The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) back issues from July 2007:
Van Gogh, Vermeer brought them here
Jul 01, 2007; ... WHERE THEY WENT / THE NETHERLANDS WHO: Amy Battis, 36, and her sister, Abby Battis, 32, both ofBeverly WHERE: The Netherlands WHEN: A week in April WHY: "I chose Amsterdam because of the museums," Abby said. "Ilove van Gogh, and we have a quest to see all 34 ...
Modern take on vintage South Africa
Jul 01, 2007; ... STELLENBOSCH, South Africa - It was Sunday afternoon, and we hadjust arrived in the heart of South Africa's rolling wine country.Would anything be open? The clerk at our inn pointed us in thedirection of Spier wine estate, a veritable one-stop shop for thosewho love to eat and drink, and ...
Tax equality and overhaul
Jul 01, 2007 ... WHILE I applaud the thrust of Joan Vennochi's June 24 op-ed"Misinformation on tax equality," the problem runs much deeper inMassachusetts than she suggests. Take, for example, the funding ofeducation. We all know that wealthy communities havedisproportionately better funded public ...
Students' free expression
Jul 01, 2007 ... IN ITS decision in the case of a high school student's "Bong Hits4 Jesus" banner, the Supreme Court has carved out a drug-advocacyexception to students' free speech rights. States, however, can offermore First Amendment protection than the federal government does, andthat's just what ...
Internet's reach adds up to net gains
Jul 01, 2007; ... Antiques & Collectibles The Internet, which is reaching out to the global market andinternational bidding, is causing prices to escalate at a growingnumber of auctions. At Grogan & Company's May Auction in Dedham, an Italian micromosaic panel depicting a family of travelers, ...
CRITICS' PICKS - VISUAL ARTS
Jul 01, 2007; ... VISUAL ARTS East meets West Contemporary Italian artist Stefano Arienti creates a meditative,Zen-like environment including drawings, dyed rugs, and works fromthe Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum's Asian collection. "The AsianShore," through Oct. 14. 617-566-1401, ...
Battle brewing on auto insurance [Corrected 07/03/07] State may overhaul rate-setting system
Jul 01, 2007; ... The battle over the future of the state's $3.9 billion autoinsurance market has trapped Governor Deval Patrick in a politicalcrossfire between his insurance commissioner, who is signaling shewants to overhaul the rate-setting system, and his allies in urbanlegislative districts, who fear ...
From Belgium, some odd views - At the McMullen, an appreciation for the absurd as well as for the masters
Jul 01, 2007; ... Visual Arts / Review A New Key: Modern Belgian Art From the Simon Collection At: McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, 140 Commonwealth Ave.,Chestnut Hill, through July 22. 617-552-8100, bc.edu/artmuseum CHESTNUT HILL - Consider Belgium, a nation the ...
Letters
Jul 01, 2007 ... Title of Kilts book speaks volumes In full disclosure, I am a former employee of Gillette and acurrent P&G/Gillette shareholder of 257 converted shares of stock. Having read the "King C. Gillette" biography by Russell B. Adams,it brought to mind that in another time the ...
Mass MoCA has mishandled disputed art installation
Jul 01, 2007; ... Visual Arts / Critic's Notebook NORTH ADAMS - What the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Arthas done in response to the Christoph Buchel mess is sad, dumb, andshameful. As Globe readers may recall, last year Mass MoCA invited the Swisssculptor to create a giant ...
Sunset for owners of summer camps As holders of valuable land decide to move on, some seek a way to keep the campfires burning
Jul 01, 2007; ... After running a summer camp in Poland Springs, Maine, since 1992,Betsy and Gar Roper faced a succession issue common to older campowners: getting one of their children or other family member to takeover when they move on. The Ropers' 30-year-old son Kevin, who had worked at the ...
Hard to break free of the global economy
Jul 01, 2007; ... Book Review A YEAR WITHOUT 'MADE IN CHINA' BY SARA BONGIORNI WILEY, $24.95 SEATTLE - Lamps, birthday candles, mouse traps, and flip-flops.Such is the stuff that binds the modern American family to the globaleconomy, author Sara Bongiorni discovers during a year ...
To an accidental walker, another Los Angeles reveals itself
Jul 01, 2007; ... Essay LOS ANGELES - "No one in the state of California will rent you acar," proclaims the clerk at the Dollar Rent A Car counter at LosAngeles International Airport. I stand there drop-jawed, withered bythe mortified look from my daughter standing next to me. We face theprospect ...
