Kerry Skemp

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• Posted Gordon Willis, the Man Who Plays Peekaboo to Bostonist
  Image from Wikipedia Gordon Willis Showcase Harvard Film Archive (24 Quincy St, Cambridge) Pennies from Heaven, The Parallax View, The Purple Rose of Cairo, The Godfather, The Godfather: Part II, The Landlord Through November 30 Last night, Bostonist had the pleasure of watching the Woody Allen classic Manhattan open up the HFA’s Gordon Willis series, featuring Willis live and in person. From dating a high schooler to dating his best friend’s mistress to quitting...
• Posted Boston Seventh Strangest City in U.S. to Bostonist
  Do you ever feel like weird shit hapens a lot in Boston? Well, you're not wrong. Tableseed.com, some kind of weird email system for restaurants, has inexplicably come up with a list of the strangest cities (and states) in the U.S. Boston makes the top ten, coming in at #7 behind (explicably) NYC, Philly, and Chicago, but (perhaps inexplicably) Lincoln, NE. Is it really that weird there? Boston shows well, but other Massachusetts cities are...
• Posted Cartography: The Ultimate Senatorial Test to Bostonist
  Image from Wikimedia Commons, adapted from Libre Map Project by Chris 73 Haven't picked your horse in the Massachusetts Senate special election yet? Not swayed by rhymes? Never fear, a new test is here: map-drawing. In celebration of Geography Awareness Week (which is now coming to an end), National Geographic challenged senators to draw maps of the states they represent and point out at least three major locations therein. So far, only 11 states...
• Posted Does Boston Need an Open Market? to Bostonist
  As farmer's markets close, BostonZest is daydreaming about a Boston Public Market. Would you be interested in a year-round local food experience? Try Local Harvest for finding a resource in your area, or join the public market crusade....
• Posted Massachusetts College to Celebrate New York Yankees to Bostonist
  WBZ reports that Endicott College in Beverly will host a celebration of the World Series–winning New York Yankees. Slated to involve a pinstriped fire hydrant, the celebration is described to WBZ by president Dick Wylie as a way to teach "tolerance." However, WHDH describes the event as the result of a bet between Wylie and a Red Sox fan on campus. How a Yankees fan got to be president of a Massachusetts school is somewhat...