Results tagged “reading”

Middlesex County District Attorney Gerry Leone’s office reports John Burke, 25, of Revere, was arrested today in connection with Monday's shooting death of Joseph Ronan, 22, of Reading. Ronan was killed in his home. Leone alleged Burke shot Ronan "numerous times"in a "drug-related dispute." Burke is charged with first-degree murder and illegal possession of a firearm and will be arraigned Monday in Woburn District Court. All charges alleged until proven under law. [Globe] more ›

Massachusetts banned texting while driving. Apparently, we need to ban reading while driving and taking pictures while driving, too. [Universal Hub] more ›

Photographer stephieseye captured a nice moment on the Green Line in today's photo of the day. This, like many of her photos, reminds us how useful it is to always carry a camera and not be afraid to use it—even in quiet moments. We also like how the lights on the top of the car and the light coming through the windows on the side guide our eye to the subject and his book. more ›

Sunday, December 6 10:00 am, Harvard Book Store Warehouse (14 Park Street, Somerville) HBS Winter Warehouse Sale, featuring an additional 15% off! more ›

Christopher Monks (editor of McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Utter Wonder (should we tell him where the bodies were hid?), Dan Kennedy (Solving Your Problems with Paper, author of Rock On, essays appear in GQ), and Ben Greenman (contributor to the New Yorker and McSweeney's, pictured right) appeared at the Brookline Booksmith Thursday night for a reading. more ›

The bimonthly token award ceremony to ease the existential trepidations of writers wide and far has once again taken place, this time under the supervision of the National Book Critics Circle who have announced their champions of 2007. The decision came after several days filled with bloodshed and crying while trying to sift through the many fine publications that popped out of the pervious year. more ›

--Hug a social worker today. If you've ever wondered why the Department of Social Services couldn't stop an act of violence from happening, read this eye-opening article on just how hard it is to be a social worker. According to the piece, "between one-third and three-quarters of all social workers nationwide have been threatened, physically assaulted, or had their property damaged." [Boston Globe] more ›

--Two months since reopening after a five year hiatus and one million dollars of renovations, the Golden Banana strip club's future is in jeopardy after a man was shot in its parking lot last night. He was hit in the shoulder and is expected to survive. The club, however, was closed for code violations in 2003, and could face penalties from Peabody officials who were already leery about the establishment being reopened. [Boston Herald] more ›

Museum of Fine Arts Boston and Peabody Essex Museum more ›

Boston came in at number 10 in a recent list of America's most literate cities. What's surprising is that it didn't come in higher given the quality of the authors who come in to read, the top-notch bookstores, and the fact that good books help get us through the cold weather. more ›

Ethan Gilsdorf and Ted Weesner, Jr. Friday, December 14, 7:00 pm Willoughby and Baltic Art Space 195 G Elm Street, Somerville (T: Davis Square) Free Ethan Gilsdorf's official site Listings for readings may be slim while everyone is busy for the holidays, but it's quality that matters. Two recipients of fellowships from the Somerville Arts Council will be sharing their latest projects for free tomorrow night. Journalist/poet Ethan Gilsdorf and novelist Ted Weesner, Jr., are... more ›

John Fulton Reading With Joshua Henkin Brookline Booksmith Tonight, October 22, 7:00 pm Free Fulton's Official Site John Fulton doesn't go for sly pop-culture references or verbal pyrotechnics in his short-story collection The Animal Girl. Instead, he zooms in on the emotions of his older characters who are attempting to find love. With Match.com and eHarmony, dating and romance seem easy and ordinary topics, but Fulton throws obstacles in the paths of his characters, and... more ›

Shalom Auslander Reading Thursday, October 11, 7:00 pm Brookline Booksmith Free More info From far away Shalom Auslander's memoir looks delicate and sweet, with lightly outlined white images traced on a red background. The title appears in a cursive font with looping letters. Then you look at the actual words on the cover--Foreskin's Lament. In this memoir, Auslander and his long departed foreskin have a lot to gripe about. Auslander was raised in an Orthodox... more ›

The Harvard Coop went all RIAA on students last week and told students that they couldn't bring pens and take notes because they don't want students buying cheaper books. And Thursday they called police on three students who were taking down ISBN numbers so they could find those books online. The Cambridge PD clearly felt it was a waste of their time because they let the students stay. They weren't shoplifting. And, besides, it's the... more ›

--Any reader of crime logs must admit that Northeastern University generates some of the most entertaining crime logs known to humanity. A crime log is not judged on the amount of mayhem listed (though it is good to know what is going on in one's neighborhood, don't walk along at night, etc.) but by the sheer stupidity of the crime involved. And Northeastern students know how to deliver. They've given us an incident worthy of... more ›

Keggers and CliffsNotes Grub Street Headquarters 160 Boylston Street Sunday, September 23, 7:00-9:00 pm More info Sunday night: a time for football, Extreme Home Makeover, and staying in, right? You couldn't be more wrong. Sunday night--at least this Sunday night--is a time to don your favorite college sweatshirt, put on your thinking and drinking caps, and head out to Keggers and CliffsNotes, the latest installment in the Dirty Water Reading Series. Co-hosted by Redivider, Quick... more ›

