Posted Al Gore at the Wang: When Moderators Attack to Bostonist
Like a teenager with a new LiveJournal, MSG Entertainment's 2009 Speaker Series is starting to ask itself the big questions: Why am I here? What do I want to be? Does anybody love me? After a disastrous birthing period featuring Ann Coulter, Bill Maher and a hapless moderator, the series stumbled into its awkward adolescence Monday night with Al Gore as its guinea pig. The Nobel Peace Prize winner and former Veep struck an...
Posted Coulter/Maher Showdown: Talking Heads Don't Have Much to Say to Bostonist
To those who couldn't get tickets to the much-anticipated Coulter/Maher debates Tuesday night: Rejoice! You just saved yourself from developing a shiny new ulcer. The "smackdown" last night at the Wang between the very red Ann Coulter and the very blue Bill Maher wasn't so much high-stakes as high-stress. Microphones failed, audience members flipped out, hecklers raised hell, and a hapless moderator fumbled most of his questions. At the center of this imperfect storm...