The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from February 2006:
ON BARBADOS, ECOLOGICAL WONDERS OFFER AN EXOTIC ALTERNATIVE TO THE BEACH
Feb 01, 2006; ... ST. PETER, Barbados "You see the monkey?" asks the woman workingthe snack bar. I turn and stare into an empty cage. "Up, up," shepoints. I tilt my head back and there, jumping from branch to branch,are five monkeys, wild and loose like most of the animals that callthis thick forest of ...
BIRD SIGHTINGS
Feb 01, 2006 ... Reports from the Newburyport/Plum Island area, most of which wererecorded on Saturday during the annual Superbowl of Birding, included3 snow geese, roughly 150 Northern pintails, 1 ring-necked duck, 1Barrow's goldeneye, 16 red-necked grebes, 1 American bittern, 1turkey vulture, 6 bald ...
TEACHER BRINGS COSTS OF MINING TO THE SURFACE
Feb 01, 2006; ... There is really no nice way to mine coal. There are the deep shaftmines familiar as the scenes of disaster and tragedy, two recently inWest Virginia. There are the strip mines that peel away the earth toget at the underlying coal beds. And then there are the mountaintopremoval ...
`BODY FAMILIAR' LAYS BARE THE ALLURE OF THE NUDE
Feb 01, 2006; ... WINCHESTER We are what we wear, and that's especially true when wewear nothing at all. Is it any wonder that the nude is the oldestartistic genre? The first rendered landscape was the landscape of thehuman body, the first still life the immobilizing of flesh in stoneor on wall. Think of ...
BSO SETS CARNEGIE PROGRAM
Feb 01, 2006; ... The Boston Symphony Orchestra will play in New York's CarnegieHall under music director James Levine three times next season andthe programs and soloists serve as a sneak preview of the 2006-'07season. The first New York performance, in October, representsLevine's Beethoven/Schoenberg ...
`HUNGRY PLANET' IS MORE SOCIAL COMMENTARY THAN COOKBOOK
Feb 01, 2006; ... Once in a while you come across a cookbook filled with recipes notmeant for meals but for life. "Hungry Planet" is a portrait of 30families in 24 countries, interviewed about what they eat, why theyeat it, and how much it costs to bring that food to the table. Theresult is packed so ...
TAKE GEORGE CLOONEY SERIOUSLY, BUT TAKE HIM FUNNY TOO
Feb 01, 2006; ... The history of Hollywood is studded with handsome men who weren'tcontent to remain studs. They had ideas and political causes andambitions to film them. Warren Beatty made "Reds." Kevin Costner made"Dances With Wolves." Robert Redford made "Quiz Show." Tim Robbinsmade "Dead Man Walking." ...
COLLAGE WORKS ITS MAGIC
Feb 01, 2006; ... Grammy-nominated Collage New Music came up with a winner Mondaynight in Gunther Schuller's 1991 "Paradigm Exchanges." This 25-minute, 14-movement suite is a knockout. It is formidablyorganized both in technique and in structure. Nearly every movementbrings a fresh combination of ...
CONCERT UPDATE
Feb 01, 2006 ... Van Morrison at the Opera House March 8. Tickets are $68.50, $95,and $150, on sale Saturday at 10 a.m. James Blunt at the Orpheum Theatre March 18. Tickets are $25, onsale Saturday at 10 ...
ON DEMAND
Feb 01, 2006; ... The conceit of the contagiously dopey Jennifer Garner vehicle isthat a girl shouldn't mind losing 17 years if there's a possibilityshe can make her dreams come ...
FOR SWEET WINNER, TOSS DRIED FRUIT INTO THE MIX
Feb 01, 2006; ... When the days are frosty and you have hours ahead of you perhapsan upcoming Sunday when everyone in the household is watching a SuperBowl game? you can think about filling the kitchen with the headysweetness of a fruit-filled bread. Not just any bread. Rather, a lightly sweetened ...
HUNTINGTON FINALE NO LONGER `FUNNY'
Feb 01, 2006; ... "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" is out andShakespeare's "Love's Labour's Lost" is in as the Huntington TheatreCompany's season closer this spring, Huntington artistic directorNicholas Martin announced yesterday. "Forum" has been on shaky ground ever since Brooks ...
ENDOWMENT RENEWS PHOTOGRAPHER'S TIES TO MFA
Feb 01, 2006; ... "Oh," Estrellita Karsh sighed as she gazed at a catalog pageshowing a photograph of poet W.H. Auden near the end of his life. She ran her fingers over his face, weathered by a lifetime ofsmoking. She called Auden a sweetie as she looked at the black-and-white image, taken by her ...
