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Bostonist Flickr contributor A.P. Donovan attended the Boston Labor Day Health Care Rally and took this series of great snaps. The Globe estimated the crowd at 1,000 or more, and it included several high profile office-seekers, including prospective Senate candidates (and current Attorney General and U.S. Representative, respectively) Martha Coakley and Michael Capuano and Boston mayoral candidate (and current Mayor) Thomas Menino. The crowd gathered on the Boston Common for speeches and marched to Copley Square to continue the rally.
- Asburnham's Cushing Academy has a library with no books in it. [Boston Globe]
- Now we know where the bones are buried in Cambridge. [Boston Herald]
- Beaches in Chatham are open today. Say hello to the sharks. [Cape Cod Times]
There was very little else for Londonist to be concerned with when the threat of a Tube strike became a very unpleasant reality. The inconvenience was extreme: there aren't many alternatives to the Tube in London despite the best efforts of the Londonist team to get everyone from A to B. Brighter news came in the form of the first ever female Yeoman Warder, or Beefeater as the position is more commonly known, and...
The results of today's primary for Marty Meehan's vacant seat in the 5th Congressional district have been announced. Niki Tsongas has beat out the Democrats in a crowded field, while Jim Ogonowski, who has been surprising constituents with telephone calls, won for the Republicans. The race between Niki Tsongas, widow of Paul Tsongas, and Eileen Donoghue, Lowell city councilor and former mayor of Lowell, was tight, as expected. According to the latest numbers, Tsongas edged...
--Authorities are asking women in East Boston to be careful. A creep armed with a screwdriver attacked three women near the Airport T stop yesterday morning. All three victims were able to fight him off. Here is a description of the attacker: Light skinned, Hispanic male with dark colored eyes, and high cheek bones, about, 5’7”-5’8”, 140 lbs, 18-25 years old, approximately 140lbs, last seen wearing tan pants, dark colored/black t-shirt with re lettering and...
As easy as it is to forget in the bustle of going back to school, going back to work, and Labor Day hangovers, the 5th district primary election is going on today. Five democrats and two republicans are battling it out to see who will fill the empty space that Marty "Daddy Warbucks" Meehan left when he became chancellor at UMass-Lowell. The 5th Congressional district covers Lowell, Methuen, and Lawrence. The Democrats who are running...
It's like Punxsutawney Phil at Groundhog Day. It's not really fall until a student plows his or her U-Haul into an overpass on Storrow Drive.
--Instead of saving up their allowance, pulling out some teeth for the Tooth Fairy, or asking Santa, three kids allegedly plotted a Nintendo Wii heist. The kids broke into a house on Chandler Street, but the owner came home and saw a 12-year-old girl in medias res, with the Wii in her hands. The owner grabbed the girl while her so-called friends, a 12-year-old boy and a 15-year-old boy, tried to escape. The BPD was...
Happy first weekend of September - and happy Labor Day weekend, too, for our American cities! Let's take a look at what's been happening around the Ist-a-verse. The deaths of two firefighters shook Bostonist this week. Boston's firefighters bent over backwards all week long - first, they fought flames pouring from the Boston Tea Party museum, and then a restaurant fire killed two and injured many more. Their efforts make everything else - like Tom...
Aye Caramba! Just in time for what promises to the most caliente Labor Day weekend in Boston history: if you mix up a mojito, do not rim the glass with flavored salt. No joke. The FDA says that the Stirrings, Inc., makers of Rimmer® Brand Mojito Cocktail Garnish have voluntarily recalled their green, minty salt-sugar mix nationwide because it has the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella. Rimmer® is sold everywhere in the U.S.,...
Can you believe it's almost September? As an ode to the waning summer we have this excellent macro quahog shot from famed Cape Cod photog Chris Seufert. I love the perspective and detail in this, and give props to Chris for the effort it took to get this shot, he had to have gotten a bit wet in the process! Anyone else have any last-gasp of summer shots they'd like to share? Perhaps from...
A phalanx of U-Haul vans driven by college students has descended upon the city. Eventually, one of these vans will get stuck under an overpass on Storrow Drive. That's when you know fall is here. So Bostonist's writers have compiled a list of tips so both students and year-round residents can learn to coexist. 1. If you plan on attending the Sox game on Labor Day weekend, brace yourself. Some nitwit set up the schedule...
