The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from April 2005:
CELTICS HOPE TO END SKID IN ATLANTA
Apr 01, 2005; ... WALTHAM - For Antoine Walker, tonight will be a less triumphantreturn to Atlanta than he initially envisioned. Walker experiencedthe pain of losing with the Hawks. A lot. During the past nine days,Walker has experienced deja vu, with the Celtics dropping fourstraight games.Taking the ...
UNFAZED SHARAPOVA PULLS A RABBIT OUT OF HER HAT
Apr 01, 2005; ... KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. - Alice of Wonderland fame tumbled down arabbit hole. The latest wondrous Alice of sport - a.k.a. MariaSharapova - spilled "down the drain." Those are her words, but it wasn't nearly as interesting at thebottom as depicted in author Lewis Carroll's tale. If ...
THIS YEAR, CUBS HOPE FOR A BIG BREAK
Apr 01, 2005; ... [THE GRAPHIC INFORMATION THAT ACCOMPANIED THIS STORY IS INCORRECT.PUBLISHED CORRECTION - DATE: Saturday, April 2, 2005: Correction: Agraphic in yesterday's Baseball Preview section listed the wrong yearfor Cleveland's last World Series championship. The Indians won in1948.] MESA, Ariz ....
HE SAID, SHE SAID SOX HAVE CLEAR PSYCHOLOGICAL EDGE
Apr 01, 2005; ... The Red Sox are better than the Yankees. You don't have to really believe it. Just keep saying it. It's thepower of positive thinking. If you say it enough times and put allnegativity out of your mind, it will become the truth. The Red Sox are better than the Yankees because ...
UNDERSTATED AND UNDERRATED RENTERIA DOESN'T TALK A GOOD GAME - HE JUST PLAYS ONE
Apr 01, 2005; ... FORT MYERS, Fla. - They go by different surnames - Ramirez, Ortiz,and Renteria. Edgar Renteria is three years younger than MannyRamirez, three months older than David Ortiz. Yet you'd think Ramirezand Ortiz, whom media have had to bypass to get at Renteria's lockerthis spring, were older ...
THEY ARE TOUGH ACTS TO FOLLOW
Apr 01, 2005; ... So, what happens the year after all the spheres have lined up,after Halley's Comet has come around, after all the `Yes!!!' and`Finally!' headlines have been framed for posterity, afteroctogenarians have gone fulfilled to their graves? What became ofthose teams that waited decades for ...
BRAND HAS CONFIDENCE IN POLICY
Apr 01, 2005; ... ST. LOUIS - The steroids controversy that has engulfed majorleague baseball, and is now threatening to do the same to theNational Football League, was talked about with some concernyesterday by NCAA president Myles Brand, and what impact it couldhave on college sports. In a city ...
HE SAID, SHE SAID YANKEE ARMS CAN APPLY HAMMER
Apr 01, 2005; ... Am I the only one who is concerned? This World Series bliss has lulled normally discerning NewEnglanders into dreamy, doe-eyed romantics. Hakuna Matata, baby. Noworries. So what if Pedro Martinez, one of the best Red Sox pitchersever, is history? Who cares if Derek Lowe, the guy ...
ILLINOIS EXPRESS DERAILED IN '04, ILLINI RETURNED WITH ONE DESTINATION - NATIONAL CHAMPIONS
Apr 01, 2005; ... CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Down 15 points to Arizona with 4:04 left, whatchoice did Illinois have? The Team That Never Trails (ahead on thescoreboard a surreal 92 percent of the time in its first 36 games)had to bring it. It was time for the full-court press. But their owncoach was ...
EXPANDED MLS ON SOLID FOOTING SEASON OPENS WITH POSITIVE ADDITIONS
Apr 01, 2005; ... Steve Ralston was surprised by the enthusiastic reception MajorLeague Soccer received during its opening weekend 10 years ago. "There was so much traffic going to the stadium [in Tampa] that Iwas almost late for the game," Ralston said. "We didn't know what toexpect, but nearly ...
