Entries from Bostonist tagged with 'leno'
February 10, 2008
--A truck making an illegal left turn near the BU East Green Line Stop hit a Green Line train yesterday morning. One Green Line passenger went to the hospital, and the truck driver has a date with the courts. [Boston Globe] --Speaking of bad drivers, some people never learn. [Boston Globe] --Laura Crimaldi into how the mortgage mess has hit the city, particularly Dorchester, where 33 percent of the city's foreclosures happened. [Boston Herald]......
Continue Reading "Bite Size News"January 22, 2008
Riding high from his Michigan victory and the continued defeats of rival Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney is on a tear through Florida, and he's trying to connect with the young people. Unfortunately, Romney's pop culture references are stuck as far back in time as his well-preserved face. He buddied up with African-American teens and tried to sling lingo that he thought they would like. In fact, he uttered the immortal line, "Who Let the Dogs......
Continue Reading "MittWatch: Who Let the Mitt Out?"November 10, 2007
Manny Ramirez sure loves his cars. When he went on Leno, he seemed to want to talk about cars even more than the World Series. Putting car enthusiasts Manny Ramirez and Jay Leno together was risky because they might not have talked about the World Series at all. Fans got lucky, and the talk turned to baseball, but it might be safe to assume that Ramirez holds hot rods and baseball in similarly high......
Continue Reading "Manny Ramirez Selling on eBay Again"November 4, 2007
Now that the Red Sox have won the World Series, how are they doing with the publicity grind? We'll evaluate each one's turn on late-nite television: Manny Ramirez on Leno: Two versions of Manny Ramirez exist--the sulky one and the gleeful one who invites everyone over to his house for drinks. Gleeful Manny showed up on Leno. He chatted with Leno about cars and awkwardly hit fists with Steve Carrell. At first, it seemed like......
Continue Reading "The Red Sox Magical Mystical Late-Nite Sofa Tour"November 2, 2007
Bostonist just wrote that Jason Varitek appeals to the angel side of our personalities, but Manny Ramirez appeals to the lil' devil within. Someone on YouTube captured Manny inviting everyone at the Rally over to his house for drinks. We first saw this on Barstool Sports, our source for the fun Red Sox news, and we were stunned: Is he insane? Did anyone take him up on it? He's lucky that those arrested for post-victory......
Continue Reading "More Reasons to Love the Red Sox: Manny Ramirez"November 1, 2007
Unusually quiet on the local sports scene yesterday. Sure, the World Champion Red Sox dispersed to the talk show circuit. At various times last night, and for the next few days, you can see members of the hometown team doing walkons with Letterman, Leno, O'Brien, "The Daily Show", "Nightline", "The NFL Today", "Thomas the Tank Engine", "The Iron Chef", "CSI: Miami", and "Deadliest Catch". Check your local listings. But in terms of actual, on-the-field, recappable......
Continue Reading "Sports Redux: An Off Day?"October 28, 2007
The Red Sox has permeated nearly every facet of Bostonist's lives. When they're not live-blogging the games, waxing poetic about the games, thanking Curt Schilling for his splendid work, or telling Dane Cook to watch his hair, they're watching certain presidential candidates hop on the Red Sox bandwagon (sorry, Gothamist). The Sox are so branded on the local brain that people are using the Series to spice up their sex lives. Speaking of spice, Bostonist......
Continue Reading "Week Around the -Ists"September 16, 2007
Protest over national vs. regional chains, the never-ending debate over the place of cars and bicycles in our metropolises, professional sports scandals, remembering a solemn day, and being issued a search warrant - it all happened across our sites this week! Another banner week at Chicagoist started off with daily reports from food writer Lisa Shames on her attempt to eat only locally grown and raised foodstuffs all week as part of a farmers market......
Continue Reading "Around the Ist-a-Verse"June 20, 2006
Who says Boston doesn't have any celebrities? Since Norm and Cliff don't grace our Thursday night televisions and heralding Good Will Hunting has become passé a lot of people are talking about how we don’t have much celeb power here in the Hub. Forbes Magazine takes a break from rating the richest people in America and the world to take focus on the 100 hottest celebrities – based on both influence and on their annual......
Continue Reading "Forbes Celebrity 100"March 12, 2006
The South By Southwest Festival in Austin has three components: Music, Film, and Interactive. And probably nobody navigates their way between these three worlds as well as Henry Rollins. Best known for his musical career (Black Flag, Rollins Band), Rollins has parlayed that into a career as a "jackass of all tirades" - actor, author, corporate speaker, unflinching social critic. He gave a freewheeling, honest talk at a one-on-one interview session with Esquire journalist Andy......
Continue Reading "SXSWi: New Interviewer Henry Rollins as Interviewee"October 26, 2005
It only took a few short months for Alex Reimer to get attention for his Red Sox podcast. At the young age of twelve Alex flew to LA and appeared on Jay Leno to talk sports. Too bad Jay calls it an internet radio show instead of hyping up the podcast name. Jay Leno or not, Boston loves its sports and Without a Curse is a good way to relive this season. Without a Curse......
Continue Reading "Wednesday Webcasts: Bostonist Rates Without a Curse"May 18, 2005
Bostonist recently came across two articles about those Bostonians we love to hate here in the Hub. From politicians to athletes to the handful of Hollywood stars, both lists give a good idea of who residents have heard enough about. Sure, we celebrate like no other city, but we bond best when joining in a group hatred for a Boston personality, don't we? After seeing the New York Press' "50 Most Loathsome New Yorkers" list,......
Continue Reading "Bostonians We Love to Hate?"