It isn’t easy being Ashlee Simpson. There’s the gorgeous, mega-famous older sister. The Saturday Night Live lip-syncing snafu. Being booed at the Orange Bowl. Getting caught on tape drunkenly swearing and barefoot at a McDonald’s. But Ashlee Simpson, 21, can laugh about it. A few years in showbiz, after all, makes you grow some pretty [...]
Do Not Knock list proposed by Massacusetts lawmakers here to push for a bill that would allow residents to sign up for a do-not-knock list keeping solicitors off their property. The legislation also would require background checks on sales crews. Representative Cleon Turner of Yarmouth says the bill is intended to make people feel safer [...]
OK so I’m sitting at my desk today trying to figure out somehow to get some interviews and get a web deisgn job. If only something would just show itself and I would recognize it as my big opportunity and take advantage of it. So then while working at my desk in the basement rewriting [...]
GPS Ankle Bracelet Plugged into a phone outlet in Joe Magno‘s ranch home on Rock Avenue in Hudson is a black box. And strapped around the former high school teacher’s ankle is a rubber and metal bracelet. If he so much as steps outside for fresh air, dunks the bracelet or tries to cut it [...]
If you have had the misfortune to suffer a personal injury, you will understand just how deeply such an event can change your life. You will probably encounter huge medical bills, and may need ongoing medical care for a long period of time. You may be unable to work, perhaps even permanently, and you may [...]
Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that Department of Defense will release a videotape to Judicial Watch at 1:00 p.m. this afternoon that allegedly shows American Airlines Flight 77 striking the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. The Department of Defense is releasing the videotape in response to [...]
A Wakefield woman is spearheading efforts to bring a specialty license plate to Massachusetts that encourages adoption over abortion, even though similar plates in other states have brought legal challenges. Merry Nordeen, who opposes abortion, is gathering support for a “Choose Life” license plate, part of a nationwide effort by abortion opponents to raise money [...]
David Lee Roth‘s run as morning radio host is about done. Big surprise: It appears raunchy satellite radio stars Opie and Anthony will replace him on seven CBS Radio stations. A deal was in the works to dump the ex-Van Halen singer’s ratings-deprived program with shock jocks Greg “Opie” Hughes and Anthony Cumia, according to [...]
Ice Age: The Meltdown is a pure sequel product that should make children and undemanding grown-ups happy even as it lacks anything resembling storytelling inspiration. Atleast for kids over about 6 years old. Anyone inclined to take the longer view may scratch his head and wonder why a kiddie movie is the only place our [...]
Vote for Ayla Brown to make it to the next round on American Idol. Vote for Ayla by calling 1-866-436-5708. It’s a free call and call many times also. She’s has been steady with great performances and looked great but I think she’ll have to step it up the next round and come up with [...]
After two disappointing losses to Sergio Mora in 2005, Peter Manfredo, 25-3 (11), has greatly improved his standing with this, his biggest victory to date. For Scott Pemberton, 29-5-1 (25), the curtain may be closing on what had been a magnificent late period career, as this comes hard after a similarly one sided handling at [...]
Richard Mullen, 52, of Malden, was arrested on suspicion of trespassing at Boston Children’s Hospital on Sunday. A man who allegedly dressed up like Santa Claus and dropped his pants at a New Hampshire mall last year faced charges on Monday after he was caught trespassing over the weekend at a Boston hospital. Mullen, who [...]
A new website developed by a local computer programmer could be the crystal ball that a worker needs to prepare for the next meeting with a potential employer. And job candidates can even make a little cash for reporting back about their interview experiences.
Joseph Magno’s reputation was legendary. A teacher of Maynard High School for 42 years and a faculty adviser for the Maynard High School WAVM, the student radio and television station, he had taught generations of residents from the police chief to the parents pushing strollers on Nason Street to the latest crop of Maynard High [...]
I am a lifelong Howard Stern fan. I have my Sirius radio and I am ready to go. Stern starts on Monday so I decided to check out his replacement, the infamous David Lee Roth. David is the ex-singer for the rock band Van Halen. Those of you who are childern of the 70s know [...]
Charles Socarides, a psychiatrist famous for insisting that homosexuality was a treatable illness, died this week of heart failure at a hospital near his Manhattan home. He was 83 and died on Dec. 25. A funeral mass was held in his memory Friday. all gay sickness (1) Charles Socarides psychiatrist (1) gay sickness (1) gay [...]
Howard Stern and Sirius are on a PR roller-coaster trying to get the word out that in January Stern will be exclusively on Sirius. On TV, you’ll see Stern interviewed by Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly and making a cameo on NBC’s Saturday Night Live. In print, you can read major pieces in Newsweek, Esquire and [...]
The shortage is very real, and it has plenty of people angry and frustrated. At one of two Circuit City stores that I visited, there were two separate lines, one for people who had shown up before the store even opened and were given “vouchers,” and another for the voucher-less people hoping that someone backed [...]
A Mansfield elementary school teacher resigned after school officials found she used her class computer to access a personal Web log chronicling sexual exploits and containing disparaging remarks about her students. Becky Pelfrey, 38, had worked for the Mansfield district for three years and had spent seven years working for Arlington schools. Her log featured [...]
About 25 million gallons of untreated sewage emptied into Quincy Bay late Saturday after a transformer accident in South Boston triggered a massive power outage at the Deer Island Sewage Treatment Plant. The plant was operating at full capacity to handle the heavy rainfall throughout the region when it lost its power shortly after 5 [...]
