The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from November 2002:
THERE'S NO RELIEF FROM BLEAKNESS IN `NOTHING'
Nov 01, 2002; ... The new film from Mike Leigh, the flinty-eyed Puck of the Britishclass system, asks the question: Can a film with no enjoyment in itbe "enjoyed" in any traditional moviegoing sense? Is unrelentingbleakness a form of truth that we, as thinking, caring bipeds, arehonor-bound to ...
PARADISE FOUND
Nov 01, 2002; ... PARADISE FOUND: You know you're aging when a massage at Candelasounds more appealing than a rock show. Perhaps we've just gottenmore discriminating. Case in point: Go! nearly swooned when we heardthat the garage-pop outfit OK Go (left) will play Nov. 10 at theParadise. . Tickets $13 in ...
EYES ADRIFT EYES ADRIFT SPINART
Nov 01, 2002; ... Flying under the radar screen lately is this quasi-supergroup ofalt-rock veterans. Bassist Krist Novoselic comes from Nirvana,frontman Curt Kirkwood hails from the Meat Puppets, and drummer BudGaugh comes from Sublime. Their previous bands were touched bytragedy, but a feeling of ...
THE DISCO BISCUITS SENOR BOOMBOX MEGAFORCE RECORDS
Nov 01, 2002; ... One can't accuse the Disco Biscuits of being predictable. Each oftheir albums seems to take them in a different direction. In theirlatest effort they are all over the place, but strangely there's asense of cohesiveness to this bizarre myriad of sounds. The albumkicks off with the ...
SPACING OUT SMALL RECORD LABEL, STUDIO PROVIDE THE PERFECT PLACE FOR BANDS TO GET IMAGINATIVE
Nov 01, 2002; ... NEWTONVILLE - From the outside, the two-story house tucked in aquiet residential neighborhood on Adams Street looks as nondescriptas the nearby parking lot. Unless you peered through a window orpressed your ear against the walls and felt the vibrations of bassguitar or the thump of ...
`CHICAGO' SHOOTS FROM THE HEART, NOT THE HIP
Nov 01, 2002; ... BEVERLY - "Chicago" is supposed to be a musical about a few of ourfavorite things: "Murder, greed, corruption, violence, exploitation,adultery, and treachery." It's actually a musical, like most, about stars and star power.Gwen Verdon and Chita Rivera led the cast on Broadway in ...
BOOK, CD REVIVE MEMORIES OF HORSZOWSKI
Nov 01, 2002; ... The Polish pianist Mieczyslaw Horszowski (1892-1993) had perhapsthe longest career of any performer; he gave his last recital in1991, at the age of 98. He remained a great artist until the end -his last two local recitals, sponsored by the Longy School of Musicin 1989 and 1990, occupy a ...
CASHING IN ON COBAIN'S TORMENT SMELLS LIKE MEAN SPIRIT BOOK DELVES DISTASTEFULLY INTO ROCK STAR'S NIGHTMARES
Nov 01, 2002; ... Nirvana's Kurt Cobain was messed up. But who knew just how messedup? A new book, "Journals," a compilation of Cobain jottings, isbeing analyzed and dissected just about everywhere this week. It's afrightening look at a rock idol's lunatic-fringe thoughts. Yes, he sank deeper into ...
COMIC GOES OUTSIDE THE CLUBS TO PUT ASIAN TALENT IN SPOTLIGHT
Nov 01, 2002; ... Imagine being a comedian, new to New York, struggling to find aplace to show off your talent. Your first break is a five-minute spoton a Sunday show, and all you have to do to get it is work 20 or 30hours at the club answering phones and fetching coffee. It's badenough that a lot of ...
FOR THE RECORD
Nov 01, 2002 ... Correction: Due to incorrect information supplied to the Globe,yesterday's Calendar printed the wrong phone number for ...
ROTH'S USE OF COLOR AND THICKNESS PAINTS DECEPTIVE PICTURE
Nov 01, 2002; ... Don't be fooled by Cora H. Roth's works at Kidder Smith, which areso built up with thick paint they look almost like rugged wovenfabric. Before she applies that topcoat, Roth dances over her canvaswith color and gesture, making underpaintings filled with light. Thenshe applies the ...
