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There is one less Chinese restaurant open today as a fire shuts down the Hong Kong near Quincy Market. [WHDH]
Someone calls "Bullshit" on Gallucio's toothpaste-fail defense. [Boston Herald]
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A bank robbery was thwarted in Cambridge. Last week, a woman from North Attleboro was killed during an alleged bank robbery.
Brockton claims the distinction of having the first store Santa Claus. Now, the City of Champions has reportedly set a new world record for having the most people wearing a Santa Claus hat in one place. Sunday's gathering of 872 Santa-hat wearing citizens breaks Mullingar, Ireland's record of 700 from 2009. Mayor Linda Balzotti said, "It’s a great day in the city." [Patriot Ledger], [Globe]
- SFist saw Christmas Day turn tragic after a Siberian tiger escaped from her pen at the San Francisco Zoo, killing a visitor and mauling two others.
- Phillyist counted down the top ten items on Philadelphia's New Year's wish list.
- Gothamist looked at the wooden bikes being offered for NYC's first bike share program on Governors Island.
The MBTA is making like Santa Claus, increasing the number of times the 111 and 15 buses run and boosting the Silver Line for the holidays. Now they've announced that the trolley between the Ashmont and Mattapan stops is back in business.
Brrrrlesque Saturday, December 15, midnight Coolidge Corner Theater, 290 Harvard St., Brookline (T: Coolidge Corner) $12.50 in advance, $20 at the door Official Boston Babydolls site In the press release we got, Boston Babydolls impresario Scratch declares, "People hate the cold, the rising gas prices, and - of course - the snow. But there's a lot that's beautiful about new England in the winter, and we wanted to remind people of some of those things."...
We had this one on deck until stuff got nuts in New Hampshire and Evel Knievel leapt over his last car … The acting US Surgeon General told the Herald that he thinks Santa is a fattie. The story is so silly that it is barely worth discussing, except to say one thing to the Surgeon General Steven K. Galson. Parents, block this site from your computer or get 'em out of the room. Santa....
A Jets fan took Videotapegate way too personally and is suing the New England Patriots and Bill Belichick for taping the Jets' signals. When this item appeared on Sports by Brooks, it looked like a clever gag. But someone is actually suing the Pats, and they want $148 million for himself and the disillusioned Jets ticket holders. Carl Mayer of Princeton Township, New Jersey, has some high-minded notions about the sports complex. Mayer's attorney said,...
Happy Holidays! Chances are, you're reading this the day after Christmas, back at your day job after all-too-short a holiday, and the last thing you want from us is stuff about the holidays. But that's just too bad. Because, see, here in the Ist-A-Verse, we do things ahead of time. It might be December 26 for you, but that's what you get for not checking your Favorite Local Blog on Christmas Eve. Austinist is...
Once upon a time in a land far, far…oh. No. It was Brockton. Back in 1890 James Edgar of Edgar's Department Store in Brockton sported a white beard and a belly laugh, he suited up as Santa Claus for an appearance in his Brockton Store. It wasn't Macy's, it wasn't Coke, it was a store in "The City of Champions" where the department store Santa was born. In the interest of full disclosure it appears that a Kris Kringle character did make an appearance in a Philadelphia store in 1841 – but Edgar's really marked the birth of the department store Santa. Kids growing up today know more of the "mall" Santa. He checks his list and listens to children's wishes from that coveted spot in the middle of the food court or a Santa's village placed in the crossroads of all the anchor stores of the mall (maybe where the Easter Bunny lives in the spring).
With the holidays behind us and the doldrums of winter officially underway (to say nothing of the dreaded return to the workaday life), now is a time when the seasonal affective disorder can set in kinda hard. So let Bostonist forestall that sorry fate, if only for a little while, by regaling you with the tale of the how our Russian Jewish immigrant family celebrates the birth of Christ: This year, December 25 marked two...
It’s not Santa Claus, but Snoop Dogg, that will be comin’ to town this week to stop the spread of violence that has recently been plaguing the city of Boston, which has reached a 10-year high for murder rates. Okay, it’s actually Snoop-aloop’s mom, Beverly Broadus Green, an evangelist minister, who will be speaking at the independently run Dorchester Epiphany Middle School tomorrow. She’s helping to kick off a national campaign to combat violence and...
Nothing can ever go off without a twist of irony in this city, can it? It seems that there is some issue with the tree lighting ceremony scheduled for this Thursday night at the Boston Common. For the last 63 years, the city of Boston has lit a big Christmas tree in the city and for the last 34 years, the white spruce has been sent as a gift from our friends in Nova Scotia....
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