Results tagged “suburbs”
--Are you freaking out over the fact that the St. Patrick's Day parade falls on the same day as Palm Sunday, March 16? 'Cause the press sure seems to be making a fuss. [Boston Herald, Boston Globe]
A story about hookers would usually be part of the Boston Blotter, but the sudden burst of coverage in the Suburban Hooker Plague deserves its own post.
While SFist cringed at the fatal dose of crime littering the Bay Area, it found solace in Hillary Clinton's San Francisco campaign headquarters opening, which featured loads of exposed mammary glands. In other news, SF Taxi Commission ruled that Satan's cab must keep its (in)famous medallion number, 666; and in an un-fashion-forward frenzy, San Francisco Fashion Week (chortle) bars bloggers from covering and getting smashed at their shows and parties, respectively. Also, they found a...
Banner week for SFist as the site's new editor introduced himself -- hooray for Brock! While the NY Times weighed in on SF's mayoral race, only SFist had the (insert tongue firmly into cheek) hard-hitting latest on candidate/activist Josh Wolf. Coverage of a protest vs. gentrification spawned a fantastic debate amongst SFist's readers. Finally, from the sublime to the ridiculous: video of a man that confused a Board of Supes meeting with "open mic...
Lavender Diamond sounds like the cast album to a plotless off-Broadway musical starring a fairy princess on rollerskates. In reality, they're a Californian indie quartet fronted by Becky Stark—sparkling chanteuse, wearer of candy-colored gowns and, occasionally, iridescent wings. Her musical influences are church singing and Fugazi, and she got a magic wand for Christmas:it's pink and has a red heart that lights up and it plays a magic spell sound when you wave it. i...
We don't know about where you are, but it seems like spring can't decide whether or not to happen. Some days are warm, some days are cold, and sometimes you aren't sure which. Baseball may have started up (and soccer/football winding down) but it still seems cold out there. Unless it's not. Anyways, onto the -ists. Austinist happily anticipated fall's Austin City Limits, even though they're not fully recovered from South By Southwest. In...
If you had a chance to look outside this afternoon you noticed something that we haven't seen this year: accumulation of snow. It was a wimpy snow dusting the Boston area lightly, a reported half inch or less in Boston and up to 2 inches in the outer suburbs, especially in the North Shore. The dusting today would have likely been welcomed with open arms if it had occurred on Christmas Day. Coming a...
Everybody holla pre-nup. AOL is digging for gold in the suburbs with hopes of recovering some of the money they're owed. They're not searching for back service fees, rather they're going after any part of the nearly $13 million they were awarded in a judgment against Davis Hawke. A suburban native, Hawke was unsuccessful in his attempt to make it big in southern hate groups (they found out his father was Jewish) and turned instead to spamming. He made a bunch of money on the usual spam scams – Viagra, home lie detector tests, etc. In a rather intelligent move he decided not to buy fancy cars, plasma TV's, and property – all assets which are easily seized following litigation. Instead, records show and his parents (who live at the Medfield home) confirm that he purchased gold and platinum bars and stashed them away. AOL believes them to be buried near the parent's home. His parents claim that he buried them in the White Mountains, a couple hours away.
The Globe calls it Highway Blogging. Operation Over calls it effective. Yesterday the collective calling themselves Operation Over, working to stop a new BU biolab from opening its doors in Roxbury tossed bed sheet banners to display their message on 128 and the Mass Pike. They're looking to get their message out to a larger community, including the suburbs. Threatening situations like the spread of Ebola in the Hub – or even smallpox – has been the battle cry of the group. The Globe took to calling the road-banner activists "Highway Bloggers" without mention of the Operation Over initiative (fair - they only blogged about it on the tubes after the Globe's press time). Instead, the overpass-as-podium piece focused mainly on a Rhode Islander, a California resident, and a bit on Bruce MacDonald, a Cambridge lawyer. But we're not faulting them for the focus, they found a few folks who were willing to talk. The term "Highway Blogger" (or Freeway Blogger, as it was originally coined in California – land o' freeways), is a poor term. We're pretty sure that blog is a shortened version of 'web log' and the abbreviation and origin of the term has a handful of people laying claim to it – but it has nothing to do with banners on highways. That said it'd be really great if Mac Daniel would start blogging Starts & Stops by displaying slogan adorned bed sheets off overpasses…now, what rhymes with Amorello?