FINDING FUN IN `I SPY' IS MISSION IMPOSSIBLE
Nov 01, 2002; ... Eager to get the early jump on Thanksgiving, the folks at ColumbiaPictures deliver the Eddie Murphy-Owen Wilson gadgetfest "I Spy," abigger, drier turkey than whatever you were planning on having at theend of the month. The action comedy is supposed to be a movie versionof the old NBC ...
`BLUE' BELIES KARRIN ALLYSON'S UPBEAT MOOD
Nov 01, 2002; ... Karrin Allyson is on a roll. After making several solid albums ofmainstream vocal jazz, she nabbed a Grammy nomination last year forthe excellent "Ballads - Remembering John Coltrane." Now she's got anew album, the even better "In Blue," and it recently set a recordfor jazz radio: It is ...
REMASTERED SOUND FITS FURY IN `LAWRENCE' ENCORE
Nov 01, 2002; ... If you can't identify the shot that made "Lawrence of Arabia" famous - a speck of black approaching from the desert horizon, slow toreveal a shrouded rider atop a white horse - you're either very youngor very good at avoiding hype. Since David Lean's 1962 masterpiece returned to ...
PATINKIN'S MANY VOICES DELIGHT
Nov 01, 2002; ... It would be hard to imagine a stranger singing voice than MandyPatinkin's. There are two - well, maybe, three - distinct and unrelatedcolors. There's the retro-Broadway head voice, a quasi-counter tenorwarble. Think a cross between Rudy Vallee and Peter Pears. Thenthere's the ...
A WINDOW ON A CAREER: GODARD AND FIVE FILMS
Nov 01, 2002; ... Once, long ago, Jean-Luc God ard was the future of the movies: Themere mention of his name carried all the weight that today isconveyed by Quentin Tarantino, Lars von Trier, Krzysztof Kies lowski, Todd Haynes, and Paul Thomas Anderson combined. When "Breathless" appeared in 1960, ...
GODARD'S GENIUS BARELY SMOLDERS IN `PRAISE'
Nov 01, 2002; ... By now, the faithful no longer attend a Jean-Luc Godard movieexpecting clarity, or even relevance. We go for the poetry. It's abit like visiting a former enfant terrible in a room built out ofmovie screens: You watch the images flash by and try to pluck orderfrom chaos while listening ...
`WALK' IS A SPECIAL JOURNEY FOR AMOS
Nov 01, 2002; ... A "sonic novel" - that's what Tori Amos calls her new album,"Scarlet's Walk." It's a challenging, often brilliant concept recordthat follows a woman's travels across America. It's a chance for Amosto encounter everything from the porn industry to Native Americans,Boston intellectuals, a ...
ALLEN'S ENERGY KEEPS `SANTA' FROM SAGGING
Nov 01, 2002; ... Does a belief in Santa Claus mean a belief in Tim Allen? Does thatmean we have to consider "The Santa Clause 2" a success becauseAllen, with hardworking charm, single-handedly saves it from family-values monotony? The answer is a begrudging "yes," on both counts.Begrudging, first because ...
DAVIO'S TAKES ON NEW SPARKLE IN PARK SQUARE
Nov 01, 2002; ... Friends meet after work at a big wood-paneled bar in Park Square.They have a table for 8 p.m., but one of them is, as usual,fashionably late. She double parks and hurries in. There's no valeton weeknights, so she has to find a spot on the street or paybeaucoup bucks at some lot, yes? ...
OPERA HOUSE RENEWAL TO START
Nov 01, 2002; ... The long-anticipated and oft-delayed restoration of Boston'shistoric Opera House gets underway with a grand overture Nov. 12. Maestro and Mayor Thomas M. Menino, who spearheaded efforts topreserve and redevelop the landmark theater, plans to open its doorsthat day to architects, ...
