On Being A Dinosaur – How I found Richard Upjohn
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View ArticleA Lost Warren Building?
You can’t say New Bedford didn’t know how to open a hotel. In the days before the City took to demolishing and gutting great buildings, New canadian pharmacy online cialis review of my canadian...
View ArticleThe Last of Lydia
It’s a given that people get lost by history. Usually one or two sentences are enough to sum them up and those blurbs become the story. The received line about William Rotch, Jr. and his second wife,...
View ArticleWhy Doesn’t Ken Burns Love Us?
I’ve never forgotten the first two books my mother gave me – Little Women and The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt. I still have them both and this week I’ve been entranced by the Ken Burns film on...
View ArticleWhat’s In A Name? William Logan Rodman
What’s in a name? As my friend, Jonathan Carvalho, points out in today’s Standard-Times, it’s complicated. I already knew a bit about Colonel William Logan Rodman and this morning I refreshed my...
View ArticleIsaac C. Taber & New Bedford’s Worst Elections
New Bedford has a major historic site with a split personality or at least split names. Fort Rodman? Fort Taber? Since last week I wrote about William Logan Rodman, it only seems fair to look at Isaac...
View ArticleEdgar Allan Poe Few will be grieved Few or No Friends
I was lucky enough to be a kid who got sick a lot. That thrilled me because I got to stay home. It also meant I got to read pretty much whatever I wanted and one sick January Edgar Allan Poe scarred me...
View ArticleThe Links Are Out There
Even before the X Files, I knew the truth and the links were out there –somewhere. It’s still October and it’s still Edgar Allan Poe’s month. Just in time I’ve found a link between Poe and New Bedford....
View ArticleReindeer Games
It’s about to start. In I estimate one week. Fox News and their famous favorite holiday story. So I thought I’d get my licks in first. You have no idea how I hate to admit this –they are right. There...
View ArticleMissing David
David Boyce 2010 Photograph by John Sladewski The Standard Times We all live history forward. Stephen Hawking has investigated time travel but doesn’t think it can work. Since I don’t really understand...
View ArticleInferno has been burnt to a crisp by critics — and even Tom Hanks can’t...
The latest Dan Brown movie adaptation Inferno has been torched on a critical bonfire by reviewers and audiences alike. The third Da Vinci Code movie, starring Tom Hanks and Rogue One’s Felicity Jones,...
View ArticleKevin Hart plays ‘Would You Rather,’ talks ‘What Now?’ with Jimmy Fallon
Kevin Hart appeared on The Tonight Show on Tuesday to speak about his upcoming concert movie, Kevin Hart: What Now?, and played a game of “Would You Rather” that had host Jimmy Fallon eating a bug by...
View ArticleJean-Bernard flirts with a mystery blonde as he gives Michelle Heaton the eye...
He was granted a 14-second divorce from his former wife Cheryl at midnight. But only hours later Jean-Bernard Fernandez-Versini was seen putting on a very flirty display with a mystery blonde at the...
View ArticleIsla Fisher’s ascension from unemployed, trained clown to ‘Keeping Up With...
When “Wedding Crashers” came out in 2005 it was immediately clear that Isla Fisher was a comedic force. The British-Australian actress, who is married to fellow actor Sasha Baron Cohen, has a...
View ArticleHorror style beyond some generic foggy Boo! A Madea Halloween fears young people
You can say this for Tyler Perry: He earns his possessive credit. Perry writes, produces, directs, and stars in Tyler Perry’s Boo! A Madea Halloween, and he’s also the best part of it—at least in some...
View ArticleOuija Boards: Real Or Fake? A 2016 Explanation Before ‘Ouija 2’ Movie Release
Ouija boards are said to allow the living to contact those who have passed on. The board game has inspired countless scary stories, plot lines in horror movies and even has it’s own feature franchise,...
View ArticleTom Hanks stars in the highly anticipated movie “Inferno,” Gino has a look
Tom Hanks stars in the highly anticipated movie “Inferno” opening next Friday. The Film is based on the latest bestseller in Dan Brown’s book series The Da Vinci Code. Gino sits down with the movie’s...
View ArticleCan You Believe That ‘Madea’ Scares Off ‘Jack Reacher’ For No. 1; ‘Joneses’...
Friday night became fight night between the two newcomers — Lionsgate’s Tyler Perry’s Boo! A Madea Halloween ($24.5M) and Paramount’s Tom Cruise vehicle Jack Reacher: Never Go Back ($22M to $23.5M),...
View ArticleKevin Hart: What Now? Comedian Uses Food & Fitness for Breast Cancer Awareness
Comedian Kevin Hart has gotten a lot of success with his own stand-up special called Kevin Hart: What Now? The guy’s career is fire: his sell-out standup tour is now a silver screen production and he’s...
View ArticleCritical Mass: Moonlight shines as one of 2016′s best-reviewed films
As four wide releases duke it out for the no. 1 spot at the domestic box office, one film shines on the specialty front as one of 2016’s best-reviewed titles: Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight. While critics...
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