Results tagged “otoole”

Stardust will screen Thursday, July 26, at 9:30 pm at the Brattle Theatre. Passes are free, but you need to pick them up beforehand at the Brattle or Harvard Book Store. At first glance, Stardust seems way too cute. A man tries to capture a fallen star, who has taken the form of a hot woman that everyone seems to want - either for her hotness or her magical qualities. But the cast really catches... more ›

--Well, if the homicide rate jumps to 36, and it's only July, maybe it's time to make some changes in management. Commish Ed "Pragmatist" Davis has removed homicide chief Daniel Coleman and superintendent for the Bureau of Investigative Services Paul Joyce Jr. from their posts. Replacing them will be Thomas Lee at homicide and Bruce Hollaway for Investigative Services. In another move, Davis moved his chief of staff, Daniel Linskey, to be the head of... more ›

If you're looking to be touched, warmed and uplifted by a movie these days, don't go to the multiplex. You know this already, of course. Instead, make sure you live in a city where they host a film festival, where you might run into something as special as Dave McLaughlin's On Broadway, which premiered this weekend at the Independent Film Festival of Boston. It's the story of blue-collar Jack O'Toole (played by, yes, that Joseph... more ›

Back in December the Boston Herald ran a front page story that two had been arrested in the Dorchester quadruple murder case. The Boston Police Department was quick to rebut the claims by the Herald, but after the announcements this weekend we're wondering if their tipster was credible after all. Calvin Carnes Jr. and Robert Turner, both 19, have been arrested and arraigned on charges relating to the murders on December 13, 2005. Each of the men accused have entered a plea of not guilty to the charges handed to them – Carnes for the murders and Turner in conspiracy and other charges relating to the crime. The main-stream press over the weekend indicated that the Boston Police have been investigating the case for the last six months and have finally come up with evidence enough to charge the two. As the AP report indicates illegal firearms may have been motive for the shootings (as run in both the Globe and the Herald)

[Suffolk County] Assistant District Attorney David Meier said the arrests came after a six-month police investigation and an ongoing grand jury probe. He said Carnes and Turner took three guns from the studio and made repeated unsuccessful attempts to sell them in the months after the slayings.

Bostonist is happy to hear that there is some motion in the case revolving around the murder of four members of the group Graveside. With crime on the increase in Boston, shootings up this year and the overall murder rate skyrocketing for 2005 over other years, it comes as some solace that the Boston Police Department is making some headway on existing cases. Considering the departure of Commissioner Kathleen O'Toole it's good to know that closing cases is still a priority for the BPD. Although we wonder if the Herald's initial report of "Two Nabbed" back on December 18, 2005 may have related to the "Two Nabbed" we read about this weekend (May 20, 2006) it's no matter as long as some movement in the right direction is being made. more ›

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. more ›