The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from January 2006:
BRAVO CAVA! THE SPARKLING CHOICE IN SPAIN, WHERE THEY GET NO KICK FROM CHAMPAGNE
Jan 01, 2006; ... BARCELONA - Ask Quim Sanchez if his favorite bubbly is cava fromSpain or champagne from France and the owner of one of Barcelona's"best finds" tapas bars grabs his chest and exclaims, "Cava! I wasnursed on the stuff!" Spain's favorite bubbly occupies a very special niche here, ...
LOOKING FORWARD TO PHILADELPHIA, MONGOLIA, OR MORE PIE?
Jan 01, 2006; ... One of the tricks to winning the game of life is to always havesomething to look forward to. For travelers, 2006 will yield a troveof special events and new experiences, some with special savings.Here are some possibilities. Philadelphia already has begun celebrating Benjamin ...
CHEFS, GRIDDERS TEAM UP BEFORE THE BOWL
Jan 01, 2006; ... Taste of the NFL NOVI, MICH. Feb. 4 Super Bowl Sunday is one of the defining moments of many a fan'swinter but it's not all about the game. The 15th annual Taste of theNFL, a food and wine extravaganza, is scheduled Feb. 4 outsideDetroit, where on the next day, Super Bowl XL ...
SEARCH ENGINES HELP FANS FOLLOW THE STARS
Jan 01, 2006; ... Two new specialty travel websites are taking the hassle out ofgoing on the road with your favorite sports team or rock 'n' rollband. SportsGroupie.com and TuneTrips.com link the power of a travelsearch engine with sports and tour schedules, making it much easierto catch the Red ...
SINGLISH SPOKEN HERE CENTURIES OF TRADE AND CROSSING CULTURES MAKE THIS CITY-STATE CIRCULATE
Jan 01, 2006; ... "No, no, no! You won't be dragged away and caned if you chew gumin the street." The telephone connection was so clear that from theother side of the world I could hear my friend sighing. "It's justthat the sale is prohibited here in Singapore." "Well," I ventured, "if you're not ...
THE WARMTH OF HOSPITALITY, HOT STONES, GOOD FOOD
Jan 01, 2006; ... STONINGTON, Maine - The sense that the sea is a living thing isnever stronger than in winter. Watching nightfall descend through apicture window; seeing the shivering surface of the water turnsilver; looking up at massive clouds pulling across the sky. Theseare the winter pleasures of a ...
CALL OF THE WILD ON TV GOT THEM TO TRY FOR WHOLE NEW ELEVATIONS
Jan 01, 2006; ... WHO: Mary Lou and Dick Mordaunt, both 59, of Boston WHERE: Canadian Rockies WHEN: One week in July WHY: The Mordaunts were inspired by a PBS television series called"Great Lodges of the Canadian Rockies," and they prefer activevacations. "We're not beach people," Mary ...
THE STRANGE AFTERLIFE OF THE AFTER SCHOOL SPECIAL THESE CAUTIONARY TALES FOR TEENS MAY BE EASY TO MAKE FUN OF, BUT THEIR INFLUENCE LINGERS ON IN UNEXPECTED WAYS
Jan 01, 2006; ... In the beginning, there was nothing campy about them. For starters, they came out in the '70s and '80s, so everyone hadhair like that. But more important, After School Specials had yet tobecome cult artifacts, cultural touchstones, or anything more thanwhat they were. After School ...
SUSTAINING A POSITIVE TREND ARTISTS FOR HUMANITY FACILITY IS EPICENTER OF ARCHITECTURAL IDEALS
Jan 01, 2006; ... The building is called the EpiCenter. One detail sums up the wholeplace. It's the railing of the mezzanine, which is constructed out ofa row of automobile windshields. The windshields were salvaged from junkyards. Each once belongedto a Crown Victoria, the Ford model favored for ...
