We think he is somewhere in Washington, D.C. Or, he was. No one is going to tell us where he is. Gov. Deval Patrick visited the D.C. area Tuesday to pay an 11 a.m. visit to Walter Reed Army Medical Center where he met with wounded soldiers. After that, Patrick had no publicly scheduled events, and his staff is not saying anything. The Governor's Communications Director Kyle Sullivan said his schedule will be updated on Wednesday in response to an Associated Press inquiry Tuesday evening. He reportedly wasn't meeting with President Barack Obama, doing any campaign fundraisers, or dealing with any health issues. [Boston Globe]
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Normally, the Boston Herald, and other papers, relies on the Associated Press for information. This week, the roles got reversed as an AP story referred to prior reporting by the Herald. On Tuesday, Bostonist noted a Herald story that said the federal government sent economic stimulus checks to Bay State prisoners. The AP reported this on Wednesday night and noted "The Boston Herald first reported that the checks were sent to inmates." A Social Security Administration audit is underway.
Yes, we thought we'd done our last Shepard Fairey post of the month, too. But that was before it came to our attention, via Dan Kennedy, our favorite Northeastern prof, that Shepard Fairey might be a little less than consistent when it comes to his reading of copyright law. The street artist, who faces a legal battle with the Associated Press over the photo of Barack Obama that he "referenced" to make his iconic Obama "Hope" poster, has sent his own cease-and-desist letter to Baxter Orr, an Austin, Texas artist who has made a derivative work that pokes fun at Fairey's trademark "Obey Giant." So it's Obey what I say, not what I do? Copylefters, can you still justify this guy? [Dan Wasserman]
Alleged plagiarist/vandalist, would-be DJ, and street artist Shepard Fairey has creatively turned the tables on the AP, preemptively suing the organization for his supposed appropriation of an AP image in the now-infamous Barack Obama "Hope" poster. The AP had asked Fairey to pony up for use of Obama's face; in response, Fairey and his lawyers (including Anthony T. Falzone of the Fair Use Project) claim Fairey created a “stunning, abstracted and idealized visual image that created powerful new meaning and conveys a radically different message" from the AP photo. Will "fair use" be known as "Fairey use" from now on? We eagerly await a decision.
In the Shepard Fairey exhibit which opens today for the general public at the Institute of Contemporary Art, there is a quotation by Andy Warhol, one of Fairey’s main influences if not his most important.
This Bostonist always pictured solar panels being best-suited to dot the rooftops of sun-baked, equatorial locales. But according to the Associated Press (via the Herald), the Commonwealth is quickly becoming a leader in solar energy.
Jeez, can't a guy catch a break and land 16 more votes? Poor Jim Rice. The man listened to the annual chorus of "maybe next year" time and time again while his Red Sox teams tried to bring home a championship; now he has to listen to the same call again, for the 14th time, as he wonders whether he'll ever get voted into the Hall of Fame. Once again the MVP could have been voted in. Once again it didn't happen - and the margin separating him from official baseball immortality was a tiny little margin.
According to the Associated Press, Gov. Deval Patrick called for a review of local bridge inspection records today. It turns out that Massachusetts has 27 steel truss bridges similar in design to the one that collapsed in Minnesota, but none is considered in danger of collapsing. WBZ news posted a Mass Mass Highway Dept. spreadsheet which lists 23 bridge rehab/replacement projects that are in design, under construction or recently completed. Gov. Patrick says he plans...
The Associated Press is reporting that the Al-Qaida-linked insurgents who captured three U.S. soldiers in Iraq last month released a video that says that the men - including Spc. Alex R. Jimenez, 25 and of Lawrence - have been killed. "The Americans sent 4,000 soldiers looking for them," a voice on the video says, according to the AP. "They were alive and then dead." According to reports, the video includes footage of insurgents planning the...
