Two wannabe pirates tried to pillage a boat in Gloucester harbor and ended up getting arrested. Two men, identified as Scott Stanton of Gloucester and Steven Jette of Ipswich by WBZ-TV, climbed onto the boat fom their own ship and woke the owner. They fled after threatening the owner, who called the Coast Guard who contacted Gloucester police. Police found the suspects' ship as is displayed a Jolly Roger flag. The men were charged with breaking and entering, threatening to commit a crime and intimidation of a witness.
1
more ›
more ›
Results tagged “pirates”
Police are looking for Luis Guaman, 33, in connection with the death of a Brockon mother and her son. Maria Avelina Palaguachi-Cela, of Brockton, and her two-year old son Brian were found dead in a dumpster on Sunday. Authorities believe he fled to Ecuador. Guaman has multiple aliases and pending warrants. The Wall St. Journal referred to Guaman as an "illegal immigrant."[Brockton Enterprise]
- If you have a private well and the well cap was underwater during this week's floods, the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) says it might possibly be contaminated. [WBZ]
- The Globe says we should be talking about gubernatorial candidates Charlie Baker and Tim Cahill. Who is Bostonist to argue? Some folks might be too busy, though, because they have a pond in their kitchen. [Boston Globe]
- Mass. Maritime 2, Pirates 0. [Boston Globe]
- While Governor Deval Patrick and Speaker Robert A. DeLeo bicker, the fate of an education bill, not to mention $250 million in federal stimulus funds, is up in the air. [Boston Herald]
- According to the University of Dartmouth Center for Marketing Research, corporate use of social media - Twitter, Facebook, etc. - has increased greatly in the past three years. []
Captain Richard Phillips, a Mass Maritime grad, is still being held captive by Somali pirates in the Arabian Sea off the coast of Somalia. It's reported that Phillips attempted to escape by swimming away, but the pirates were able to regain control of him. (People are pissed that the Navy didn't nab Phillips while he was in the water.) The Maersk Alabama, the ship that Phillips had captained, has proceeded to its original destination, while U.S. ships confront the Somali lifeboat. Additional pirate ships, carrying additional hostages, may be on the way to the scene.
Don't mess with Mass. Maritime graduates. Pirates beware! The ship is safe!
We all love pirates, except for the real ones. Two Massachusetts Maritime Academy graduates were on board a cargo ship taken over by Somali pirates today. The AP reports that the 17,000-ton Maersk Alabama was attacked while bringing emergency relief to Mombasa, Kenya.
Fangela Fangula and her humble associates would like t' remind you that today be International Talk Like A Pirate Day. As if you weren't already excited about all today's happenin's listed by t' Bostonist, you now have t' added excitement o' brandishin' a cutlas while embarkin' on a lin'uistic adventure. It be Friday afternoon! Ahoy! Your weekend has almost begun!
It looks like the Manny Ramirez trade is dead. The latest news has the deal stalled over the Pirates' concerns that they were the pegboy of the Pittsburgh Three-Way. And Bostonist can't help but agree with them. The deal has the Pirates trading away an All-Star caliber left fielder with a monster on base percentage for a bag of magic beans. Insiders also claim that some in the Red Sox front office weren't really down with the deal anyway. But, with all this acrimony and hype, can everything just go back to normal? Surely, that is not how baseball is played.
Let's give a hand, ladies and gentlemen, and perhaps even raise our Saturday morning coffee cups in a toast. To the new Celtics and basketball's new Big Three! Before we dive into Friday night's Celts season opener, we should take a quick trip back to May 22, when Boston gasped in horror over the hand fate had dealt. Fifth pick for what was then a terrible, wretched team. We were screwed. Ready to jump. Inconsolable....
"Traditional," "evolving," "models," and "criticism" are all words that might have turned most people off already, but bear with us here: today's 2.5-hour (longer than most movies!) panel discussion on the nature of film criticism at the Coolidge Corner Theater was actually at least as enlightening as annoying, if not more so. Moderators Cynthia Lucia and Richard Porton led panelists Phillip Lopate, Scott Foundas, Glenn Kenny, David Sterritt, Owen Gleiberman, and Ty Burr in...
Swashbuckler will be screening at the Brattle Theatre tonight, Wednesday, September 19, at 9:30 pm. The Brattle Theatre is celebrating Talk Like a Pirate Day, and they've made an interesting choice. Instead of going with the obvious, as in an earlier Pirates of the Caribbean, they went with the 1976 adventure Swashbuckler. The Brattle's release calls Swashbuckler "little-known." No kidding, but James Earl Jones, the master of gravitas (sorry, Stone Phillips), the voice of God,...
Sometimes, we in Boston take our Sox for granted forget how good we've got it. That's why every so often, the Bostonist Sports Department likes to hit the road and investigate the conditions at other ballparks around the land. So we found ourselves in Pittsburgh this weekend, watching the woeful Pirates play the hapless Reds at the sublime PNC Park. We forget just how lucky we are, when we hear mutterings from a Pittsburgh...
All right, it wasn't exactly "Our hallowed snake-skull-cracking day", but there aren't too many opportunities to play the Diamondbacks and break out all the old snake jokes. What it was, was a tough game against a young pitcher pitching way above his head, and the Red Sox were fortunate to get out of it with a 10-inning, 4-3 win. Julian Tavarez pitched well, with a couple of mistakes, including giving Arizona's Stephen Drew a chance...
Remember J.D. Drew? David Jonathan "J.D." Drew, 31 years old, plays right field, graduated from Florida State?
We were asking if Doc Rivers needed his head checked after letting the Celtics bench finish out the game against the Charlotte Bobcats. The Celtics were winning, but Paul Pierce got hit in the eye. Doc took him out, and then he let Big Al Jefferson rest a while. He says he wasn't trying to throw the game. If Doc were impersonating Kevin Nealon's "Subliminal Man" character on Saturday Night Live, he could have grunted...
that we want to kill anyone and everyone that makes a "something on a something" joke. But then we realized that there was no way we could ever win this fight, and, hell, if you can't beat them, we might as well join them. And with that, you have the theme of this weeks' Gothamist network post.
In a world where there's nothing to do but watch movies. In a city full of theaters, museums, and libraries. One moviegoer who can be in three places at once. Opening Friday 7/7 A Scanner Darkly Waking Life Bostonist is crossing her fingers that Richard Linklater's well-cast and lovingly-animated Philip K. Dick adaptation will strike the right tone of near-future uneasiness (like Bladerunner did) and eschew chase scenes and tacked-on Hollywood endings (like Total Recall...
While waiting in the bathroom line at the Diesel, Bostonist caught zombie overlord Alli Auldridge putting up a poster for Zombie March 2006. When cornered, Ms. Auldridge revealed her plans: on Saturday, April 29th, the local undead will walk from Davis Square to Harvard Square in search of a decent brain to eat. How long do you expect Zombie March 2006 to last? Are we talking about traditional, slowly-lurching Dawn of the Dead zombies,...
For an appetizer to the Patriots game Sunday night, flip on NESN at 7:30 and check out a great Boston team that is flying under the radar. Craig Smith, Jared Dudley, and Jermaine Watson will not disappoint.
« Previous
1
Next »