NEW ALLEGATION AGAINST ARMSTRONG
Apr 01, 2005 ... NAMES A former personal assistant to Lance Armstrong filed abrief in state district court in Austin, Texas, yesterday, alleginghe discovered a banned substance in the six-time Tour de Francewinner's apartment early last year. Armstrong's attorney, TimothyHerman, called the allegation ...
ROLE MODELS OF EFFICIENCY IN FOXBOROUGH
Apr 01, 2005; ... The secret to being a model organization in sports? Never believeit. That approach has served the Patriots well. They are a National Football League success story, on and off thefield - from their ability to build a stadium and generate revenue,to their lucrative media, ...
APPETITE FOR MORE EVEN AFTER DREAM SEASON, EVER-POPULAR ORTIZ HAS YET TO GET HIS FILL
Apr 01, 2005; ... FORT MYERS, Fla. - It happens all the time in baseball: The WorldSeries hero in October is locked in negotiations with the generalmanager the following spring. David Ortiz is no exception. He had business to discuss with TheoEpstein. "Edgar hired this great cook - I want to ...
WINLESS `PAPI' PREPS FOR TEST
Apr 01, 2005; ... Normally, entering a maiden in a Grade I, $1 million race would belaughable. But there is a chance Papi Chullo, who is 0 for 4 in hiscareer, is not a joke, and that owner Greg Norman will run him intomorrow's Florida Derby at Gulfstream Park for reasons other thangrins and ...
SHADOW BOXING RIVERA WILL SEE A MIRROR IMAGE TAKING ON CHALLENGER COLLAZO
Apr 01, 2005; ... WESTFORD - Jose Antonio Rivera understands Zab Judah and ThomasDamgaard. He just can't relate to them. Luis Collazo is a differentstory. Collazo is a fighter the Worcester welterweightunderstands completely. A year and a half ago, Rivera was LuisCollazo. He was a young fighter ...
TAGLIABUE ASKED TO PRODUCE
Apr 01, 2005; ... As part of its investigation into the use of performance-enhancing drugs in major sports, a Congressional committee yesterdaysent a letter to NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue instructing him toprovide detailed information about the league's steroid policy. The committee also ...
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE RED SOX DON'T HAVE HISTORY ON THEIR SIDE IN QUEST TO CAPTURE CONSECUTIVE CHAMPIONSHIPS
Apr 01, 2005; ... Red Sox fans might want to hold onto those souvenir DVDs, T-shirts, posters, scrapbooks, photo albums, prayer cards, newspaperfront pages, bobblehead dolls, and vials of infield dirt theycollected last year. While there is no reason to believe the Sox willstill be required to count World ...
HE'S BOSTON'S MAN OF THE HOURS INDEFATIGABLE SCHILLING A WORKHORSE ON AND OFF THE FIELD
Apr 01, 2005; ... Ted Williams and Carl Yastrzemski won Triple Crowns. Ted hit .406in 1941. Yaz was Sports Illustrated's Man of the Year and copped theMVP and went to the seventh game of the World Series in that glorious1967 season. Bill Russell won the Olympic gold medal and the NBAchampionship in a span ...
ARIZONA FEELING DESERTED OVER ABSENCES
Apr 01, 2005; ... PHOENIX - There were two primary questions being asked when theRed Sox got ready to play the Arizona Diamondbacks in the first oftwo exhibition games at the BOB last night: 1. Why were the Red Sox playing here? 2. Where were all the Sox stars? The popular theory as to ...
MISERY HAS NO COMPANY WITH THESE SOX FANS
Apr 01, 2005; ... Opening Night right around the corner, let's get right to it -this could be the year. And if it's not, well, so what. Not everyone feels the same way, but the afterglow of Boston'sfirst World Series championship in 86 years has left some fansprepared to issue the Red Sox an ...
ONE GLARING OMISSION WILLIAMS'S RESUME IS MISSING A TITLE
Apr 01, 2005; ... ST. LOUIS - It has come to this for Roy Williams: Be judged not on468 victories over a brilliant 17-year coaching career, or as thewinningest active coach. Be judged not on 16 consecutive NCAATournament appearances, which puts him third all time behind formerNorth Carolina coach Dean ...
