MIAMI— It won’t take long for Ray Allen to experience a reunion with the Boston Celtics.
While the complete NBA schedule will not be released until later, the Sun Sentinel has learned from a league source familiar with the planning that the Miami Heat will open the 2012-13 NBA regular season on Tuesday Oct. 30 at AmericanAirlines Arena against the Celtics.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/miami-heat/sfl-miami-heat-nba-schedule-s072312,0,4023075.story
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/25/yout
YouTube’s brand new food channel HUNGRY, created by multimedia studio Electus, is set to launch Wednesday and HuffPost Food has you covered with everything you need to know. The channel, helmed by Food Network and Cooking Channel veteran Bruce Seidel, aims to form a more direct community with viewers than television can, and have more flexibility with format and content. Seidel believes that the programs on HUNGRY have strong enough production value to rival food programs on mainstream television — though the programs are much shorter for the online audience. Expect a lot in the one to three minute range.
Duff Goldman, a consultant for HUNGRY in addition to having his own show on the channel, told the Associated Press, “It’s magic. It doesn’t have any boundaries. I don’t need to make it 22 minutes. I don’t need to make any sponsors happy. I can get away with stuff.”
HUNGRY is part of YouTube’s plan to roll out 100 niche channels with original programming. The $200 million venture will be marketed across Google and its advertising networks.
Below, you’ll find a guide to all the shows and when they’ll premiere, plus photos and video clips. Included in the guide are three never-before-announced programs: Drink, Inc., Summer Beer Cocktails With The Beer Chicks and Grill This With Nathan Lippy.
http://www.pitchengine.com/bostoncom/bostoncom-launches-first-live-video-program1
Boston, May 2, 2012 – Boston sports fans now have a new way to get the latest sports news from New England’s largest and top news site with Boston Sports Live, the first live and interactive web program produced by Boston.com. The show will broadcast live on Boston.com’s homepage at noon every Monday, Wednesday and Thursday. Archived programs will be available at www.boston.com/bostonsportslive. The exclusive launch sponsor of the show is the city’s largest airline, JetBlue.
Boston Globe and Boston.com sports columnist Christopher Gasper hosts the 15- to 20-minute show from the Globe’s in-house HD studio. Gasper will provide sports news, commentary and analysis on all Boston sports – Red Sox, Bruins, Celtics, Patriots and more. The program will also include taped segments from the Globe and Boston.com’s award-winning sports staff in the field, journalists who have been honored over the years by the Associated Press Sports Editors, National Headliner Awards and more. Special live guests will also join the show, ranging from local athletes, managers, coaches and front office personnel, to reporters, pundits and analysts from the sports world.
As Dan Abrams interviewed editor candidates for his next Web site start-up, one of his questions must have stood out. “What’s your favorite celebrity chef feud?”
Mr. Abrams wanted experts for his newest site, The Braiser, which will go online in mid-May and will cover chefs who have cultivated worldwide reputations.
The Braiser will be the latest Web site in a flourishing space — foodie media — and will also be the latest expansion for Mr. Abrams, the television analyst and lawyer who has been creating niche Web sites for the last three years. His best known site, Mediaite, covers the media industry where it intersects with politics; others cover technology news, fashion, women in business, and women who follow technology.
“What will distinguish The Braiser from Day 1,” Mr. Abrams said, “is that it’s in an underpopulated yet very attractive space for particular advertisers.”
In the chase for brand advertising dollars, his company, called Abrams Media Network, is joined by networks like the Sugar Network and Business Insider. Mr. Abrams’s recipe for a new site starts with a topic like celebrity chefs. He then hires a few writers and editors to collect the Web’s best material and create original pieces about the topic, with an emphasis on boldface names. In Mediaite’s case, that would be people like Bill O’Reilly and Keith Olbermann, the names that stand out in headlines and stir up page views.
When Amanda Hesser and Merrill Stubbs founded Food52 in 2009 they were looking for a way to create the world’s first crowdsourced cookbook. After 52 weeks (hence the name) of online recipe contests, they had the 140 dishes needed for their cookbook, but they also discovered they had inadvertently created a community of passionate home and professional cooks, all willing to share their recipes and their culinary wisdom.
Since then Food52 has become a premier destination for community-vetted recipes online, but its founders have grown even more ambitious. Hesser and Stubbs want to crowdsource how we actually cook.
