Results tagged “citycouncilman”

As it gets closer to Halloween for LAist, a contributer recollects her tale of staring down the serial killer, Richard Ramirez, otherwise known as the Night Stalker. Must think happy thoughts -- okay, free organic chocolate chip cookies for Los Angeles -- now that's a happy thought. Other happy Los Angeles thoughts include an interview with Jack Kehler of The Big Lebowski (he was the Dude's landlord), a beautiful and magical photographic moment in Venice...

While SFist cringed at the fatal dose of crime littering the Bay Area, it found solace in Hillary Clinton's San Francisco campaign headquarters opening, which featured loads of exposed mammary glands. In other news, SF Taxi Commission ruled that Satan's cab must keep its (in)famous medallion number, 666; and in an un-fashion-forward frenzy, San Francisco Fashion Week (chortle) bars bloggers from covering and getting smashed at their shows and parties, respectively. Also, they found a...

Every town and city seems to hang on to their home-grown celebrities. Boston's got those we're proud to call Bostonians and those we'd rather dismiss. Lawrence, Mass. is home to Godsmack front man Sully Erna. The key to the city is symbolic these days, it really doesn't open any locks. Theoretically it gives you an "in" however. The bloggers at AOL's music blog reported earlier this month on the ceremony:

Erna, who spent his formative years in the Merrimack Valley town, was presented the key -- which he resisted using to key the pickup trucks of those guys who tormented him in high school -- at a ceremony on Tuesday [January 16]. Erna got all teary-eyed when accepting the award -- an honor that was arranged by Lawrence City Councilman Nunzio DiMarca, who reminisced that "[even] when he was washing dishes at my brother's restaurant, he's always been a very polished young man."

These nice words from a hometown city who the singer himself described on the website for his soon-to-be-released memoirs The Paths We Choose as

I remember [Lawrence] was full of murderers, thieves, and rapists—and half the time those people were your next-door neighbors,” Sully writes of his childhood hometown in the tough Boston suburb. He goes on to tell matter-of-fact tales of flying bullets, grade-school pot smoking, an outrageous seven-hour police chase, and much more.

Tune in during 2012 when Staind's singer Aaron Lewis gets the key to Longmeadow.

Bostonist learned from today's Globe that Boston City Councilman Paul Scapicchio (about whom some unrelated, but interesting, news here) wants to change the rules regarding affordable housing lotteries to give priority to neighborhood residents. In the past, similar rules were rejected on the (probably correct, we suspect) theory that favoring neighborhood residents would perpetuate racial segregation (because new housing in, say, a mostly white neighborhood would end up going mostly to white people). But Scapicchio and others are backing the move now because, Scapicchio says, the problem of racial segregation in Boston has been supplanted by gentrification. To this, Bostonist can only say, unironically, "Really?"