TRYING AGAIN TO FIND DRAMA IN FAITH BUT NBC'S 'DANIEL' HAS DRAWN CRITICISM EVEN BEFORE ITS PREMIERE
Jan 01, 2006; ... Episcopal minister Daniel Webster has no shortage of naggingproblems. His boss, the bishop, pops pills. His brother-in-law hasgone missing, along with millions in church funds. At home Websterhas a teenage daughter who's selling marijuana, a 16-year-old adoptedChinese son who's sleeping ...
RISD EXHIBITIONS DRAW CONNECTIONS SURROUNDING DEGAS
Jan 01, 2006; ... PROVIDENCE - One drawing by Edgar Degas, depicting friends of theartist as they assembled in the resort town of Dieppe, France, liesat the center of three exhibitions at the RISD Museum. Degas clearlydrew it with high regard for the fellows, using a compositional ideathat he borrowed ...
JAZZED-UP `GREAT DAY' IS GREAT ENTERTAINMENT
Jan 01, 2006; ... Sometimes the narrowest topics make the best films. Jean Bach's1994 documentary "A Great Day in Harlem" is about how a singlephotograph came to be taken, and the hourlong film is enthralling.Now a "special edition" has arrived, and it improves upon the Oscar-nominated work. "A ...
OUT OF CHARACTER IN HIS NEW ROLE, PIERCE BROSNAN MOVES BEYOND JAMES BOND
Jan 01, 2006; ... NEW YORK - Don't mention the "B" word in front of Pierce Brosnan.In fact, don't even allude to it. Sure he was Bond (oops!), JamesBond (sorry!), but that chapter's closed and he's not looking back. "It's so hard for him," says Richard Shepard, who wrote anddirected "The Matador," ...
`OR' DEVASTATES AND CAPTIVATES
Jan 01, 2006; ... Keren Yedaya's "Or (My Treasure)" invites us to spend a few daysin the lives of teenage Or (Dana Ivgy, above left) and her mother,Ruthie (Ronit Elkabetz, above right), who works as a Tel Avivprostitute. The girl is pretty, her dark hair often swept back into aponytail. Mom looks ravaged ...
DVD REPORT
Jan 01, 2006; ... ALSO THIS WEEK "DARK WATER" (2005) Jennifer Connelly moves into a dank New York apartment buildingand finds herself haunted by much more than simply the memory ofhanding over that whopper of a security deposit check. Braziliandirector Walter Salles ("The Motorcycle Diaries") ...
DOCUMENTARIES SHOW NATURE'S WRATH AND WARMTH
Jan 01, 2006; ... Foundering souls finding purpose, for better or worse, throughnature is a theme served up in two heaping holiday helpings in thefeature documentaries "Grizzly Man" (2005) and "The Wild Parrots ofTelegraph Hill " (2005). Not that there's a whole lot of "for better"in director Werner ...
HARVARD SERIES PUTS EXISTENTIALISM ON THE SCREEN
Jan 01, 2006; ... Existentialism's long reach extends from philosophy and theater tonovels and film. The Harvard Film Archive presents notable examplesin "The Film Experience: Existentialist Adaptations." Luchino Visconti's "White Nights," based on a story byDostoyevsky, opens the series on Friday ....
MURPHY'S LAW: SEEK DIVERSITY IRISH ACTOR'S VARIED ROLES HAVE MADE HIM NOTICED, AND CONTENT
Jan 01, 2006; ... TORONTO - The eyes are hidden. The icy blues that terrorized a plane-mate in "Red Eye" and stareddown the Caped Crusader in "Batman Begins" are, this afternoon,locked behind sunglasses. But Cillian Murphy, the 29-year-old Irish actor whose 2005included three terrific ...
`CHEAPER' SHOTS
Jan 01, 2006 ... "We're saddled with the cliche dumb daddy in ads, TV sitcoms,comic strips, but a neutered Steve Martin is the last straw. Itherefore announce the founding of a new anti-defamationorganization, Fathers United against Dopey Dads or F.U.D.D. andcall for volunteers and greater media ...
