The Boston Traveler

It looks like it was raining fairly hard this morning in New York, but that didn’t stop women around my age from showing up to drool and reminisce over the reunited New Kids on the Block when they appeared at Rockefeller Plaza. Since I was never into boy bands, I can’t say I share their enthusiasm. Still, who can grumble about so many having such a good time because of one music group? I’m happy for ‘em!
As promised, check out high-quality videos of the New Kids’ performance on NBC’s Today earlier today. Danny Wood, Donnie Wahlberg, …read more

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Despite overall lousy weather, it was very obvious that nothing could keep the ladies away from the Today show plaza this morning to get a look at boy-band icons New Kids on the Block.
The guys — Joey McIntyre, Donnie Wahlberg, Danny Wood, and brothers Jonathan Knight and Jordan Knight — were in New York to make their first public appearance together in 14 years, and aside from Mother Nature’s refusal to play along, the reunion went off without a hitch.
Each member of the band looked pretty good given the passage of time, and as co-host Hoda Kotb noted at one …read more

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Of all the standup comedy veterans out there making the rounds from stage to stage, Margaret Cho has always been one of my favorites.
I’ve seen several of her comedy routines, I watched her groundbreaking TV show All-American Girl that was the first (and still is the only) U.S. TV series to feature an Asian-American family, and I’ve caught her in additional guest-star roles in both movies and on television.
Heck, Cho even wrote a best-selling book, namely the 2002 autobiography I’m the One That I Want, which was based on her one-woman comedy concert of the same name. And, that’s …read more

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Last night/this morning, Newton native and television sitcom fan fave John Krasinski appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.
The popular actor has a lot going on these days besides his hit NBC series The Office, most notably entertainment-wise the upcoming feature film Leatherheads. It premieres in theaters nationwide next Friday, April 4.
Despite the odd title, the 1920s-era romantic comedy has a top-notch cast that includes Academy Award winners George Clooney and Renée Zellweger. Talk about a local boy making good! Krasinski is keeping some mighty fine company these days on both the small and big screens.
Since …read more

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If you recall, back on January 12th, intrepid commuters in Boston took to the subways and dropped their pants, all for the sake of the city’s first ever No Pants! Subway Ride. The historic stunt had been out of the news for a while, but it resurfaced this past Sunday when Boston Globe writer Charles Pierce gave it the humor treatment.
In the Globe Magazine piece titled “No Pants? No Problem,” the writer makes a persuasive argument for more depantsing in the public sphere. Why relegate the daring disrobing act to just one day per year when you can …read more

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