Results tagged “Somerville”

-- A shooting that Boston police called gang-related inside of a Dorchester elementary school has brought massive police and streetworker patrols to the neighborhood. The 22-year-old victim was shot while playing basketball Tuesday at the John Marshall Elementary School. Police say that it was the second time the victim had been shot since leaving prison in May. [Herald; BPDNews]

-- A man was found shot dead this morning on Clifford Street in Roxbury. [BPDNews]

-- Boston Police arrested a man with a gun on Thursday after chasing him on foot. The suspect was driving "erratically" near Egelston Square and attempted to park in front of a hydrant. Police determined the owner of the car was unlicensed, prompting officers to try to stop the car. The operator of the car exited the car and fled. Officers pursued the suspect, observed he was armed. After refusing to drop the weapon, police took it away during a physical struggle. The suspect faces various assault and weapons charges. [BPDNews.com]

-- Some Dorchester voters had more on their minds yesterday than the Boston mayoral contest. A 23-year-old man was shot and killed yesterday morning in front of the John Marshall Elementary School, which serves Dorchester as a polling place. Voting was briefly disrupted, and classes were dismissed early as a result of the violence. [Herald]

-- Boston police report arresting a 21-year-old Roxbury man last night after he allegedly beat and tried to rob a patron of the thoughfuly named Boston Chinese Restaurant on Washington Street. Two other suspects remain at large. [BPDNews]

              

We made it to Davis Square's third annual Honk Festival on a windy, sunny Saturday afternoon. Though many of the bands specialized in Dixieland marching standards, there were a few that changed the whole tenor of the gathering. Locals Bloco Afrobrasil were one of those bands. Another was Scene of the Crime Rovers, an experimental marching band from Durham, North Carolina, whose repertoire includes lengthy stretches of supervised improvisation based on John Zorn's Cobra game. More skronk than honk, the SoC Rovers also managed to be crowd-pleasers.

We're big fans of Honk! Festival, Davis Square's annual convergence of lefty, adult marching bands, but we feel like Boston has gotten screwed in years past. HonkFest has been confined to Somerville and Cambridge, forcing the rest of us to cross the river to see the spectacle. No longer.

-- 25 year-old Joseph Cousin was sentenced to life with the possibility of parole after being convicted of killing Trina Persad in 2002. At his sentencing hearing, Cousin maintained his innocence, claiming "I can look at Trina’s picture every single day and know that I am not the one who took her life." [Herald]

Smack dab in the middle of Davis Square sits Mr. Crepe, a comfortable space with delicious and cheap food. Part coffee shop, part gourmet take out shop, Mr. Crepe offers sweet and savory crepes in traditional and unique flavor combinations.

Onstage last night at the Somerville Theater, Os Mutantes looked remarkably young for a 40-year-old band. The Brazilian pop alchemists, who were at the center of Brazil's Tropicália cultural uprising, had performed a new transmutation—this time, on themselves.

A Somerville man was arrested last week after allegedly breaking into a woman's apartment and threatening her with a BB gun while looking for a former tenant, whom he called Paulie. [Somerville Journal]

Hargo attended the Fluff Festival last weekend in Somerville and got a great photo of the joy that is Fluff. Using flash to isolate the subject and clean up the backgrounds is always a good idea when photographing people, and emotion is always at the heart of photography. Great moment.

A big ol' boa was rescued from Assembly Square by Somerville police earlier today. The reptile had a bruised head but appeared otherwise in good conditoin. According to the animal control officer who picked it up, the boa was bigger than the 5-foot ball python she found in Davis Square last month and deemed "too small" to be dangerous. Could we have a Somerville snake epidemic on our hands?

-- Five robberies took place last nigh in Jamaica Plain near the Stony Brook T station. Two people were robbed by what they described as "two slim White Hispanic males in their late teens" in the early evening. Three people were robbed at gunpoint on Boylston Street within ten minutes of each other by a black female and males in their 20s. What, nobody in JP calls the cops? [Neighbors for Neighbors]

-- The beatdown of a hapless man who was standing outside of the Kells nightclub on Brighton Avenue turned into a 12-to-15 person melee that spilled into the Allston streets early Sunday morning. Boston cops learned that something was amiss when reports came of a man walking down Brighton Ave spilling blood from his chest. He was a stab victim. When police arrived on the scene, the fight was still happening, and police eventually broke it up, arresting two. When one cop was disarming one of the suspects, the crowd descended upon him, sending him to the hospital along with many of the injured fighters. [Allston-Brighton TAB]

-- Somerville soccer fields must be in short supply these days. A 33-year-old man was arrested after allegedly practicing his soccer kick on the back of a teenage boy who refused to give up the soccer field at the Capuano School on Glen Street. [Somerville Journal]

From the Oddblotter goldmine that is Somerville comes this teachable moment. After Somerville police arrested a man for allegedly refusing to leave his girlfriend's apartment—and smashing in a window—the suspect allegedly depantsed himself, and declared, "I’m naked. You can’t take me like this."

