A tipper left notice yesterday that another Massachusetts college campus found "threatening notes" in the school bathrooms. After notes appeared at Bridgewater State and Framingham State, a janitor found notes in UMass-Amherst bathrooms.
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Hillary Clinton at Wellesley Thursday, November 1, 2007, 10:00 am-1:00 pm Alumnae Hall, Wellesley Campus 106 Central Street, Wellesley More info--you will need to print out a confirmation e-mail to attend! Here's a word to describe Hillary Clinton--bold. Right after former Massachusetts governor and presidential aspirant Mitt Romney equated her policies to a "House of Horrors" and said she was nothing more than an "intern," she's blazing into Romney's old stomping grounds. Of course, Clinton...
Update: A commenter let us know that MIT is paying $6,000 to help clean up the boat.
--We don't always put fires on the blotter, but a firefighter had bad luck during a Dumpster fire at Boston College early this morning. However, it wasn't fire that hurt the firefighter – it was his department's own truck! The Newton Fire Department arrived to fight the blaze. The BC Heights reports, "While the fire truck was powering the pumps, the vehicle lurched forward, running over the injured firefighter. The truck broke through the fence...
A weekend stand of winning baseball at home when the Sox take it to the Angels followed by the all day boozy spectator sport that is the Boston Marathon it's going to be a long week. Lucky for music fans there's a lot to look forward to and keep you up all night with that lovely ringing in your ears that only comes from live music.
Show former Idols, performing artists, and inspiring teachers what you're made of. They'll show you how to take your skills to the next level, and help you on your way to stardom. These magic-filled days are going for only $290 per day – full tuition is $2900 (!) for the ten day boarding camp (meals are included. whew) plus the non-refundable $35 application fee. If people start sending their kids to Idol Camp it might mean missing out on those first few weeks of the season when we get to discover gems like William Hung. It will likely prove to be just another music camp for kids with new branding and d-list (at best) celebrities and an astounding price tag.
Ever so often there's a press release that comes into the Bostonist inbox. Yesterday we got a string of eight press missives, all from the same sender. Boston Magazine was on their monthly initiative to grab some attention on the internets. They set up a mail merge and pumped out letters into email. They fit the below format
I thought you might be interested in "For the Love of Cod" - a piece about the surprising staying power of the iconic ceramic fish, out in this month's issue of Boston magazine.more ›
Jimmy Carter spoke at Brandeis last night about his controversial book Palestine: Peace, Not Apartheid, and the event was a civilized discussion instead of a much-feared shouting match among Carter, Alan Dershowitz, and Brandeis students.
Need your seasonally-mandated scary-movie fix, but wary of those Grudge 2's and Saw XXVIII's? Bostonist has researched the alternatives, and alternatives to those alternatives. Thursday 10/26 House of Wax The BPL schedule doesn't specify which House of Wax, but we'll give them the benefit of the doubt and assume it's not last year's tepid Paris Hilton vehicle. Boston Public Library (South Boston Branch, 646 East Broadway), 6 pm, free For a gentler, lighthearted ghost story,...
"How many people here have their own blog? How many people here read blogs?" "Turns out, that's a parallel universe" -Pandora founder Tim Westergren musing on the his previous lack of awareness of the blogosphere, and how it helped catapult Pandora's user base via posts on Slashdot, Fark, and Something Awful forums.
Boston's adopted son and rock's savior, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists are back on the road. Their first show is tonight at Molly's Pub at Wellesley College. Doors are at 8 pm and Mittens is the opener.