SNUBS, FLUBS, AND OTHER EXTRAS
Feb 01, 2006; ... - Another great Gwyneth Paltrow performance has been ignored. Sheplayed a possibly crazy mathematician in "Proof," after playing theless-than stable Sylvia Plath in "Sylvia." The Academy treats her asthough this kind of acting grows on trees. This brings us to JudiDench, whose kind of ...
IN THE MARKET
Feb 01, 2006; ... What they are: Mushrooms are classified in the fungal kingdom, andare basically the flowers of blossoming fungi spores. Two of the mostwidely available "exotic" cultivated types are cremini and shiitake.The cap, gills, and stem make up the mushroom's structure; incremini, all three parts ...
PATRICK STOP COULD DRAW QUITE A CROWD
Feb 01, 2006; ... Democratic gubernatorial candidate Deval Patrick 's due to make acampaign stop at Biff's Lounge in Dorchester tonight, and we're tolda slew of local pols may be there, too. Like who, you say? Senator Dianne Wilkerson and city councilors Felix Arroyo and Sam Yoon , forstarters. But word ...
DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILY DRAMA ISN'T DEEP ENOUGH IN `MARY' W.
Feb 01, 2006; ... Sometime in the 1990s, sagas of alcoholic Irish Catholic familiesbecame this generation's version of Stepin Fetchit. This tide ofBroadway-buffed blarney may be less degrading and offensive, but itlikewise depends on stock situations and interchangeable stereotypes.Lyralen Kaye's "They ...
MULTIFACETED OTTAWA
Feb 01, 2006; ... OTTAWA A winter jaunt here is worth it just for the opportunity toskate almost 5 miles in a line rather than a circle. The long outdoor"rink" materializes every winter when the ice gets to be at least afoot thick on the Rideau Canal, a 19th-century man-made waterway thatlinks this ...
DOM LUCK
Feb 01, 2006; ... Dom Irrera is a funny guy. He's got the jokebag and resumeperformances on Letterman and Leno, HBO and Showtime specials toprove it. But behind every comic lurks a series of terrible failures.And Irrera, who will be at the Comedy Connection on Friday andSaturday, has nothing to ...
MUG'S HOT
Feb 01, 2006; ... Don't try to tell any real bean head that it's only the coffee that matters. The cup has to be perfect, too: just the right size,just the right heft, and plenty comfortable to grip when brimmingwith joe. This update of the old-timey diner mug from Peet's Coffeeand Tea seems to ...
MIXING MUSHROOMS MAKES A FESTIVE AND FLAVORFUL DISH
Feb 01, 2006; ... In the pan, on the plate even just sitting on the counter beforeyou cut them up mushrooms have some heft. Mix ordinary buttonmushrooms with exotic mushrooms such as shiitake, crimini,portobello, and chanterelle, and you get intriguing earthy tastes.Exotic mushrooms (see related story on ...
AN EVENTFUL WINTER MEAL
Feb 01, 2006; ... Raclette, the simple Swiss meal of melted cheese over boiledpotatoes with cornichon pickles is the most comforting wintry dish.Like fondue, raclette is often something of an event, with dinersgathered around a special grill that slowly melts slices of cheese.Tomake things a little more ...
STOCKING FEAT
Feb 01, 2006; ... Let's see, the recipe calls for homemade stock, but all you haveare an ancient box of bouillon cubes and a bit of broth-in-a-box. Forthe next time you're faced with this dilemma, have a jar of stockconcentrate in the pantry. Williams-Sonoma's demi-glace ($29 for a 10-ounce jar) comes in ...
ENTHUSIASM TRIUMPHS IN `SIMPATICO'
Feb 01, 2006; ... One of Boston's tiniest performance spaces (it's a brick-walledbox seating 49), the Threshold Theatre at the Piano Factory is like apetri dish for culturing up-and-coming talent. Devanaughn Theatre'sproduction of Sam Shepard's 1994 play "Simpatico," set in the worldof high-stakes horse ...
MENU SPEAK
Feb 01, 2006; ... In Alsace, the region of France bordering Germany, flammekueche(called tarte flambee in other regions of France) has its roots as adish "for poor people," says Raymond Ost, chef and owner ofSandrine's Bistro in Harvard Square. When peasant farm workers wouldcome in from the fields, they ...
TAKEOUT PIES
Feb 01, 2006; ... The South End thrives on dining, but the neighborhood lacks decenttakeout. It seems like good grub spots declined as brunch optionsclimbed. You could slog through a hollandaise swamp for days beforeyou found a decent slice of pizza. Until the arrival of takeoutbeacon Mangia Pizza on ...
