Fun Fun Fun Fest 2007 Recap from Super!Alright! on Vimeo. Austinist attended a town hall meeting about proposed noise ordinances that could undermine the city's future as the Live Music Capital of the World, and lamented the possible loss of Texas's only feminist bookstore. Throughout the week, they interviewed a bunch of indie fashion designers and D-I-Y websites—Etsy, Ornamental Things, 31 Corn Lane, and Aorta Designs—for the upcoming Stitch Fashion Show. They also did...
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Results tagged “terrorist”
Yeah, yeah, "Obama" as in "Barack" as in Deval Patrick's buddy sounds similar to "Osama" as in the despicable terrorist. But those are two names that you don't want to mix up in polite company. You don't want to mix up those names in impolite company. Alas, that's exactly what former Massachusetts governor and Republican presidential aspirant Mitt Romney did. Marc Ambinder has the quotation from a Romney presentation in Greenville, South Carolina: Actually, just...
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Between fake terrorist alerts and scandals big and small, this just might be the Best Best of the -ists ever. We're exhausted just thinking about it. First up, SFist, who saw their little 'ole site be the center of what was a nice little scandal (even getting their editor on TV) only to find their scandal dwarfed by the even bigger scandal caused by their Mayor boffing one of his aides' wife. We're not...
One thing's for sure - Mayor Menino is no fan of "Mooninites," or what the Globe calls "little square-shaped men frowning and making an obscene gesture." Most important, "Mooninites" are the objects that have tormented Boston law enforcement since lite-brite displays of the object were found attached to the city's sensitive spots - like by bridges and highways.
The MBTA released the wrath of Charlie on the system for real today. December 4 marked the release of the long-promised plastic cards embedded with a chip to allow you to tap and go, rather than feed, wait, retreat with the paper CharlieTicket. They've got boxes full of zero-value CharlieCards to distribute, reportedly about a million before the end of the year, and are starting the effort with a full on blitz in T stations all week. T employees will be handing out the cards to riders at all the T stops and a small selection of bus hubs over the next week. We're still trying to figure out where the T will be sending the CharlieTruck. We grabbed a card underground this morning and dropped $5 on it. The process took 47 seconds – and that's with verification the funds transferred to the card. Just as fast as holding up four fingers and passing a five under the glass at a token booth. Oh, and just in case you thought it was all good news – one of CharlieVendingMachines was being serviced. Hopefully they'll be in better repair than the escalators on the T.
Gothamist has their eyes to the sky today and is keeping us updated on the breaking news story from New York City. Apparently a helicopter has crashed into an apartment building. Reports thus far have indicated that more than one building is on fire. Officials have already come out to claim that they aren't suspecting that it was a hijacking or terrorist related. It seems to have been confirmed that it was not a small plane but rather a helicopter which slammed into the E. 72nd St. building. Tune in to Gothamist or sub them on your reader for the details and developments on this incident.
Governor Romney, only weeks away from being a lame duck, announced that the MBTA would resume random bag searches of transit system passengers. We thought at first they'd be riffling through our bags trying to find any tokens we still have in our possession, though really they are indeed looking for bombs. The announced plan will deploy portable machines outside of stations that will test baggage for bomb residue, and, with probable cause, police can...
Maybe Romney is upset that he can't pronounce Ahmadinejad correctly (who can?). Perhaps he's afraid that there aren't enough of the Chargers for the Staties to drive. Or maybe he's just making another calculated move for a potential 2008 Presidential bid. Whatever the case may be, Romney has ordered to refuse all requests for security details in protection of the former Iranian president, Mohammad Khatami. A visit by Khatami has been scheduled for this Sunday, September 10 at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. We haven't been able to uncover any evidence of a deliberate effort to make this happen on the eve of the five-year anniversary of the September 11th attacks, but it's certainly received much media mention. Despite Romney's pledge, the visit is still on schedule.
