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There are plenty of places around to grab a bagel sandwich, but you're often limited in choices or end up paying more than you'd like. At Kupel's (pronounced "couples") just outside Coolidge Corner, though, you have a whole slew of options and get a tasty sandwich for just a couple of bucks.

This weekend saw two serious bicycle crashes, one of which ended in death. 22-year-old Tracy Milillo died Friday after suffering serious head trauma during an accident with a car near Coolidge Corner. Brookline police have not determined if the driver was at fault in the accident. Milillo had not been wearing a helmet. A second accident on Saturday found a BU student pinned under his bicycle after crossing in front of an oncoming B-Line trolley. Despite tramautizing b0st0n.livejournal, the cyclist sustained minor injuries.

Boston.com reports that Brookline police have arrested a suspect in Monday morning's Coolidge Corner rape. Brookline police haven't announced the specifics and will be issuing a press release this afternoon.

-- Brookline police say that two men grabbed a Brookline woman in the street this morning, strangled her, threw her into a pickup truck, and raped her. According to police, the pickup truck is a red, two-door Ford that was captured on video by a Brookline surveillance camera. [Brookline Tab]

Animal New York found a graffiti artist who either can't spell Brooklyn or Brookline, or is perhaps named Brooklin. Any way you slice it, Brooklin is not to be fucked with. One question remains: what's Shepherd Fairey's stance on Brooklin?

-- 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]

             

Since Flag Day was last Sunday, it makes sense that Brookline would have a parade for it today. If by "making sense" we mean Brookline has "stopped" making sense. If it ever did. Anyway, the parade accosted us as we went about our non–Flag Day, and we paused to snap a few photos of the fun, which involved flags, bikes, and bands.

      

So, you bought that Mother's Day gift yet? The big day's tomorrow, you know. And of course you haven't bought anything yet, you ungrateful child. Fortunately, Brookline is defying its shut-storefronts trend with a new solution to your mom-present worries: Melt, a new store selling good-smelling handmade bath products of the type that (some) moms (and some dads!) love. Located right next door to the Kabloom flower shop—how convenient for those seeking a gift—in Coolidge Corner, the soothingly arranged Melt also provides a more pleasant shopping alternative to the stark and oddly lit Body Shop down the street.

Bostonist would like to extend two big thumbs up to Nate Lusk, a Beacon Hill resident who (allegedly) chased down an (alleged) attempted burglar and aided police in the capture.

-- A Gardner woman allegedly attacked her 2-year-old daughter with a pair of scissors and tried to strangle her to death before being stopped by a passerby last night. [Herald]

-- Six Somerville High School students say that Somerville police assaulted them last week in what proved to be a misguided—and possibly racially motivated—gang bust. The six students, all Latino, are not gang members, according to teachers, coaches, and Somerville community leaders (including, apparently, Mayor Joe). But that allegedly didn't stop police from rounding them up and beating their heads against police cruisers. [Somerville Journal]

-- Matthew J. Werner, a 22-year-old Brockton man, faces charges that he throttled the 11-month-old daughter of his girlfriend after flying into a drunken rage over the child's crying. [Herald]

-- Patrick Grier, who stands trial for the December 2008 murder of 17-year-old Deandre Barbosa, was ordered held without bail today, according to the Suffolk County District Attorney. Grier, a 20-year-old Dorchester man, allegedly shot Barbosa to death in broad daylight in Codman Square. Suffolk County District Attorney.

Tonight, after 16 years of invisible string dancing, gargantuan ginger hair, and playing peekboo with the camera, local boy Conan O’Brien takes a final bow before making the westward migration to take over Leno’s “Tonight Show.”

-- Jashawn Robinson, 22, of Brighton, was acquitted today in the murder of Brookline cab driver Heureur Previlon, who was stabbed to death in 2005. Another man, Cleveland "Sleazy" Martin, had been found guilty in the killing last December. [Universal Hub]

Christopher Monks (editor of McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Utter Wonder (should we tell him where the bodies were hid?), Dan Kennedy (Solving Your Problems with Paper, author of Rock On, essays appear in GQ), and Ben Greenman (contributor to the New Yorker and McSweeney's, pictured right) appeared at the Brookline Booksmith Thursday night for a reading.

