The Old Curmudgeon Meets the Boy in the Boat
A hot Thursday afternoon in August and, like a lot of other paper-shufflers in Boston, I sneak out of the office for the 4:30 train from South Station. I’m just about to settle into my seat when I […]
A hot Thursday afternoon in August and, like a lot of other paper-shufflers in Boston, I sneak out of the office for the 4:30 train from South Station. I’m just about to settle into my seat when I […]
CONCORD, Mass. This quiet town in the western suburbs of Boston was ground zero for the Transcendentalist Movement, a 19th century philosophical reaction to the prevailing intellectual and religious dogmas of the time, and traces […]
LEOMINSTER, Mass. Kyle Cannon was one of two finalists to be afternoon shift manager at B-Fit Boston’s gym in this town noted, if at all, as the home of John Chapman, better known as “Johnny Appleseed.” […]
In the glory days of bel canto, all opera houses in Italy had a casino attached. According to Stendhal’s biography of Rossini, the composer received 200 ducats a month as musical director but five times as much–1,000 […]
It was Thursday night, but looming ahead was Saturday and another polite suburban party at which, after a couple of pops and convivial conversation with the husbands, I’d say something that embarrasses my wife in […]
ROME, New York. Jerry Scalabrizzi is stepping down from what he describes as “the best job in the world,” but he says it’s time for new blood in the organization he has led for the […]
SPRINGFIELD, Illinois. Music industry professionals agree that Alyssa James is a singer who will make it big someday. “She’s almost got the whole package together,” says rock critic Larry Leung of the San Francisco Chronicle. “The looks, […]
The kids are into baseball now, a development that warms this old good field-no hit third baseman’s heart, so we were watching the Red Sox after bath time. “Dad?” Skipper, the younger of my two sons […]
The envelope was slim, as they all seem to be these days, and so I opened it up expecting the usual brush-off: “Dear Poet: Thank you very much for submitting your work to the Alice […]
BOSTON. Trey Gooding likes to travel light, a style that he says saves him time rushing between gigs. “If I can’t carry all my luggage on, sometimes things get lost and anyway I have to […]