The family business - Zoe Cassavetes took a while to follow in the footsteps of her film director father and siblings, but now she's made her first feature
Jul 01, 2007; ... When you grow up with the last name Cassavetes - Zoe RowlandsCassavetes, 37, is the youngest child of the late indie pioneer JohnCassavetes and his wife and muse, actress Gena Rowlands - thequestion is not so much whether you'll take up filmmaking, but when. Siblings Nick, 48, and ...
Attentive, appetizing Westerly, R.I., inn
Jul 01, 2007; ... EXPLORE NEW ENGLAND / Checking In WESTERLY, R.I. - Don't let the plain exterior of the ShelterHarbor Inn deceive you. Inside the rambling white building with paleblue shutters, you find quiet charm, excellent food, and fineservice. Shelter Harbor is as much a restaurant as an ...
Closing was in coffee grounds - New Age store's fans saddened
Jul 01, 2007; ... GLOBE SOUTH 1 Books on ancient Egyptian rituals, amber and blue stones used tobalance auras, and an array of incense sticks adorned the shelves ofthe store Open Doors on a recent afternoon. In the back of the store,near a metal rack of postcards, was a wooden door with a sign over ...
CRITICS' PICKS - CLASSICAL MUSIC
Jul 01, 2007; ... Shanghai Quartet This string quartet, formed in China but now based in the UnitedStates, is known for its vigorous playing and border-crossing ethos.Today the ensemble visits Connecticut's Music Mountain with a programof Mozart, Barber, and Franck, for whose Piano Quintet it will ...
COMMUNITY SNAPSHOT
Jul 01, 2007; ... Rockport Miles from Boston 37 Population 7,763 (2005) Median house price $400,000 (Jan.-May 2007) Tax rate $8.05 Average single-family property tax $4,431 (State average, $3,799) Transportation Routes 127, 128. MBTA commuter rail. Cape ...
Getting one last deal It might sound morbid, but you can comparison- shop for your funeral
Jul 01, 2007; ... Consumer Beat If you knew one store was charging $3,600 less than another forthe same product, you know where you'd be shopping. But all too often in the funeral business, consumers aren't awarethat prices can vary so dramatically from one funeral home to thenext. They don't ...
As colleagues, they hit on all cylinders - `You Kill Me' director and stars form a mutual admiration society
Jul 01, 2007; ... MOVIES When Ben Kingsley - Sir Ben Kingsley - telephones to request youact opposite him in his new film, you don't ask him to explain why. "I don't have a sense of why [he chose me]. I have no idea," saidTea Leoni, Kingsley's costar in "You Kill Me," a comedy-thriller ...
Another phone menu: how to call home from abroad
Jul 01, 2007; ... Real Deals It was a time before cellphones when I marched up to a pay phonein St. Mark's Square in Venice and inserted my prepaid card into thewrong slot. There was an unmistakable ripping sound, and the card wasno more. Ah, but that was then. While phone cards, bought ...
Take me out to the ballpark promotion
Jul 01, 2007; ... DESTINATIONS / EVENTS Minor-league ballparks across the country have planned creativepromotions to make it worth your while to experience life beyond RedSox Nation. Beach night RICHMOND July 27 The Triple-A Richmond Braves, whose shortstop Yunel Escobar ...
From a Gloucester castle, views beyond invention
Jul 01, 2007; ... EXPLORE NEW ENGLAND GLOUCESTER - As eye-popping as the towers, turrets, and arches ofthis medieval castle plunked on a wooded lot in a residentialneighborhood might be, nothing about the architecture of HammondCastle can compete with the drop-dead-gorgeous ocean ...
Mad scientist's pop meditations - Musician-turned-computer consultant Thomas Dolby returns to performing
Jul 01, 2007; ... Pop Music AUSTIN, Texas - Thomas Dolby is playing a short set for a coupleof dozen people in the Austin Convention Center's Day Cafe. Most ofthem stopped in for a quick sandwich and look fairly astonished, andfairly pleased, to get "She Blinded Me With Science" on the side ....
Tale of women in love is fun yet frustrating
Jul 01, 2007; ... HOME ENTERTAINMENT / INDIE DVD Is being a lesbian in Manhattan really as fabulously witty andkooky and fun as "Puccini for Beginners" makes it out to be? Maybe,but no one really gets hurt here, and that's the movie's charm andfailing. Nevertheless, it fizzes nicely before the tonic ...
