Results tagged “iran”

• If your business is struggling this month, just look out the window to get the reason for it. [Boston Globe]

      

Last night, a few hundred people gathered at City Hall to support the ongoing Green Revolution in Iran and call for an end to the violence. To some of the more oblivious people on their way home from work, the chants of "Where Is My Vote" and "Not My President" probably resulted in severe flashbacks to 2000.

No word on the organization behind it, but there will be a rally to protest Iranian election fraud tonight from 5 p.m. until 8 p.m. at City Hall Plaza. Wear green, and check out Boston.com's Big Picture gallery of the election's aftermath. [Via UHub]

Iranian Film Festival The Red Card (Carte ghermez) Mahnaz Afzali, 74 minutes, documentary, Persian with subtitles Saturday, November 17, 3:15 pm Remis Auditorium, MFA, Boston $10, Tickets and More Info While Iran's culture seems largely shut off from the United States or represented by the face of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the culture shares two strong similarities with that of America--celebrity worship and an attraction to bizarre crimes. The documentary The Red Card is like the OJ...

We know that Massachusetts is the albatross around Mitt Romney's neck as he campaigns for the Republican nomination. We know he talks about us like an old fling he had, that doesn't really mean anything. And for the most part, it's mutual.

After a weekend of rain where all we heard was disgruntled Bostonians complaining, because that's what we do best, about the weather we rock into the week. Miraculously the Red Sox managed to play all their games this past weekend making us furiously check the forecast for WBOS' 14th annual EarthFest coming up this weekend. For us it marks the first of many outdoor events that will happen this summer, and it's Memorial Day...

Sure, this cluster of equipment on the roof of an apartment building in Somerville might be innocent radar dishes and TV antennae. But it looks to Bostonist like a diabolical weapon of interplanetary destruction. We hope it is, anyway, because we'd feel good if Somerville got weapons of mass destruction before Iran.

Remember that hubbub a little while ago about the use of substandard concrete in the Big Dig tunnels? That Big Dig scandal was so five minutes ago. Today, it's all about the Rose Kennedy Greenway - the swath of park that will eventually sit atop the crumbling tunnel and brighten all of our lives. Specifically, it's about the memorial to the victims of the Armenian Genocide, which the state legislature said in 2000 should be built somewhere (they left it up to the Turnpike Authority to choose where, and the Pike chose the greenway). Yesterday, Mayor Menino joined the chorus of public officials opposed to the memorial on the theory that it's unfair to have just one memorial to just one massacred ethnic group, and it would be a nightmare if every group got a memorial on the greenway (presumably, all that granite would hasten the tunnel's collapse).