Dan Kennedy notes the dueling Boston Magazine and Globe stories over the weekend over why David Ortiz got shot in 2019. The Globe does have former BPD Commissioner Ed Davis recounting a disrespected-gangster theory, while BoMag does not; Kennedy notes that Davis, hired by Ortiz, is a security consultant to the Globe, whose owner, of course, is a major shareholder in the Red Sox.

BoMag, to make it seem like we're all media insiders here, says it's starting a paywall on its Web site - you can read four articles for free each month but after that, you'll be asked to sign up for a monthly subscription. But, bonus, that subscription will also include a copy of the print magazine once a month.

The service magazine is out with a list of "the best public high schools in Boston," which includes such notable Hub schools as Chelmsford, Winchester, Dover-Sherborn, Lynn Classical and Pentucket Regional.

Boston Magazine published a list of breweries about to open in the area that starts with this intro: Read more.

Matthew Murphy reports Boston Editor-in-Chief Carly Carioli is leaving at the end of the month. No reason given.

Memo to every writer everywhere who would write more than one sentence about recovering thug Mark Wahlberg: HE'S NOT FROM SOUTH BOSTON and he did his maiming and rock throwing in Savin Hill, which is in Dorchester, which is an entirely different neighborhood.

Last week, we had some Columbia Journalism School graduate at the Daily Beast proclaiming Wahlberg grew up in "the rough Dorchester section of Massachusetts, otherwise known as 'Southie.' "

The Globe reports both it and Boston Magazine found some major ish with its recently released ranking of area high schools.

Boston Magazine gave major weight to SAT scores, even though 26 of the 65 schools wouldn’t disclose them. So those 26 were assigned an average of the scores for schools that did report, thereby placing them safely in the middle of the pack.

Writers now getting tattooed with corporate logos. Don't worry, the tats are temporary - you wouldn't want to have them on display after the ad campaign is over.

Via Allston City Limits.

Seeks energetic go-getter, presumably not afraid of getting let go the next time the owners change their Web strategy again, although the job really sounds more like an online producer's job, not somebody in charge of sallying forth into the 21st century or anything.

Menu Pages Boston notices that every single cocktail in Boston Maggie's list of Boston's best cocktails requires a particular brand of vodka.