Music and more at England's Woodstock
Jul 01, 2007; ... HOME ENTERTAINMENT / PERFORMANCE DVD England's annual Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary PerformingArts is little known to Americans but easy enough to explain: Imagineif Woodstock had kept recurring every blessed year (almost) since1970. For "Glastonbury," director Julien Temple ...
ALSO THIS WEEK
Jul 01, 2007; ... HOME ENTERTAINMENT "DRIVING LESSONS" (2006) If the upcoming "Harry Potter" installment doesn't let him doenough growing, Rupert Grint always has this modest coming-of-agestory, in which he plays a put-upon teen liberated by his unlikelyfriendship with an eccentric retired ...
Wry collection gives new meaning to summer camp
Jul 01, 2007; ... HOME ENTERTAINMENT / NEW RELEASES For those who prefer their schlock served straight rather than"Mystery Science Theater"-style, the four-volume collection "CultCamp Classics" is a full meal, heavy on the cheese. The most infamoustitle of the lot is dorm-room poster staple "Attack ...
Laboratories of achievement
Jul 01, 2007 ... IN MASSACHUSETTS, community colleges often double as punchingbags. They get hit for having low graduation rates, for not doingenough to train the state's work force, for not being as good astheir peers in California and North Carolina. But tongue lashingswon't help the colleges find the ...
Healthcare law's turn at bat
Jul 01, 2007 ... JUST ABOUT everyone in Massachusetts is supposed to have healthinsurance coverage starting today under the state's new healthcarelaw. But this is a relaxed deadline, with penalties not kicking inuntil after the first of 2008. Today really marks the intensificationof a process of ...
The invisible patient
Jul 01, 2007; ... I AM calling Mr. Jones. He has missed another appointment, thethird in a row. These absences are consequential. It is only a matterof time and protocol before he is discharged from the clinic fortreatment nonparticipation. You can't do much with an invisible man. He is not entirely ...
Etiquette at Work
Jul 01, 2007; ... Q. A group of workers at my office likes to eat lunch together ata certain time each day. Lately, a manager has been joining us "justto chat." The management-employee relationship in our company is somewhatadversarial, and we feel awkward when he sits with us. We'd like toenjoy ...
Where you have a chance of a ghost: York
Jul 01, 2007; ... YORK, England - "If ... you ... are ... here," boomed a sepulchralfigure in top hat and cape, "for the Ghost Hunt, follow me." And wewere off, a collection of visitors and one King Charles spaniel,trailing our guide into the heart of York, which claims the title ofmost haunted city in ...
Toys in the attic
Jul 01, 2007 ... OPENS TODAY When is the last time you played with Mr. Potato Head or raced HotWheels? The Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield invites you to come overand play and see the exhibit "Kid Stuff: Great Toys From OurChildhood" which opens today and runs through Sept. 3. Baby boom-eratoys ...
GO! AHEAD
Jul 01, 2007; ... Sunday 1 Chowder is to New England what a steak sandwich is to Philly, andat today's Chowderfest, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., City Hall Plaza willbe filled with more than 2,000 gallons of clam chowduh. Restaurantsdoing the ladling include the Daily Catch, Fireplace ...
Patio depressions need to be covered
Jul 01, 2007; ... HANDYMAN ON CALL Q. My concrete patio is developing depressions the size of asaucer and about one-quarter-inch deep. Can I smooth them out orcover them? And with what? Frank Morrissey, Randolph A. The depressions are too deep to leave alone, and grinding toeven ...
`High' anxiety - Auditioning for the stage version of a hit TV musical keeps teens on their toes
Jul 01, 2007; ... Theater BEVERLY - The complicated, athletic dance routine they justlearned was tough enough, but when nearly 60 teenage boys are askedto pretend to do a basketball layup, many of them seem so wiped outthey can barely fake dribbling the ball, let alone go for a basket.Others look ...
OH BOY! - Buddy Holly stands larger than life nearly 50 years afterhe and his music died
Jul 01, 2007; ... TEXAS LUBBOCK - We remember Buddy Holly as a lanky kid whose rock 'n'roll seems eternally young. He was 22 when he died in 1959 in a planecrash that also killed Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper. The song"American Pie" recalled this tragedy as "the day the music died," butHolly's ...
Wellfleet cottage is `so totally at the beach'
Jul 01, 2007; ... Home of the Week 50 Ocean View Drive, South Wellfleet Price $549,000 Style Contemporary Built circa 1958 Square feet 484 Rooms 4 Bedrooms 2 Baths 1 Sewer Septic surfsidevacation.com WELLFLEET - People ...
