082007_BostonPD.jpg-- Three people were shot on a residential street in Mattapan Saturday night. None of the victims' injuries were life threatening, and police have announced no suspects. [Globe]

-- Boston police arrested two men, Edward White, 23, of Boston and Joseph Warren, 20, of Somerville, in connection with a shooting that took place in Roxbury early Saturday morning. The victim was rushed to Brigham & Women's with non-life-threatening injuries. [BPDNews]

-- On Saturday night, Boston cops arrested Preston Jackson, the 42-year-old Boston man whom they say had been conducting a one-man armed robbery spree, once even being caught on tape. Jackson was arrested after holding up Bon Bon in the South End and was captured still holding the stick-up note, police say. [BPDNews]

-- Isaac Thornton, a 43-year-old former Boston cop, was arrested in Dorchester armed with an illegal gun and an illicit BPD badge, according to authorities. [Herald]

-- Joe conducted a fleeting but terrifying invasion of the Boston police blogging headquarters. [BPDNews]

All charges alleged until proven under law.

The Boston City Council chose a new Council President at their first meeting of the year, and it wasn't Chuck Turner. [Boston Herald] First maritime fatalities off Gloucester of '09. [Gloucester Times] First Amtrak suicide of '09. [Attleboro Sun Chronicle] First citation under new marijuana law of '09? [WWLP-TV] Children's Hospital Boston is almost first in the nation. [Parents via WBZ] Obama adds another Harvard connection to his administration. [...

Bike to Work for $20 a Month

A new federal program gives bike commuters $20 a month (that's like one meal! or almost half a cheap cell phone bill! or parking for one night out!) for biking to work... IF your employer is participating in the plan. At $20 a month, you could save up for a cheap new bike in a year! Amazing. Learn more about the Bicycle Commuter Act and sign up with your participating employer. Then, bike to work in the ice and snow!

A Moon Wanes in Cambridge

Last night, Bostonist came across a framed print of a painting of an imaginary Ewok-infested moon, leaning against a trash can on Allen Street in Cambridge. We believe that this vignette says something about Porter Square: It is a place where people own this sort of thing, and discard this sort of thing. It is a place of transition....

2008 was a great year for Bostonist. We expanded our coverage, got some great new contributors, had lots of sassy posts and commentary, got our 15 minutes of fame on TV ( !! ), and most importantly had a lot of fun. The Photo of the Day feature has been a dynamic and creative part of the site, and with 2009 the time has come for a new Photo of the Day......

Obama The Magic President Has Already Increased Train Ridership

Well, sorta. The Herald reports that Amtrak is increasing service from Boston (among other cities) to DC for Barack Obama's inauguration on January 20, and many airlines plan to offer additional flights to the capital for the festivities as well. So that makes it seem kind of like Obama has made us all reconsider our addiction to cars, but that isn't quite the case—plus the increased train and plane usage is probably not that great for the environment anyway. Regardless, increasing......

Monday Happening

It's another quiet evening around the Hub. Movies -- Tom and Ray Magliozzi (those are the real names of the guys who do the NPR show Car Talk) present one of their favorite films, A Thousand Clowns (1965), the story of an out of work comedy writer and his fitness for parenthood. The Magliozzi brothers will field questions after the screening, presumably about things unrelated to cars. Coolidge Corner Theatre, 290 Harvard St., Brookline, 7 p.m. $9/$6....

Sports Redux: A Tale Of Two Upsets

At what point do we ready the panic buttons? Two legitimate losses to two legitimate good teams (LA, Portland), one stinker that can be chalked up to Laker hangover (G.State)...but then, this, now. The Celtics' eight-game winning streak against the Knicks, which stretched back to those prehistoric pre-KG teams, is over. The C's looked flat, couldn't keep up with New York's speed and intensity, and fell 100-88. Doc Rivers, who spent much of the night in this exact pose, summed it up succinctly: "I......

