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Entries from Bostonist tagged with 'partii'

January 31, 2008

Theater Theater lovers! A rare treat - Part I *and* Part II of Tony Kushner's seminal modern epic "Angels in America" is in town and it runs until Feb. 10. It's about the painful disintegration of two relationships against a backdrop of greed, conservatism, and the discovery of AIDS. Presented by Boston Theatre Works. Fringy Theater That Tastes Like Chicken! Who can resist a play about chickens that advises, "Beware! Contains fowl language"? Useless Theater......

Continue Reading "Thursday Happenings"

January 29, 2008

If you saw the Boston Herald cover for today, you might think the Red Line is crawling with gropers--or, as Bostonist likes to call them, "T Bags"--even though it's the Green Line that spawned its own groper only recently. But Jessica Heslam took a look at the MBTA's recent crime reports and writes, All told, 35 indecent assault and battery incidents reported on the MBTA in 2006 and 2007 took place on trains and at......

Continue Reading "Red Line: Full of Perverts and T-Bags?"

January 28, 2008

--The MBTA put out its most recent crime statistics. The good news is that "Part I" crimes (homicide, rape, robbery, larceny) are down by 10%, and the most violent crimes are down 18.5%. "Part II" crimes (simple assault, vandalism, and the grab-bag that is "Disorderly Conduct") are up by 12%. Larceny is the most common "Part I" crime, while fraud is the most common "Part II" crime. [Full presentation at MBTA Police] --Police have officially......

Continue Reading "Boston Blotter: 2007 MBTA Crime Update"

December 17, 2007

A sad week for LAist as they lose their trusted and amazing editor Tony Pierce to the LA Times, but what a blast his last week was. He shared his 25 Favorite CDs of 2007 and wrote a great review of just a good movie, No Country For Old Men. At UCLA, thousands of students celebrated the end of their quarter by running around campus in their undies (lots of photos in a two-part......

Continue Reading "Week Around the -Ists"

February 15, 2006

The Boston Globe teased a story about flying cars on today’s front page. ‘Don’t Laugh’ they said. Bostonist is not laughing. We’re patiently waiting for October 21, 2015 (that’sless than a decade) when Marty and Doc Brown come racing “back” into the future from their humble confines of 1985. We’ll hall have flying cars then and a Mr. Fusion to power them. Carl Dietrich, the Globe reports is set to make that more than......

Continue Reading "George Jetson Has Nothing on Marty McFly"

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