Boston awoke this morning to the news we dread, more Big Dig stories. Last night, sometime around 11 pm a large hunk of ceiling in the Turnpike connector tunnel came crashing down when a steel tieback let go. The three ton slab of concrete crushed a car; while the driver was rescued alive the passenger in the vehicle was killed. The stretch of turnpike connector to the Ted Williams Tunnel is closed until at least mid-day tomorrow.
While we don’t long for the days of having a required summer reading list, Bostonist has been feeling a bit inspired to pick up a book and actually start reading something not on a computer screen. Since we’re going to be “vacationing” in the city this year, we might as well read some books that are set here in our fair state. Here are some of our Bostonist staff picks for your reading enjoyment. History...
Londonist prepares a Happy Birthday bath for Buddah this week and then things get all cliched. A madman goes on a rampage while axe-wielding and London's mayor warns an American diplomat to avoid the kitchen if the heat bothers him so much.
Bostonist was exposed to Boy in Static (Alex Chen) a mere four weeks ago thanks to the wonder of our favorite online photo gallery (and oh so much more) Flickr. Ever since that moment we have been listening to his album on late night drives home to the suburbs, in the lingering hours of a night of studying (yes, some of us are STILL in school), and just generally whenever we get a free moment.
This Sunday's Boston Globe Magazine asks, "Is The Commuter Rail Worth Saving?"
Oh, the irony. On New Year's Day, the Globe reported on the Boston area's high rate of millionaires (one in every 20 households, apparently) and on January 2, the mayor crowed in his inaugural address about the city's bright economic future and then suggested the answer to stopping violent crime is for pesky bystanders to stop being such chickens and start testifying. Right, because the root cause of high crime is, um, a lack of witnesses? Bostonist understands that Menino wants to carry on the dumb-but-passionate momentum of his campaign against "Stop Snitchin'" shirts, but seriously, can we talk about segregation, income disparity, and the fact that most of the millionaires who are carrying us boldly into the future live in the western suburbs and have no interest in Boston's schools or police? Maybe someone should start making t-shirts that say "Stop Investin' Your Money in the City Where You Made It" or "Stop Creatin' a Tax Code that Forces Corporations that Want to Extract Profit from a City to Do More than Just Create a Few New Service Sector Jobs." Perhaps that would encourage the mayor can get on his high horse about those problems, and t-shirts like that would definitely have ironic, hipster appeal.
Bostonist, being a luddite at heart, has long been a champion of minor-league baseball: It's an affordable way to get a close-up taste of the game without all the booming sound effects, incredibly long between-inning delays for TV advertising, and capricious general managers players. But we're a little dubious about Boston City Councillor John Tobin's idea of bringing a minor-league team from the independent Can-Am League to town. As it is, there's a ton of teams in the area: In addition to the four Can-Am teams listed in the Globe's story today, we have the Lowell Spinners to the north and the Pawtucket Red Sox to the south. Bostonist has the impression (although we can find no hard numbers) that many of the people who fill Fenway's seats all summer are coming from the suburbs, and we wonder whether they would bother driving into the city to see the same level of baseball they could get closer to home. Then again, the Globe quotes a guy from Sharon as saying he'd bring his kids to minor-league games in Boston - never mind that Brockton and Pawtucket are closer to Sharon than Boston is. Of course, that might just prove that it's hard to publicize a minor-league team, which also would spell trouble for Tobin's idea. None of this is to say that it wouldn't be cool to have another team in Boston - the more baseball, the better, we think. But maybe the Councillor isn't aiming high enough: After all, Boston used to have two major league teams, and at least two people have lately floated the idea that we should do it again.
It's not often that Bostonist has the pleasure of using the words "modern" and "Massachusetts" in the same sentence, but Design Within Reach seems the appropriate venue to promote just such a mix of old and new.
It is every Bostonian's nightmare: getting towed, and last night one Bostonist experienced it for the first time - me. This is my story.
Bostonist, where have you been? Why, stuck in traffic of course.