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Darren Garnick

Boston

Journalist at Freelance

Pop culture writer, media junkie. Lover of Red Sox baseball, Batman 1966, the Flintstones, pinball, and Kinder Eggs.

Articles

  • Aug 11, 2024 | tasteforlife.com | Darren Garnick

    Leandra Becerra Lumbreras, matriarch to 73 great-grandchildren and 55 great-great grandchildren, attributed her longevity to eating chocolate, sleeping for days at a time, and never getting married. According to her family, she kept her mind sharp by sewing and weaving. Lumbreras' family claimed she lived to age 127. In Japan, the late Misao Okawa, the daughter of a kimono maker, credited her good fortune to eating fish and sleeping eight hours a night.

  • Aug 18, 2023 | nhmagazine.com | Darren Garnick |Allegra Boverman

    The year 2023 has marked two major milestones in breakfast cereal history. First, it’s the 60th birthday of Cap’n Crunch, the cheery sea captain who hasn’t aged since 1963. Perhaps even more significant is that this Halloween, a green-skinned zombie DJ named “Carmella Creeper” will break through the cardboard ceiling. The first female monster at General Mills will serve caramel apple-flavored cereal, joining Count Chocula, Franken Berry, Yummy Mummy, Boo Berry and Frute Brute.

  • Aug 18, 2023 | nhmagazine.com | Darren Garnick |Allegra Boverman

    Todd Zingales + Museum of G.I. Joes, Hollis Todd Zingales, a pastry chef for New Hampshire Job Corps, likes cooking up different scenarios for customizing his G.I. Joe collection. His basement workshop includes materials for painting, sculpting and even replacing flocked hair.

  • Aug 18, 2023 | nhmagazine.com | Darren Garnick |Allegra Boverman

    Catherine Brouillette + Museum of Strawberry Shortcake, Peterborough One of Catherine Brouillette’s earliest memories of Strawberry Shortcake — the doll, not the dessert — was finding herself stuck headfirst in the zippered end of her character-themed sleeping bag. It was a berry, berry precarious situation that she doesn’t remember how she escaped.

  • Aug 18, 2023 | nhmagazine.com | Darren Garnick |Ilya Mirman

    When retired state Bureau of Traffic designer Dave Bernier goes to sleep each night, there are dozens of tiny eyeballs staring at him. Among the familiar faces squinting in the dark: Daffy Duck, Tweety Bird, Tom & Jerry, E.T., Speedy Gonzales, Batman, and Bullseye, the eye-ringed dog mascot of the Target Corporation.

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Darren Garnick
Darren Garnick @darrengarnick
14 Feb 23

Extremely impressed by the Valentine's creativity and humor from the Worcester Red Sox marketing team today! #marketing #ValentinesDay #RedSoxNation @WooSox https://t.co/kMJkbFvJgD

Darren Garnick
Darren Garnick @darrengarnick
31 Aug 22

RT @fotochica: Writer @darrengarnick and I had so much fun working on this piece with lots of fun people and their quirky vanity plates! :)…

Darren Garnick
Darren Garnick @darrengarnick
21 Aug 22

New Hampshire has 10X the amount of vanity license plates per capita than neighboring Massachusetts. We are a state of individualists! #vanityplates #licenseplates https://t.co/QJRnnKvunV