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-- A man was found shot dead this morning on Clifford Street in Roxbury. [BPDNews]

-- Some Dorchester voters had more on their minds yesterday than the Boston mayoral contest. A 23-year-old man was shot and killed yesterday morning in front of the John Marshall Elementary School, which serves Dorchester as a polling place. Voting was briefly disrupted, and classes were dismissed early as a result of the violence. [Herald]

-- A 21-year-old woman was shot outside of her own Halloween party in Dorchester early Sunday, and was taken to Boston Medical Center, where she was listed in critical condition. No arrests have been made. [BPDNews, Globe]

-- Boston police report arresting a 21-year-old Roxbury man last night after he allegedly beat and tried to rob a patron of the thoughfuly named Boston Chinese Restaurant on Washington Street. Two other suspects remain at large. [BPDNews]

We're big fans of Honk! Festival, Davis Square's annual convergence of lefty, adult marching bands, but we feel like Boston has gotten screwed in years past. HonkFest has been confined to Somerville and Cambridge, forcing the rest of us to cross the river to see the spectacle. No longer.

It's getting down into the forties at night, the leaves are coming out, and the time has come to buy your October T pass. Yes, it's officially fall. And there's no better way to ring (or strum) it in than with local folksters The Points North, whose silken sounds range from cool autumn breezes to crunchy acorns underfoot. The band celebrates the release of its new LP, I Saw Across the Sound, with The Needy Visions and Gracious Calamity at First Church (6 Eliot St, Jamaica Plain). The show starts at 8pm, and the $8 admission fee includes a vinyl LP.

Boston Police are asking the community to help identify suspects in the five street robberies reported in Jamaica Plain on Tuesday. BPDNews.com posted summaries of each incident and tips on protecting yourself against potential robbers. Anyone with information can contact police at (617) 343-5628. Anonymous tips can be reported to CrimeStoppers at 1(800)494-TIPS or text a ‘TIP’ to CRIME (27463). [BPDNews.com]

-- Five robberies took place last nigh in Jamaica Plain near the Stony Brook T station. Two people were robbed by what they described as "two slim White Hispanic males in their late teens" in the early evening. Three people were robbed at gunpoint on Boylston Street within ten minutes of each other by a black female and males in their 20s. What, nobody in JP calls the cops? [Neighbors for Neighbors]

This year's Jamaica Plain World's Fair, a street party that traditionally stretches down Centre Street from Hyde Square to Jackson Square, has been canceled, according to the fair's Web site. No make up day has been announced, so we're free to assume that, for the second consecutive year, there will be no festival. The JP World's Fair had to keep its tents in the garage last year because of a lack of funding. What a downer.

-- 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]

-- Shades of Dianne Wilkerson: A Malden woman was arrested in Quincy for allegedly wearing a bra stuffed with 19 bags of crack. That must have made for an unsettling profile. [Herald]

Thanks for ruining our evening, Universal Hub. It turns out that the West Nile Virus has been found in Jamaica Plain.

-- Boston police have identified the bodies of the two men who were found dead and parked in a car outside of a Hyde Park apartment building last week. The victims, Anthony Glover, 33, of Taunton and Paul Roberson, 25 of Randolph, had been shot and stabbed to death, and police are looking for suspects in the murders. [BPDNews]

-- A barrage of gunshots resulted in a triple shooting early Sunday morning outside of a Cape Verdean restaurant in Dorchester. Two men died. One of them, 47-year-old Manuel Monteiro, was the cook at Ka-Carlos Bar and Grill and was shot inside the restaurant by a stray bullet. Jovanny Eason, a 20-year-old, died from multiple gunshot wounds. A third victim arrived at Boston Medical Center with a non-life-threatening gunshot wound to his leg. [Herald]

Yelp Boston's "Weekly Yelp" newsletter this morning promises restaurants "Beyond the City Limits" where diners can eat al fresco. We thought we might find a gem or two to highlight in our own Stuff to Eat in the Suburbs series, but alas. It turns out that Yelp's editors just don't have a map. Of the nine restaurants listed, only four of them are actually outside of Boston's city limits, in Cambridge and Salem. The other five are located in Jamaica Plain, Roslindale, Allston, and Dorchester: all parts of Boston last time we checked. Kids, don't go to journalism school; the people who write this drek are going to be your editors when all the newspapers are gone.

