Teabaggers, toddler elections, and (formerly) vegans. Malden has a wealth of attributes, and now it can add another: moddles. Or one model, at least, and a petite one at that. A Malden baby has reached the finals of a babyGap modeling contest. William Galvin, 1, was selected as a finalist in the contest and went west to San Francisco for a photo shoot in mid-November. According to his mother, William loved the photo shoot and is "a really goofy kid," who likes Lady Gaga and playing with his dog Mia. (He's a little young for "Paparazzi," no?)
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Not only does Project Runway Season 4 feature a contestant named Sweet P (was the "ea" part of "pea" that intrusive?), it also has the requisite dude with whack hair, dude with whack facial hair, and a fabulous first episode title: "Sew Me What You Got." Sweet! None of the designers appear to have Massachusetts connections, but models Lauren, Marcia, and Wendi are all from the Bay State. Lauren started modeling in Boston, and Marcia...
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...
Rack 'Em Up With the Boston Babydolls Sunday, November 11, 8:00 pm Flat Top Johnny's, 1 Kendall Square, Cambridge America's Next Top Model competitor Sarah, of Heath, was eliminated from the show on Wednesday (check out our interview with her, which will appear this afternoon at 1:00)--and the Boston Babydolls are none too happy about it. Sarah is a member of the burlesque troupe and performs as Vita Lightly. The Boston Babydolls put out a...
"Traditional," "evolving," "models," and "criticism" are all words that might have turned most people off already, but bear with us here: today's 2.5-hour (longer than most movies!) panel discussion on the nature of film criticism at the Coolidge Corner Theater was actually at least as enlightening as annoying, if not more so. Moderators Cynthia Lucia and Richard Porton led panelists Phillip Lopate, Scott Foundas, Glenn Kenny, David Sterritt, Owen Gleiberman, and Ty Burr in...
Introduction to the Current State of Film Criticism Wednesday, October 17, 7:00pm Traditional and Evolving Models of Film Criticism Thursday, October 18, 10:30am Outlook for U.S. Film Criticism Thursday, October 18, 2:00pm All events are $9.75 and are at the Coolidge Corner Theatre. When it's good, movie criticism is as much of an art as filmmaking itself. Read the works of the late, great Pauline Kael to discover that. Beyond art, movie critics can help...
The Globe put out a brief little story announcing that some lackey for the New England Patriots football team inserted the wrong DVD into the players' screening equipment on a flight to Cincinnati. That DVD was for the movie The Recruit, which happened to star--but of course!--Tom Brady's babymama Bridget Moynahan. "Someone" (the Globe didn't say who) quickly popped out the movie. We'd like to think some prankster decided to ruffle Brady's feathers a bit...
Who will be the next Boston Rob? Who cracked us up as much as "Mr. Boston" did when he wooed Tiffany "New York" Patterson? A new season of reality television has started, and Massachusetts residents are on many of the shows, so we'll take a tour of how they're doing each week.
Not only is Harvard rich, but its students know a) how to use condoms and b) how to find the campus student health center. Last Friday, the Crimson shared the news that, according to a study by Trojan condoms, Harvard students were models of sexual health. Author Christian Flow captures the excitement with the headline "Trojan Surprise: Harvard Rises Up in Sex Survey." Then Flow writes that Harvard used to be "frustrated" since it wasn't...
Who knew panty models were straight-up cold, nay heartless? Gisele Bundchen, panty model and arm candy to Tom Brady, bought Brady's newborn with Bridget Moynahan a onesie. At first glance, that seems nice in a "sorry I stole your boyfriend" kind of way. But girlfriend bought a onesie with the word "SUPERMODEL" right across the front. You can see the picture of a snotty-looking Bundchen and the offending item at the New York Daily News....
We've been following the One Laptop Per Child project ever since it spun out of the MIT Media Lab and into its very own organization. The project has secured foreign governments and significant investment commitments to purchase the laptops and the infrastructure to support them. Launch of the project has still sits in a testing phase, reportedly the final beta test stage. Much information is available about the laptops – including the standard operating system...
A local posted his phone number on YouTube, just offering to listen for free, and 5,000 people responded. In an age of voice mail and phone menus, clearly people are interested in talking to a warm body. Watch the YouTube video.
John Kerry and Theresa Heinz Kerry will read from This Moment on Earth: Today's New Environmentalists and Their Vision for the Future at Memorial Church in Harvard Yard Saturday, April 21, at 12:00 pm. Tickets are on sale starting today. They're $5, and you can use the ticket cost as a coupon for a purchase from Harvard Book Store. Plus, if you buy the book at Harvard Book Store, you get two free tickets to...
Five out-of-town - and a few out-of-nation - graffiti artists are accused of tagging MBTA cars in Braintree. While they went to court, Boston police grew jittery because of an impending "graffiti convention." The lawyer for the Braintree Five, including two Germans and a Swiss, says that they were out looking for something to eat. But, when MBTA police pulled them over, they smelled paint fumes, had a Berdvosky/Stevens flashback, and brought them in. If...
The announcement came out around this time last year that MIT Media Lab Co-Founder and former Director Nicholas Negroponte and the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) organization were nearing a working prototype of a $100 laptop to get to more children around the world. The OLPC would help break down the digital divide by providing the poor with access to the tools of the digital age. Our post on the matter may have set the...