DANCER TAPS FRIENDSHIPS NEAR AND FAR FOR GROUP SHOW
Nov 01, 2002; ... Tap artist Josh Hilberman has come a long way since he made hisdance debut in 1985 as the rear end of a donkey. With his gregarious personality, irreverent sense of humor, andexuberant, often wildly energetic dance style, the 36-year-oldHilberman is one of the area's most popular ...
FORMER GLOBE PUBLISHER TAKES MAGAZINE POST
Nov 01, 2002; ... The American Prospect magazine - on the eve of a redesign andrestructuring of its publication schedule - announced yesterday thatformer Globe publisher Benjamin Taylor will become the executiveeditor of the staunchly liberal journal of politics and culture. The decision to appoint ...
HORRORS: TOP BILLING FOR TEMPLE
Nov 01, 2002; ... PHILADELPHIA - The Atlantic 10 men's basketball season hasn'tstarted, but yesterday Temple coach John Chaney did enough venting tolast an entire year. After a routine blasting of the NCAA for various rules affectingstudent-athletes, Chaney took issue with his young team being ...
ROSSY HAS TO BE ALL TALK NOW SENIOR TRIES TO FILL VOID LEFT BY GARAY
Nov 01, 2002; ... H e never really felt compelled to speak up, to stir his BostonCollege teammates with a few impassioned words of inspiration. Thatwas a job for the more experienced orators. Guys such as seniortricaptain Antonio Garay. "I'm not like a Garay," acknowledged Derric Rossy, a ...
FRUSTRATED BURKE GLAD HE BIT HIS TONGUE
Nov 01, 2002; ... After Boston College's 19-16 overtime loss at Pittsburgh lastSaturday, a frustrated Jamal Burke held his tongue. On Wednesday, thesenior wide receiver from Brockton said if he had spoken his mind,"It probably would've been a bunch of profanities." Burke acknowledged when he ...
MICROSOFT MAKES BOSTON FEEL SECOND BEST; PLENTY PARTY WITH `MARTY'
Nov 01, 2002; ... WE FEEL LIKE NO. 2 AGAIN MARILU HENNER OF "TAXI" FAME WILL BE INTOWN TODAY TO SIGN COPIES OF HER NEW BOOK, "HEALTHY HOLIDAYS," ANDACT AS SPOKESWOMAN FOR A NEW MICROSOFT INTERNET SERVICE. WE COULDN'THELP BUT NOTICE THAT HIGHLY WIRED AND EXTREMELY TECHIE BOSTON IS NO.2 ON THE TOUR, BEHIND ...
THEY COULD GET CAUGHT IN THROES
Nov 01, 2002; ... ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. - To get back to their winning ways, thePatriots, for this game at least, may want to consider getting backto their passing ways of Weeks 1 through 3 rather than looking toestablish their running game. The Bills, who are 16th in the league against the pass, ...
SWEENEY ISN'T STEWING AFTER SITTING, HE ACCEPTS DECISION
Nov 01, 2002; ... For 15 years, he has brought a strong work ethic, quietleadership, and blazing speed to the Bruins lineup. At 36, defensemanDon Sweeney has seen many teammates come and go. It's never fun tomiss games, but Sweeney said he has no animosity about coach RobbieFtorek's decision to give the ...
WIZARDS PUMMEL CELTICS IT CAN'T GET ANY WORSE FOR HUMILIATED GREEN
Nov 01, 2002; ... WASHINGTON - Since it is early in the regular season, let's notwaste time with fancy prose. There was nothing eloquent about whathappened to Boston last night at the MCI Center. The Celtics sufferedthe worst regular-season loss in franchise history, falling to theWizards, 114-69. Let ...
JORDAN TUTORIALS BENEFIT WIZARDS BROWN CONTINUES HIS LEARNING CURVE
Nov 01, 2002; ... WASHINGTON - Although Michael Jordan now comes off the bench asthe Wizards' sixth man, he never stops playing mentor to his youngerteammates. Kwame Brown, who was the No. 1 pick in the 2001 draft, hasheard an earful from Jordan. This season, Brown has translated thewords of advice into ...