Banking on relationships with the ultra-rich
Jul 01, 2007; ... On the Hot Seat Timothy L. Vaill Boston Private Bank chief executive Twenty years ago, Boston Private Financial Holdings Inc. was anupstart wealth manager in a city that birthed some of country'soldest financial institutions. Now it's a scrappy competitor that ...
For CEOs, admitting uncertainty can be the key to success
Jul 01, 2007; ... Business Intelligence Facing up to uncertainty is a skill that's in short supply in abusiness world that rewards conviction. But it's becoming a corecompetency for companies planning a long and prosperous run. So says management consultant Michael E. Raynor, a ...
Anti-Mormonism gets personal
Jul 01, 2007; ... ANTI-MORMON prejudice reared its head during Mitt Romney's firstpolitical campaign, his 1994 run for the Senate against Ted Kennedy.Back then it usually manifested itself not as opposition to Romney'sreligion per se, but to the conservative political views of theMormon Church, which ...
Be prepared for dinner interview - and take a pass on the onion soup
Jul 01, 2007; ... JOB DOC Q. I am having a second interview with a company. I went to theiroffices and had the standard meetings with human resources andseveral people from the department where the opening is. This timethey have invited me to have dinner with them. I have been told thatfor this ...
The fortnight that wasn't
Jul 01, 2007; ... AMERICANS rejoiced in the Liberation of Paris, with crowds ofcheering well-wishers lining Hollywood boulevards as SUV after SUVpassed by, carrying Paris Hilton from prison to the safety of herfamily mansion. "I remember the Armee de la Liberation in August1944," said one weeping World ...
At the heart of homeless policy
Jul 01, 2007 ... FLORENCE GRAVES and Hadar Sayfan's article on the "housing first"model as a way to end chronic homelessness ("First things first,"Ideas, June 24) serves as a reminder that there is a lot more thatsociety could be doing to end, rather than just manage, chronichomelessness. Getting people ...
Independents' day at HFA - Series features directors making movies that feel like real life
Jul 01, 2007; ... Movies / Local Action The director John Cassavetes despised "shorthand" films - movies"that manipulate audiences into assuming quick, manufactured truths,"as the Cassavetes scholar Ray Carney put it in a 2003 Globeinterview. Instead, Cassavetes "looked for ways to require ...
The Romney dog
Jul 01, 2007 ... READING ABOUT the Romney family vacation trip with his dog on theroof of the car for 12 hours was truly disturbing ("Romney's in thedoghouse with some voters," Scot Lehigh, Op-ed, June 29). It's saidthat the true measure of a person is how she or he treats childrenand pets, both of whom ...
WINTHROP WOMAN INDICTED IN HIT-AND-RUN
Jul 01, 2007; ... After an intense six-month investigation, authorities announced yesterday that they are searching for a 27-year-old Winthrop woman who has been charged in a New Year's Eve hitand- run accident that left a 61- year-old Revere man ...
ETF market takes off, but wealth of choices makes investors wary
Jul 01, 2007; ... MUTUAL FUNDS QUARTERLY REPORT / 2ND QUARTER An explosion of new exchange traded funds hitting the market isgiving investors more ways to put their money to work every day. Buthow many do they really want? Exchange traded funds, or ETFs, have attracted hundreds ofbillions of ...
Cartoon caption contest
Jul 01, 2007 ... GLOBE SOUTH 1 They didn't have 40 days and 40 nights to get it done, but morethan 350 captioneers were inspired by our modern-day Noah cartooncontest this week. For George Stanton of Stoneham, the first stop onthis zoological shuttle was Laugh City! Then, of course, to the ark ...
CRITICS' PICKS - POP MUSIC
Jul 01, 2007; ... Polyphonic Spree At Avalon, Monday. The two dozen-plus members of the Texassymphonic pop group have ditched flowing robes for black military-style outfits, and traded sunshiny songs of love and celebration forsunshiny songs of longing and complications on their third disc, ...
Cutting-edge, from ballyard to backyard
Jul 01, 2007; ... Pro Shop David Mellor paces in the left-field grandstand at Fenway Park,anxiously watching the field and answering a flurry of phone calls asstorm clouds gather overhead. As Fenway's director of grounds, hewill decide exactly when his crew will roll out the tarp thatprotects the ...