BIGGEST CHANGE OF SEASONS FELT OVER THE AIR
Apr 01, 2005; ... Members of Red Sox Nation already are savoring the biggest changein this season's broadcasts - when the audience is welcomed to"today's game between the world champion Boston Red Sox and the . . ." Those words already have tripped off the tongues of WEEI's JoeCastiglione and ...
TOP OF THE HILL PITCHING STAFF'S PERFORMANCE MAY DETERMINE WHETHER SOX STAY THERE
Apr 01, 2005; ... Mariano Rivera is human, the Yankees are humbled, and the Red Soxcan do no wrong. Yawkey Way, once a boulevard of broken dreams, isheaven incarnate.What does one possibly have to look forward to? "I don't have to hear, `This is the yea-hhhh' anymore," offeredJohnny Damon. Before, ...
COMPREHENSIVE SCARE
Apr 01, 2005 ... A PERSON can start to feel sick reading those health gadgetcatalogues and yet one reads on, hypnotized by the siren call ofsolutions for problems one didn't know one had. Bad personal air, for instance, is banished a thousand differentways. It's not as if one were not aware of air ...
RUSH TO OPTIMISM ON MIDDLE EAST
Apr 01, 2005; ... I HAVE A sinking feeling that the self-congratulation over recentencouraging events in the Muslim world may be woefully premature."Democracy Stirs in the Middle East," said The Economist, with apicture of flag-waving Lebanese on its cover. "Another MuslimDomino," said The Wall Street ...
A FAULTY INTELLIGENCE REPORT
Apr 01, 2005; ... IT WAS classic irony that Terri Schiavo died the same day thepresidential commission on intelligence failure was released. For thebrain-damaged Schiavo, the allegedly life-loving Republican Congressand White House engineered a historic and histrionic Palm Sunday voteto support Schiavo's ...
THE GOOD SIDE
Apr 01, 2005 ... THE ONLY GOOD that came from the media debacle surrounding thedying and death of Terri Schiavo is that we ...
A MUST READ FOR PROM-GOERS
Apr 01, 2005 ... JACK THOMAS'S "Ric & Ellie A Love Story" (Living/Arts, March 30)was a poignant depiction of the love and devotion as well as therealities of caring for a loved one with extreme medical challenges. Many families quietly endure similar situations with steadfasthope and prayers for ...
STEM CELL SENSE
Apr 01, 2005; ... WHEN IT comes to the stem cell debate, you could post this sign atthe State House: "Warning: Unpredictable Crosscurrents at Play." One of the first speakers to rise in Wednesday's Senate debate wasJack Hart of South Boston, a consistent and principled prolifelegislator. But on this ...
STEM CELL FOES USE FALSE PREMISE
Apr 01, 2005 ... GOVERNOR Romney and other opponents of therapeutic stem cellresearch claim moral and ethical reasons for their opposition, buttheir reasoning is based on a false premise that an embryo is ahuman life (Page A1, March 30). No embryo has ever become a humanbeing without implantation ....
LESSON FROM TERRI SCHIAVO'S DEATH
Apr 01, 2005 ... THE VIGILS, the fasts, the "rage," the expansive media attention,the political and public "heroic" measures can now come to a closewith Terri Schiavo's death. How will she be remembered? By me asanother mobilizing factor that has once again exposed theconservative, religious, and ...
A SOLUTION TO AMTRAK WOES
Apr 01, 2005 ... THE SOLUTION to the Amtrak problem is to nationalize the entireinterstate railroad infrastructure but keep the trains bothpassenger and freight private. That's how we manage our highwaysystem, and the airways as well. The revenues to keep the infrastructure up to date should ...
PARENTS' WISHES SHOULD HAVE RULED
Apr 01, 2005 ... TERRI SCHIAVO'S story was cruel and inhuman and didn't have toend the way it did. The courts gave the husband full control of Mrs.Schiavo's life as if she were a mere commodity. No matter how caringa spouse might be, ...
MORE HONESTY ON T FARE HIKE
Apr 01, 2005 ... The MBTA 's general manager, Michael Mulhern, has proposed a rush-hour fare increase while saying that it isn't a true fare increase.The rationale offered is that off-peak fares might be decreased toencourage riders to use the service at other times. Mulhern has been a loyal and ...