  

We looked out the window of Bostonist's Jamaica Plain "offices" a few moments ago and saw something awesome: a Land O Lakes truck delivering the gigantic recycling bins that are rolling out all over Boston. Universal Hub has tracked the bins as they've moved north from Boston's southern neighborhoods, and we've been waiting for ours since July 1st.

              

Bostonist made it to Mozart Park in Jamaica Plain last night in time to catch the second set by Orquesta Bacharengue, the fusion ensemble headed by Berklee faculty member Ricardo Monzón. The group fuses the Domincan styles of bachata and merengue for a unique, polyrhythmic dance music surgically designed to shake booties. The concert was part of Berklee's Tito Puente Latin Music Series, which continues next week in Somerville's O'Day Park. Also on hand were volunteers from the Hyde Park Task Force, who were offering folks everything from voter registration forms to applications to model clothes at the group's annual fashion show.

-- Boston police captured a man allegedly breaking into a second floor Jamaica Plain apartment while his pants were waiting for him in the backyard. [BPDNews]

-- A man was shot in the face last night on Groom Street in Dorchester, capping off a bloody couple of days around the Hub. He remains in critical condition, and no arrests have been made. [Herald]

Some thug left a defenseless kitten in a Hyde Park mailbox Saturday, according to news reports. A postman discovered the kitten and quickly brought her to the MSPCA hospital in Jamaica Plain, where she is recovering from being shoved through the narrow postbox slot. She will be put up adoption soon.

--The 89-yar old woman who hit a 4-year old and killed her in Stoughton on Saturday charged with motor vehicle homicide and had her license revoked by the Registry. [Globe]

-- A carrying a baby was robbed by knifepoint near the Southwest Corridor Park in Jamaica Plain. The park, which is under State Police jurisdiction, has been the site of several robberies, assaults, and arrests in recent months. [JPGazette]

-- Hired car driver Darryl Hopkins gave testimony in the trial of the Alleged Criminal Formerly Known as Clark Rockefeller, and divulged weird details that could significantly impact the evil-mastermind-or-douche debate. According to Hopkins, Rockefeller went cloak and dagger after hiring the cab driver, eliciting suggestions for a suitable getaway street, practicing jumping into a moving SUV, and paying for a shady and expensive round trip to New York City, all while hiding his alleged intentions of kidnapping his daughter. [Globe]

If you’re looking for a fun, relaxing way to spend an afternoon, chances are you’re not going to head for a cemetery. In fact, a cemetery is probably one of the last places you’d think of because, well, the reasons we generally go to cemeteries are not often happy ones. Unles you’re one of the thousands of people who go to Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris to shower Oscar Wilde’s grave marker with kisses or to do, um, questionable things at Jim Morrison’s grave. But let’s face it: Boston cemeteries just don’t provide that same allure. Who needs to rub up on Sam Adams like that?

-- 17-year-old Kiara Santiago of Roxbury pleaded not guilty yesterday to charges that she and accomplices invaded the home a 60-year-old Quincy man, robbed him, stripped him naked, and left him bound and gagged. The victim, Robert Noons, was a friend of Santiago's family, police say, and was relieved of $18,000, cash. The police report quotes Santiago as admitting that she and her four alleged accomplices planned to "rob Noons of all his drugs and his money," an interesting twist that might explain why the man had $18,000 in cash, but police have made no allegations that Noons possessed drugs. [Herald]

-- Boston police arrested three suspects in connection with last Tuesday's non-fatal shooting on Centre Street in Jamaica Plain. The shooting was apparently drug-related, and the three suspects, aged 26 to 30, were charged with guns and drugs charges but not assault. Police tracked them down by using eyewitness accounts of the getaway van. [BPDNews]

Best Friends is the name of this photo from gyromcsquart and it certainly seems fitting. Taken in Arnold Arboretum in Jamaica Plain, this shot is one of those that feels timeless. I can see these young ladies look back on this photo many years from now and getting brought back to this point in time.

Bostonist couldn't restrain ourselves from eating a slice (or four) before taking a photo of this delicious pizza, the first to be delivered to our house from the new Bella Luna location. The Jamaica Plain restaurant, which had been chased out of its space on Centre Street by greedy landlords who must be loving the New Economy, moved via parade to a new space at the Brewery Complex last month. Bella Luna reopened at its new location yesterday.