HAVING MORE UNBEATENS WOULD BEAT THE SYSTEM
Nov 01, 2002; ... The debate over the validity of the Bowl Championship Seriesformula will run its course over the next several weeks and two teamswill emerge to play in the BCS title game in the Fiesta Bowl Jan. 3. That is a given. Not as clear is what will happen if the wrong teams are playing ...
CROWD NOT HOUSE WARMING TURNOUT IS A LOW FOR FLEETCENTER
Nov 01, 2002; ... New England's appetite for sweets and all things Halloween provedto be more bountiful last night than its love for hockey. While kids flooded neighborhood streets with trick-or-treat bags,a frighteningly sparse crowd of 9,491 showed up on Causeway Street tosee the Bruins lose to ...
Q & A JON GODFROY
Nov 01, 2002; ... Jon Godfroy knows how to be a leader. Last season, he guidedTyngsboro into the Division 5 Super Bowl while rushing for more than1,900 yards and scoring 25 touchdowns. This year, through six games,Godfroy has tallied more than 900 yards rushing and scored 11touchdowns. Two weeks ago, he ...
MAINE YOUTH EAGER TO TAKE SHOT AT HUNTING
Nov 01, 2002; ... LINCOLN, Maine - Most days, 12-year-old Dave Sanborne's schedulescarcely gives him time to turn around. But the other day as he andhis father, Gregg, were out in the marsh shooting ducks, the demandson his time crunched together in a way he now considers comical. He had just shot ...
IT WAS NOT HIS MAINE MOVE KARIYA TURNS TRICK USING A NEW PLAY
Nov 01, 2002; ... Mighty Ducks goalie Jean-Sebastien Giguere has seen the movebefore, in practice. Bruins goalie Steve Shields saw it just once, last night. He sawthe same thing Giguere has seen: a shift from forehand to backhandand then a top-shelf goal by Anaheim's Paul Kariya. "When he ...
SABEAN STAYS WITH GIANTS
Nov 01, 2002 ... NAMESGiants senior vice president and general manager BrianSabean agreed in principle yesterday to a multiyear contract toremain with San Francisco. The length of the new deal has not beenfinalized. Sabean said it was important to agree to a preliminarydeal to begin deciding the ...
BELICHICK VS. BLEDSOE
Nov 01, 2002; ... FOXBOROUGH - Bill Belichick holds a 4-5 record against DrewBledsoe, but the bigger issue is will Belichick get into Bledsoe'shead? "Our records are pretty close to even," said Belichick. "He's madeplenty of good plays. He's a good ...
IN HINDSIGHT, TIME TO MARKET WHAT'S IN STORE
Nov 01, 2002; ... Halftime here at the official NFL merchandise store. Take one ofthose Cincinnati Bengals pennants if you want. Go ahead, take one.Take two. Take 10. They're free. If you guys don't take them, they'regoing out with the trash. Take one of those Bengals helmet lamps,too. Nobody wants ...
BRADY, NORTHEASTERN LOOKING TO REGROUP
Nov 01, 2002; ... Northeastern University has secured at least a .500 season, butthe team will have some difficult tests in the next four games,starting with a visit to Richmond tomorrow. The future of the Huskies (6-2, 3-2 Atlantic 10 Conference) coulddepend on the recovery of quarterback Shawn ...
FROM NOW ON, A FINE FOR NOT STAYING IN LINE
Nov 01, 2002; ... FOXBOROUGH - With the offensive linemen together and healthy, theyhave decided they will police themselves in the form of a KangarooCourt-like fine system for committing penalties and other negatives. "We'll use the money to donate to charity and maybe have a littlefun with at the ...
SOX OPT TO BUY OUT HERMANSON
Nov 01, 2002; ... Of all the postseason decisions the Red Sox face, they resolvedperhaps their easiest yesterday by declining to pick up DustinHermanson's $7.5 million option for next season. The Sox will buy outHermanson for $1 million and try to strike a less costly deal withhim to return. The ...
GIACALONE PLAYS IN CRUCIAL GAME
Nov 01, 2002; ... Northeast Conference fans have had today marked on their calendarsfor quite some time. Gloucester (5-1, 4-1 NEC) hosts Swampscott (7-0, 5-0) in a 7 p.m. battle for the top of the league and, mostlikely, a Division 3 playoff spot. But there is one key element missing from the ...