BC DEVISES DEFENSE MECHANISM
Feb 01, 2006; ... The answer: Sean Marshall. The question: Who will guard J.J. Redick when second-ranked Duke(19-1, 7-0) comes calling on the No. 15 Boston College men'sbasketball team in tonight's Atlantic Coast Conference showdown atConte Forum? To hear BC coach Al Skinner tell the media mob ...
BC LAID GROUNDWORK FOR RECRUITS LONG AGO
Feb 01, 2006; ... There shouldn't be any sweating around the fax machine in theBoston College football office for today's national letter of intentday. That's because coach Tom O'Brien and his staff did most of theirheavy lifting early in the process as 17 of the team's 20 recruitscommitted well ...
BRUINS CONTINUE UPSWING
Feb 01, 2006; ... OTTAWA Prior to Monday, the Bruins had last been in Ottawa on Nov.26, and though it was a holiday week, they weren't feeling all thatthankful. The team was in a tailspin losing nine of 10 games and noone, save for general manager Mike O'Connell, could foresee what wasto come four days ...
RIVERS, CELTICS TO JUST PLAY ALONG
Feb 01, 2006; ... Doc Rivers thought seriously about practicing yesterday. But thatwas before someone reminded him that Wally Szczerbiak was remainingbehind in Minneapolis with his family. His wife delivered a daughtervia C-section Monday afternoon. Szczerbiak planned to return to Boston on a ...
IN $1M HOLE, UNH CUTS FOUR SPORTS
Feb 01, 2006 ... COLLEGES The University of New Hampshire is dropping men's and women'stennis, men's swimming, and women's crew, athletic director MartyScarano said yesterday. UNH also is cutting the men's ski roster from27 to 12 and putting out a call for donations. "If our urgent callfor ...
HARPER FINALLY AT HOME
Feb 01, 2006; ... It was a long time coming. "I played for the Red Sox," Tommy Harper said. "I coached for theRed Sox. I've worked in the front office for the Red Sox. And fulldisclosure: I still work for them. But I never thought I was a partof Red Sox Nation. "There's a difference between ...
ALL THE ELEMENTS ARE IN PLACE FOR TURIN GAMES
Feb 01, 2006; ... The Turin organizers' two biggest worries not enough snow and toomany unsold seats have both vanished. After a flake-free month, more than 2 feet of white stuff fell inthe mountains during four days. And Italian fans, who seemed barelyaware that their country was hosting the ...
PORTER PUTS A SOCK IN IT TIME FOR TALKING OVER FOR LINEBACKER
Feb 01, 2006; ... DETROIT Put Joey Porter one-on-one with a running back, tight end,or offensive lineman, and he is confident he'll win the matchup. Yesterday, the glib Steelers linebacker went one-on-severalhundred, and as he often does with opposing blockers, he flew pastenough media queries to ...
WORDS OF ADVICE FROM ONE AND ONLY
Feb 01, 2006; ... DETROIT After being off limits the first day the Steelers were intown, quarterback Ben Roethlisberger was front and center at SuperBowl XL Media Day, matching teammate Jerome Bettis for the largestcrowd during the one-hour session. Seattle followed the Steelers at the Ford Field ...
MACCHI, FRANKLIN GRAB SHARE OF TOP SPOT
Feb 01, 2006; ... Led by a dominant performance from senior captain Jeff Macchi (39points), No. 12 Franklin defeated No. 11 North Attleboro, 67-59, infront of a standing-room only crowd to move into a tie with the RedRocketeers atop the Hockomock League. After a tight first half, the Panthers (13-2) ...
LOWELL'S MAKUMBI MAKES MOVE TO DELAWARE
Feb 01, 2006; ... Seasons have ended, the winners have been decided, and the awardshanded out. Now the time has come for last season's high schoolfootball stars to announce their future plans. Many in the Massachusetts recruiting class have yet to choose acollege, although Bernard Makumbi of Lowell ...
MOSGROVE PROVIDES BOOST TO NEEDHAM
Feb 01, 2006; ... BRAINTREE After watching a 13-point first-half lead dwindle tonothing in just five minutes, it felt as though history was repeatingitself for the Needham girls' basketball team. Junior forward Cerie Mosgrove erupted for 18 of her 28 points inthe second half as the Rockets' upset ...
TATUPU HAPPY TO TAKE IT ALL IN
Feb 01, 2006; ... DETROIT Lofa Tatupu sat for 60 minutes in Booth No. 1 at FordField yesterday his first Super Bowl Media Day and if there was asecond or two when the smile left his face, that might be anexaggeration. The Seahawks linebacker was grilled on everything from A to Z,asked to do promos ...
