We all need a good fluff from time-to-time. There's a group fluff planned on Saturday, September 24th when the sixth annual Fluff Festival comes to Union Square in Somerville. Volunteers to fluff around are still needed. The festival, designed to honor the creation of Fluff by Union Square's Archibald Query in 1917, runs from 3-7 p.m. Organizers expect 10,000 fans of Fluff to attend. The Fluff Festival takes on a 70's theme in 2011 with a headlining visit from Susan "Cindy Brady" Olsen, award-winning songwriter Allee Willis, known for hits like "September" by Earth, Wind & Fire and “September” and The Pointer Sisters’ “Neutron Dance,” and astronaut Rick Linnehan of Lowell who brought a fluffernutter on the Space Shuttle. Visit the Fluff Festival Facebook page for details.
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There's a new development in Walmart's planned expansion into Boston. The gigantic retailer will open its first Market grocery store in New England on Mystic Avenue in Somerville within the next 12 months. The Globe reported that Massachusetts is apparently underserved in terms of supermarkets. Most people seem open to the idea of a Wal-Mart grocery store, at least according to the Globe's unscientific poll.
Police in Massachusetts and Colombia arrested 20 people today, and law enforcement around the world seized $200 million, 1,100 kilograms of cocaine, and 46 kilograms of heroin in the culmination of a four-year drug money laundering probe. Each suspect will be tried in Boston for alleged laundering of drug money in New England. "Operation Fire and Ice" was led by the US Drug Enforcement Administration and was based on the undercover work of a Massachusetts State trooper. Law enforcement from Colombia and Italy were at today's press conference in Boston to announce the bust. People seized bank accounts and $2 million in cash from Massachusetts residents. They face drug trafficking and money laundering charges. [Globe]
Bill Russell and Ray Allen will join President Barack Obama on Tuesday at the Cyclorama in the South End for a fundraiser. A computer virus caused a security breach on the computers at the Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development on April 20. Remember to follow Bostonist on Twitter and like us on Facebook.
Two teenage girls have now died as a result of Friday's early morning one-car crash on the McGrath Highway in Somerville. The State police said a 17-year-old from Somerville died on Saturday at Massachusetts General Hospital. A 16-year old girl from Everett died at the scene of the accident.
Tom Brady sold his New York condo for $17.5 million in March despite not ever living in it. He bought it for $14 million. Green Mountain Coffee founder Bob Stiller bought it. Remember to follow Bostonist on Twitter and like us on Facebook.
A five-year-old boy was found "unresponsive" on Revere Beach Parkway and his mother's boyfriend was arrested on charges of assault and battery on a child causing serious bodily injury, wantonly or recklessly permitting bodily injury to a child and child endangerment. According to the Suffolk County District Attorney's office, Joseph Testa, 28, will be arraigned Monday in Chelsea District Court. The boy is in Mass. General in stable condition. [Universal Hub], [Globe]
We'll start in Somerville Mayor Joseph Curtatone's Toyota Sienna minivan was broken into Friday morning. Lawrence, Mayor William Lantigua was recently involved in two police incidents and faces a possible recall.
TripAdvisor ranked Cape Cod as the 10th best vacation spot in the country. A bobcat appears to be roaming around Cape Cod. Remember to follow Bostonist on Twitter and like us on Facebook.
Tyler A. Bryan, a 25-year old taxi driver from East Somerville, was arrested today for driving drunk and crashing into a snowbank on Soldiers Field Road. He pleaded not guilty in Brighton Municipal Court for operating under the influence and refusing to identify himself to police. Bryan refused a breathalyzer test and had his license suspended for 180 days by the RMV.
MBTA general manager Richard Davey will fire MBTA bus driver John McCarthy, 61, of Somerville, after he was arrested on Friday for drunk driving. McCarthy, a 30-year T veteran, allegedly crashed his bus into a car that was stopped at a traffic light in Somerville. No one was injured.
