Holy smokes! Giant fish on the MTA, Paris Hilton in jail, then out, then in again, Al Gore, goatses, blumpkins, Matt Damon, and baby art critics! It's been a busy week across the Ist-A-Verse, and here's a smattering of what's been going on. In Gothamist's neck of the woods, they found out that many things are possible: A man caught a 40+ pound fish off the Rockaways and took it home on the subway. Graffiti...
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On a day in which some genuine environmental innovation took place in Boston (see below), our local papers were fixated upon one celebrity's solution for environmental waste.
Starbucks has decided to give you a little treat this morning by handing out free 12 oz. (or "tall" if you jive like that) Arabica coffee to celebrate its First Annual National Coffee Break. We first saw it mentioned over on boston.com on Monday but when we were accosted this morning outside Copley T station with a free copy of the Globe with an insulating Starbucks sleeve around it, it actually made Bostonist quite happy...
Owing to our general stinginess, our frequent use of a bicycle, and the fact that having a small child means we don't often find ourselves out of the house after the T stops running, (this) Bostonist doesn't take taxis very much anymore. On Saturday night, however, we had occasion to do so and were reminded that we love cabbies because they say interesting things at unexpected moments, frequently with cool accents.
For many women in Boston, an evening of drinking with friends ends with hailing a cab and heading home for the night. Yet, no matter what inebriated state one might be in, police are telling all women to keep their guard up as a man posing as a cab driver has picked up two women separately in the Faneuil Hall area, driven them to Cambridge, and sexually assaulted them. In one case, the man picked up a woman in a dark-colored SUV, drove her to the Alewife T station, assaulted her and left her there. The second assault was almost exactly the same but the man was driving a white car that looked like a Boston cab.
When the Globe reported on city plans to spruce up Downtown Crossing, Bostonist was skeptical, not just about the plan, but about the tone of the paper's reporting, which depicted the area as some sort of lawless Kabul bazaar. Today, the Globe follows up with an actual editorial, in which it advocates more traffic for downtown Boston.
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