Results tagged “onsaturday”

--On Saturday morning, a construction worker in Watertown went on a crazy trip to Brookline. The worker, 24-year-old Kevin Lasquade, happened to be drunk at the time. According to WHDH, Lasquade got noticed when "he allegedly hit a parked car on Beacon Street in Brookline." He also took the backhoe into a Stop & Shop lot and almost did some damage there. As if driving drunk weren't bad enough, WHDH pointed out that Lasquade didn’t...

On Saturday night at the Paradise, UMass alums Dinosaur Jr. brought their intense melodies and insane guitar work back to Boston for the first time since the release of their latest album, Beyond. For a show featuring dudes old enough to be your dad, it rocked much harder than most indie bands do today. Satisfying both longtime fans now in their forties (or beyond), twentysomethings who felt the pain in middle school, and XX-handed minors...

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--On Saturday, some alleged whack-job trying to get a piece of Star Simpson glory told an AirTran employee at Logan Airport, "I'm with al-Qaeda. I'm with them and I'm here to blow up things." Hardy har. Those words earned 27-year-old Ermiyas Asfaw, from DC, a one-way trip to jail. Attention, world: You may be able to do whatever you want in other cities, but Boston is sensitive. We may not agree with their hypersensitivity, but...

According to official record, Middleborough is going to get a casino. On Saturday, voters said that they want the casino offered by the Mashpee Wampanoags. Here's what the town will get in exchange for the casino: "At least $11 million a year plus $250 million for road, sewer and other infrastructure improvements." But, although they approved the casino from the Wampanoags, they voted down bringing casino gambling into town. The "yes" vote was binding. The...

--A car chase happened in Cambridge last night. WBZ reports, "The chase started in Cambridge when officials spotted the driver of a black Hummer almost hit a police officer as he left the Alewife 'T' station parking lot." This was no ordinary pursuit. One witness described the chase as "insane." The police learned a lesson after the tragic police-chase deaths in Somerville - they eventually let the guy go on. And it worked out fine...

It's been said that tonight is going to feature the loudest and longest round of applause to hit Fenway in all of 2007. We disagree - we think it will happen either this weekend or in September, when Joe Torre comes to get Roger Clemens in the fourth inning - but tonight's going to be special. Tonight, the Sox welcome back Trot Nixon, stalwart of the 2004 Championship team and one of the core members...

Roy Blount Jr. will be reading from Long Time Leaving: Dispatches From Up South at First Parish Church Meetinghouse on Wednesday, May 16, at 7:30 pm. Tickets are available at Harvard Book Store. On Saturday mornings, we need a Roy Blount Jr. fix. We're addicted. If he's not answering questions in NPR's Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me in his warm, avuncular, Southern-fried voice, we get crabby. We don't know why, but we love hearing him...

On Saturday, cardio-respiratory failure deprived Worcester, Massachusetts of a woman who had been on life support for nearly two decades and, some believe, a bedridden miracle worker. Audrey Marie Santo fell into a pool at age 3 (on the same day of the year and exact time of day that the atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, according to her web site) and, after an excessive phenobarbital prescription and subsequent coma, awoke in a state...

--On Saturday, a 17-year-old in South Boston had a little house party for his friends when his aunt was out of town. That wouldn't be a huge problem were it not for the "numerous bottles of empty alcohol containers" spotted by the BPD. The officers called the aunt, who said that she did leave the 17-year-old in charge of her house, but that didn't give him the right to party it up. The BPD's headline...

Someone out there thinks he's too good to pick up his dog's poop. On Saturday night, a woman called the BPD after getting into an altercation with a guy who didn't clean up after his dog. He then

On Saturday afternoon, we reconvene in that big round room in the South End, where the usual suspects will be peddling their cleverly-designed and lovingly-crafted wares: My Paper Crane and their plush groceries; Art School Dropout, who strings together vintage flotsam and jetsam into ornate necklaces; Bright Lights Little City's paper lanterns made from paper cocktail umbrellas; Vonica and her baby-animal bags; Coffee Drinker's Pacman-adorned iPod cases and wristbands; Candy Thief's extreme collars and felt-flower brooches; and loud, articulate UtiliTies from Truth Serum Productions.

