Results tagged “Cape Cod”

• With Steven Tyler recovering from his fall, Joe Perry is mad, and the future of Aerosmith is uncertain. Perry had already commented on the fall. [AP via Boston.com]

• Foxboro has a message for fans attending either of U2's Gillette Stadium concert dates on Sunday and Monday: Don't arrive too early. [Attleboro Sun Chronicle]

Mosley.Brian put into a photo what we've been thinking here at Bostonist with all this heat and humidity; an afternoon on Cape Cod waiting for the tide. The texture of the sand is great and the low, wide angle makes it appear that the beach never ends. A very nice shot.

Primefocus decided to use the Eastern Point Light as the backdrop rather than the main subject of his photo and the results paid off. Using a shallow depth of field and overexposing the sky to blend with the lighthouse gives you a photo with lots to look at but without a lot of distraction.

LauraPadgett took a different approach to photographing Highland Light. Instead of trying to get the lighthouse and the ocean in frame, she turned it around and caught a beautiful sunset. The sky has a gradient from deep reds to pale yellows and all those clouds make for some intriguing focal points.

• An 83-year old Natick woman crashed into a liquor store on Friday morning. Recently, Massachusetts lawmakers proposed stricter rules for older drivers. [Boston Globe]

• A car accident closed the Sagamore Bridge this afternoon in both directions, which is the last thing anyone planning to drive Cape Cod wants to hear. [Boston Globe]

• Americans spend 8.5 hours a day on screens, getting 61 minutes of advertising exposure. [NYT]
• Teens can pick from 10,000 new summer jobs from the state through YouthWorks. [WBZ]
• Obama makes plans to shake up Afghanistan and Pakistan, intensifying opposition to Al Qaeda and the Taliban with 4000 more troops. [NYT]

-- A man was shot in broad daylight on Centre Street in Jamaica Plain this afternoon. The shooting took place around 1:30 p.m. near 319 Centre Street, which is between Jackson and Hyde Squares. The victim, a black male, suffered life-threatening injuries. His identity has not been revealed by police. No suspects have been nabbed, but police are looking for a man in a white Pontiac. [Herald]

-- A 30-year-old Somerville woman was arrested early Saturday morning for assaulting a man with a 40 ounce bottle of King Cobra, according to police. The suspect believed that the victim was courting the woman she believed to be her girlfriend, authorities say. [Somerville Journal]

-- Boston's first murder of 2009 happened last night outside a Dorchester apartment building. A 37-year-old man was shot dead on the steps of the building and his 36-year-old female relative suffered gunshot wounds. The homicide victim was rumored to have gang ties. [Herald]

-- Richard Sharpe, the cross-dressing North Shore dermatologist who killed his wife with a rifle blast in 2000 and allegedly sent a hit man after his prosecutor, hanged himself in his jail cell last night. [Herald]

It's not hard to identify the biggest event in Boston (or at least Massachusetts) books this year: that'd be the departure of David Foster Wallace. The Amherst graduate and imposing literary figure took his own life in September, leaving a generation lost without its intelligent, imposing, idol. Wallace gave us many grandiose works, but the man himself will be missed for a long time to come. At the time, we fought the "self-indulgent" label often stuck on DFW, saying:

Amid news that Boston has suffered worse inflation than other U.S. cities, we've also learned that the income gap in Massachusetts is getting bigger. The two phenomena are locked in a vicious cycle: as rich people spend more money, the cost of living goes up for the rest of us, who find it harder to send our children (or ourselves) to school, which limits our chances to earn greater incomes. It sucks for the rest of us, but rich people can stop worrying about that nasty host on the Cape. Chances are, they will have their own vacation houses soon enough.

As if people needed to another reason to head down to the Cape on a summer weekend! The folks at the Naukabout clothing company decided to put together a day-long music festival. We hesitate to say "jam-band", because that's painting the eight bands with much too broad of a brush. Let's just say it's great music for swaying and dancing on a sunny day in a field.

--Randi Goldklank resigned from her post at WHDH after getting in a ruckus at Logan Airport. She was in court today and apologized to state troopers, whom she gave a hard time in the incident. We now have a new word to describe getting dangerously drunk while in a public position: "Goldklanking." [Boston Globe]

-- Scott Pereira, 30, of Dennis was arraigned today on charges that he kidnapped a 15-year-old girl from her home and raped her. Police say that Pereira entered the victim's room after midnight May 11th, as she slept, and abducted her by knifepoint. He faces charges of rape of a child with force, indecent assault, and armed burglary. [Globe]

--Investigators of the fatal Green Line D rear-end crash said they have not found evidence that driver Terrese Edmonds, who was killed, applied the brakes. [Boston Globe, Boston Herald]

-- A knife-wielding East Boston man was shot and killed by Lynn police this morning after a foot pursuit, authorities say. Michael Addesa, 34, was pronounced dead at 2:45am after being transported to Salem Hospital. Police say that Addesa had attempted to cut his own wrists with the knife, which was recovered at the scene. [Herald]