Senator Scott Brown wants to avoid partisanship for now. He supports the symbolic party-neutral seating plan for the State of the Union that's popular lately in D.C. Brown minimized party bias a second time this week by dismissing the focus on the "itty-bitty letter" after his name. He means an "R," if you forgot. Brown wants elected officials to forsake their party affiliations and "...just kind of get going and get our jobs going and do what's best for...this country."
Boston.com appears to be worried about the status of your holiday shopping. They provided suggestions to finish your shopping.
This is the kind of stacked blues revue that could easily charge twice this amount. With a bargain like this, everyone should buy a bunch of raffle tickets to help Erin Harpe & the Delta Swingers get to Memphis for the February's International Blues Challenge.
Four Loko is cheap and bad for you. According to the Globe's Peter Schworm, it doesn't taste good, either. Apparently, Schworm went Rick Sanchez - Sanchez once tased himself - and tested the potent mix of alcohol and caffeine. Schworm acknowledged young people might not respond well to a powerful combination like Four Loko. URI banned it, Somerville wants businesses to stop selling it, and Harvard discourages its consumption.
Harvard put Four Loko on notice by saying students shouldn't drink it. An administrator with the school's University Health Services (UHS) called it "badness in a can." URI actually banned it outright on Wednesday.
-- Somerville detective Mario Oliveira was wounded and an alleged gun dealer was shot and killed on Gibbens Street in Somerville on Tuesday. Oliveira joined the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to serve a warrant on suspect Matthew Krister, 21, when he shot Oliveira three times and officers responded by shooting Krister. Gerard Dombrowski, a nurse at Whidden Memorial Hospital in Everett, lives across the street and treated a wounded Oliveira and a "lifeless" Krister at the scene. In March 2009, Krister was arrested for an alleged armed robbery. Oliveira has been a Somerville cop for 9 years and is reportedly stable. [Somerville Journal]
- Massachusetts is the second most energy-efficient state behind California. That's even including a record-setting demand for energy this summer. [Boston Globe]
Painter Scott Listfield, 34, of Somerville will contribute to designing the First Night Boston button. The button permits access to all First Night Boston events and will be released in mid-November. Listfield is known for his painting astronauts and dinosaurs, and will be featured at the Laconia Gallery in Boston’s South End in December and January. View Scott's work at www.astronautdinosaur.com. All First Night outdoor events are free. First night buttons are $18 and are available after Thanksgiving. First Night Boston.
It wasn't a movie set in Somerville. It sounds like it could have been.
- Target is battling Stop & Shop for the right to open a store at Trinity Financial's One Canal project. [Boston Herald]
- The Houghs Neck Community Council in Quincy is hosting their 6th Annual Chowdafest Saturday 2-6 p.m. [Patriot Ledger]
- Hub bartenders will garnish your drinks with almost anything in 2010. [Boston Herald]
After four days of rain capped off by a record-setting deluge on Wednesday, the sun returned on Thursday. The Globe reports Logan Airport got a record 2.76 inches of rain Wednesday. The sun will continue to come out the next few tomorrows, and it will apparently be accompanied by a possible heat wave.
-- A Thursday morning home invasion in Cambridge resulted in the stabbing of a 53-year old man and his 11-year-old son son. Both victims went to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries. Police were looking for "a heavy-set white male" suspect. The suspect fled the scene. A K-9 unit couldn't track him. [WCVB]
The good news about Saturday's Ice Cream Showdown was that it wasn't a total clusterfuck like the last one. The bad news was that the best ice cream was probably a custard, and everyone else stood in line for a little scoop of something way, way too boutique for a parking-lot frozen treat battle.
-- Lakeisha Gadson was acquitted today by a Suffolk County Superior Court jury of involuntary manslaughter. Gadson's 7-year-old nephew accidentally shot her 8-year-old son in 2007 after finding a loaded handgun kept in the house. The Globe reported she was also found not guilty on chargges of child endangerment, unlawful possession of a firearm, and improper storage of a firearm. Gadson was convicted of misleading police and will be sentenced on September 2. [Globe]
When it comes to Redbones' annual dismantling of smoked pigs for charity in Somerville, then big baby Jesus I can't wait.
The World Cup ended more than a week ago. We still have soccer on the brain, though.