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Boston's annual Christmas traditions are well underway now that Thanksgiving has come and gone.
--A level 3 sex offender with some serious impulse-control issues got busted in Cambridge District Court yesterday. According to the Herald, he went to the ladies' restroom, exposed himself, and masturbated in front of women in the restroom. Police arrested 48-year-old Malcolm Maker, who apparently really wanted to get caught. Far as we can tell, he had no other reason for being at the courthouse. He was already on the radar for incidents at Mohegan...
Protest over national vs. regional chains, the never-ending debate over the place of cars and bicycles in our metropolises, professional sports scandals, remembering a solemn day, and being issued a search warrant - it all happened across our sites this week! Another banner week at Chicagoist started off with daily reports from food writer Lisa Shames on her attempt to eat only locally grown and raised foodstuffs all week as part of a farmers market...
All across the Ist-A-Verse (or at least the American parts thereof), writers and editors are in the midst of enjoying their three-day weekend. But after the week we've all had, we feel like the break is not only needed, but deserved. Just look at everything we've been doing! Gothamist headed into the Memorial Day weekend with a number of tasks accomplished. They worried about Long Islanders giving New Yorkers a bad name. They tried...
Once upon a time in a land far, far…oh. No. It was Brockton. Back in 1890 James Edgar of Edgar's Department Store in Brockton sported a white beard and a belly laugh, he suited up as Santa Claus for an appearance in his Brockton Store. It wasn't Macy's, it wasn't Coke, it was a store in "The City of Champions" where the department store Santa was born. In the interest of full disclosure it appears that a Kris Kringle character did make an appearance in a Philadelphia store in 1841 – but Edgar's really marked the birth of the department store Santa. Kids growing up today know more of the "mall" Santa. He checks his list and listens to children's wishes from that coveted spot in the middle of the food court or a Santa's village placed in the crossroads of all the anchor stores of the mall (maybe where the Easter Bunny lives in the spring).
This little gem came in on the tip line over lunch So what's filled with over 10,000 gallons of water and in Boston metro area? If you guessed "AQUARIUM." You're right. If you guessed "Best Buy at Cambridgeide." You're also right!As it turns out 10,000 gallons is a lot less than we thought, an Olympic Swimming Pool holds quite a bit more. 10,000 gallons (an imprecise calculation – probably more likely on the scale of...
Downtown Crossing is set for a makeover. It's yet unseen what the City will do to improve the space (planters and pushcart awnings are promised). A big spot on the block is slated to be vacant very soon. Filene's will be no longer. Macy's parent corporation has merged with Filene's Federated, and is in the process of converting the Filene's branded stores to Macy's – and where they're in competition, consolidation will follow. Menino seems...
Because you're the only one in the office today and you've got the music cranked up as it flows from your computer – but you just want a little bit something different. Because last comic standing isn't going to be on tomorrow night (NBC shows the Macy's fireworks from NYC) and you're itching for some comedy. Because you can't stand the fact the Eugene Mirman calls New York home and not Cambridge. Because you're still pissed that they cancelled Home Movies (and Brendan Small doesn't live in Cambridge with Mirman anymore). Because you love Tim McIntire and need a half hour of his humor to make it until you duck out of the office at 4:25 when no one will notice – especially now that Tim called a hiatus for the month of July. Today's video is a mini-documentary filmed circa 2000 and it contains a half hour of performances most of which were filmed at the Comedy Studio in Harvard Square. Lots of comedians make cameos – and a couple of Brookline comedy class participants show off their "final projects."
We haven't seen South End Sara rolling down the street yet – but she's out there somewhere. Mayor Menino was the dignitary on hand to christen the rainbow adorned duck boat. This short and shaky video certainly isn't of the best quality, though it's proof positive that Menino was there, even if his bottle breaking proficiency needs polishing. Sara sailed for the Youth Pride march in mid-May and sailed again as part of the Pride Parade Saturday. Voices Rising, a Boston-based women's chorus rode the duck as part of the parade. There's video of the Pride Idol up on YouTube as well, tracking down video footage of QueerToday's protest outside of Macy's on Sunday is proving to be a difficult task.
It's well known that Boston is not known for its fashion…unless fleece and Teva sandals topped off with a Red Sox hat rank high on your list of hot trends. But one man is defying the stereotype. Gary Croteau is Esquire magazine's Best Dressed Real Man in Boston. His stylish threads not only got him into Esquire, but also into the Globe last week, where he received even more accolades for his fine taste.
Bostonist truly loves to observe the consumer cycle in America that allows bad fashion trends to resurface every 10 years. Women generally get taken advantage of often in the case of the trends that should never rise again; refer to the metallic and neon colors of 2004, and the hippie-influenced "boho" craze of 2005. But in the case of one particular phase that Bostonist remembers from early high school, grunge, both sexes were serious style offenders. The flannel, the ripped jeans, the thermal undershirts, the Chuck Taylors – we just want to sit down, watch "Love Bites," and have a good cry. After all, no one knew the actual shape of our bodies for the entire first half of the 1990s.
When Filene's was bought by Federated Department Stores, Inc. this past February for $17 billion, many anticipated changes to Downtown Crossing. After already going through an identity crisis (changing from Boston's own Jordan Marsh to Macy's), the Macy's storefront has always remained a competitor with Filene's and her basement across the street. This recent buyout of Filene's now leaves Federated, who happens to own Macy's too, with two stores across the street from one another. A Globe article today mentions talk of Target execs' interest in taking over the Macy's spot and turning it into one of their stores. According to our beloved mayor, he was in Istanbul last month at the International Council of Shopping Centers, and was chatting it up with them. Menino of course put in his two cents: "I'm a big fan of Target...It would bring a lot of vibrancy to that area."
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