PARTYLINES
From left: Triathlete Juliana Nievergelt of Medfield, Olympic gold-medalist Chris Cavanaugh of San Jose, Calif., and triathlete Karen Smyers of Lincoln.
(Globe Staff Photo/Bill Brett)
Pre-relay revelry gets swimmers going
(By Julie Hatfield, Globe Staff, )
They were scheduled to dive into Boston Harbor at 6 a.m. Friday to swim in a 22-mile relay around the Harbor Islands. But that didn't stop most of the 100 scheduled swimmers from partying on Thursday night.
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Hotels make room for a good cause
(By Julie Hatfield, Globe Staff, )
For all those who don't believe in angels, check out some of the larger Boston hotels sometime. With the exception of Labor Day week, there is now a fund-raiser of one type or another at a Boston hotel nearly every night of the year. And in some cases, the hotels are doing more than just housing the event. Sometimes, they foot the whole bill - paying for both the room and the food - leaving more money for a charity's cause.
Is it time for felines online?
(By Diane White, Globe Columnist, )
`Do cats need e-mail?'' asks a press release from MeowMail
MUSIC REVIEW
Second-stage acts prevail at Newport Jazz Festival
(By Steve Morse, Globe Staff, )
NEWPORT, R.I. - Whoa, this was a little strange. The crowd-revving Maceo Parker - the sultan of funk-jazz - opened yesterday's JVC Newport Jazz Festival at 11:30 a.m., while some fans were still wiping sleep from their eyes. Yet closing the show in the late afternoon was Boney James & Rick Braun, a schmaltzy smooth-jazz ensemble that put some of those same people back to sleep.
MUSIC REVIEW
Low-key concert from contrarian Neil Young
(By Jim Sullivan, Globe Staff, )
MANSFIELD - Astrid Young, Neil Young's younger sister and one of his backup singers on his current tour, was backstage after Saturday night's show at the Tweeter Center explaining the contrarian nature that runs in the Young blood. They are, she said, the kind of people who will go into a bar, order the same whiskey night after night, and then, when the bartender gets to know them and sets up ''the usual,'' they'll act stunned and ask for a bourbon. Why would the bartender, you know, presume?
Ex-Sex Pistol to shoot holes in convention-al thinking
(By Globe Staff, )
As a rocker with the Sex Pistols and Public Image Ltd., John Lydon made a career of taking nothing seriously, including himself. Beginning today and continuing throughout the Democratic Convention, Lydon will be interviewing politicians on the convention floor for www.eYada.com, a Web-based talk-radio site.
NAMES & FACES
Clearing up a rock canard
(By Michael Saunders and Jim Sullivan, )
There's a legendary anecdote about Neil Young and the rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd that we've heard about and repeated in the Globe. In a chat backstage after his show Saturday at the Tweeter Center, sitting in a dark, candlelit room sipping tea, Young said it almost happened, but never did. In 1970, Young penned ''Southern Man,'' taking the American South to task about racism. Skynyrd's Ronnie Van Zant retaliated with ''Sweet Home Alabama,'' featuring the line ''I hope Neil Young will remember/A Southern man don't need him around anyhow!'' The story runs that Young joined Skynyrd, at their behest, onstage and sang that very song. Nope. Young says they had plans to do exactly that, but fate intervened. Lynyrd Skynyrd's plane went down on Oct. 20, 1977, killing Van Zant and two others. Young did reveal this: Van Zant was wearing a Neil Young T-shirt when he perished.
GO!MONDAY
Squeezing in for the Tubes
(By Hayley Kaufman, )
While Go! is old enough to remember the Tubes(left) from their days on prehistoric MTV (read: early '80s), they didn't make a huge impact on us. Nevertheless, their two top 40 hits, ''Talk to Ya Later'' and ''She's a Beauty,'' were catchy enough that we can still hum the melodies lo these many years later. What we didn't know was that the Tubes were most celebrated for their live perfomances, which hovered somewhere between Monty Python sketches and bizzare Genesis-like art-rock spectacles. Go! hopes that the band's new promo photo (pictured) indicates that lead singer Fee Waybill and the gang haven't lost their sense of humor or their willingness to get a little wild onstage. Either way, the enigmatic pop-rock outfit, set to release a new album in October, performs downstairs at the Middle East tonight. At 9. The show is 18-plus, and tickets are $18.
BOOK REVIEW
A splendidly rousing sea story of a record setter
(By Michael Kenney, Globe Staff, )
On August 31, 1851, the clipper ship Flying Cloud sailed into San Francisco Bay on her maiden voyage, a record-setting 89 days, 21 hours out of New York - and just 137 days after the craft had been launched at Donald McKay's shipyard in East Boston.
ANN LANDERS
Oregonians write about sentencing law
(By Ann Landers, )
Dear Ann Landers: I read with great interest the letter from Marjorie Miller who said Oregon is not a role model for other states because Measure 11 unfairly targets drug abusers. May I respond?
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