AT-RISK CLASSICAL RADIO HAS VALUE, DESPITE FLAWS
Jan 01, 2006; ... The news that Boston may soon be losing its only full-timecommercial classical-music radio station has not put the musicalcommunity up in arms as you might expect. WCRB-FM hasn't been sold yet, and the prospective buyer, GreaterMedia, Inc., of Braintree, hasn't announced its ...
DELANEY-SMITH AT HOME ON WORLD STAGE
Jan 01, 2006; ... Kathy Delaney-Smith knew she was going to hear it, and, sureenough, she heard it. She may have arrived in Turkey last summer as head coach of theUnited States World University Games women's basketball team, butthat doesn't mean the international basketball community had tobelieve ...
MISSION: TURN THE AD PARADIGM ON ITS HEAD COAUTHORS SAY MARKETING MISSES THE MARK ON CATERING TO REAL NEEDS
Jan 01, 2006; ... Harvard Business School professor Clayton M. Christensen is tryingto shake up the marketing establishment with a deceptively simpleproposition that flies in the face of conventional wisdom: People hire a product to get a job done. Sometimes the job is functional: I need to send ...
CHECK VERIFICATION SYSTEM IS VULNERABLE TO MISTAKES
Jan 01, 2006; ... Dan Ring of Milton tried to write a check for $150 worth of giftcards at Macy's just before Christmas, but the retailer wouldn'taccept it. The person operating the cash register told Ring his account hadbeen flagged for some reason, and he might want to contact his bank. "You ...
A WORLD OF OPPORTUNITY ASIAN AND LATIN AMERICAN MARKETS WERE 2005'S HOT SPOTS, BUT THEY REMAIN VOLATILE DESPITE STRONG PERFORMANCES
Jan 01, 2006; ... Don't get overexcited about Asia. That's the message from many investment specialists trying toglean lessons from the hot performance of some Asian markets as theydevelop strategies for 2006. In 2005, the Japanese stock market rose sharply, and mutual fundsfocusing on Japan, ...
GIVE US THIS DAY FACING LIFE IN SMALL CHUNKS IS MORE DIGESTIBLE
Jan 01, 2006; ... Happy Sunday to all of you, gentle readers, and let's leave it atthat. Forget about our annual New Year's Day psychosis. It's a sham. There is no such thing as New Year's Day. Today is just anotherslice of life on planet Earth, a mere link in the continuum thatbegins with ...
BIRD SIGHTINGS
Jan 01, 2006 ... Recent bird sightings reported to the Massachusetts AudubonSociety. The varied thrush that has frequented the area around the VietnamMemorial in the Fenway section of Boston was not reported last week,but the Townsend's solitaire at High Head in Truro was last reportedon ...
HOME SOUGHT FOR STATE ROCK COLLECTION QUINCY STORAGE SITE TO BE SOLD
Jan 01, 2006; ... A search is underway to find a permanent home for one ofMassachusetts' weightiest historical records: 600,000 pounds ofrocks. The rock pieces, dating to the early 1900s, were collected as partof a library, weighing nearly 1 million pounds, of bedrock cores andsoil samples used in ...
HYDE PARK MAN KILLED IN I-95 COLLISION
Jan 01, 2006; ... A 26-year-old Hyde Park man was killed early yesterday when thecar he was riding in was hit by a driver heading the wrong way onInterstate 95 in Providence, according to Rhode Island State Police. Shain Binns was in the back seat of a Mitsubishi heading south onI-95 when another ...
RICHARD DE ANGELIS, AT 73, ACTOR ON HBO SHOW `THE WIRE'
Jan 01, 2006; ... On the HBO drama series "The Wire," Colonel Raymond Foerster was"the quintessential crotchety cop" hard-boiled and unwilling to takeguff from anyone, said Delaney Williams, an actor on the series. Yet the actor who played him, Richard De Angelis, a native of EastBoston, could not ...
