Two area college students took tragic falls in the last two days, and only one survived. Emerson College film student Justin Amorratanasuchad, a junior from Seattle, died Sunday after falling five stories off a rooftop on Columbus Avenue. On Monday, a 22-year old Babson College student fell through a skylight, down five stories to the basement of a Brookline building.
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Menino has been less visible than Waldo since he injured his knee last month. [Boston Herald]
More than $1 billion per year is spent on the Commonwealth's correctional expenses, and it's rising. [Boston Globe]
The final Senate primary debate took place last night, so "undecideds" have 5 days to make up their minds. [Boston Herald]
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The Massachusetts gubernatorial race will be dragged back into the 21st Century today, after a rapid decline into the campaign gutter, thanks to a high-tech, live-streamed debate sponsored by Boston Herald, Emerson College, and Fox25. The “Race for Governor 2010" forum runs from noon until 1 p.m at Emerson College’s Semel Theater. Emerson grad Maria Stephanos (Fox25) will moderate.
By Bostonist guest contributor Christian Holland
If you’re a music nerd, the first rock 'n' roll show ever to be played at a just-restored 78-year-old theatre might be an occasion. If poppy nerd-rock maestros Deerhoof are headlining, it’s a full-blown holiday.
While we were cruising Huffington Post to find a meaningless top 10 list to reblog so we could start a meaningful conversation entertain you meet our pageviews quota, we came across this list of the "Top 10 Hipster Colleges." While honorees Weslayan and RISD are in New England, and number one college, Hampshire, is actually in Massachusetts, even we found this particular list to be too off-topic to reasonably post. So we decided to make our own.
Last time we visited Emerson's campus on the Common, we realized that it was white, white, white. At a school where a mere 3 percent of the students are black, and only four black faculty have ever been tenured, you might wonder what a black person's gotta do to get a professorship. The answer, as we found out, is bring a lawsuit. Half of those four black professors had to bring discrimination suits against the college before getting their tenure.
The last time we heard something from Tina Brown's Daily Beast, it was the dubious claim that sweet little Emerson "Whiteytown" College is the most dangerous school in the country. So we're taking the publication's latest news with a grain of salt... and a side of fries.
Do you wonder if there is a place in Boston where mid-century attitudes about black people still abound unfettered? Perhaps you have not read the Globe's piece about the tenure process at Emerson. It turns out that the college has only given tenure to three black people in its 129-year history. That's a lot of discrimination, even for Boston!
It wasn't enough for Emerson College to be labeled as unsafe due to crime on the Common. Now Emersonians are being blamed for all the ruckus in the North End, too. In a Globe article on the North End's partying epidemic, a BPD captain confirms that "students, mostly from Suffolk and Emerson College, cause most of the problems reported, not patrons at bars." Setting aside the issue of how students afford the North End (oh, excuse us—they're Emerson students. Now it all makes sense), it seems odd that students don't make up a significant portion of the bar patrons in question. Nevertheless, we do like Bricco owner Frank De Pasquale's advice: "If residents wanted silent nights... they should have moved to Dover or Marblehead."
Prompted by the tragic death of Yale student Annie Le, the Daily Beast has completed a study detailing what they consider the least safe schools in the country. The publication analyzed two years of Clery Act data from thousands of schools to determine the least safe schools in the country (full methodology here). So where's the most dangerous place to go to school in the country? None other than that rough and tumble performing arts haven, Emerson College (from which more than one Bostonist staffer has emerged alive and unrobbed). Also making the list were Tufts and MIT (both in the top 5), Fitchburg State, Springfield College, and Harvard.
After being one of many schools implicated in a scandal wherein financial aid workers received gifts from loan companies, Emerson College has settled with its students over the matter. More than 4000 students who were forced to take out loans from "preferred lenders" rather than getting their choice of lender will receive payments of $25 to $833. This is meant to compensate for extra interest the students may have incurred from the preferred loans, thus solving the big problem of loan repayment for a short amount of time. Emerson's former Dean of Enrollment and other financial aid workers (many of whom are still at the college) accepted gifts from institutions such as Citizens Bank and Chase in return for requiring students to take out their loans from these banks.
