of Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson, and the squabble over the Boston Tea Party Bicentennial festivities

 

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by Ian Sands | Dec 04, 2008 | with 2 comment(s)

Flashbacks: Touring MIT's nuclear reactor, the coffee table book from hell, and a 1968 review of the White Album.

Flashbacks: Touring MIT's nuclear reactor, the coffee table book from hell, and a 1968 review of the White Album.

 

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by Ian Sands | Nov 21, 2008 | with 2 comment(s)

Flashbacks: Poking fun at the Globe’s tone deaf corrections, on the campaign trail with Mel King, and the Frisbee as a weapon of war?

Flashbacks: Poking fun at the Globe’s tone deaf corrections, on the campaign trail with Mel King, and the Frisbee as a weapon of war?

 

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by Ian Sands | Nov 14, 2008 | with no comments

Flashbacks: Tantric sex explained, dinner with Julia Child, and a Phoenix writer goes free in Chile

Flashbacks: Tantric sex explained, dinner with Julia Child, and a Phoenix writer goes free in Chile

 

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by Ian Sands | Oct 24, 2008 | with no comments

Flashbacks: Artist provocateur Paul Richard puts the ICA up for sale, king of the Bonds and where were you when Agnew Quit?

Flashbacks: Artist provocateur Paul Richard puts the ICA up for sale, king of the Bonds and where were you when Agnew Quit?

 

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by Ian Sands | Oct 17, 2008 | with 1 comment(s)

Flashbacks: Why we should invade France, confessions of a pâté girl and a local campaign spy sounds off on Watergate

Flashbacks: Why we should invade France, confessions of a pâté girl and a local campaign spy sounds off on Watergate
NOT TO MENTION THAT FAMOUS FRENCH STENCH 5 years ago May 23, 2003 | Steve Almond asked that Bush and Co. consider invading France. “What the Bush regime needs to realize (and I think, deep down, it does) is that Americans are ready for a war against France...
by Ian Sands | May 22, 2008 | with no comments

Flashbacks: Why we should invade France, confessions of a pâté girl and a local campaign spy sounds off on Watergate

Flashbacks: Why we should invade France, confessions of a pâté girl and a local campaign spy sounds off on Watergate
NOT TO MENTION THAT FAMOUS FRENCH STENCH 5 years ago May 23, 2003 | Steve Almond asked that Bush and Co. consider invading France. “What the Bush regime needs to realize (and I think, deep down, it does) is that Americans are ready for a war against France...
by webteam | May 22, 2008 | with no comments

Jayson Blair revisited, Radiohead’s least favorite Radiohead song, and notes on the plight of the tenant-musician

Jayson Blair revisited, Radiohead’s least favorite Radiohead song, and notes on the plight of the tenant-musician
BAD TIMES 5 years ago May 16, 2003 | Dan Kennedy called for “tougher standards” in journalism in the wake of the Jayson Blair scandal. “Yet by purging Blair, it would be wrong to think that all is now well at the Times , or in journalism. Tougher standards...
by Ian Sands | May 16, 2008 | with no comments

Flashbacks: alternative Seinfeld endings, a local astrologer on whether or not President Reagan is basing all of his decisions on the astrological charts, and Deep Throat on Trial

Flashbacks: alternative Seinfeld endings, a local astrologer on whether or not President Reagan is basing all of his decisions on the astrological charts, and Deep Throat on Trial
WEST ROAST 5 years ago May 9, 2003 | Jay Jaroch mused on the bi-coastal lifestyle and the differences between West and East Coasters. “Sure, it’s been new and exciting, but when you grow up East Coast you learn that you should never take yourself too...
by Ian Sands | May 09, 2008 | with no comments

Flashbacks: bidding adieu to Dawson’s Creek, the losingest team in basketball, a visit to an “anti-terrorist” driving school, and the most controversial course in Boston

Flashbacks: bidding adieu to Dawson’s Creek, the losingest team in basketball, a visit to an “anti-terrorist” driving school, and the most controversial course in Boston
NOT-SO-FOND FAREWELL 5 years ago May 02, 2003| Joyce Millman bade adieu to the WB’s Dawson’s Creek . “An era is about to end as one of TV’s most influential series says goodbye. And no, I’m not talking about Buffy the Vampire Slayer . This Wednesday....
by Ian Sands | May 01, 2008 | with 1 comment(s)

Mental Detox Week

Mental Detox Week
Happy Mental Detox week ! Yeah, so Mental Detox week began on Monday and I have yet to actually turn anything off - or at least the things that AdBusters , who launched the original TV Turn-Off week (now renamed Mental Detox Week) back in 1994 , want...
by Will Spitz | Apr 24, 2008 | with no comments

Flashbacks: how Al Gore’s favorite book hurt his campaign chances, animal testing controversy, and the mad, mad world of Miss Baby America pageants

Flashbacks: how Al Gore’s favorite book hurt his campaign chances, animal testing controversy, and the mad, mad world of Miss Baby America pageants
PLAYING FAVORITES 5 years ago April 25, 2003 | Brent Kendall analyzed how a presidential candidate’s declared “favorite book” can affect his campaign chances. “The 2000 election demonstrated precisely how candidates' book choices play right into the...
by Ian Sands | Apr 24, 2008 | with no comments

Flashbacks: an embedded reporter goes over to the “dark side,” dumb things John Silber once said about gay people, and the virtual house call

Flashbacks: an embedded reporter goes over to the “dark side,” dumb things John Silber once said about gay people, and the virtual house call
CROSSING OVER 5 years ago April 18, 2003 | Dan Kennedy discussed what he thought was “perhaps the most astounding media story to come out" of the Iraq War. “This past Sunday, Jules Crittenden, the Boston Herald reporter embedded with the Army’s Third...
by Ian Sands | Apr 18, 2008 | with no comments

Flashbacks: A pen with the “genetic essence” of Abe Lincoln, eloquent words for a Red Sox legend, and Daniel Pearl on earthquake etiquette

Flashbacks: A pen with the “genetic essence” of Abe Lincoln, eloquent words for a Red Sox legend, and Daniel Pearl on earthquake etiquette
THE WRITING IS ON THE WALL AND IT’S BEEN PENNED IN FLOURESCENT HUES 5 years ago April 11, 2003 | Camille Dodero looked at how city surfaces were providing "a canvas for public expression" concerning the Iraq War . “In the cavernous front lobby...
by Ian Sands | Apr 10, 2008 | with no comments

Flashbacks: Woman punished for being a dominatrix, Gloucester’s heroin problem, and Kafka on housebreaking a cat

Flashbacks: Woman punished for being a dominatrix, Gloucester’s heroin problem, and Kafka on housebreaking a cat
MASSAGE HERESY 10 years ago April 3, 1998 | Sarah McNaught looked into why a local massage student was expelled from the Muscular Therapy Institute upon divulging that she was a professional dominatrix. “Sheila, however, says there is nothing dangerous...
by Ian Sands | Apr 04, 2008 | with no comments
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