Nick Tosches, a pioneering music journalist and author of classic biographies of Jerry Lee Lewis and Dean Martin, died in New York on Sunday. He was 69 years old. Tosches’ cause of death had not been determined at press time, but he had been ill, according to a report in …
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Dave Cavell, Obama’s former speechwriter, races for Kennedy’s seat in Congress
And then there were six. Dave Cavell, former speechwriter to President Obama and most recently Senior Advisor to Attorney General Maura Healey, is the latest candidate to put out a bid to fill the Congressional seat that Representative Joseph P. Kennedy III is leaving to run for the Senate. “We …
Read More »[Herald Review] “Journalist”, an imperfect but worthy attempt to take the pulse of society
Watching “The Journalist” by director Michihito Fujii, I must have remembered that this is a film based in Japan and not South Korea, so much did it remind me of a similar incident here a few years ago. barely, during which the government went rogue to abuse its power and …
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