ANTIDEPRESSANTS' RISK OF SUICIDE NOW CALLED LOW
Jan 01, 2006; ... The Food and Drug Administration warning two years ago seemed likea cruel irony: Antidepressants might make certain patients suicidal,the last thing anyone would expect from drugs so widely accepted asan antidote to the misery of depression. But now, a large-scale, federally funded ...
TAINTED DOG FOOD LINKED TO DEATHS DIAMOND CO. RECALLS PRODUCTS
Jan 01, 2006; ... The death of a dog in Springfield has been confirmed by officialsas a result of the animal eating a tainted brand of dog food that isbeing recalled in 24 states. The 8-year-old white German shepherd named Mathore was lethargicand vomiting when he was brought to the MSPCA-Angell ...
DANCING INTO A NEW YEAR
Jan 01, 2006 ... Sharon Sanchez, 13, of Jamaica Plain, headed down Boylston Streetlast night with the ...
JOAN HARRIS, 77, SOCIOLOGIST WHO LOVED CREOLE COOKING
Jan 01, 2006; ... When the Rev. Stephen Kendrick went to visit Joan Harris in thehospital a few weeks ago, they spoke about the toll that variousillnesses were taking on her, the pain she was enduring. "I talked with her about her struggle, and she said, `Stephen, youhave no idea. I was a black ...
WHAT'S CLOSED, OPEN ON NEW YEAR'S DAY
Jan 01, 2006 ... Holiday observed: Today. Retail stores: At owner's discretion. Liquor stores: Some open. Supermarkets: Most open. Convenience stores: Varies. Taverns, bars: Open. Mail: Express delivery only. MBTA: Buses, subway, trackless trolleys, and ...
HOUSING SLOWDOWN BLAMED ON LOCAL RULES STUDY SAYS REGULATIONS RAISING HOME PRICES
Jan 01, 2006; ... Boston-area cities and towns are driving up housing prices byforcing developers to conform to an array of land-use rules that makeit difficult to build new homes, according to a report that will bereleased this week. The report, which is based on a two-year survey of land-use ...
READY AND WAITING
Jan 01, 2006 ... Dancers from the Chu Ling Dance Academy of Boston lined up lastnight during a rehearsal for their ...
LIGHTING A CANDLE, HE MOURNS A FRIEND KWANZAA SOMBER AFTER SLAYINGS
Jan 01, 2006; ... This year marked the first time that Jelani Haynes celebratedKwanzaa without his best friend and fellow founder of the rap groupGraveside, Edwin "E.J." Duncan. Last night, Haynes dedicated the sixth night of the seven-dayAfrican-American holiday to his friend, who was killed in ...
BIDDING A 2005 FAREWELL TO THE BEST AND BRIGHTEST
Jan 01, 2006; ... MULTIPLE PUBLISHED CORRECTIONS HAVE BEEN ADDED TO THIS STORY. [PUBLISHED CORRECTION - DATE: Monday, January 2, 2006: Correction: Because of a reporting error, the name of Ralph Edwards,creator of "This Is Your Life," was incorrect in a Page One storyyesterday recalling people who ...
OSBOURNE MCCONATHY; PLAYED FRENCH HORN IN THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA; AT 97
Jan 01, 2006; ... "Of all the people around me," recalls Boston's internationaloperatic legend Sarah Caldwell, "Osbourne McConathy was the mosthelpful, the most knowledgeable, and also the funniest." Mr. McConathy, who was associated with Caldwell's Opera Company ofBoston throughout more than three ...
IN BOSTON, NEARLY 1 IN 20 HOUSEHOLDS ARE MILLIONAIRES
Jan 01, 2006; ... The number of millionaires living in the Boston area, already oneof the wealthiest regions in the United States, will surge 50 percentover the next five years, according to data from two wealthmanagement companies that have studied the issue. For a city that as recently as 30 years ...
BODY OF HOLLISTON WOMAN FOUND MEMORY LOSS MAY HAVE LED TO DEATH
Jan 01, 2006; ... Eleven days after a Holliston woman drove away from her housewithout warning, police said yesterday that they had found her bodylying shoeless in the woods of Ware, a tiny town west of Worcesterand some 65 miles west of her home. Police said it appears Zelean Robinson, 63, died of ...