SFist commeters pose for before and aftershocks when the mayor commemorates a 1906 earthquake...at 4:30 in the morning. A hot tip on the Chronicle vending machines comes in and the SFist war correspondent risks life and limb to post this dispatch from the frontlines.
Our drafting table broke a couple of years ago. We put the scale rule aside and retired the T-square to the closet. We know exactly where our set of mechanical pencils is – right next to a couple sheets of velum. Of course drafting by hand seems to have been so five years ago. With the proliferation of CAD programs and computers that can handle the task our dreams of being a fly by night architect (ok, we only did set design) have become more and more fanciful.
“I am your father,” a motion-sensing robot told Bostonist the other day. That bot and the rest of the Star Wars exhibit makes the jump from the Museum of Science into hyperspace on April 30th. Sure the Storm Troopers marching through Southie last weekend were great, we thought a day at the MoS would be better - and really let us experience the movies. Beyond motion-sensing, talking robots were models and costumes from the prequel and original trilogies, hands-on activities demonstrating principles behind hovercrafts and robot design, and, of course, an abundance of C-3PO muttering silly British things. While Bostonist has been a bit of a Star Wars geek for ages, the experience on the whole was a little underwhelming. The behind-the-scenes parts were swell, we marveled how actors must have all been sporting the Mick Jagger skinny in the late 70’s, judging from the costumes. “Technology” from Star Wars as current-day innovations was good in theory but robot displays left something to be desired. For example, Bostonist was wowed by a video clip of two teams of little dog robots playing soccer, but the real-life dog robot that followed the clip let out two pitiful barks and pushed a ball with its paw – it was nothing short of lame.
Bostonist decided to take a break from the MFA and head over to the Harvard Univerity Art Museums this past weekend; while we recall visiting the Peabody Museum on a high school field trip, we don’t recall ever wandering into any of the art museums that Harvard has to offer. The biggest draw right now is the Degas exhibit at the Sackler museum, which is home to the University’s permanent Asian, Indian, and Islamic art collections. Running until November 27, this special exhibit is dedicated to Edgar Degas, who is usually grouped in with the Impressionist artists, except that he didn't like all that "plein air" painting and often focused on portraits inside a studio. The exhibit features his works in pastels, bronze, and pencil, which focus on three main topics: ballerinas, horse racing, and nudes. While Bostonist mostly associates Degas with his drawings of ballerinas, he also spent much time focusing on nudes, especially women getting out of the bathtub. At first Bostonist had to ask “how were these women okay with being drawn getting out of the tub?”, but we got past that and went on to appreciate Degas's many sketches of the bathers. The only downsides to “Degas at Harvard” were a wish for more art on display and fewer people to appreciate it. We showed up at noon and had to wait until 2:00 p.m. to enter the exhibit. Tickets are $7.50 per person (free with your Harvard employee I.D. or Cambridge Library card; there are student discounts too); the admission gets you into all of the Harvard University Art Museums.
dredge the campus pond. Don't get us wrong--we return our empties to the packie religiously. But like many Americans, we just never felt the immediacy of resource depletion--until now. Today Bostonist shelled out a whopping $2.19 per gallon at a gas station in Hyde Park. As if that wasn't bad enough, we turned on the radio after that and heard that gas prices are projected to be at an average of $2.35 this summer. Worst of all, Bostonist's daily commute is 30 miles round trip. Guess that "student for change" was right when he said that we'd live to regret this.
Bostonist breaks into the day of commercialized love with our official launch. Boink Magazine, the much hyped college sex magazine to rival H-Bomb, will launch with their Boink at the Roxy party on Thursday (tickets available on their site). Bostonist asked Photographer and Boink Co-Founder Christopher Anderson questions about himself, photography, the magazine, and Valentine's Day. INTERVIEW Vitals: How old are you, How long have you lived here, Where did you come from, and Where...
With another half a foot of snow falling yesterday and the temperature falling even more the last thing we’re thinking about is heat. Those warm summer days watching the swan boats float around, lemonade, ice cream, t-shirts and sandals are far from the mind. Science is great, the technologies we’ve seen in the last few years are amazing, timing, though, remains of the essence. One would think there could be a better time of year to tell people about the latest craze in global warming. ClimatePrediction.net was written up this month in the journal Nature. They’ve found, using almost 100,000 of personal computers worldwide, that the Earth is heating up at a rate twice what had previously been predicted. From their models they are now predicting a nearly 11 °Celsius (for us in the States that’s about 50 ° Fahrenheit). Today when temperatures in Boston are near 10 °F that’d kick us up to a pleasant 60 °F. A welcome change in the middle of a bitter cold snap. To put this in perspective: burnt toast in July. When we get those nasty days of grueling humidity and heat with thermometer readings at 90° F or more that would mean after global warming takes it’s toll according to this model we would be facing temperatures of 140 °F. Bostonist can’t imagine what that would mean for the world, but the ocean off the Cape might be warm enough to swim before August. There is really more bad than good that will come of this…take action and quit using AquaNet on your hair (it really doesn’t help your look anyway), oh, and get rid of your car.
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