Photograph of Times Square during the first moments of 2009 by Neil Epstein/Gothamist Gothamist said good-bye to 2008 by looking back at the year and rang in 2009 in Times Square. (God bless YouTube for capturing Kathy Griffin's salty New Year's comments to a heckler.) Phillyist interviewed Robert Bielski, whose father will be played by Daniel Craig in the upcoming film, Defiance. Seattlest entered 2009 shaking off some bad pizza recommendations and debating whether or not the New Year's Eve police shooting of a UW......

With December movies always released in Boston a good fortnight or more after their LA/New York premieres, it seemed only fitting to wait a few days before posting our year in review. Of course, between the MFA, the Harvard Film Archive, the Brattle Theater, and other venues, Boston had great film events almost every night of the year (You do read Happenings, right?), and we could have easily turned this look back into a representation-is-as-big-as-the-whole allegory ala Synecdoche, New York or Borges' Exact Map. But, instead, we'll stick to the conventional format and highlight a few of the recent past's more notable moments....

Third Hand the New Second Hand

Just in case the economy, the wars in the Middle East, keeping your New Year's Resolutions, and ruining your brain by living in a city didn't give you enough to worry about, researchers have come up with another aggravation: third-hand smoke. No longer is it enough not to smoke around others, now you can't even exist around others (especially children) after you smoke, as poisonous particles (including "heavy metals, carcinogens and even radioactive materials" according to the NYT) that cling to your clothing will attack the lungs of babies and suffocate and kill them with your heinous nicotine addiction. Okay, maybe not kill, but certainly damage. Researchers from MGH recently published the results of the investigations into third-hand smoke, which seems to be most dangerous to youngsters. Smoke has lasting environmental effects, meaning that your carpet, curtains, couch, and other household items can become laden with dangerous, sometimes carcinogenic, particles that pose a health risk to others in the area. And if you work at a former Sterling Cooper, or in a smoked-out bar that only recently banned the substance, you could be at risk, too. The take-away message is one that we all pretty much knew already: "there is no safe level of exposure to tobacco smoke," and a strict no-smoking policy indoors is the best policy for protecting those around you.

Bostonist Locavore: Pâté de Campagne en Croûte from Scratch

In late winter, Bostonist Locavores notice, charcuterie frequently gets some action in the media. People like to play with the bits of the animals that get slaughtered right before it gets too cold to feed them the things that are growing in the farms. There isn't much growing that is worthy of notice anyway. Lionettes, a South End meat market, gets a whole pig in once a week. They render the leaf lard, so you don't have to. If you understood anything that......

Sunday Happenings

Metal? -- Bostonist is a mere bystander in the epic conflict between hipster metal and real metal, which means we don't take sides. Those of you who do so can judge which camp tonight's showcase at the Middle East belongs to. We're All Gonna Die, Amigazo, and Riff Cannon all hail from Boston. Finisher, which bills itself as "The True War Wizards," comes from Rochester, NY. Middle East Upstairs, 472 Mass. Ave., Cambridge, 9 p.m. $8. Nostalgia -- English punk band the Damned......

Well, it had to end sometime. The Bruins' longest winning streak since 1973 came in emphatic fashion, as the boys were outworked and outplayed by the Sabres at the Garden yesterday. Buffalo scored twice early, and it was a hole the B's never got out of, as they didn't get a lot of shots on Justin Miller and flat-out missed some of the shots they did get. The Bruins were united in their assessment of what went wrong. Shane Hnidy: "We didn't capitalize on our chances." Zdeno Chara: "We had some really......

Not Really News: Cities Manufacture Morons

The Globe has finally confirmed something we've long suspected: the city makes you stupid. Researchers like Marc Berman of the University of Michigan (whose page we encourage you to visit for a special surprise) have verified that the metropolis mangles minds: Just being in an urban environment, [scientists] have found, impairs our basic mental processes. After spending a few minutes on a crowded city street, the brain is less able to hold things in memory, and suffers from reduced self-control. Not......

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