-- Cleveland Martin, a 22-year-old Roxbury man, was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison today in the 2005 stabbing of a Brookline cabbie who had been studying to become a minister. The killing took place during a robbery, for which Martin was also convicted. Martin's friend and co-defendent Heureur Previlon will be tried next year for the crime. [Herald]

Bostonist felt a little old when we checked out the Brookline First Light festival Thursday night. Things started off all right, with a kid-free beer tasting at the Wine Gallery in Brookline Hills. We had an Imperial Stout from Stone Brewing, then moved on to more dastardly territority. We'd flirted with the Arrogant Bastard before, but this time it was its badass brother, Double Bastard (right), that won us over with insistent hops kicking up a storm after some initial sweetness. We almost bought the big $80 bottle, but decided we didn't want (okay, were too weak) to carry it around with us all night.

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Recently, Bostonist checked in with Washington Square's Tamarind Bay, which opened earlier this fall. The "coastal Indian kitchen" has been doing a brisk business among Brookline's ethnic food-loving residents, who pack the blue, ocean-themed dining room on weekend evenings to sample the complex flavors of Tamarind Bay's seafood specialties and load up on their excellent naan. But during the days, the restaurant sits empty, so manager Naveen Guntupalli is considering expanding on their sizable and woefully underreported selection of vegan dishes to create an all-vegan brunch menu on weekends. Love the idea? Wish you were having a vegan brunch right now? Leave a comment here, stop into Tamarind Bay, or drop Guntapalli an email at Naveen [at] Tamarind-Bay [dot] com.

We personally can't imagine skipping our mom's classic holiday stuffing for a fancier restaurant version, even if it came drenched in truffle oil and served atop the Naked Chef himself. But if there's one thing we've learned over the years, it's that no matter how much therapy you've endured, how many times you've explained what "vegan" means to your hapless relatives or how well you think you've brined that bird, things can and will still go awry on Turkey Day. And some of us are just too lazy to cook. So rather than ending up in Denny's like the sorry dad in The Santa Clause, you can stash away this info on restaurants serving up truly happy meals on Thanksgiving. (You'll probably want to make a reservation for the big day in advance--just in case. And here's the Denny's restaurant locator if you forget to plan ahead.)

It has always baffled this Bostonist that the only coffeeshop in Washington Square is a zoo-like Starbucks, with lines out the door and a riot of strollers, dogs and SUVs parked constantly outside. With so many affluent, cosmopolitan, liberal-leaning residents nearby, we thought, an independent coffeeshop serving better coffee in a more genteel setting would be warmly welcomed.

Everyone knows that Finale, with four locations in the metro Boston area, is a great place for fancy desserts (albeit slightly pricy). But did you know they also serve up tasty lunches at a reasonable price?

You could eat at Bottega Fiorentina every day for weeks and never have the same thing twice. There are five specials a day (like Tuesday's lasagna with meat and bechamel or Friday's pumpkin tortellini in a butter sage sauce), plus a made-to-order option with your choice of pasta and sauce. The penne with Fedora sauce (tomato, red pepper, garlic, rosemary, and cream), pictured above, is both sweet and spicy, and the pasta is cooked to a perfect al dente. The majority of the pasta dishes are under $10 and are available for dine-in or take-out.

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After several delays and two premature "it's open!" posts from Thrillist and DailyCandy last week, The Roadhouse in Brookline (1700 Beacon St) is in fact open for business. We've been waiting with bated breath for this one, as we're hoping it will serve as a release valve for the supply-demand problem Boston's craft beer scene currently faces. While we love hop-tropolises like Bukowski's and Deep Ellum, these tiny joints can no longer keep up with the growing number of self-proclaimed "beer snobs" in Boston; over the last few years, we've watched these misanthropic haunts become as scene-y as a Saturday night at Gypsy Bar, with the same long lines and disturbingly high levels of ambient sweat. We're ready for a new spot where we can actually belly up to the bar without throwing some 'bows.