Results tagged “allston”

-- A 21-year-old woman was shot outside of her own Halloween party in Dorchester early Sunday, and was taken to Boston Medical Center, where she was listed in critical condition. No arrests have been made. [BPDNews, Globe]

-- 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:

-- Cops in Logan arrested a Roxbury man on Saturday on charges that he was smuggling two kilograms of cocaine from the Dominican Republic. The suspect, 21-year-old Raphael Espinal, allegedly used a false-bottomed suitcase. [UHub]

-- 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]

-- The Alleged Criminal Formerly Known as Clark Rockefeller was denied bail today in Suffolk Superior Court. The German national had previously been offered a $50 million cash bond. [Herald]

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.

-- The gruesome June kidnapping that left an Allston man tied to a chair in his burning apartment and bleeding from his eyes was an attempt to steal pounds of pot from a small-time dealer, according to prosecutors. [Universal Hub]

The narrow view of Allston she offers (frat parties, the late Mr. Butch, "crusting sidewalk vomit," great takeout options) wouldn't be too objectionable if it wasn't pierced by "...the uncomfortably frequent gunshots and occasional homicides, the strings of robberies, and having to turn three locks every night before going to sleep."

Three dollars and change can't buy much - a coffee, a pastry, a slice of pizza... or a friggin' huge sandwich stuffed with great meat and veggies. At Pho Viet, one of the stalls at the Super 88 food court in Allston, a bahn mi sandwich costs almost nothing but is still super filling and relatively more healthy than some of your other "cheap" options. A large crunchy, crusty baguette is toasted and filled with cilantro sprigs, hot peppers (used sparingly), lightly pickled daikon and carrot, cucumber spears, a light smear of mayo, and your choice of meat (or tofu). This Bostonist tried the chicken, which is very well marinated, with lots of delicious lemongrass flavor. But really, for under $4, why not try them all?

There's something very summery about barbeque, but when the weather is so hot and humid, the last thing you want to be doing is tending the grill or the smoker. That's where SoulFire in Allston comes along.

--Why does Lieutenant Governor Tim Murray have all this money in his coffers? Might the Herald be right in wondering if Deval Patrick will take a post in a potential Obama cabinet? [Boston Herald]

-- The FBI raided Franklin Field projects in Dorchester, arresting 8 men whom they connected to a drug dealing operation. The raid is part of a concerted federal effort to curb gang activity across the state of Massachusetts. [Herald]

-- Police charged three women with abducting a 24-year old man and leaving him to die in a burning apartment building early Sunday. Investigators discovered the man's plight when his brother, whom the women had allegedly attempted to extort, contacted police in Brighton. Farrah Girault, 29, of Roxbury, Cheerley Chevalier, 30, of Taunton and Jillian Jacques, 23, of Allston allegedly kidnapped the victim, bound him with a hair dryer, and beat him until he vomited blood. Things got worse when the women allegedly set fire to a 9-pack of toilet paper and a mattress and left the victim to die in Jacques's Allston apartment. The crime was described as drug-related. [Herald]

-- Boston police arrested a woman for setting the fire that killed two young girls, Acia Johnson, 14, and her 3-year-old sister, Sophia, in South Boston last month. Nicole Chuminski, 25, will be arraigned Monday on two counts of murder and one count of arson. Chuminski was reportedly the girlfriend of the victims' mother, and the alleged arson may have been the outcome of a vicious spat. [Globe; Herald]

-- The story of Haleigh Poutre, the 14-year-old girl who, in 2005, was brought by her parents to a Westfield hospital in a vegetative state could not be more crushing. The girl has finally emerged from her coma, defying predictions that she would never reawake. (The Massachusetts Department of Social Services, for one, wanted to shut off her feeding tube.) Police interviewed her from her pediatric unit bed yesterday and have revealed a story of longstanding and brutal domestic abuse. Poutre's adoptive mother, Holli Strickland, was accused of the worst abuse, according to authorities, but her stepfather, Jason Strickland, was not left off the hook.

--Police put out a BOLO ("Be on the lookout") for a recent immigrant from Haiti who speaks no English and who has been missing since Wednesday. His name is Roc Sanon, he is 43 years old, and his photo is to the left. [BPD News]

-- A man killed himself after shooting a co-worker at the Alloy Fabricators of New England in Randolph this morning. Howard Trang, 48 of Dorchester, allegedly barged into the factory with a .45 caliber pistol, shot 52 year-old Gene Dure in the arm and abdomen, and turned the weapon on himself. Police have not advanced a motive. Dure was taken to Caritas Good Samaritan Hospital in Brockton. No word on his condition. [Herald; Globe]