A United Airlines plane travelling from London to Washington D.C. was forced to land at Logan Airport this morning after a 60-year-old female passenger became agitated, claiming fear of claustrophobia on board. This U.S. citizen had to be restrained by passengers and was arrested by State Police once the plane landed at Terminal E. We much prefer when planes are diverted to less populated places, like Bangor. It's a little disconcerting that this DC-bound...
Trains are safe. That's the declaration from Michael Chertoff, head of the US Department of Homeland Security, after he took a ride on the MBTA Green Line. Perhaps malicious individuals looking to cause harm to Boston's subway system have also been thwarted by the introduction of the CharlieTicket system. If regular riders of the T, occasional patrons, and tourists are finding the new fare system a little cumbersome there maybe a built-in safety factor preventing...
Say what you will about Somerville Congressman Michael Capuano's questionable policy on accepting gifts and trips. When it comes to blowing stuff up, he and Bostonist are on the same page. The Herald reports today that Capuano is arranging with "an unnamed liquefied natural gas company" to shoot a missile at a huge tanker in the ocean, "to see what happens." We realize that this may be useful in terms of planning for terrorist attacks,...
Remember when Cat Stevens Yusuf Islam was "discovered" on a flight to Washington DC, and the flight was diverted to Bangor, Maine, for security purposes (because Cat Stevens, like so many other very bad individuals, has found his name on a terrorist watch list)? Bangor picked up a few other inbound bad guys after that, too. Now, a flight headed to Logan was diverted to Kansas City because of "threatening graffiti" in the bathroom. As...
How much longer until Mitt Romney decides whether to lose a bid for the white house or a bid for reelection? Because Bostonist is starting to feel like the matronly society wife in an old-time comedy of manners who married a philanderer for the economic and social benefits and now must stoically turn a blind eye to his dalliances with young showgirls (or primary states, as the case may be). Maybe we should create a...
We first got irritated about this when we made the mistake of signing up for the cheapest health plan at work, only to find out that there were no doctors anywhere near us. When we got on the phone and asked for a general practitioner in or near Somerville, the customer service lady paused a moment, did some clickety-clacking on her computer, and said, "Oh sure. I have someone in War-cester." Considering that Worcester is wicked fah from Somerville, her mispronunciation just added insult to injury. Then yesterday evening, a pollster called to ask Bostonist questions about local politics, which we love. But this guy couldn't pronounce the names of any of the Somerville politicos he was asking us about (or, for that matter, the name of Desmond Tutu), and that made us bullshit. (Also, the poll was obviously designed to get us to say that the campaign to divest local assets from Israel was a terrorist plot designed by communists who kick puppies, and we hate being manipulated so inexpertly that we realize we're being manipulated.) Now we learn, via Universal Hub, that even the MBTA can't get its automated bus announcements to sound regionally accurate (Reading is announced as "REEding"). What's up with that? If Bostonist finds out that the T is announcing Quincy with a soft "s" sound, we will be forced to raise our mass transit annoyance-alert level to wicked ripshit.
Bostonist was happy to read today about the homage to the late, great Tip O’Neill given in the form of naming rights to the I-93 tunnel. After Romney proposed naming the tunnel system running through the city "Liberty Tunnel" to honor the revolutionary spirit of Boston and to confront the terrorist attacks we’re happy to have had a win for the Democrats. The "sneaky" legislation put into the federal highway funding bill this month is...
Bostonist awoke this morning to breaking news of the latest terrorist attack hitting the London transportation system. Beginning in the height of rush hour traffic, the bombs exploded in several different areas of the Underground, as well as one double-decker bus; officials say that at least 10 people have died with over 90 casualities thus far. The entire London transporation system has been shut down and government officials have told city residents to stay where...
For the second time in a week Bostonist looks north for flight status. No, the flight monitors haven't been rearranged at logan, they've just diverted the flights. Today Alitalia Flight 618 from Milan, Italy which was supposed to land at Boston’s Logan Airport instead made way for Bangor Maine. Last Thursday an Air France flight headed to the hub was also diverted to Bangor. Here at Bostonist we would like to take a minute and...
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