Well, on the bright side, Daisuke has nothing to complain about this morning in terms of getting run support. Before the last of the Blue Jays' traveling party had cleared Customs, the Red Sox had staked Dice to a 10-1 lead, the big blow courtesy of a 3-run shot by the red-hot Mike Lowell, [Editorial Insert to Whatever Front Office Types Are Reading This. There's going to be temptation this offseason to make a run... more ›

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... more ›

Allegedly Robert P. Dooley has defrauded Home Depot of enough money to build his own house. Approximately $330k of merchandise was swiped by the former IRS official. The Boston Globe reports that the former Salem resident would walk into a Home Depot store, fill his cart with “floor tiles, casement windows, sliding doors, or other items” and bypass the checkout line. He'd head straight to the returns line (always a painfully long line in Bostonist's... more ›

Martin Amis will read from House of Meetings at 6:00 pm at the Brattle Theater, courtesy of Harvard Book Store. By the way, tonight's reading with Paul Auster is sold out. more ›

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Reading in the Herald yesterday about the second random dog attack in Brockton in a week, Bostonist came across this sentence: "Ellis [the dog owner], who state law holds liable for the attack provided Talis [the victim] was not trespassing or abusing Deuce [the dog], had not been cited as of yesterday." This made us wonder: What are the laws concerning dog bites here in the Commonwealth? more ›

How long has it been since the Boston Herald ran a punny, animal-related headline? If you ask Bostonist, even one day is too long, and as far as we can tell, it's been much more than that (over a week, by our count). Luckily, the drought is over, as today's edition of the paper that's strong as ever despite selling off its assets features this fabulous example of the art: "Fundraiser shows who's paws-itively top dog on catwalk." Wow. The staff at that paper is truly tireless in its search for phonetic feline puns. Is there anything better than living in a two-newspaper town? more ›

Venture capital, that risky investing that took a turn for the worse when the tech bubble burst with the new millennium, is backing Boston businesses again. Honestly, we’re not surprised. After making our way through a lengthy Boston Globe article on the Boston start-up blog directory, Gather.com, it’s abundantly clear that there is money to be had in the worlds of new technology. Gather has grabbed $6 mil. and they’re still running in Beta. But... more ›

In addition to the two women arraigned yesterday in Brighton District Court, a case of two women in Peabody faced charges of running a brothel. The women in that case claimed that they were looking for honest work but had just arrived in the area. Reports are conflicting, some witnesses say the women had operated the brothel for over three weeks, while the accused claim they had only arrived in town a week ago after boarding a bus from Brooklyn. In conclusion all Bostonist has to offer is some quip about a "happy ending."
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We first got irritated about this when we made the mistake of signing up for the cheapest health plan at work, only to find out that there were no doctors anywhere near us. When we got on the phone and asked for a general practitioner in or near Somerville, the customer service lady paused a moment, did some clickety-clacking on her computer, and said, "Oh sure. I have someone in War-cester." Considering that Worcester is wicked fah from Somerville, her mispronunciation just added insult to injury. Then yesterday evening, a pollster called to ask Bostonist questions about local politics, which we love. But this guy couldn't pronounce the names of any of the Somerville politicos he was asking us about (or, for that matter, the name of Desmond Tutu), and that made us bullshit. (Also, the poll was obviously designed to get us to say that the campaign to divest local assets from Israel was a terrorist plot designed by communists who kick puppies, and we hate being manipulated so inexpertly that we realize we're being manipulated.) Now we learn, via Universal Hub, that even the MBTA can't get its automated bus announcements to sound regionally accurate (Reading is announced as "REEding"). What's up with that? If Bostonist finds out that the T is announcing Quincy with a soft "s" sound, we will be forced to raise our mass transit annoyance-alert level to wicked ripshit. more ›

Fearing the worst, Bostonist stocked up on candles this weekend. The news that NStar workers were going approaching a deadlock in negotiations and were going on strike made us feel a little uneasy about the fate of our electricity. Reading the Boston Globe report on the crisis hasn’t calmed fears much:

NStar spokeswoman Caroline Allen said early today, "We have qualified managers and contractors ready to step in and maintain critical services for our customers. Of course, with so many of our employees not at their post, customers may notice minor inconveniences, but we'll do our best to minimize any impact."

"If (customers) are fortunate enough not to have service interrupted, they won't notice. If they have trouble, they're in trouble," Sullivan said.

Bostonist has ties to one of the Boston Public Schools and two students at that school have been murdered so far this year. It's been really hard for both students and teachers to deal with. Although Boston Public has made efforts to help the students cope, feelings of hopelessness and doubt abound. Reading this this morning, Bostonist was struck by the comments of the latest victim's sister. We hope that today's meeting and subsequent meetings effect some real change in the city. more ›