Boston Devices a Cartoon Publicity Ploy
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By KEN MAGUIRE BOSTON - Several illuminated electronic devices planted at bridges and other spots in Boston threw a scare into the city Wednesday in what turned out to be a publicity campaign for a late-night cable cartoon.
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BOSTON - If there is to be a statue, it should be shaped like David Ortiz. It should be massive and menacing and brightly lit as darkness descends.
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The pranksters in Boston tested a city's patience--and the boundaries of taste in a country torn between fears of terrorism and an appetite for guerrilla comedy.
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The Boston Globe and The Worcester Telegram & Gazette have suffered from sluggish advertising and a migration of readers to the Internet.
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When you're the official New England Patriots playoff station, as WBZ-TV Channel 4 is, it means long hours and rolling up the sleeves to produce content no one else has access to.
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A group of electronic light boards featuring an adult cartoon character triggered bomb scares around Boston on Wednesday, spurring authorities to close two bridges and a stretch of the Charles River before determining the devices were harmless.Suspicious packages give Boston police 'the finger '
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Massachusetts also interested as "pretexters" may have been based there.
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The FBI has enlisted comedians in a drive to spruce up its image with Muslims and Arab-Americans damaged by a wave of arrests and searches since the September 11 attacks in 2001.
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How Internet jokes helped a Japanese ad mascot make it to American malls.
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Authorities charged two men on Thursday with planting battery-powered signs promoting an animated cartoon that were mistaken for bombs and caused Boston's biggest security scare since the September 11 attacks.
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Votes, Bits Bytes Boston bound? Speak your brains at our Andrew
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For many small businesses, a marketing budget is usually nonexistent. That hasn't stopped George Suarez, co-owner of New England Comics, from promoting his comic books.
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Another interesting piece about the low-life world of ticket reselling surrounding professional sports in Boston -- particularly the Red Sox ( "StubHub site offers Green Monster seats before Sox do," Feb. 9 ). StubHub seems like an especially crummy bunch. So crummy, in fact, that The Boston Globe will probably stop accepting their advertising business. Right?
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Talk about a dogged race &#151; a Boston terrier is starring in campaign ads for both the Democrat and Republican in Maryland's Senate contest.
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BOSTON - The media is gathering in larger numbers at Fenway Park, and it&#39;s not because the Tampa Bay Devil Rays are in town. Pennant fever and an upcoming weekend series with the Yankees is the buzz.
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This unfocused spectacle, more parade than narrative, achieves the dubious miracle of translating an animated cartoon into something that feels like less than two dimensions.
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An artist who helped touch off a terror scare in Boston by planting electronic devices around the city as part of a marketing stunt isn't running from his past. In fact, a year later, he is incorporating it into his art and trying to use it to make a buck.