It's a surprise any time an Emerson alumnus becomes something other than a barista or a textbook publisher, so let's give a golf clap to Emerson success story Joe Mande, the recently outed author of Look at This Fucking Hipster. The blog, which posts pictures and witty descriptions of ugly hipsters in outlandish poses, will be published as a book by St. Martin's Press. Considering the track record of books based on blogs, Look at This Fucking Hipster should be remaindered in time for the winter holidays.
Jay Leno, Andover High and Emerson College grad, recently put on several successful free shows in economically troubled Detroit, calling it Jay's Comedy Stimulus Plan. We feel for the automakers (the actual automakers, not the execs who got them into this spot), but where's the love for your native state, Jay? Massachusetts is at about 8% unemployment, perhaps paltry compared to Michigan's 12%, but it's still not all roses in the Bay State. Is Jay mad at WHDH for their decision not to air his new show, or is it just not bad enough in Boston for him to care about us? It's time for other Emerson funnymen to step up to the plate. Denis Leary can fulfill his mission of alienating everyone by planning a recession show and then charging for it. Or maybe Detroit can save the auto industry by implementing some of Steven Wright's genius automotive ideas: "I replaced the headlights in my car with strobe lights, so it looks like I'm the only one moving," or "I hooked up my accelerator pedal in my car to my brake lights. I hit the gas, people behind me stop, and I'm gone."
Denis Leary joined the Michael Savage ranks when he wrote in an upcoming book (Why We Suck) that autism can be blamed on parents. The “Autism Schmautism" chapter (which Leary identified as his favorite in the book) includes this sentiment:
Hey, no more long lines at the women's restroom! In fact, there's no women's restroom at all in some spots on the Emerson College campus.
Mort Sahl will perform at Jimmy Tingle's Off Broadway Theater on Thursday night. For more information, go to Jimmy Tingle's website. All shows are at 7:30 pm. Without Mort Sahl, there would be no Daily Show or Colbert Report. James Wolcott at Vanity Fair went so far as to suggest that Sahl was more important to American comedy than Lenny Bruce. Whether or not that's true, Sahl laid the foundation for today's political satire. He...
Gail Mazur, Robert Pinsky, Lloyd Schwartz, and Rosanna Warren will be reading at the ICA on the HarborWalk at 6:30 pm tomorrow, Thursday, May 3. Free first-come, first-serve tickets will be available an hour before the reading. The ICA and UMass Boston are celebrating Emily Dickinson - the ultimate Massachusetts literary institution - tomorrow night. The ICA is installing a visual display of Dickinson's 695 (As if the Sea should part), and four poets will...
On Wednesday evening the Museum of Science hosts a moderated discussion in your first life about the second life. Assistant Professor of New Media Eric Gordon of Emerson College moderates a discussion with John Freeman, an artist in Second Life, Pathfinder Linden, community manager for Linden Lab, and Wagner James Au, an embedded journalist in Second Life. While you might not age in Second Life and flying is par for the course, three dimensions and capitalism still thrive in the virtual world just as they do in real life. Once users create an avatar and an persona (name selections are limited, so be ready to give your true identity a break) you can do pretty much anything. Art galleries, lectures, classes, people watching in the park, nonprofit agency advocacy, showcases of new commercial processes, and everything we've never thought of yet are all possible interactions in Second Life.