BLOCKING TRAFFIC
Apr 01, 2005; ... THE CITY of Boston is being asked to consider implementing trafficcongestion tolls, following the examples of London, Singapore, OrangeCounty, Calif., and several cities in Norway. Most people abhorgovernment-imposed fees of any kind, but the citizens of Bostonshould support this one ...
ATTENTION, SHOPPERS IN AN AGE OF STARBUCKS FOR BREAKFAST, PILATES AFTER WORK, AND A STOP AT WAL-MART ON THE WAY HOME TO TIVO, TWO PERFORMANCE ARTISTS FIND FUEL FOR THE COMEDIC FIRE IN OUR CONSUMER CULTURE MIKE ALBO IN "MY PRICE POINT"
Apr 01, 2005; ... Mike Albo, familiar here from his comic sketches in "Unitard" andfrom his book "The Underminer," returns to Boston next week with anew one-man comic show, "My Price Point." With wild riffs on our consumer culture, the show ricochets fromcelebrity obsessions to trend-spotting to ...
THIS `BALLAD' IS OUT OF TUNE FAMILY STRUGGLE DEVOLVES INTO MELODRAMA
Apr 01, 2005; ... "Titanic" fans, there is bad news. "The Ballad of Jack and Rose"is not the further adventures of the doomed lovers on James Cameron'stragic ocean liner. It's just the doomed story of a gravely illenvironmentalist, his rebellious daughter, and the mess that's madeof their home and their ...
ATTENTION, SHOPPERS IN AN AGE OF STARBUCKS FOR BREAKFAST, PILATES AFTER WORK, AND A STOP AT WAL-MART ON THE WAY HOME TO TIVO, TWO PERFORMANCE ARTISTS FIND FUEL FOR THE COMEDIC FIRE IN OUR CONSUMER CULTURE REVEREND BILLY IN "WHO WILL SURVIVE THE SHOPOCALYPSE?"
Apr 01, 2005; ... "Our neighborhoods are being destroyed by transnational chainstores, children! We are drown ing in a sea of identical details!Praise the god that is not a product, the god that swims in the partof the sky not yet covered with corporate logos!" Reverend Billy is preaching, via ...
A FEW STANDOUTS ENLIVEN `THE ANIMATION SHOW'
Apr 01, 2005; ... "The Animation Show" is another one of those touring compilationsof cutting-edge cartoons, and as with "Spike and Mike's Sick andTwisted Festival of Animation," it's a mixed bag almost bydefinition. Yet the good is good indeed, making this show worth alook for devotees of the ...
SARAH BORGES SILVER CITY BLUE CORN MUSIC
Apr 01, 2005; ... It's too easy to call Sarah Borges a Boston version of LucindaWilliams, what with Borges's tough-as-nails exterior and fragileheart. But this album lifts her to a different plane. Borges singsurban-inspired country-rock with dips into swampy rockabilly andunexpected treatments of Teenage ...
CLASSICAL PICKS
Apr 01, 2005; ... Isaiah Jackson leads the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra in a "familyconcert" of music by Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn and Robert and ClaraSchumann at 3 p.m. on Sunday in Sanders Theatre. . . . The Beaux Arts Trio plays an all-Beethoven concert for the Bank of America CelebritySeries ...
REVISITING SCHUMANN'S OPERA `GENOVEVA'
Apr 01, 2005; ... Three of the greatest composers of art songs Schubert, Schumann,and Hugo Wolf also harbored operatic ambitions. All of them wroteoperas and set great store by them, but none has ever gained afoothold in the repertory. Schumann planned more than a dozen operas, but completed only ...
VARIOUS ARTISTS THE ROUGH GUIDE TO BOOGALOO WORLD MUSIC NETWORK
Apr 01, 2005; ... If boogaloo had been the dominant sound of the Latin music trendof the late 1990s, it might have amounted to more than a culturalspasm that evaporated as quickly as Ricky Martin's stay on the popcharts. A precursor of salsa, boogaloo is the infectious fusion ofAmerican R&B and Cuban son, ...