Bostonist has heard the Fung-Wah bus company maligned up and down the east coast, even before those regrettable bursting-into-flames incidents. Of course, considering the nearly inhuman number of trips that each sleepless driver makes, to have suffered only two spontaneous combustions seems to us not a bad record, especially at just $15 a trip, and extra especially when one considers the train's penchant to stop running entirely.

On Saturday, the undead attacked Somerville and Cambridge, grunting "What do we want?" "BRAAAAAINS!" "When do we want 'em?" "BRAAAAAAAINS!" Zombies attempted to board the 77 bus, danced to Michael Jackson's "Thriller," and generally lurched.

The 8th Annual Boston Underground Film Festival (B.U.F.F.) starts today and lasts through Sunday March 26. This year’s screenings will take place at the Brattle Theater, Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge Center for Adult Education, and the Coolidge Corner Theatre. Headlining the Festival is a dark comedy, The French Guy about a woman who undergoes brain surgery only to come back to her apartment in a feeble emotional and mental state, incapable of dealing with her...

Owing to our general stinginess, our frequent use of a bicycle, and the fact that having a small child means we don't often find ourselves out of the house after the T stops running, (this) Bostonist doesn't take taxis very much anymore. On Saturday night, however, we had occasion to do so and were reminded that we love cabbies because they say interesting things at unexpected moments, frequently with cool accents.

We all know Bostonians love to brunch. This weekend, put that mid-morning appetite to good use and participate in The Greater Boston Food Bank's Super Hunger Brunch.

On Saturday, Bostonist trudged over to Avalon to see one of our favorite old school punk bands -- the legendary X. In the early 1980’s, X led the Los Angeles punk pack. The band infused it’s raw sound with rootsy rockabilly, folk, and country blues, borrowing as much from Gene Vincent and Woody Guthrie as The Clash and Buzzcock’s. X has been described as “not just one of the greatest punk bands, but one of the greatest live rock acts of all time.” Bostonist nearly melted its iPod running through X’s back catalog in anticipation of this show.

In most cases a lost series in New York would generate a blast-furnace of heat and outrage from Red Sox Nation. Watercoolers and the radio airwaves *should* be buzzing, but after looking back on the just-concluded series at the Stadium, this Bostonist came away with more of a smile than a scowl. The series, and road-trip, kicked off with a rather masterful performance by the Yankees' Aaron "Playing Anything But" Small, out-pitching the Sox's David Wells &mdash, an 8-4 win for the bad guys. The Sox gloves either had giant holes in them or their defense was actually that bad, coughing up 4 errors. Regardless, what're you gonna do? Realists would have agreed, "there's no way the Red Sox are leaving NY with a sweep". The numbers back it up — this season's squad has faltered on the first games of road series more often than not. Friday night's game? Bostonist gives them a mulligan.

While the Red Sox's long homestand has been a welcome sight for fans of the team, it's proven to be a timely stretch that will ultimately help victims of Hurricane Katrina. Soon after Katrina bulldozed over our Gulf Coast, the Red Sox placed tables around Fenway Park to accept donations that would be sent off to help those affected by the devastation. That raised a healthy chunk of change from the patrons visiting the Fens...

Bostonist first read about this story yesterday morning in the Metro and then in the Globe, so we figured it was actually true, bizarre, but true. It seems that Neil J. Goodwin, a 19-year-old man from Salisbury, was ordered to do some sprucing up to a cemetary in Newburyport; the court ordered him to this community service after breaking and entering a home last year. Perhaps Goodwin was fuming over having to manicure the lawns over at the cemetary or maybe he had a thing for 142-year-old corpses, because he decided to break into a Civil War veteran's tomb and then play with the body's remains. He even went so far to pose for pictures with a skull resting neatly on his shoulder.

This week in Boston has been pretty dismal; the news stories hitting the airwaves are all bad news...two local teachers being killed by their own family members, Schilling and Wells on the injured list, a gloomy, rainy forecast. The most disturbing story this week is the rise in rapes in and around the city; In the first two months of 2005, rapes are up 13% from 2004. Three rapes were reported this past weekend alone. On Friday night, a 14-year-old girl in Mission Hill reported being pulled into a beige car and raped at gunpoint before being left behind. On Saturday morning, a 40-year-old woman said she was pulled into a maroon car in Hyde Park, then raped at gunpoint in Franklin Park. And on Sunday, a woman in her 20s from West Roxbury said she was raped by a man who was driving her home from a bar.