Results tagged “poorpeople”

Boston Comedy Festival Preliminary Rounds --Monday, October 8, Comedy Connection, Faneuil Hall, 7:00 and 9:00 pm --Tuesday, October 9, Comedy Connection, Faneuil Hall, 7:00 and 9:00 pm --Wednesday, October 10, Comedy Connection, Faneuil Hall, 7:00 and 9:00 pm All tickets for the preliminaries are $15 The comics rush up onstage and change right before your eyes. One moment, they gaze into the camera and at the audience like classic deer before headlines. Then, an internal...

Tonight the State of the Union speech will be delivered in our nation's capital. While we're hitting the booze and playing the State of the Union drinking game, the media will talk about possible ramifications of the President's statements. But the focus has already started to shift from the current commander-in-chief to who's going to take over his job. The Democratic field of contenders is growing fast. Below you'll find Bostonist's guide to the field...

Time for a moment of news zen: Venezuela's President, Hugo Chavez, yesterday pledged to continue his country's program of providing discounted home heating oil to the poor in Massachusetts. Chavez, you may recall, is the Bush administration's public enemy number one in Latin America because he's, um, leftist. Not a dictator, not in power by undemocratic means, not giving support to terrorists; just leftist.

. . . what will he do?

Have you ever walked down Boylston and seen weird people with funny accents and large tote bags? These people from all over the country come to the Hynes Convention Center to pay large sums of money and hear important people talk. Nothing upsets Bostonist more than an event too expensive to attend, and for once we have found a different solution than charging the guards at the front gates. AIGA has decided to podcast all of their main stage content in addition to a number of back stage interviews.

Bostonist did not play organized football as a youngster (we come from a baseball family) and we don't much care for the mania that parents bring to youth sports these days. But the news that five suburban (mostly white) Pop Warner youth football teams are quitting their league so they don't have to play against the (mostly black) city teams from Boston has us so worked up we can hardly contain ourselves. (Be warned: we are about to climb up on the soapbox of righteous indignation.) The teams, Needham-Wellesley, Framingham, Norwood, Natick, and Weymouth, say they are concerned about city teams' "intimidating" rap music, their "hard-hitting" style of football (um, it's football, right? It's supposed to be hard-hitting), and the danger of playing at city fields, since a Pop Warner player was hit in the stomach by a stray bullet last summer. Of these concerns, only the last strikes us as anything other than a total pretext, and even that seems like a tremendous failure on the part of the suburban parents. What lesson are the suburban kids to take from this? That when you encounter people unlucky enough to be caught in a bad situation, the best thing to do is retreat from them and protect yourself? It's practical, but hardly charitable, and it reinforces the notion that poor people's problems are theirs and theirs alone, even when the poor people in question are only 11 or 12 years old.