Boston Police reportedly questioned Milan Lucic after an argument involving the Bruins winger and his girlfriend outside a Starbucks on Commercial Street in North End early on Tuesday morning. No charges were filed.
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Starbucks employees help rescue a kidnapped woman. No mention if she had to buy a coffee first. [Cambridge Chronicle]
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People need their coffee. Even at 3:15 a.m.? Apparently. Starbucks wants to open up a coffee shop at 1380 Mass. Ave. in Harvard Square in a location formerly occupied by Alpha Omega Jewelers. Cambridge has scheduled Board of Zoning Appeals hearing on Thursday, September 30 to consider the application.
Coffee shops compete at a high level. That explains why there are so many Starbucks and Dunkin’ Donuts in the Hub.
Highly technical computer gizmos - we love to say gizmos - are usually considered nerdy. According to WCVBTV, coffee geeks are fighting back against computer nerds in order to reclaim coffee shops from Arlington to Cambridge.
Most of us probably bought a hot beverage today as temperatures cooled in the Hub. It was probably coffee and likely came from Dunkin' Donuts, or possibly Starbucks. Despite what the Boston Globe thinks, finding a franchise from either brand doesn't require a map. Yes, they made up a map when all you need to find a Dunkin' Donuts or Starbucks is a pulse and eyes. Hey, at least the Globe is trying to help coffee lovers, right? In their own Globey way. Most of the Dunkin' Donuts and Starbucks are located east of Worcester - no surprise. Dunkin' Donuts outnumbers Starbucks by a lot, which isn't news. You can also vote for your favorite chain. Bostonist didn't vote. We made our own coffee. :-)
The press release reads, "This holiday season, Zipcar and Starbucks team up to reward Good Samaritans in Boston." But is that really true?
It has always baffled this Bostonist that the only coffeeshop in Washington Square is a zoo-like Starbucks, with lines out the door and a riot of strollers, dogs and SUVs parked constantly outside. With so many affluent, cosmopolitan, liberal-leaning residents nearby, we thought, an independent coffeeshop serving better coffee in a more genteel setting would be warmly welcomed.
-- We can't find Whitey Bulger in Boston, but we have no problem spotting Whitey Squirrel. [Off on a Tangent.]
In the ongoing game we imagine going on between Starbucks and Dunkin' Donuts, Dunkin' Donuts just scored a point. At least their local employees aren't suing them.
Be warned, Starbucks addicts and people who like free bathrooms: The coffee shop will be closed tonight between 5:30 and 9:00 for an emergency training of its employees, or "baristas," as they are known.
Update: Adam notices that Rachael Ray is no longer on the Dunkies website. Perhaps her big mouth cost her a job?
Tim Blane Gregory Douglass Paradise Lounge Tonight, 9 p.m. doors, 18+, $10 MySpace Boston singer-songwriter Tim Blane isn't just the kind of musician who goes out of his way to talk about his music, he's the kind who will take a phone call when he's enjoying a day off in Florida - on his birthday. He won't mention this to a caller until the interview is already underway and laughs when the secret is revealed....
Oldies station WODS (103.3 FM) is already playing holiday music. Laurel Sweet at the Herald wrote, "Admit it: You love it." No, we do not love it! At least it's easy to turn the FM dial away from the Trans-Siberan Orchestra's "What Is Christmas?" But what about the sudden appearance of Starbucks holiday cups? And what about Rachael Ray's uber-perky Dunkies ad? Amy at Boston Daily is already feeling irritated by Ray's self-proclaimed "million pounds"...
--A fire on Blue Hill Avenue in Mattapan injured 13 people, but a firefighter managed to save a baby. --Apparently the Pope ain't a Sox Fan. We dig visiting the 9/11 site, but mass at Yankee Stadium? C'mon... --At least Dustin showed the Yanks who's boss. Or if not boss, then Rookie of the Year. --One man lends a new meaning to meat salesman. --Women can't win, even in Starbucks lines. Give us a...
This rounds up the best of local blogs. Now that we're doing "Bite Size News," "Series of Tubes" will repeat those links, too. --Matt O'Malley, who has run for city councilor himself, analyzes the votes in the Boston City Council election and finds out what may have gone wrong for Felix Arroyo and right for John Connolly. [O'Malley on the Web] --Brace yourselves! Bobby Brown will perform at the Boston Music Awards on December 1....
