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Glennon, an assistant district attorney who has lived in Brighton for a decade, has a longer history of political activism. He ran for state representative in 2005, and served for years as legal counsel to former state Rep. Brian P. Golden, a Democrat who gained notoriety for endorsing President George W. Bush...
...Street) Going to Charlie’s is like going home for dinner—just as much food and almost as cheap, with the signature double-cheeseburger plate checking in at a disproportionate $4.95. The lobster is the real deal here: the twin lobster plate, complete with a golden cob of corn and mound of fries, is currently only $26. Not bad, considering that the signature New England crustaceans were pulling in about $20 per lobster just a few months ago. A favorite of less discriminating Harvardians, Charlie’s stirs up mixed drinks averaging...
...showcase for high-end American designers?a tradition Baker hopes to revive. But when Lord & Taylor was bought by Associated Dry Goods in the late '70s, it lost its edge as a fashion leader. May Co.'s 1986 acquisition only contributed to their downward spiral. "Lord & Taylor was the golden jewel in May's portfolio, but [the owners] didn't focus on it," says Christine Chen, a retail analyst at Needham and Co. Upscale vendors began to bow out. "When I took over [as CEO] in 2000, there was no difference between us and May Co. stores [Macy...
This fall the Tudor trumpet is being noisily sounded again on the cultural front by the novels of Philippa Gregory, the Showtime series The Tudors and big-screen spectacles like The Golden Age, starring Cate Blanchett, and the forthcoming The Other Boleyn Girl, with Natalie Portman as the doomed Anne Boleyn and Scarlett Johansson as her sister...
...Golden Age, the sequel to 1998's Elizabeth, costume designer Alexandra Byrne has hatched the most lavish and rarefied survey of the period. Elizabeth's court was, to be sure, far more elaborate than that of her predecessors: she had a handmaiden whose sole purpose was to retrieve errant jewels that detached from the Queen's gowns. Byrne searched for visual cues in seminal books like Janet Arnold's Queen Elizabeth's Wardrobe Unlock'd, a recent Elizabethan exhibition at London's National Maritime Museum and Balenciaga's designs from the 1940s, which referenced 16th century Spanish court painting...