1991 TOUGHEST OF ALL FOR LADY VOLS?
Feb 01, 2006; ... If Tennessee's dominance of women's basketball can be split intotwo ears, then this title marked the end of its first reign - andperhaps its most challenging victory of either span.The LadyVols, vying for their third championship in five years, faced an ultra-talented Virginia ...
WNBA DRAFT COMES TO BOSTON
Feb 01, 2006; ... The WNBA will announce today that its predraft camp and draft thisyear will be held in Boston, to coincide with the NCAA women's FinalFour. The predraft camp is expected to be Monday, April 3, at EmmanuelCollege, with the draft two days later at the Convention Center. The ...
ATLANTIC 10: NOT PERFECT, BUT VERY INTERESTING
Feb 01, 2006; ... Temple, the only ranked team in the Atlantic 10, is looking up attwo teams in the standings. Saint Joseph's, a seven-win team a yearago, is looking down at a bunch more. It's been that type of year forthe middleweight conference. "I think people maybe underestimate the depth of our ...
EX-HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT HEAD ENTERS GUILTY PLEA
Feb 01, 2006; ... A former administrative director of the orthopedics department at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston pleaded guilty in SuffolkSuperior Court to embezzling $288,000 and was sentenced to ninemonths in prison. Patrick Bauer, 58, of Newton pleaded guilty to 11counts of larceny, ...
LAWYERS OFFER DUELING ENRON STORIES
Feb 01, 2006; ... HOUSTON Lawyers for former Enron Corp. chiefs Kenneth Lay andJeffrey Skilling insisted yesterday the men were guilty of no crimes,arguing the company was never infested with fraud and instead fellvictim to a sudden crisis of market confidence. Lay and Skilling were pioneers in the ...
COMPANY PROPOSING LNG FACILITY DONATES $1M
Feb 01, 2006; ... Hoping to help low-income homeowners and build community goodwill, a company proposing an offshore liquefied natural gas terminal13 miles southeast of Gloucester said it is donating $1 million toBoston-area home energy assistance programs. Excelerate Energy LLCof The Woodlands, Texas, ...
SOFRITO GIVES FOOD A RICH LATIN ACCENT
Feb 01, 2006; ... BROOKLINE The onions sizzle as they hit the hot oil. And whenDeborah de Haro shakes the pan, they dance. She adds choppedcubanelle peppers and red bell pepper to the golden onions, and thengarlic, which releases its heady scent. Holding her wooden spatula,shaking the pan, de Haro gently ...
CRITIC'S CORNER
Feb 01, 2006; ... One Tree Hill 8 p.m., Channel 56 A storm causes a blackout. An episode for those who think the WBis too white. The Black Filmmaker Showcase 7:30 p.m., Showtime Yep, it's Black History Month, when TV outlets can act as thoughthey're truly diverse. Tonight, Showtime ...
A FOCUS ON SECURITY, FINDING NEW SOLUTIONS
Feb 01, 2006 ... Excerpts from President Bush's State of the Union speech lastnight: Abroad, our Nation is committed to an historic, long-term goal -we seek the end of tyranny in our world. Some dismiss that goal asmisguided idealism. In reality, the future security of Americadepends on it. On ...
EX-POSTAL WORKER KILLS 5 ATCALIF. MAIL CENTER WOMAN'S RAMPAGE ENDS WITH SUICIDE
Feb 01, 2006; ... GOLETA, Calif. - A former postal worker who had been put onmedical leave for psychological problems fatally shot five people ata mail-processing center and then killed herself. The attack Mondaynight was believed to be the nation's deadliest workplace shootingever carried out by a ...
2 VIEWS OF STATE BUDGET PROPOSAL
Feb 01, 2006 ... GOVERNOR ROMNEY'S proposed budget falls short in helping usachieve a healthy Massachusetts. His proposed increase for theDepartment of Public Health is concentrated in three areas:substance abuse, immunizations, and public health hospitals. Whilelaudable, these increases are offset ...
A SMALLER NEW ORLEANS
Feb 01, 2006; ... MUCH OF the discussion of the planned rebuilding of New Orleanshas been mired in nostalgia and unrealistic expectations, and we arein danger of doing a far worse job rebuilding New Orleans thanrebuilding Baghdad. The final report released by the Bring NewOrleans Back Commission the ...
GREATER BOSTON IS FLAT
Feb 01, 2006; ... FOR MUCH of the last year, the Greater Boston region has endured awhirlwind of speculation about our future as an economic leader. Themergers of some of our oldest companies to corporations headquarteredelsewhere and the ensuing media coverage led some to question whetherBoston was still ...