COLLECTIVE AIMS TO RETAIN LOCAL COMICS BY WELCOMING THEM INTO THE TRIBE
Apr 01, 2005; ... Ask the founders of the Tribe to describe the mission of theircomedy collective, and you may want to pull up a chair. There are sixregular improv troupes performing at two weekly shows under thegroup's banner, with a cappella and movie/sketch comedy projects inearly ...
THE MFA ACQUIRES A YOUTHFUL DIRECTOR
Apr 01, 2005; ... A few minutes before 10 yesterday morning, Malcolm Rogersapproached Taylor Hart with the good news. It was time for the 11-year-old's coronation. Thanks to her passionate essay, the girl wouldbe running the Museum of Fine Arts. Rogers, the director for adecade, placed a security badge ...
PAST ASIDE, DURAN DURAN CATCHES A NEWER WAVE
Apr 01, 2005; ... It's hard to believe that all those stylish videos, smash hits,and hair highlights amounted to a mere four years of world dominationfor British new wave sensations Duran Duran. The band rocketed tostardom during the early '80s with hits such as "Rio" and "HungryLike the Wolf," but the ...
ACCENT OF THIS ROMANTIC COMEDY IS ON CYNICISM
Apr 01, 2005; ... "Dot the I" is a deplorable piece of cynicism whose only point ofinterest is Gael Garcia Bernal's accent. I don't think I've heardanything like it. Bernal is a Mexican playing Kit, a half-British,half-Brazilian actor living in London, and when he speaks, you feellike the movie has ...
GIMME `FEVER'
Apr 01, 2005 ... Five days till the world premiere of the Red Sox movie "FeverPitch." Boston casting director Carolyn Pickman had one of those rare andwonderful opportunities with "Fever Pitch." Pickman, who recently wona national award for her local casting of "Mystic ...
A MIX OF THE SACRED AND PROFANE, REVEALED IN LAYERS
Apr 01, 2005; ... John Lees's works at Nielsen Gallery are only incidentallypaintings: Really, they are excavations of time and memory,multilayered time lines that chart his angst, desire, andextraordinary patience. Two of the largest pieces in the show each took 14 years to paint.Lees builds up ...
SUNSHINE, LOLLIPOPS
Apr 01, 2005; ... It's a good time for sunshine, partly because Go! has beenobsessed with old Spanky & Our Gang records lately, and also becauseApollo Sunshine (left) plays a CD pre-release party tonight at theMiddle East Downstairs . They'll celebrate their new EP, "The OtherSide of the World," with the ...
ROCK PICKS
Apr 01, 2005; ... Scullers kicks off its week with singer/casino pitchman JohnPizzarelli tonight and tomorrow, and wraps it up Thursday with Boston-based sax siren Myanna . . . . Regattabar welcomes vocalist KateMcGarry on Wednesday, celebrating the release of her CD "MercyStreet," and genre-blurring ...
ORGANIST CARRIES ON HIS IDOL'S `LEGACY'
Apr 01, 2005; ... Hammond B-3 organ whiz kid Joey DeFrancesco may be leading a trioat Scullers next week, but the spirit of a fourth man the late,great organist Jimmy Smith will be up there on stage with him aswell. Smith would have been there in person had he not died unexpectedlyon Feb. 8 at ...
KOPPEL TO LEAVE `NIGHTLINE' AND ABC NEWS
Apr 01, 2005; ... Ted Koppel, the cerebral network journalist who transformed theIranian hostage crisis into a launching pad for one of television'ssignature news programs, announced yesterday that he will step downas "Nightline" anchor in December. ABC News president David Westin said in an e-mail ...
MODESTY IS A VIRTUE IN `LOST EMBRACE'
Apr 01, 2005; ... Modesty is the main ingredient in "Lost Embrace," and while thatsounds like faint praise, it really just means that Daniel Burman'sagreeably eccentric film is confident in its earthbound ambition. Thestory rarely strays too far from its little Buenos Aires shoppingmall and the motley ...
