We just don't like orange. An orange house is something we wouldn't do. We're not criticizing somebody's home, really. It's not for us. But, someone in Allston loves it.
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After being told he would never walk again, a Hyde Park man walks a mile for charity. [Boston Herald]
After 21 years, an Ipswich man has completed his across the Appalachian Trail. [Herald-Mail]
A Kenyan won the Boston Half Marathon. [Boston Herald]
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Some blame Harvard's unfinished construction for the latest rat outbreak in Allston. [Boston Herald]
Former Boston official is collection $162k per year as a consultant to the BRA -- on top of his $97k pension. [Hartford Courant]
Ten people have been accused of embezzling $518k (or two years compensation of a BRA consultant) from the city of Malden. [Boston Channel]
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Richard Walling pleaded not not guilty to two counts of manslaughter in Wareham District Court today after two masked men tried to steal $10,000 he inherited. Walling reportedly stabbed Leonard Bolia, 35, and Ryan Aponte at the White Pines Motel. Both men died. Walling's bail is $50,000. He allegedly stabbed someone in 2010 and attacked someone else earlier this year in Wareham. [Globe]
There are at least two places where a gun isn't necessary:
Although the state's tourism office didn't double-check the "1,000 Great Places in Massachusetts", I'm sure every community will take some pride for the one or more landmarks that were considered worthy.
We think cloud photos are hard to pull off in the same way that sunsets can be a challenge. They're striking in person so you take a few pictures, and later you discover that [wince] they look a lot like every other cloud/sunset/sunrise photo out there. This isn't meant to discourage because, as BGLewandowski aptly demonstrates, it is possible to be inventive, even with familiar subjects. In the case of today's photo, BGLewandowski has reduced the big sky and ethereal clouds to abstract geometry, illuminating their linear, patterned look.
We *love* this photo by stephieseye. There's a strong sense of motion in the way the plinth-bound columns are facing towards the man, but also a sense of grounding from the dark black rectangles at the frame's top. Great timing also. The photographer waited to release the shutter until the man was at the perfect place relative to the columns and also nicely silhouetted against the big white circle. Very Henri Cartier Bresson meets Italo Calvino meets MC Escher.
Photographer and longtime Allston resident hbp_pix has today's photo of the day. We're digging the supersaturated blood-red wall and drippy blue graffiti. Very vivid and abstract. Kind of reminds us of John Lennon's sketched self-portrait. Taken during yesterday's March photo walk in Allston.
The results are in from our poll! Apparently we should take photo walks to Allston, Chinatown, the South End, South Boston, and the North End. Also Cambridge, Somerville, and some particularly picturesque cemeteries!
-- Nicole Chuminski, 27, was convicted of killing her lover's two children when she set fire to their house. Chuminski killed Acia and Sophia Johnson, ages 14 and 13, had "a rocky relationship" with the girls' mother, Anna Reisopoulos, and set the fatal fire as an act of out-of-control vengeance after a lovers' spat. [Herald]
You may think it's a sign that God hasn't completely abandoned humanity to hear that Allston hellhole The Kells is closing to make way for the fourth Boston-area location of Tavern on the Square, but Bostonist knows better. Remember when Harvard dug that big hole in the ground that was supposed to become a new campus and Allston's rats relocated to, well, everywhere? Yeah, so where are all the dude-bros, meatheads, douchebags, brawlers, bimbos and tramps who hang out at the Kells going to go now? Batten down the hatches at your favorite watering hole, kids. It's going to be infested. Here's hoping the building's new owners have the good sense to disinfect every surface and check in the basement for any bodies of missing co-eds.
-- 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]
The Boston Police Department's School Police Unit confiscated a pellet gun from a 17-year old student at Seaport Campus-for the School for Children on Thursday. The student was questioned by school personnel about the gun, which he then displayed under his shirt and in his waistband. After being disarmed, he threatened staff and students and said “I’ll be back and shoot the school up.” The student was charged with possession of a firearm on school property, threats to commit a crime (murder) and disturbing a school assembly. [BPDNews.com]
Flickr user Brad Searles captures a new X-Men themed graffiti mural in Allston. Dorky, we know. The artist(s) may have tried to avoid charges of copyright infringement by labeling the assortment "Text Men," but we know Nightcrawler when we see him. Because we are nerds.
Yelp Boston's "Weekly Yelp" newsletter this morning promises restaurants "Beyond the City Limits" where diners can eat al fresco. We thought we might find a gem or two to highlight in our own Stuff to Eat in the Suburbs series, but alas. It turns out that Yelp's editors just don't have a map. Of the nine restaurants listed, only four of them are actually outside of Boston's city limits, in Cambridge and Salem. The other five are located in Jamaica Plain, Roslindale, Allston, and Dorchester: all parts of Boston last time we checked. Kids, don't go to journalism school; the people who write this drek are going to be your editors when all the newspapers are gone.
Last week, Allston residents were greeted with an unexpected sign right in the middle of the Harvard and Brighton intersection. White banners with the words "Allston Cafe" in boldface covered the "Herrell's Cafe" sign that signified the Massachusetts bred ice cream chain's place in Allston Village. Though the perplexing signs were new, nothing inside the cafe had changed. As the Globe's S.I. Rosenbaum explained in an article published on Tuesday, the name change signified some greater wheelings and dealings in the corporate world, or a decline to be involved in said world.
-- Deanna Watkins, a 29-year-old mother, was shot to death Thursday night in front of her children at their home in Mattapan. Watkins had a troubled history, having drifted in and out of homeless shelters, and police believe that she was targeted by the masked gunman who killed her. [Herald; BPDNews]
-- With the tag line "Find out what the real Harvard is hiding under the covers," new blog This is Harvard's focus is less sexy coeds and more sad, abandoned buildings. [This is Harvard]
In case you missed the news reports (WCVB, Globe) or online discussions (Lemmingtrail, Yelp), a video has appeared on YouTube that's especially disturbing to animal lovers.
Battlestar Galactica is heading into the distant sunset, meaning there’s no better time than right now to catch up with Dwight Schrute’s favorite show. Here are five reasons to watch.
Think you've got foodie game? The Food Network is casting for a new scavenger-hunt style show (what it terms a "chowhound smackdown") next week in Chestnut Hill and Allston. They're looking for food-affiliated types (chefs, restaurant owners, food bloggers and self-taught gourmands alike) to form teams of two and run around the city a la "Amazing Race". Interested parties aged 25-45 (and yes, they're strict about this) should bring a photo, a bio and a teammate to one of these 2 open calls:
-- Victor Rosario, a 21-year-old East Boston man, pleaded guilty to manslaughter today when he admitted that he beat a man to death with a baseball bat in 2007. [Suffolk County DA's Office]
Your T pass might melt, but there's hours and hours of free entertainment all around town. It's true year round, but the quality of free music will be damn high for the next 48 hours or so.