HOPING FOR HOPE
Feb 01, 2006 ... TUESDAY WAS a day of transition in Washington, with big changes atthe Supreme Court and the Federal Reserve. President Bush was alsolooking for a fresh start last night as he declared that he would"lead this world toward freedom" abroad and establish "a hopefulsociety" at home. But his ...
THE KING WHO LED ON WORLD PEACE
Feb 01, 2006; ... ONE OF the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s most famous speeches washis April 4, 1967, condemnation of the Vietnam War. He said Americacould never end poverty at home as long as "adventures like Vietnamcontinued to draw men and skills and money like some demonicdestructive suction ...
GUN CONTROL BEGINS AT HOME
Feb 01, 2006 ... THE RECENT suicide of a teenage boy in Arlington is such a tragedy(City & Region, Page B1, Jan. 28), and it makes sense to investigatethe role of drugs in this. But maybe it is time that we parents lookdeep within ourselves and reflect on the fact that we increase therisk that our ...
THE FAMILY TIES THAT BIND THE SYSTEM
Feb 01, 2006 ... THE ARTICLE "Family ties spark concern in lobby debate" (Page A1,Jan. 28) points out how broken our system of government has become.How can congressmen remain impartial on important governmentlegislation when their spouse, child, or parent is a lobbyist whoseonly concern is making more ...
TERMINALLY VEXED
Feb 01, 2006 ... I AM so pleased that Massport apparently spent a great deal ofmoney to determine that Logan's terminal lettering system isconfusing ("Massport to simplify terminals at Logan," Business, Jan.27). It will be so much easier in the future when Terminal D becomesTerminal C; when AirTran ...
NEWTON LIBRARIAN UPHELD THE LAW
Feb 01, 2006 ... THE AMERICAN Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts applaudsNewton's mayor and library director for requiring law-enforcementauthorities to comply with the basic requirements of the FourthAmendment before seizing public library computers and the informationthey contain ("Libraries and ...
A PREVIEW OF COMING ATTRACTIONS
Feb 01, 2006; ... LOS ANGELES Here's what you can now do in the brave new world ofmovie theaters: order a Starbucks Frappuccino; enjoy black bean chiliand a glass of Cabernet Franc from Francis Coppola's vineyard; buymagazines and high-end art books; and . . . file a newspaper columnto your faraway ...
A SAFE SITE FOR LNG?
Feb 01, 2006; ... [THE CAPTIONING INFORMATION THAT ACCOMPANIED THIS STORY ISINCORRECT. PUBLISHED CORRECTION - DATE: Wednesday, February 8, 2006:Correction: A photograph with last Wednesday's opinion piece on theproposal to site an LNG facility on an island in Boston Harbor wasincorrectly captioned. The ...
READY, CLICK, EAT!
Feb 01, 2006; ... When the tech-savvy Emerson College students who live on BrainerdRoad in Allston are too hungry, impatient, or just plain lazy tostroll the few blocks that separate them from dozens of restaurants,they get delivery. But even though any number of websites promisethat many eateries are ...
BLACK HISTORY, THROUGH FAMILY TREES
Feb 01, 2006; ... Americans get mixed messages, these days, about the past. On onehand, we're taught that history doesn't matter; the promise of thiscountry is an open and limitless future. But then, identity politicssuggest that past is present: We can't know ourselves withoutunderstanding where we're ...
IT'S A SMALL WORLD FILMS WITH TINY BUDGETS AND SOBER THEMES DOMINATE THIS YEAR'S OSCAR LIST
Feb 01, 2006; ... They're small, they're terribly serious, they're Hollywood's newbreed. The films nominated yesterday for the 78th Academy Awardsaren't your typical Oscar movies. Of the five films nominated for best picture, only StevenSpielberg's "Munich," released by Universal/DreamWorks and ...
SEATTLE'S BEST MVP ALEXANDER PRIMED TO SAVOR ULTIMATE PAYOFF
Feb 01, 2006; ... DETROIT Shaun Alexander remembers being at a draft party withabout 200 friends and family when he leaned over to his older brotherDurran and asked, "Seattle? Who's the coach?" "I was told it was Mike Holmgren," recalled Alexander, "and Isaid, `OK, yeah, that's cool. He's a great ...
NO STRANGER TO HARD KNOCKS
Feb 01, 2006; ... DETROIT The path to the Super Bowl was different for Seahawkslinebacker Isaiah Kacyvenski, and not just because he played hiscollege football at Harvard. He remembers being temporarily homeless when he was a child inEndicott, N.Y. His dad was a dishwasher and a janitor, but most ...