Let's give a hand to WEEI caller Pauley, who aptly summed up Tuesday's Sox home game against the Detroit Tigers during the Planet Mikey Show with, "It was a drinking night tonight." It wasn't a pretty showing at Fenway on Tuesday, despite the presence of the brilliant-this-season Tim Wakefield on the mound. The Sox endured a 7-2 pounding that was led by Tiger pitcher and 2006 AL Rookie of the Year Justin Verlander (7 2/3...
It seems like just yesterday that we were reading articles about the Sox home-field advantage, the way the team lights up the ballpark when they make it home to Yawkey Way. After Tuesday's 14-3 slaughter of the Mariners, Sox fans made their way into Fenway Park with cameras (lots and LOTS of cameras with very bright flashes) and the hopes that that advantage and the much-hyped Matsuzaka/Ichiro showdown would make for memorable baseball. It was...
As promised, Bostonist attended our fair city's contribution to today's so-called "national day of action" to oppose a bill in the U.S. House of Representatives that would make illegal immigrants' presence in this country a felony, and to support legislative efforts to grant amnesty to undocumented workers. According to the Associated Press, there were between 5,000 (the police estimate) and 8,000 (the organizers' estimate) marchers. On the ground, with no crowd-counting skills and only the...
Bostonist turned the volume down on our iPod yesterday while reading an Associated Press report on boston dot com. . The good doctor Mallika Marshall over at Channel 4 also gave us a similar stern warning the day after Christmas.
Bostonist is never surprised by revelations about the current administration, so when we learned from local internet security expert Richard Smith that the White House web site uses cookies to keep track of the internet browsing activities of people who visit the site and other programs to keep possibly past content from being archived, well, we weren't like, "OMG!" (Full disclosure: In addition to his web sleuthing duties, Smith is our mother-in-law's husband.) But we...
Boston, along with numerous other cities including; Detroit, Cleveland, Newark, DC, New York City and Philly, honored Rosa Parks by leaving a bus seat empty on each of the city's buses to commemorate her heroic act in 1955 of refusing to give up her seat to a white man. Ms. Parks recently passed away, and just today President Bush announced that a statue would be erected in her honor at the National Statuary Hall in Washington, D.C.
If the adage no news is good news holds true; Bostonist is always a little uneasy when we read a lead in to a report like this: "The Archdiocese of Boston has convened a secret tribunal..." This story, however, has a miraculous twist. Cardinal John Henry Newman has been put forth to the Vatican to cannomize the late Cardinal on the process of becoming a saint. According to Catholic law, canonization of an individual into sainthood goes through a number of stages. Pope John Paul II (or JP Deuce as Bostonist has a habit of calling him) had found Cardinal Newman to be venerable during his term as Pope. There had been no evidence of a miraculous event made apparent to the Pope, but recently a claim has been made by a Boston man. Praying to Cardinal Newman allowed the Boston Deacon to experience a full recovery, which could be deemed by the special, secret tribunal in set up by the Boston Archdiocese as a miracle.
When Bostonist read in today's Globe that area armed forces recruiters have been having more and more trouble getting the youngsters to sign up, we first assumed it might be because the reporting of the war in Iraq and the accompanying imagery are so much more graphic and immediate than they were in past generations. Some of the kids interviewed suggested that today's high schoolers are simply more selfish than their parents were at their...
Bostonist is glad that we can go back to calling them French Fries at the fairs and carnivals this spring. Do you think they serve French Fries at the Paris Hilton?
Let the Dynasty be recognized. The Super Bowl wound up with a 24-21 victory for the Patriots over the Philadelphia Eagles. First half officiating and the worst coin toss in the history of football seemingly gave the Eagles a leg up in the first half, they weren't trailing. Bostonist loves a cute kid, but please just let him read heads or tails, the coin didn’t even flip over once on the toss. Of course the coin toss has a lot less to do with the game than the number of interceptions, the rushing yards, and all the good stuff that makes watching football fun.
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