This New England

In search of the divine; wrong trains and right whales; Royal Family

9:30 AM Sat, Dec 06, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (1)
By Robert Whitcomb    Email

Are fearful Americans placing too much hope in Barack Obama? Herewith revelers on Election Night in St. Marks Place, in Manhattan's East Village. Government can't just snap its fingers and start spending money on new roads, tunnels, bridges and......

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 Tags  Amtrak   Caroline Kennedy   Maine Mall   Raul Gonzales   right whales   Robert F. Kennedy Jr.Rutland   St. Albans   Vermont  

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A class in township

5:53 PM Thu, Dec 04, 2008 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Robert Whitcomb    Email

(Currier & Ives print) New England has a lot of small towns, and a lot of colleges. So maybe a Middlebury College class called "Portrait of a Vermont Town'' will be replicated elsewhere in the region. As a story......

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 Tags  John Elder   Middlebury College   Starksboro   Vermont  

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Tom Sgouros's studies; mortgage madness?; radio talk shows

4:15 PM Wed, Dec 03, 2008 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Robert Whitcomb    Email

Kudos to Tom Sgouros for his fact-filled and very thoughtful commentaries on Ocean State matters in Rhode Island Policy Reporter. I especially like his comparative stuff with the rest of the country. The state looks at itself in a......

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 Tags  Ben Fishel   Media Matters   Rhode Island Policy Reporter   Tom Sgouros  

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Fizzy and piggy

1:30 PM Wed, Dec 03, 2008 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Robert Whitcomb    Email

Two works from the NetWorks 2008 show. Above, "Fizzy Laughter #5,'' graphite, gouache on paper, by Jacqueline Ott. Below, "Pig,'' engraved copper, by Jonathan Bonner. The show has three venues: 1) The Newport Art Museum -- http://www.newportartmuseum.org 2) AS220......

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 Tags  5 Traverse Gallery   AS220   Jacqueline Ott   Jonathan Bonner   NetWorks 2008   Newport Art Museum  

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Mass. Murdoch; VW elsewhere; New Haven hope

5:38 PM Tue, Dec 02, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (1)
By Robert Whitcomb    Email

That Patrick Purcell, who runs the Boston Herald, is taking over as head honcho of Rupert Murdoch's Ottaway newspaper chain, which runs the dailies on Cape Cod and in New Bedford, might presage some kind of advertising deal and......

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 Tags  Boston Herald   Cape Cod Today   New Haven   Ottaway   Patrick Purcell   Quonset   Rupert Murdoch   VW  

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'State of Play,' by Christopher Foss

1:37 PM Tue, Dec 02, 2008 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Robert Whitcomb    Email

Here's a nice piece of work by my acquaintance Christopher Foss, a New Yorker 'State of Play' By Christopher Foss A year of this and that, and before we know it, lines streak our faces. Telling the artfully arranged mask......

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Pay for Crestor test, hype the results

6:53 PM Mon, Dec 01, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (1)
By Robert Whitcomb    Email

Conflict of interest to the Nth power. Astra-Zenecar, the maker of the statin drug Crestor, paid for a study hyping the very expensive, high-profit-margin drug (which has severe side-effects in some people). Findings appear in the (gullible?) New England Journal......

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 Tags  conflict of interest   Crestor   medical journalists   Paul Ridker  

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5:13 PM Sun, Nov 30, 2008 | Permalink | Write a comment
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By Penelope Manzella, from ''Lost in Pawtucket series,'' 2008......

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 Tags  Lost in Pawtucket   Penelope Manzella  

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12:35 PM Sun, Nov 30, 2008 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Robert Whitcomb    Email

This is by Nancy Gaucher-Thomas, who creates out of a studio in East Greenwich, where people can see her paintings by appointment. Her work can also be seen at Gallery 297, in Bristol, and in Charlestown Gallery.......

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 Tags  Gallery 297   Nancy Gaucher-Thomas  

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