After living in Canton for two years, and partying there longer, I have a deep affection for my city's grungier hot spot. Many a memory has been made - and lost - on the square that honors seaman John O'Donnell almost as grandly as it honors Natty Boh and RBVs.
The New York Times recently published "Cold Yuengling, Fresh Oysters" -- a sloppy travel piece that lists the restaurants and stores lining Canton Square. Firstly, the illo graphic calls South Curley Street "Scurley Street" and beyond that, it appears that the writer didn't actually dine at Mama's On the Half Shell or order a drink at Coburn's before suggesting readers go there. They mention Looney's but miss JD's Smokehouse, where the food is pretty great for bar stuff. They mention Mama's but forget Portside.
Alas. Black-and-white print, written by someone who doesn't know - the tragedy of journalism, lamented by a fundraiser who recently wrote an authoritative piece on secrets of the hotel industry for a major publication.
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You know, I'm coming to the realization that it must not be as hard to write for the New York Times as I once thought. Especially for any of their non-front page sections. If it's not travel pieces about places the reporter hasn't been, it's some weird trendspotting story based on, say, three people the reporter met in the lobby of their Upper East Side apartment building. Lame.
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