Several weeks ago the hardreading staff noted that Boston Globe Cartoon Caption Captain P.J. Wallace had been sort of disappeared from the Globe West edition.
What seemed to be his swan song:
The next week . . . nothing.
But yesterday, there was this:
Hey, Globe Westies: Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?
You know we’ll be calling you later today.
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Today’s Boston Herald, Page One.
Survivor rips ‘Meet the Press’
The gutsy dancer who lost part of her left leg in the marathon bombings accused “Meet the Press” late yesterday of being “dishonorable” for naming the accused terrorists during a local taping of the Sunday show after she was led to believe they wouldn’t.
Adrianne Haslet-Davis — one of the first survivors of the Boylston Street blasts to go public last year when she vowed “I’ll dance again”
in a front-page Herald story — said she was in tears when she walked out on the taping of tomorrow’s “Meet the Press” at the Hyatt Boston Harbor hotel.
“Your decision to back out on that promise you made and the horrific way you brought that decision to my attention just minutes prior to taping was not only a cowardice move but a dishonorable one as well,” Haslet-Davis posted on her website, adriannehaslet-davis.com about the names being used.
(Herald columnist Adriana Cohen was in high dudgeon as well, but that’s her default position.)
Here’s the letter:
More, clearly, to come.
Meanwhile, crosstown at the Boston Globe, here’s the play the story got (Metro p. 2):
Like we’ve said, parallel universes.
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The parallel universes of the local dailies proceed apace today.
Boston Herald, Page One:
State stuck with duds
Busted digital signs leave drivers in dark
Gov. Deval Patrick, with great fanfare, is slated to unveil new, state-of-the art highway message boards for Cape Cod today, even as dozens of similar pricey
electronic road signs remain broken statewide, leaving tax- and toll-paying motorists in the dark about everything from traffic accidents and tie-ups to Amber Alerts, a Herald review found.
Among the 184 so-called “variable” message boards statewide, 43 are permanently out of service and cannot be fixed due to a lack of replacement parts, according to a Department of Transportation document obtained by the Herald through a public records request.
There’s even video that goes with:
Classic Herald: Good digging, splashy packaging.
Crosstown at the Boston Globe, Metro Page One:
That report is a follow-up to Adrian Walker’s bombshell yesterday about a “troubling demand” by a coalition of local community activists that Keolis North America, which just got the contract to run Boston’s commuter rail system, do more to promote diversity in its ranks. And by “troubling demand,” of course, Walker means an invoice for $105,000. No word on what the vigorish is, though.
Rev. Bruce Wall, who is moonwalking away from the controversy as fast as he can, is really just collateral damage here. The central figure in this rumpus is longtime local con artist Eugene Rivers III, who met with a Keolis spokeswoman and told her he was “below the radar” and “secret ops.” (Rivers denies saying either.)
Today’s piece has Wall and others in the so-called DRM Advisory Group playing Twister trying to explain away an invoice for services not performed or even contracted. Take some Dramamine before reading.
The folks at the editorial page are also reeling.
Rivers, Wall err badly in seeking funds from rail firm
THE REV. Eugene Rivers 3d, a prominent minister in Boston, blundered badly last month when he presented Keolis North America with a $105,000 invoice for services related to promoting diversity in the hiring and ridership of the state’s commuter rail system. This startling document, which was signed by Dorchester minister Bruce Wall, came across as a self-serving pressure tactic, and it only harmed the cause of promoting diversity in public contracting.
And etc.
Classic Boston Globe: good digging, enlightened tut-tutting.
Can’t do better than a Two-Daily Town.
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Through some marvelous coincidence/confluence/coordinance (is that even a word?), two – count ’em, two – pieces about Marina Keegan’s book The Opposite of Loneliness ran in yesterday’s Boston Globe.
Start with Joseph P. Kahn’s Page One feature.
Her young life is lost, but her words are for posterity
Book collects writings of crash victim Marina Keegan
WAYLAND — Her young life ended two years ago in a tragic car accident five days after her college graduation. Her commencement essay in the Yale campus newspaper quickly went viral, drawing more than 1.4 million views. In an outpouring of tributes to the 22-year-old writer, many hailed her as the “voice of her generation.”
Now comes a collection of Marina Keegan’s essays and stories, being published this week by Scribner. Titled “The Opposite of Loneliness,” after the essay that brought Keegan worldwide attention, it marks a bittersweet milestone for the author’s family, friends, and academic mentors, all of whom have struggled with her loss.