Tastings both funky, formal
Jul 01, 2007; ... RAVE / VA. BISTRO ALEXANDRIA, Va. - When it comes to pleasing diners, Restaurant Eveis a temptress with a split personality. The inspiration of Irish-born chef Cathal Armstrong and his wife, Meshelle, and named fortheir firstborn, the handsome Alexandria restaurant declares ...
Site for sore eyes
Jul 01, 2007; ... TRIP SAVVY / TOUR GUIDE The swirl of travel research and shopping sites on the Web canleave you wondering whether the best option is yet to be explored.One new website attempts to cut to the chase for travelers who knowwhat they want, but need guidance in pinning down a ...
July 4th fest lights up North Conway, N.H. Short hops
Jul 01, 2007; ... EXPLORE NEW ENGLAND / SHORT HOPS NORTH CONWAY, N.H. - This town's Fourth of July celebration willlast a week to commemorate Independence Day and to showcase itsextreme makeover, a new look that includes brick sidewalks, planters,and lighting. During the North Conway Village ...
COMMUNITY BRIEFING
Jul 01, 2007 ... GLOBE SOUTH 1 ABINGTON FIREWORKS ARE ON - Bob Baker is willing to gamble on thegenerosity of fireworks fans. With his Night Before the Fourthcommittee still $3,400 shy of its $33,000 goal to host the town'sannual fireworks display, Baker said last week that the July 3 ...
COMMUNITY BRIEFING
Jul 01, 2007 ... GLOBE SOUTH 2 BRIDGEWATER PRESCHOOL, SUBDIVISION HEARINGS - After a hiatus of a few weeks,the Planning Board will hold three public hearings at its nextmeeting, July 18. At 7:30 p.m., the board will consider a proposalfor a preschool at 244 Bedford St. Hingham resident Jay ...
State to deny project, saying profit too high State set to deny project - Affordable housing profit far too high
Jul 01, 2007; ... GLOBE SOUTH 1 / Duxbury, Kingston The Massachusetts Housing Finance Authority has asked a developerto withdraw an application for a controversial affordable housingproject in Duxbury and Kingston because the project's profit marginwould greatly exceed what is allowed under state ...
Duxbury to join transit group, bus route options under review
Jul 01, 2007; ... GLOBE SOUTH 2 DUXBURY - The Board of Selectmen has voted to join the GreaterAttleboro Taunton Regional Transit Authority, the agency thatprovides bus transportation to many Southeastern Massachusettscommunities including Plymouth and Kingston. Authority director Frank Gay ...
State puts brakes on project - State State set to deny project Says profit exceeds 40B housing limit
Jul 01, 2007; ... GLOBE SOUTH 2 The Massachusetts Housing Finance Authority has asked a developerto withdraw an application for a controversial affordable housingproject in Duxbury and Kingston because the project's profit marginwould greatly exceed what is allowed under state law. The agency ...
Still in the game - Over-35 players may have lost some speed, but not their enthusiasm
Jul 01, 2007; ... GLOBE SOUTH 1 / SPORTS PLYMOUTH - Neighborhood kids usually make their way home at thistime of night. The sun had faded, and yet some urged a few stragglersto play one more basketball game at the Summer Street court inPlymouth. "The street lights aren't even on; it's not time ...
Planners skeptical of casino
Jul 01, 2007; ... GLOBE SOUTH 1 / MIDDLEBOROUGH Planners in Southeastern Massachusetts agree that widening Route44, and eliminating the troublesome Middleborough rotary, wouldvastly improve traffic flow. But they also say the $150 million thatthe Mashpee Wampanoags have offered to sink into those ...
Ethics commission fines rink developer
Jul 01, 2007; ... GLOBE SOUTH 1 The Massachusetts State Ethics Commission has fined a local hockeyrink developer $2,000 for violating the state's conflict of interestlaw, according to an agreement recently released by the commission. The case dates back to 2004, when Dedham developer Paul ...
Ethics commission fines rink developer
Jul 01, 2007; ... GLOBE SOUTH 2 The Massachusetts State Ethics Commission has fined a local hockeyrink developer $2,000 for violating the state's conflict of interestlaw, according to an agreement recently released by the commission. The case dates back to 2004, when Dedham developer Paul ...
Data find a health disparity - Death rates higher in Brockton than in the suburbs
Jul 01, 2007; ... GLOBE SOUTH 1 A new survey of Southeastern Massachusetts communities showssignificant health disparities between Brockton and the suburbs.Infant mortality rates are higher in the city, and people are morelikely to die of diabetes, heart disease, lung cancer, and AIDS, thesurvey ...