Trilogy, the construction project in the Fenway that's seemed to take forever, is slowly wrapping up the construction phase. The small road connecting Kilmarnock Rd to Brookline Ave (the small intersection with Fullerton St. near the Art Store) was paved and opened about a month ago. The construction chain link was also removed. The Trilogy project is finally progressing on the road to a functioning building. West Elm, Ikea with more color and a higher...
With everything that's gone on with the Big Dig since the project started it isn't surprising that yet another delay was announced by the Turnpike Authority in reopening connector tunnels. They announced that because of engineering flaws in steel brackets that hold up concrete panels aren't actually strong enough to keep them up. Due skepticism was given when it was discovered that the glue holding the bolts in place wasn't doing the trick – but...
The not-so-secret secret that a ride around the lagoon on a swan boat on a steaming New England afternoon is a great way for a tourist to feel comfortable or a Bostonian to feel nostalgic for childhood when they first climbed aboard the bike pedal style powered boats. The Swan Boats launch every May and are taken out of the water and stored at Labor Day – USA today reports, via the AP, that the...
Memorial Day has come and gone, and despite the torrential rains, in a few weeks it will be officially summer. This naturally implies two things: It’s safe to start adding white back into your palette of wardrobe colors… and If you’ve ever been (even affectionately) referred to as “butter fingers” – it may be time to shelve the red wine for a few months (at least till Labor Day) and save the stains on your summer wardrobe. Don't have a friend in the white wines? Here are some cheap and cheerful white wines that taste delicious and you won’t even mind splashing all over your white pants.
Despite the annual hemming and hawing around Labor Day about the passage of summer and the necessity abandoning of white shoes, autumn actually begins today. While some may lament the fall, if for no other reason than it signals the approach of winter, Bostonist loves it. It's not just the foliage (although that is nice); it's that New England, especially our part of it, is lucky to be at the perfect lattitude so that the seasons do the things they're supposed to do at the right moments. In late September, the air takes on that fresh crispness; by late January, sporadic flurries give way to reliable snowfalls and dense, dirty, unmelting snowbanks (OK, that's not so nice, but it is reliable). Even New York (which is not so far away) tends to have tenacious, sticky summers that hang on until October before giving way to ponderous, frequently unimpressive winters. And San Francisco? Oy, don't get us started - it's cold in June, hot in September, and apathetic through March (or something). Plus, San Francisco doesn't get snow, which makes them weak and whiny.
This Labor Day weekend, Bostonist thought it would be fun to go somewhere where Monday wasn't a holiday. Foolishly, we picked Canada, not realizing that, in fact, they have Labor Day too (although they call it Labour Day). Actually, Sister-in-law Bostonist was starting college in Montreal and we thought it would be fun to have a weekend away and see her off. Notwithstanding some last-minute complications (Mother-in-law Bostonist had the idea that she, too, would see Sister-in-law Bostonist off to college, and elected to stay for the duration of our trip, periodically calling to guilt-trip us for not spending more time with her), it was a lovely trip, and we strongly recommend Montreal for Bostonians who crave a little cosmopolitan foreignness without all that pesky flying-over-big-oceans.
Back in elementary school Bostonist couldn’t wait for recess to begin and the big red rubber ball to be rolled our way. For the past two summers adults around Boston have been playing that favorite childhood game, Kickball. The World Adult Kickball Association (WAKA), which began with a couple of guys in a bar in Washington, DC, has spread its tentacles all over the country. A Somerville Division (the Massachusetts Minutemen) and the Boston Division (Massachusetts Ironsides) have wrapped up play for the Summer Season. But the Social/Athletic fun doesn’t end with the end of Summer. This year WAKA teams in the Bay State will be playing “fall ball.” Somerville rolls the ball on Wednesday and Thursday nights (under lights!), Boston plays on Sunday afternoons.
With Labor Day on the horizon, Bostonist feels the initial heart pangs of summer's end. Fortunately, there's reason to celebrate in the North End this weekend: the St. Anthony's Feast. Get a taste of Old World Italy as St. Anthony's festivities fill Endicott, Thacher, and North Margin streets with music, dancing and a plethora of culinary delights. Festival activities begin Friday at 7:00 p.m. and culminate Sunday with the Grand Finale and the procession of the St. Anthony statue at 9:00 p.m.
This week finds (this) Bostonist on Cape Cod, trying to soak up a little sun while keeping Baby Bostonist (who is fast becoming Toddler Bostonist) from catching a wicked burn or wandering into the ocean. It is a lovely place, especially if, like us, one has the good fortune to have relatives with a house here. However, we would not recommend to anyone not already here that they attempt the trip this week or...
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