--Don't eat the yellow pills: "Mixing cough syrup, Vicodin or Lipitor with cat litter is the new advice on getting rid of unused medications. Preferably used cat litter." [WCVB] --Another BPD (pardon us, ex-BPD) officer has pled guilty to protecting shipments of cocaine. Unfortunately for him, the people shipping the cocaine were undercover FBI. [Boston Globe] --A boiler explosion in Salem sends three people to the hospital. [WCVB] --A huge sinkhole in the middle of...
Gothamist learned about the craziest urban nightmare come true: A huge python found in the bathroom pipes. It was also a nightmare for some Yankees fans, as manger Joe Torre declined to come back and manage the Bronx Bombers. At least the city's attempt to give some direction to subway riders was interesting, pranksters went shirtless at the Fifth Avenue Abercrombie & Fitch and the I Heart Brooklyn Girls calendars came out. And just...
- Two men are on the lam after an attempted carjacking in broad daylight on the Mass Pike. The suspects jumped into the back seat of a car waiting in line for the Allston-Brighton toll. When they arrived at the booth the driver alerted the attendant to the carjacking while being "pistol-whipped" with a handgun. The car hit another and then stopped, at which time the two men fled and have yet to be...
Fans of the local Boston music scene always have an abundance of tunes to be able to check out, given the ever-deepening pool of area talent and multitude of venues. Usually, things work out in the listeners' favor: one can't miss band one night, another the next.
Starbucks, schmarbucks. Dunkin' Donuts thinks it can rule the world. It's rolled out corny commercials with the likes of Naomi Campbell and Rachael Ray leaving skidmarks on a floor. The next step in world domination starts this month, when our beloved Dunkin' Donuts begins selling packaged Dunkin' coffee across the United States at Wal-Mart, Kroger, and other stores. This is excellent news for anyone who no longer lives in New England yet who still feels...
Bostonist was a few minutes late arriving in Davis Square on Saturday evening. We briefly worried that we wouldn't be able to find Boston's undead elite lurching their way toward Harvard Square. Fortunately, zombies aren't the neatest of creatures and we were able to follow a twisted sort of crumb trail composed of corn syrup drops, fabric scraps, and distant cries of "BRAINS!" Zombie organizers told Bostonist prior to Saturday's march that last year's event...
How do you write a treatise on Dunkin' Donuts? With five dollar words like "inculcated" and "extant." Mike Miliard writes such a tome for the Phoenix titled "Choosing our Religion" about the rise and embrace of Boston's beloved coffee and donut shop. It's not clear if people outside New England identify our chain the same way we see Starbucks as something coming from Seattle, but it really doesn’t matter – we drink it, and love...
We really aren't sure where this came from. It seems like the stereotypes portrayed below have been applied to areas around St. Louis, Florida, Memphis, Detroit, among other US geographic locations. It came to us via email, un-attributed to the author (email us, we'll give you credit), and humorously rang true for some of the locations integrated into the list. Suggestions for the South Boston Barbie (both original model and Fort Point edition), Cantabrigian Barbie,...
As the world holds its breath, teetering precariously on the cusp of the Super Bowl (well, at least in America), the wheels of the -ists keep on turning.
We posted about a big party that the local startup event/social site HeyLetsGo was planning for Fenway. We thought it was a good idea, but forgot that it's fall in New England and the weather doesn't cooperate with outdoor events this time of year. The threat of rain this evening (see picture. as of lunchtime it looks like rain is on the way) has moved the party across Lansdowne. The party will sprawl through Avalon, Axis, Embassy, and Modern. Rather than Gate B, a longer walk from the T stop anyway, the check in will be at Avalon.
Celebrate Ben Franklin's 300th birthday with the Bikini Bandits and Phillyist! (NSFW). Speaking of Mr. Franklin, send in a picture of Ben (or Ed Rendell) with a red tongue and win a free t-shirt. And they might have the next YearlyKos in Philly. You know who's going to be upset about those Bikini Bandits? The Houston school system. Houstonist also reports on some redevelopment shenanigans over a landmark theater. LAist's sex advice column on...
This has been a rough week for your -ist pals, though you wouldn't know it from the great posts all over the network. Plagued with server problems, our tech team (led by the great Neil Epstein) toiled around the clock to solve the glitches as they arose. Seriously, we've said, typed, and thought the phrase "server problems" more in the past week than we have for the last 35 years combined. Why not say it...