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...Record Hospital is a nocturnal organization whose purpose is to "expose people to great rock music that they'd otherwise have a hard time finding," according to disc jockey Burt. On the air from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. every night except Sunday, when it starts at midnight, the Record Hospital has become a fixture of the Boston underground music scene by playing rock that is generally unknown and often unusual. The Record Hospital, however, does not value the music it plays solely for its rarity...
DeMay is still the disc jockey for the Fridaynight edition of WHRB's nightly punk rock show,"The Record Hospital...
...horse racing, jockey Julie Krone has compiled an impressive record, including winning a Triple Crown event, but riding a horse--while grueling--seems a poor test of athletic mettle. The closest thing we've seen to progress has been the story of ice hockey goalie Erin Whitten earlier this year. Whitten, relieving an injured teammate during a game this fall in the all-professional East Coast Hockey League, was credited with the victory for the Toledo Storm. "A barrier is broken," proclaimed Boston Globe columnist Dan Shaughnessy...
...Hear, ye! Hear, ye! Let freedom ring out for all our brothers and sisters to the north!" The unlikely crier, Buffalo disk jockey Darren McKee, stands near the Peace Bridge that links New York State with Ontario, bellowing excerpts from a Washington Post article through a bullhorn to Canadians on the far shore. WXYT, a Detroit AM station, provides Canadians in neighboring Windsor with an hour-long reading of the same article. The show, seditiously dubbed "Radio Free Windsor," has a loftier purpose, according to Michael Packer, WXYT's director of operations: "It's a reminder to the American side...
Stern graduated with good grades from prestigious Boston University, and has assembled an unbroken onward-and-upward resume of better and better radio jobs ever since. Limbaugh dropped out of Southeast Missouri State after a year and had a nondescript disk-jockey and p.r. career, getting fired from five jobs during his 20s and 30s. Howard met his wife in college 19 years ago, married her four years later and proudly says he has been faithful to her. Alison Stern, the very picture of the cheerful, wholesome middle-American housewife, raises their three daughters, ages 9 months to 10 years...