ANDOVER, METHUEN OUT
Nov 01, 2002; ... The Andover and Methuen field hockey teams have had similarseasons. They claimed the top two spots in the Merrimack Valley Conference,earned home-field advantage in the opening round of the Division 1North state tournament, and were among the favorites to make it tothe final ...
NO SLACK IN THE NESCAC AMHERST IS TESTED WITH TRIP TO TRINITY
Nov 01, 2002; ... The New England Small College Athletic Conference is a defensive-minded league. Amherst led the country in all divisions in pointsallowed last season at 6.1 per game, and this year the Lord Jeffs are11th in Division 3 at 11.3. Amherst (5-1) has a tough test tomorrow at Trinity ...
AN EXPANDED ROLE FOR TEXANS PLAYING FAVORITES AT BENGALS' EXPENSE
Nov 01, 2002; ... An expansion team in only its eighth game is favored by 3 pointsSunday. What does that tell you about the Houston Texans? Not very much,except that general manager Charley Casserly put together a decentsquad via the expansion and college drafts and coach Dom Capers hasdone quite ...
6 BACKERS FORM BOSTON OPTIONS EXCHANGE
Nov 01, 2002; ... A group of investors, including the Boston Stock Exchange and foursecurities firms, announced the creation of the Boston OptionsExchange, the sixth such institution in the country. Backers alsoinclude Credit Suisse First Boston, JPMorgan, ...
BAIN CAPITAL BUYS TOTALFINAELF PAINT UNIT
Nov 01, 2002; ... Bain Capital told investors it has agreed to buy the paintdivision of TotalFinaElf, a French oil and gas company, in a dealvalued at $985 million. Boston-based Bain said it ...
FOR THE RECORD
Nov 01, 2002 ... * Correction: Because of an editing error, a graphic inyesterday's Business section gave incorrect information on projectproposals for Hayward Place. Millennium Partners Boston wants tobuild ...
STATE ALLEGES BROKER DEFRAUDED INVESTOR
Nov 01, 2002; ... John Nickerson was a carpenter by trade. The Wilmington native wasa devoted father and a novice investor when he opened a brokerageaccount in September 1998 with $30,000. By early 2000, his investmentwas worth more than $50,000 - but Nickerson, who died less than twoyears later, would ...
TOYS AT CVS, ENVELOPES AT STOP & SHOP FOUR MORE RETAILERS JOIN ALLIANCE TREND
Nov 01, 2002; ... In a trend that seems to be accelerating, many retailers arebanding together to cut costs, boost sales, and provide more one-stop shopping as they seek to extract more dollars from time-pressedconsumers. Two more alliances were unveiled yesterday: Over the next few months, ...
MARKET SLUMP HITS JOHN HANCOCK - MFS INVESTMENTS REVENUES DOWN
Nov 01, 2002; ... John Hancock Financial Services Inc.'s third-quarter earnings fell4 percent as the stock market slump cut into sales of annuities andfees for managing assets. Net income was $158.1 million, or 54 cents a share, compared with$165.2 million, or 54 cents, in the year-earlier period as ...
GE PLANT IN LYNN FACES 4-DAY STRIKE
Nov 01, 2002; ... A four-day strike at General Electric Co.'s aircraft engines plantin Lynn was set to begin late last night, company leaders and unionexecutives said, after talks failed to resolve outstanding pensionand outsourcing complaints. Leaders of the union, Local 201 of the International ...
BUTTERFLY STROKE
Nov 01, 2002 ... People dressed as insects promoted Microsoft's MSN 8 Internetservice, whose logo ...
LOTUS, TERRA LYCOS IN INSTANT-MESSAGING DEAL
Nov 01, 2002; ... Lotus Development Corp., of Cambridge, is licensing its Sametimeinstant-messaging software to the Web portal company Terra Lycos,bringing Lotus and its parent, IBM Corp., into the consumer instant-messaging business. Under the deal, announced yesterday, Terra Lycos will ...
