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  • Heads and Tales Review

    If Heide Hatry’s provocative photographic show—Heads and Tales–at the Peirre Menard Gallery, (10 Arrow St. in Cambridge) is meant to shock: it does.

  • No Valentine for Microsoft

    Much as I appreciated the companionship on Valentine’s night, the relationship is just not working out. It’s hard to break up with Microsoft…but, clearly, it’s something I have to do.

  • Free Vista, Comcast help: you get what you pay for and a new social life

    It’s not that I don’t appreciate my new social life and those late night calls from apologetic tech support professionals in India, but now that I’m in my 61st hour of a Microsoft Vista meltdown and my sixth day of a Comcast email failure, I hope that the companies will send in reinforcements or that…

  • Fairey bruhaha enhances coffers–especially lawyers'.

    The Boston arrest of street artist Shepard Fairey, along with the AP suit and countersuit concerning a copyrighted photograph of Obama, are part and parcel of Shepard Fairey’s art–which as a whole is a provocative–and, now, increasingly lucrative–challenge to authority. Still, it’s nice that someone is making money at a time when the world appears…

  • The Economy: Where are we headed?

    In a talk at Harvard’s Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, New York Times Business Columnist Joe Nocera offered background and commentary on the current financial crisis. In answer to the question posed by the talk’s title: The Economy: Where are we Headed,” he resoundingly proclaimed, “I don’t know.”

  • Treasures Over Time: Gems and Geology in Salem

    “Treasures of Time” in Salem is a beautiful store featuring gems and geology: hand chosen, hand made decorative, home and office decor, and jewelry items made by international artists and artisans from mineral materials all over the world.