Talking Politics (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
--I think Michael Flaherty ran a terrific campaign. Not much more that he could have done. It just wasn't in the cards. --Ditto for Tito Jackson. And Carlos Henriquez. And Alex Selvig. --And yes, I was wr.. wr... wr.... I was wr... wr... Damn! I was wrong about Boy Wonder Felix Arroyo. --Biggest surprise, to people I spoke with last night (and to me): Steve Murphy's outstanding showing,...
Marry in Massachusetts (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
... extreme, voters re-elected District Councilor Chuck Turner over challenger and reform candidate Carlos Henriquez by about 60% to 40%. That was not as big as his normal margin but plenty convincing. His voters are not tired of his self-serving wind and don't seem to believe he is a crook as the feds allege in his corruption indictment that has yet to come to trial. Let us haul out...
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Indicted Boston City Councilor Chuck Turner has been re-elected in the city's seventh district. Unofficial returns gave Turner just under 60 percent of the vote, with challenger Carlos Henriquez receiving just under 40 percent.
New York Times (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
... own. The quintet, with the saxophonist Walter Blanding Jr., the pianist Dan Nimmer, the bassist Carlos Henriquez and the drummer Ali Jackson, doesn’t have the force of his great 1980s quintet; it’s almost too conceptual, knowing too much about both jazz history and the dynamics and arrangements of Mr. Marsalis’s own work, with its flash cuts between rhythms and historical contexts....
