Entries from Bostonist tagged with 'christopherhitchens'
January 26, 2008
Music --DJ Spooky's Boston domination wraps up tonight with "Subliminal Strings," in which a string ensemble plays while being sampled live. ICA Boston, 8:00 pm, $20. --For something completely different, rising alt-country act Sarah Borges and the Broken Singles, fresh off a homecoming at the Lizard Lounge, will be playing at Dante's in Marlborough at 9:30 pm. Comedy In case you haven't noticed, it is Bostonist's modus operandi to remind the world that women are......
Continue Reading "Happening Tonight"December 30, 2007
So a few movies shoot in Boston, and all of a sudden the city is Hollywood East. Well, a lot of movies stopped by here, and Denzel Washington's The Great Debaters premiered at Harvard. The New York Times called Boston the "new Toronto" as long as movies are concerned. Today, the Track Girls became excited at the prospect of Canada being jealous of Boston. But who cares about that? All we care about is--what in......
Continue Reading "Hollywood East: Alec Baldwin's Neck"December 7, 2007
Pundits, talking heads, and peanut galleries in general have sat back and digested Massachusetts governor and political aspirant Mitt Romney's "I Am Mormon, Hear Me Roar" speech. Reactions range from underwhelmed to slightly less underwhelmed. Christopher Hitchens took some time out from getting his body waxed to call it "windy" and "boilerplate." The Globe said it was "tactically astute," but that Romney shut out non-religious and non-Christian audiences, despite his brief shoutout to those of......
Continue Reading "National Reaction to the Romney Speech--Where's the Undies?"May 10, 2007
Why, oh why, are Mitt Romney and Al Sharpton hating on each other? Both of them have such impressive coifs and eccentric tastes. (Romney digs Battlefield Earth - 'nuff said.) But hate they do. Sharpton threw some trash talk about Mormons in Romney's direction, and the former governor and aspiring presidential candidate is having none of it. In a debate with perpetually hung-over author Christopher Hitchens, Al Sharpton said, "As for the one Mormon running......
Continue Reading "Romney Plus Sharpton Equals Awesome Hair!"