National Grid’s Massachusetts Electric Co. operations saw revenue in its fiscal third quarter fall by nearly $100 million as demand for electricity swooned, according to a recent financial report ...
Fidelity Investments, the Boston-based mutual fund giant, said revenue fell sharply in 2009, but the company reported a 5 percent increase in operating profit on the strength of distributing investment products — including those from its rivals — to clients ...
The Senator masters the art of playing it safe. Plus, Deval vs. the Legislature ... Senator Scott Brown is getting a lot of praise from the left and abuse from the right for crossing party lines to help pass a jobs bill earlier this week ... Senator Scott Brown is getting a lot of praise from the left and abuse from the right for crossing party lines to help pass a jobs bill earlier this week. The conservatives' acrimony is as predictable as it is irrational, and Brown deserves to suffer their
Jonathan Demme wins the Coolidge Award ... How can someone make so many movies for so long and still be such a nice guy? Once again, the Coolidge Corner Theatre is giving its Coolidge Award to a filmmaker who genuinely deserves the recognition. Hollywood seldom turns out anyone as good-natured, talented, and eclectic as Jonathan Demme ... How can someone make so many movies for so long and still be such a nice guy? Once again, the Coolidge Corner Theatre is giving its Coolidge Award (the
On the front lines of Obama's campaign in Afghanistan ... Major Jim Contreras was awaiting his marching orders. Literally ... Major Jim Contreras was awaiting his marching orders. Literally. Stuck in Lashkar Gah, the capital of the Afghan province of Helmand, he was supposed to take his troops, along with a unit of an elite Afghan police force known as ANCOP, to secure the area around Nawa, so the people there could vote. It was part of the past year's biggest US offensive against the Taliban.
The BSO and Boston Baroque at their best ... Martin Pearlman's edition of Monteverdi's Vespro della Beate Vergine, with inserted antiphons to suggest an actual service, remains a masterpiece of historical research and inspired guesswork ... PARADISE REGAINED? Renée Fleming’s performance of Richard Strauss’s Four Last Songs might have echoed in your dreams ... Many concerts are very good, some are great, and the rare few are a privilege to be present at. In that last category was an
First Annual Boston Jewish Music Festival, plus the Klezmatics ... Defining "Jewish" music is pretty much a fool's task — not much easier than defining jazz ... THEY’RE AN AMERICAN BAND: Encounters with Jewish African-American gospel singer Joshua Nelson and Woody Guthrie have changed how the Klezmatics see themselves ... READ: "Netsky notes: The KCB’s main man talks Klezmer," by Jon Garelick ... Defining "Jewish" music is pretty much a fool's task — not much easier than defining jazz.
T-Model Ford turns 90 ... or thereabouts ... Bluesman James "T-Model" Ford is a survivor, and has been for a very long time ... A/K/A 'THE MAN' "I'm the best of 'em. Nobody can touch me. I'm a bad man, and all the ladies wanna flag my train." ... Bluesman James "T-Model" Ford is a survivor, and has been for a very long time. When he was a boy, he was beaten so severely by his father that he lay down in a ditch to die. His mother rescued him, but the incident cost him a testicle. As a young