MAN ACCUSED OF STABBING 2 MEN, BEATING 1
Jan 01, 2006 ... Two men were stabbed and another beaten at Shelby and Princetonstreets in East Boston early yesterday morning, police said. DanilloQuintao, 21, of East Boston allegedly stabbed a 26-year-old man and a39-year-old man and kicked and punched another ...
BOSTON PARADE `LIKE A MINI-MARDI GRAS'
Jan 01, 2006; ... More than 1 million revelers gathered in downtown Boston yesterdayto enjoy the city's 30th annual First Night celebration, organizerssaid. A light but persistent snowfall did little to dampen spirits atthe $1.4 million party, which featured two fireworks displays, sixmammoth ice ...
PASTOR, FAMILY MAINTAIN HOPE FOLLOWING FIRE OTHER CHURCHES OFFER MONEY, GIFTS
Jan 01, 2006; ... LAWRENCE - Their furniture, clothes, and old books were covered inash. The pastor of a tiny Baptist church and his wife combed throughthe charred remains of their apartment last week and found only a fewitems worth saving a few toys, a Spanish Bible, a pair of new shoes,and a church ...
IRAQ'S PROJECT COSTS MAY FALL TO US MILLIONS MORE IN FUNDS NEEDED
Jan 01, 2006; ... WASHINGTON - The United States is preparing to hand over billionsof dollars worth of infrastructure projects to the Iraqi governmentover the coming year, but US officials are increasingly concernedthat the Iraqis lack sufficient funds to run the high-technologywater and electric plants, ...
THE WORST DELAYS, POTHOLES OF 2005
Jan 01, 2006 ... If the transportation events of 2005 were somehow culled togetherin a single rush-hour afternoon, we'd never get home. Contrary toFrank Sinatra's ode, transportation-wise, it was not a very goodyear. So as any self-respecting columnist with a head cold and somespace to fill will ...
FIRE DESTROYS PART OF CROWDED SKI RESORT
Jan 01, 2006 ... A three-alarm blaze ripped through a lodge in Bretton Woods, N.H.,destroying half of the rooms and forcing a popular ski resort to findtemporary accommodations for many patrons on one of its busiestweekends. Chip Steward, director of marketing at Mt. WashingtonResort at ...
SHOOTING VICTIM RECOVERING AT HOSPITAL
Jan 01, 2006 ... A 24-year-old clerk who was shot Friday while working inside apopular clothing store in Dorchester was recovering yesterday atBoston Medical Center, an owner of the store said. The victim, aDorchester resident who was not identified by police or the owner,was shot in the arm and ...
FINDING FAULT WITH MENINO
Jan 01, 2006 ... All of us in Boston's cultural community are stunned and saddenedby Susan Hartnett's sudden departure from her directorship of themayor's newly restructured office of Arts, Tourism and Special Events("Hartnett's resignation as city's arts director surprises many,"Living/Arts, Dec. 22) ....
`MUNICH' MORALS
Jan 01, 2006 ... Read Ty Burr's critique of "Munich" this morning ("Spielberg'slatest is a provocative, probing thriller," Weekend, Dec. 23). Wasenjoying it until the last four paragraphs. You aver that thefilmmakers were not guilty of "moral equivalency" but proceed toinject your own in the rest of the ...
GRAHAM GONE
Jan 01, 2006 ... I just want you to know that Renee Graham's column is one of thethings I always looked forward to in my morning Globe ("The End ofthe Lane," Living/Arts, Dec. 20). I am really, really ...
GRAHAM GONE
Jan 01, 2006 ... I've been a regular reader of Renee Graham's column and articles,even though I'm not in the typical demographic your editors mightexpect at age 74, I'm still interested in what's happening. Herreviews and criticism have been ...
GRAHAM GONE
Jan 01, 2006 ... I can't think of a column Renee Graham wrote where I didn'tchuckle, laugh out loud, or at least nod vigorously and say, ...
