by David | Aug 3, 2008 | culture, design, urbanism
I finally addressed a shameful gap in my Boston art-peeping by visiting the ICA’s (not so) new South Boston space with intrepid museum buddy L. We had heard from some that the architecture was better than any of the art contained inside, but we found things to...
by David | Jul 28, 2008 | culture, media, technology
If you haven’t been following Tangyslice’s inane quest for social media greatness, I don’t know what social media rock you haven’t been living under. I’ve been following along with morbid fascination as an otherwise reasonable guy tries...
by David | Jul 24, 2008 | culture, design, economics, media, technology
One time, at podcamp, somebody stood up and talked about how her business – an art gallery – had invited local art bloggers over one night for a gallery tour and general chat, and about how this had been a wildly successful PR and community-building...
by David | Jul 21, 2008 | culture, media, technology
At the end of his Podcamp Boston presentation on distributed microblogging this Sunday, Joe Cascio declared, “that’s where I ran out of Schlitz.” The phrase caught on and was swiftly tweeted and favorited, and I wonder if it’s not a good...
by David | Jul 21, 2008 | culture, design, technology
I coined myself a new handle this weekend when despite all the good stuff scheduled to go on, I just couldn’t get myself out of bed on time: failduck. Just part of getting older, I suppose. You can see failduck in action by going to...
by David | Jul 15, 2008 | culture, eating
Is there anything finer than a good chocolate babka? Probably not, but after bringing back no fewer than three such treats from New York City this weekend, I got to wondering, just what is babka, anyway? Like so many of my favorite baked things, babka comes from...