And yet, they say, what a gift Keegan has left behind. Not only in her written words — she also wrote plays, poetry, and literary criticism — but also in her legacy of social activism and fierce belief in leading a life of purpose, not privilege. That was the challenge laid down to her Yale University classmates in “Loneliness,” and it has powerfully resonated ever since, according to many close to Keegan.
It certainly resonated with the same day’s G section of the Globe, which featured this piece by Sophie Flack.
A keen collection of stories from a light that dimmed too soon
When Marina Keegan wasn’t tapped to join one of Yale’s secret societies, she gave herself less than two hours to wallow in
disappointment, then pledged to spend the time she would have spent “chatting in a tomb” writing a book. Five days after graduation, Keegan was killed in a car accident on Cape Cod. She was 22.
“The Opposite of Loneliness” is a record of that time better spent. The book of nine short stories and nine essays takes its title from Keegan’s last essay to appear in the Yale Daily News, which went viral in the days after her death when it was read by 1.4 million people in 98 countries. In it Keegan writes with an eerie urgency: “We can’t, we MUST not lose this sense of possibility because in the end, it’s all we have.”
In yesterday’s Boston Globe, at least, Marina Keegan had a lot of possibilities.
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The local dailies have a split decision on Jared Remy’s efforts to avoid ever getting time off for good behavior.
Jared Remy said to use chair, bar of soap in jail fight
Jared Remy, the son of Red Sox broadcaster Jerry Remy, allegedly attacked a fellow inmate with a chair and bar of soap during an incident last week that has prompted new charges against him, a law enforcement official said.
The official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the matter, had no other details of the alleged assault, including the extent of the other inmate’s injuries.
The aforementioned “law enforcement official” may or may not be from the Middlesex sheriff’s office, which “confirmed [on Friday] that Remy, 35, allegedly attacked another inmate the day before at the Cambridge jail where Remy is awaiting trial on charges of murder in the death of his girlfriend, Jennifer Martel, on Aug. 15. However, the sheriff’s office did not specify the type of weapon used in the alleged jailhouse assault.”
Crosstown, the Boston Herald has the real scoop:
Jail: Jared Remy used soap, hot liquid in assault
Jared Remy used a plastic chair, scalding liquid and a bar of soap to attack a fellow inmate at the Cambridge jail Thursday, court records state.
A criminal complaint filed against the 35-year-old son of NESN Red Sox color commentator Jerry Remy and obtained by the Herald yesterday states he will be arraigned April 24 on eight felony counts of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and one misdemeanor count of assault and battery.
Remy’s attorney Edward P. Ryan Jr. could not immediately be reached for comment. The complaint does not make clear what circumstances precipitated the fight.
A clear win for the feisty local tabloid in this round of the bake-off.
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As the hardreading staff previously noted, P.J. Wallace’s Cartoon Caption Contest – which the Boston Globe has run on Sundays for, like, forever – mysteriously disappeared from the paper last week.
Not to mention this week.
Here’s where it should have appeared yesterday:
We’d like to ask P.J. Wallace: Whiskey Tango Foxtrot? But we can’t find him on Google, Facebook, or Twitter. (Some cartoons here, but that’s about it.)
Plug him into the Globe search engine and you get this:
And this:
And this:
Hey, P.J. – give us a holler, yeah?
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The long-suffering Boston fooderati have been anxiously awaiting the arrival of the storied Wegmans grocery store in Chestnut Hill, and – finally! – it’s here (on April 27).
From Sunday’s Boston Globe:
Not to mention:
Funny, but those ads did not run in the Boston Herald.
Go figure.
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As just about everyone in town knows, today’s the Red Sox Home Opener/World’s Serious Shindig. But just in case anyone doesn’t know, NESN ran this ad in the Boston Globe Sports section.
Got that? 11:30, Ring Ceremony commercial-free, and etc.
Know what else was NESN ad-free?
That’s right – The Herald.
That ad was nowhere to be found in today’s edition of the flunky local tabloid.
For the Heraldniks, apparently, NESN stands for Not Even Second Now.
Ouch.
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As the Great Boston Casino Slapfight proceeds apace, both local dailies ran the same Wynn Resorts ad yesterday.
From the Boston Globe’s op-ed page:
Copy:
Only difference: The Boston Herald version ran in the Business section and was not labeled ADVERTISEMENT.
Otherwise, AWynnForAll, yes?
Maybe.
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It's Good to Live in a Two-Daily Town 