Entries from Bostonist tagged with 'edgeboston'
December 4, 2007
Michele McPhee, Boston's queen bee of crime reporting, is jumping from the Herald to a full-time slot at WTKK. Boston Daily landed the scoop confirming what two of Boston's most reliable mediawatchers, Dan Kennedy of Media Nation and Adam Reilly of the Phoenix, heard. From Joe Keohane at Boston Daily: "Sources close to McPhee confirm this, and add that she’s taken a full-time gig at WTKK-FM and ditched daily journalism altogether." What will the Herald......
Continue Reading "Michele McPhee Is Leaving the Herald"November 15, 2007
Michele McPhee, police beat reporter for the Herald, has been hiding a few secrets. For all of her tough talk about crime on the streets, she has a passion for fashion. Unfortunately, she has a strange way of letting that passion show. Word is out on the Web that McPhee has a theory for why fashion designers like skinny models. She said on her WTKK show, "And who do homosexual men like? Little boys." McPhee......
Continue Reading "We Didn't Know Michele McPhee Was a Fashionista "November 3, 2007
If you see incredibly offensive signs or spot a ruckus breaking out at Boston churches tomorrow, don't be surprised. Bostonist wants to warn you that Fred Phelps, the poor excuse for a human being who has picketed funerals of American soldiers with signs that say "GOD HATES FAGS," will be in town this weekend. Sam Baltrusis at EDGE Boston writes, Rev. Fred Phelps and his vitriolic, anti-gay group of supporters will be in Massachusetts on......
Continue Reading "Watch Out for the Hate Parade: Fred Phelps in Town This Weekend"August 13, 2007
Is this how a porn star is welcomed in Boston? A drunk driver swerved in front of Ron Jeremy's tour bus as he and his friends with the Porn Debate were leaving town early Saturday after holding their Porn Debate at the Middle East. Luckily, no one got hurt, but Ron Jeremy and his posse were rattled. Jeremy, anti-porn activist and self-described "porn pastor" Craig Gross, and members of the Porn Debate tour crew......
Continue Reading "Ron Jeremy and Friends Barely Escape Local Drunk Driver"July 20, 2007
We thought Oldies dee-jays were cheerful types who spun the Bay City Rollers and favored loud colors. But Barry Scott, who has a show on Oldies 103.3, is furious with the Provincetown Police Department after they hassled him while he was at a P-Town birthday party on Saturday night. Police say Scott was disturbing the peace because the music he was playing was too loud. Police officers told Scott to turn it down three times......
Continue Reading "A Ugly Scene Goes Down in P-Town"