Wicked Local Somerville's blog reports that, anecdotally at least, Somerville's parking enforcement has gone all ED 209 on the people of Somerville, spraying them with the parking ticket equivalent of unjustified machine gun bullets. With that in mind, we wonder how the writers at Wicked Local Somerville feels about the prospect of some $500 journalism whore scooping them on the potential parking ticket abuse story.

            

Social networking sites can serve a purpose besides hooking up with former classmates or empowering a populace as they protest against a despotic government. Via modern word-of-mouth, about 500 people gathered in an Union Square parking lot on a hot Saturday afternoon to sample (and sample and sample) delicious ice cream from some of the best local purveyors of cold treats.

Remember how the entire city of Somerville freaked out over the city's new parking rules, and Our Favorite Mayor told them to chill out? Well, chill out they will not because the new parking regulations are a done deal. The Somerville Journal found one woman who claimed that she couldn't get anybody to split the cost of her artist's studio "because prospective renters are scared off by the city's fees and parking rules." Seriously? Are prospective renters streaming over to the straightforward and always fair parking situations in Boston and Cambridge, where nobody has ever gotten a parking ticket?

• Will people pay to read the Boston Globe on the Internet? We may find out. [Boston Herald]

• James Aloisi, the Mass. Transportation Secretary, suggested the MBTA may no longer need a general manager at all after Daniel A. Grabauskas "resigned" on Thursday. [Boston Globe]

-- Malden police shot and killed a man after a traffic stop went sour last night. The man, 29-year-old Alexander Nesom, allegedly rammed a stolen car into a pair of police officers, who shot him. He died of his injuries today. Two other men were arrested during the incident and face charges of receiving a stolen vehicle and drug possession. [Globe]

-- A 49-year-old man died yesterday after being stabbed multiple times in Roxbury. Police found him near the corner of Dudley and Dearborn Streets and took him to Boston Medical Center, where he died. Police have not named any possible motives in the killing, and no arrests have been made. [BPDNews]

-- Boston cops found a man who had been stabbed multiple times lying on the ground near the intersection of Commonwealth and Harvard Ave. in Brighton. He has been hospitalized with life threatening injuries, and no suspects have been caught. [BPDNews]

-- Two men allegedly robbed a store in Somerville Monday. One suspect from Somerville donned a mask, grabbed a knife and carried out the stick up. He was reportedly a regular customer and recognized despite the mask. The second suspect, from Cambridge, remained at the scene, posed as a witness, and gave false information to police officers. Both men were arrested at the perp's dwelling later that day, where cops found 10 stolen parking meters. [Somerville Journal]

-- An alleged bank robber attempted to escape the scene of the crime riding his red Vespa scooter. Police say the suspect raced plodded down the Southeast Expressway after he held up a Citizens Bank in Milton. This renegade didn't even wear a helmet. [Herald]

-- A Malden teen was shot during a drive-by in Somerville Friday night. His gunshot wound was minor, and he was released from the hospital a short time after being admitted. No arrests have been made in the case. [Somerville Journal]

-- Police found a 37-year-old man stabbed to death in a South End room Wednesday night after responding to a call from a woman who had found his body. No arrests have been made, and police have not speculated about the motive of the killing. [BPDNews]

-- Two managers of Aggregate Industries NE, Inc. pleaded guilty to charges that they participated in a conspiracy to deliver substandard concrete to Big Dig construction sites. Gerard McNally and Keith Thomas were two of six men charged in the case. McNally and Thomas will testify against their co-defendents as a condition of their plea agreements. [Herald]

-- William O’Brien, a Framingham accountant, was arrested on charges that he bilked Harvard's Hillel chapter of $780,000. O'Brien worked for the Jewish campus group from 2003 until 2008. [Herald]