In a recent interview with GigaOM, Hesser laid out how Food52 plans to become a central clearinghouse for cooking questions and food knowledge throughout the Web — sort of a Quora or Yahoo Answers for food. The idea is that anytime a cook has a question about a specific recipe, technique or general cooking topic, he or she would be able to ask that question from any cooking website – or from a mobile app or social media site – and get an answer within minutes.
http://espn.go.com/espnw/more-sports/7809528/flo-allen-hopson-runs-boston-marathon-grandson
As the mother of NBA champion Ray Allen, Flo Allen-Hopson is best known for wearing her bedazzled No. 20 jersey while cheering for her son at Boston’s TD Garden. But don’t let her jeweled attire fool you; Allen’s 56-year-old mom can probably kick your butt in a foot race.
That’s because when she’s not in the crowd supporting her son, she’s pounding the pavement in preparation for her third consecutive Boston Marathon on Monday. Allen-Hopson once again is running to raise funds for the Joslin Diabetes Center.
Allen-Hopson has been active her entire life, playing semipro basketball in the United Kingdom and going to cycling class at her local gym, but running was never part of her routine. That changed four years ago when a devastating disease hit close to home.
In 2008, Ray Allen’s youngest son, Walker, was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, also known as juvenile diabetes. Type 1 diabetes is a chronic disease in which a child’s pancreas no longer produces the insulin needed to survive. Allen was by his son’s side when he was hospitalized due to diabetic complications during the Celtics’ 2008 champion run.
http://paidcontent.org/2012/04/20/cupcakes-food-network-builds-an-interactive-cookbook/?utm_source=General+Users&utm_campaign=d18b360853-c%3Amed+d%3A04-23&utm_medium=email
Food Network’s digital strategy has always been fairly straightforward: to supplement its cable TV content and promote its on-air talent. Consequently its website, social media efforts and mobile apps are all linked to its programming — aggregating recipes, blogs and video from its shows and celebrity chefs. But this week Food Network deviated from that strategy.
It launched what can only be described as digital interactive coffee table recipe book centered on the theme of today’s hippest dessert: cupcakes. The iPad app (available for $2.99 in the iTunes App Store) is stocked with lush interactive photographs and video, designed to entice the food fetishist in us all, and while it’s full of recipes and instructive lessons, it’s an easy app to flip through, letting you swipe between one tantalizing cupcake image to the next – just like the bound food-porn tomes that grace end tables and bookstore cookbook displays around the world.
Martha Stewart, whose daily talk show is being dropped by the Hallmark Channel this summer, is starting a weekly show for PBS this fall.
The series, titled “Martha Stewart’s Cooking School,” will be distributed by PBS stations across the United States, her company,
Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, announced on Thursday.
Ms. Stewart and executives at her company believe that public broadcasting will be a better fit for her brand than daytime cable,
where “The Martha Stewart Show” struggled to attract an audience for the last two years. But the move from a five-day-a-week show to a once-a-week series will effectively reduce Ms. Stewart’s footprint on TV.
“Cooking School,” inspired by Ms. Stewart’s cookbook of the same name, will be produced in association with WETA, a PBS station in
Washington, which had previously been her production partner on the culinary series “Everyday Food.” Ms. Stewart was a producer, not a host, of “Everyday Food,” but she will be the host of the new series.
In a statement, Ms. Stewart called PBS “the perfect home for this series.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/31/final-four-basketball-health_n_1392279.html?ref=healthy-living&ncid=edlinkusaolp00000008
What is it about watching athletes perform at the pinnacle of human fitness that makes us want to sprawl on a couch with beer and nachos? Whatever it is, it continues each spring as the final four college basketball teams close out a month-long NCAA March Madness.
But despite the health pitfalls of parties that revolve around mindless eating in front of a television, there is still an opportunity to learn some important lessons from the athletes on screen. And while we’re not going to match any of these young men in athletic prowess or aerobic fitness anytime soon, we can certainly apply what we cull from their sportsmanship and dedication beyond any college stadium.
http://bostoncommon-magazine.com/dining/articles/bostons-ultimate-tastemakers?page=1
Beyond our celebrity chefs, Boston has a slew of men and women shaping the local food and drink scene—writing about it, editing it, creating and growing it. Here, some of our coolest culinary stars weigh in on all things edible and potable (or not).