Deirdre Dagata is no longer the voice of mid-day pop radio in Boston. Clear Channel, the owner of Jam'n and Kiss, made the decision this month to consolidate their DJ staff. The move sounds like smart business practices; they're planning to sink the savings into internet and sales operations. Instead of giving the Boston market a more profitable local station it effectively strips the mid-day of a local personality. Replacing Deirdre is Shelley Wade whose voice will beam in from New Jersey. Shelley will continue to DJ the mid-day show on New York City's Z100 (which actually has studios in Jersey City). Shelly will have a hard time pledging her allegiances to the Yanks on one broadcast and switching over to sing the praises of the Sox. The real loss here is a life long New Englander radio personality. From Deirdre's Kiss 108 profile page:
I’ve come full circle! As an Emerson College student the most memorable moment was when I got accepted into the internship program at Kiss 108! I grew up listening to Kiss 108. It was my favorite radio station. I started out as an intern on the Matty in the Morning Show…I got back into the radio end of the business working at WWKX-Kix 106FM (now Hot 106FM) in Providence, RI. This led to my job at Kiss 108’s sister station WJMN – Jam’n 94.5FM which was my home for the past 6 years. Now I have a new home weekdays from 10a-3p right here on Kiss 108!Jam'n 94.5 also faced a consolidation cut. Gee-Spin moved from the mid-day to Maverick's evening slot and the mid-day is taken over by a broadcast beamed in from Los Angeles.
Speaking in Code is coming to the Enormous Room on Sunday, June 11. Speaking in Code is a feature-length documentary film about the international electronic, dance, and music scene – and specifically the people who make the whole thing move. Local folks including Amy Grill of Emerson College and Jason Redmond, executive director of Boston's Independent Film Festival are pushing big to make the movie a success. Right now it's a grass-roots effort. For $50 you can buy into the credits of the film, you can appear in the "special thanks" scroll a the end of the film. The $50 will get you an RSVP spot on their guest list to the Enormous Room even, hors d'oeuvres, complimentary beverages, a sneak peak at the DVD of new footage of the film, and of course the party to ensue – headlined by local DJ's Jon Schmidt, Jay Flower and Mike Uzzi. For now you can see a little snippet of what's on tap (in the form of a video invite) thanks to YouTube and sQuareProductions.
Bostonist is still recovering from that one-hour loss of sleep due to Daylight’s Savings Time yesterday, so please be kind as we slowly enter into the world of blogging this week. Here’s a round up of the top stories here in the city today…with a couple of highlights in what is turning out to be a gloomy news day. Breaking News: A crane that was working on an Emerson College building at 136 Boylston Street...
Now that the new fall season of reality TV shows has started up, Bostonist feels at home again. After a summer of Rescue Me and Laguna Beach, we are ready to go back to the network stations and their new round of awful (yet enjoyable) reality TV shows. As usual, the city of Boston has spread their seed into the homes of America with a new cast of reality characters. On Wednesday night, Martha Stewart's...
Boston has become home to some Hollywood stars for a few weeks as director Martin Scorsese's new film, "The Departed," finally began filming. This movie is a remake of the 2002 Hong Kong film, "Infernal Affairs," and will feature some big Hollywood talent. IMDB describes it in the following blurb: "The story, set in Boston, revolves around a gangster (Matt Damon) who infiltrates the police department and a cop (Leonardo DiCaprio) who infiltrates the gangs....
The City of Boston settled with the family of Victoria Snelgrove yesterday for $5 million, avoiding what would surely have been a politically embarassing trial (to say nothing of the city's poor chances of winning). Snelgrove, you may recall, was the Emerson College student who was killed in October when she was hit in the eye by a pepper pellet fired from a special, "less lethal" gun being used by police for crowd control in...
While staggering home last week after one too many Mai Tais and delicious wasabi peas served at the bar at Peking Tom's, Bostonist walked past the brightly-lit Paramount Theater sign and wondered why it was all lit up when there was nothing actually inside of it. Located next door to the newly renovated Opera House on Washington Street, the Paramount was last open in 1976 as a porno house, before closing its doors. Since then, its illuminating sign has been restored as part of Mayor Menino's revitalization plan for the once pornographic Downtown Crossing section of Boston. In 1995, Menino placed the Opera House, the Paramount, and the Modern Theater on the National Trust for Historic Preservation list. The Opera House has since been reopened and was home to a long run of the Lion King musical and now is home to The Phantom of the Opera until June 4th. Menino tried in 2002 to get the Paramount up again too but the partnership with the American Repertory Theater (ART) fizzled.
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