A & E ROLLS WITH IT
Jan 01, 2006; ... What subculture is still unexplored by reality TV? Try women'sroller derby, where ladies in skates play hard and fast in the rink."Rollergirls" chronicles the lives of a group of fierce competitors.On the track, they wear skimpy outfits and have ...
TWO FIREFIGHTERS HIRED
Jan 01, 2006; ... NEEDHAM TWO FIREFIGHTERS HIREDThe Fire Department has hired RobertGiumetti and Mike Spinazola to replace a firefighter who retired andanother who resigned to work for the Boston Fire Department. Despitethe new hires, the department is still understaffed, according toChief ...
FOR THE RECORD
Jan 01, 2006 ... Correction: Because of a reporting error, Thursday's Globe Westgave the wrong time for a menorah lighting ceremony on Needham Commonhosted by ...
MBTA ADDS PARKING SPACES
Jan 01, 2006; ... The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority has opened 142 newparking spaces at the Westborough commuter rail station. The parking lot has routinely filled with cars as early as 7:15 inthe morning, forcing commuters to park ...
MAYOR: CITY CAN PAY FOR SCHOOL NEWTON NORTH ESTIMATE SOARS
Jan 01, 2006; ... Despite an estimated increase of as much as 50 percent in the costof a new Newton North, Mayor David B. Cohen says the city can affordthe building without having to request a tax override. "We will build a new Newton North that is a building that we willall be proud of," he said of ...
BED BUGS ARE BITING ONCE AGAIN
Jan 01, 2006; ... Complaints about bed bugs are exploding not only in crowded citieslike Boston, but also in smaller cities and towns across the westernsuburbs. Local public health officials say they are worried that thescourge which all but disappeared in the past half-century is backin full ...
APPLICANTS SOUGHT FOR AGRICULTURE PANEL
Jan 01, 2006; ... BERLIN APPLICANTS SOUGHT FOR AGRICULTURE PANELThe Berlin Board ofSelectmen is seeking applicants to serve on the town's AgricultureCommission, which was created by Town Meeting in May. The five-member board will promote farming interests, opportunities, andeducation. To ...
NATIONAL GROUP GIVES HOSPITAL IN NEEDHAM A PERFECT SCORE
Jan 01, 2006; ... Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital-Needham received a perfect scorefrom the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Health CareOrganizations, an independent authority that reviews hospitalsnationwide, according to a news release from the hospital. The hospital said it was among the 3 ...
STEVENS WILL HIT THE GROUND RUNNING NEW MAYOR SHRUGS OFF LACK OF HELP FROM INCUMBENT, TACKLES ROAD AHEAD
Jan 01, 2006; ... MARLBOROUGH - When Nancy Stevens officially becomes mayortomorrow, she'll face a jam-packed agenda. For starters, the city's Community Development Authority willundergo a state-ordered audit of its spending practices; the waste-water treatment plant requires a multimillion dollar ...
VACANCIES ON SEVERAL PANELS
Jan 01, 2006; ... ASHLAND VACANCIES ON SEVERAL PANELS The town has a number of vacancies onboards and committees whose members are appointed by the Board ofSelectmen. Recent vacancies have included positions on the AffordableHousing Committee, Cable Advisory Committee, and Town ForestCommittee ....
LIBRARY GRABS FOR A LIFELINE STATE CERTIFICATION, AND FUNDS, AT STAKE
Jan 01, 2006; ... Medway's public library, which this year cut a third of its staffand shut its doors on weekends, will find out next month whetherstate library officials have given it the certification waiver itneeds to continue at the current bare-bones level. The Massachusetts Board of Library ...
BUYER TO KEEP WENTWORTH AS GOLF COURSE
Jan 01, 2006; ... Plainville officials who are worried about fast housing growth and the demand new homes place on town services are breathing a sighof relief. The Wentworth Hills Golf and Country Club property on Bow Streetwidely expected to be sold to a housing developer at a bankforeclosure ...