MORLOT'S MUSICAL JOURNEY CONTINUES ASSISTANT CONDUCTOR IS SET FOR BSO DEBUT
Apr 01, 2005; ... In 1943, Leonard Bernstein's career was launched in spectacularfashion when, as the assistant conductor at the New YorkPhilharmonic, he took over a concert for the ailing Bruno Walter,with only a few hours notice. His dramatic performance was front-page news the next day. Of ...
THE RAP AGAINST APATHY; KUSHNER TAKES A LOOK BACK
Apr 01, 2005; ... HIP HOPPIN' OVER TO HARVARD In town to host JAM'N 94.5's sold-out"Old Skool" show at the Orpheum tonight, Run-D.M.C.'s DarrylMcDaniels stopped by the Harvard School of Public Health yesterday.Chatting with professor Max Essex , chairman of the department ofimmunology and infectious ...
FONDA CALLS N. VIETNAM VISIT `BETRAYAL'
Apr 01, 2005 ... Jane Fonda says her 1972 visit to a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun site, an incident that brought her the nickname "HanoiJane," was a "betrayal" of American forces and of the "country thatgave me privilege." "The image of Jane Fonda, `Barbarella,' HenryFonda's daughter . . ....
WITH HER MUSIC, REGINA SPEKTOR CREATES A WHIMSICAL WORLD FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE
Apr 01, 2005; ... Glamorous as it looks, workers in the rock music trenches areperilously jaded, and frankly exhausted. There are so many bands. Somany of them sound like the other ones. It takes some doing to getexcited, and more often than not the rare happy jolt arrivesunexpectedly, even against one's ...
`DEVIL'S PLAYGROUND' SHOWS IDOL'S REBEL YELL HASN'T MELLOWED WITH AGE
Apr 01, 2005; ... The thought of spiky-haired Billy Idol singing the national anthembefore his son's Little League game is hard to fathom. "Yeah, I didit punk rock-style, too," says Idol. "You come to the lines `therockets' red glare' and `bombs bursting in air' and you can reallyget it ...
JAZZ PICKS
Apr 01, 2005; ... Local rockers Apollo Sunshine hold a "pre-release" CD partytonight at the Middle East Downstairs. About 300 advance copies of"The Other Side of the World" will be available to fans. JAM'N's Old-Skool Fresh Fest is at the Orpheum Theatre tonight with Naughty byNature , Doug E. Fresh , ...
COMFORT FOOD AND ATMOSPHERE MAKE SOPHIA'S GROTTO INVITING
Apr 01, 2005; ... It's 8 p.m. on a Friday at Sophia's Grotto, and the bar is packedto the door with patrons quaffing red wine and waiting for tables. By11:30, the hostess has her coat on and the room is emptying fast. In other words, Sophia's is hopping, Roslindale-style. Amid the local moms and ...
SFJAZZ COLLECTIVE FOCUSES ON EXPLORATION
Apr 01, 2005; ... When tenor saxophonist Joshua Redman found out he got funding lastyear to create an all-star octet as the house band for SFJazz, theorganization behind the San Francisco Jazz Festival, he knew hedidn't want to assemble a backward-looking repertory ensemble. "The real important ...
STYLISH AND VIOLENT, `SIN CITY' IS RIPPED RIGHT FROM THE COMIC BOOK'S PAGES
Apr 01, 2005; ... It's been a long three months, but the dry season is over: "SinCity" is the first great Hollywood joy ride of the year.Hyperstylized and ultra-ultra-violent, this adaptation of FrankMiller's two-fisted cult comic book series barrels through a black-and-white moral landscape like a ...
`DEN OF THIEVES' PLAYWRIGHT GIVES VOICE TO THE UNDERDOG
Apr 01, 2005; ... Like Stephen Adly Guirgis's other plays, "Den of Thieves" is ablack comedy about people on the fringes of life, beset with troublesand addictions. Guirgis knows this world well. At one time, as a struggling actorand writer in New York, he was a shoplifter. Guirgis says he ...
CRITICS' PICKS
Apr 01, 2005; ... "MEASURE FOR MEASURE" Shakespeare's comic meditation on moralityand justice gets its due in an energetic, finely honed ...