SJC STRIKES RULING AGAINST SHERWIN-WILLIAMS TAX-DEDUCTION DECISION COULD COST STATE MILLIONS
Nov 01, 2002; ... The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court yesterday ruled the stateRevenue Department erred in disallowing certain tax deductions takenby the Sherwin-Williams Co. over the past 11 years, a decision thatcould force the state to grant abatements worth millions of dollarsin dozens of similar ...
PLANS REVISED FOR SOUTH STATION PROJECT DEVELOPERS REDUCE NUMBER OF FLOORS
Nov 01, 2002; ... Developers planning an office tower over the South StationTransportation Center yesterday filed revised plans with the statethat shrink and reposition the building to address objections raisedtwo years ago. Hines and a Tufts University development subsidiary, which hadproposed a ...
SWIFT SEEKS TO FREEZE UNEMPLOYMENT TAX RATE
Nov 01, 2002; ... Acting Governor Jane M. Swift is preparing legislation that wouldfreeze the tax rate that determines how much Massachusetts employerspay into the state fund for unemployment benefits. Swift said yesterday she would propose that the rate remain at itscurrent level to prevent an ...
STATE ROLLS BACK NUMBER OF BOSTON CHARTER SCHOOLS
Nov 01, 2002; ... The state Department of Education yesterday put the brakes on newcharter schools that have already received preliminary approval tooperate in Boston, saying that the district is reaching a state-imposed funding limit. In a letter to the leaders of the six proposed charter schools, ...
PAST ABUSE CASE REPORTEDLY PROMPTS PRIEST TO LEAVE PARISH
Nov 01, 2002; ... An embattled priest who was transferred in June to a New Hampshirechurch where parishioners were not told that he had been the subjectof a sexual abuse complaint involving a teenager has said he plans tostep down in the next few days. According to several parishioners of St ....
ROMNEY WARNS OF DEMOCRATIC HOLD ON BEACON HILL
Nov 01, 2002; ... Mitt Romney criticized Beacon Hill's Democratic leaders, sayingthat his gubernatorial opponent, Shannon O'Brien, would complete a"Gang of Three" Democrats whose single-party domination would silencedissenting voices. Displaying mug shot-style photos of O'Brien, House Speaker ...
US POLICY ON HAITIAN IMMIGRANTS ASSAILED
Nov 01, 2002; ... Cries of protest, many of them in French, resounded in Dorchesteryesterday as community leaders and Haitian advocates, includingformer congressman Joseph P. Kennedy II, rallied in support of morethan 200 Haitian migrants placed in federal detention after swimmingashore in Miami earlier ...
`MONEY ISN'T THE ANSWER TO EVERY PROBLEM'
Nov 01, 2002 ... THE GLOBE INVITED THE FOUR PARTY-AFFILIATED CANDIDATES FORGOVERNOR TO PARTICIPATE IN AN INTERVIEW WITH EDITORS AND REPORTERSFOR A WIDE-RANGING CONVERSATION ABOUT THE ISSUES AND THEIRCANDIDACIES. LIBERTARIAN CARLA HOWELL, GREEN PARTY CANDIDATE JILLSTEIN, AND DEMOCRAT SHANNON O'BRIEN TOOK ...
JAM MASTER JAY, TURNTABLIST FOR RAP GROUP RUN-DMC; AT 37
Nov 01, 2002; ... Jason Mizell, better known as Jam Master Jay from the influentialrap group Run-DMC, was shot and killed Wednesday night at a Queens,N.Y., recording studio. He was 37. Along with childhood friends Joseph "Run" Simmons and Darryl "DMC"McDaniels, Mr. Mizell helped usher rap music from ...
ALLEGED SEX ABUSE VICTIM CONSIDERED KILLING MONSIGNOR
Nov 01, 2002; ... An alleged sexual abuse victim says that he contemplated killing aCatholic priest who had just molested him in a Rhode Island motelroom 21 years ago, according to a deposition released yesterday. Dedham native David Carney said he almost slit Monsignor FrederickRyan's throat with a ...