Results tagged “thewire”

Sunday, May 24

Like so many teams before them, the New York Giants gave it everything they had. And like everyone else before them, they could only watch helplessly as Tom Brady and company engineered another beautiful fourth-quarter comeback to win the game, and become the first team in the 16-game era to run the table.

Massachusetts Congressman Ed Markey, last seen basking in praise for his support of public television at the opening of WGBH's new building, isn't getting much applause from the founder of Black Entertainment Television (BET). During a House Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection hearing, Markey said that BET represented “the lowest common denominator of cheap and tawdry music videos and other questionable programming.” As connoisseurs of lowbrow culture, Bostonist would like to point out...

Will the real Fake Steve Jobs please stand up? Yes, he will. And he'll do it in Boston. The New York Times outed the blogger who's been blogging as a Steve Jobs iMpersonator (can we trademark that?) for over a year. His real name Daniel Lyons a Medford resident. He's been impersonating the Apple chief and lampooning his persona on the blog fakesteve.blogspot.com. In the last year it's gotten the attention of the tech elite...

"Baby you can drive my car. I got no car and it's breaking my heart, but I've found a driver and that's a start" The Vatican is trying to take all the fun out of driving. Today they issued a set of guidelines that hits home for Boston, a city full of Masshole drivers and Catholics – two groups which are often one in the same. The ten rules, or "commandments," for drivers hit the...

This morning Bob Oakes started reading copy on wbur's Morning Edition reporting on Menino's idea to sell City Hall and City Hall Plaza. The plan was outlined at a breakfast meeting today (and missed the print dailies deadlines) with the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce. It would be excellent to see the brick and concrete wasteland that is City Hall and the Plaza disappear – but what then would Boston residents have to complain about?...

The Boston Police Department issued a press release today indicating that twenty-three people will be charged for crack and cocaine distribution in the Bromley-Heath housing development in Jamaica Plain. In season one of The Wire it was Avon Barksdale working for control of The Towers – its season four now and the lines are still tapped in hopes of shutting down Marlo Stanfield's operation. The fiction of HBO's drama is well developed and revolves around...

A story hit the wire today highlighting work not done, but paid, for the Boston Police Department. Menino's office has launched an investigation into the situation that allowed Christine Meegan to collect full time pay even after she had moved out of state. There's been talk recently about a citizen oversight panel for the Boston Police Department. The City refused oversight, but today questions arise as the report is made public that Meegan was able to take over 100 vacation and sick days over a nine-month period without repercussions. The West Roxbury police clerk was working Captain Jack Kervin who has since been dismissed for financial mismanagement.

Every now and again an internet video catches the eye as being tangentially relevant to current events. In these instances there's a unique opportunity for us to make an irrelevant point about pop culture and the news while showcasing a couple of minutes of multimedia. Today we take the opportunity to highlight the fact that the 39th murder this year in the city of Boston took place yesterday. The recent upswing in violent crime has been slightly offset with a dip in burglaries.

Mixed reports of the efficacy of yesterday’s rallys, protests, and boycotts are coming across the wire. Whether or not you think that yesterday’s “Day Without Immigrants” was a successful stand of solidarity makes no difference when you watch the following video. Bostonist takes it as a glimpse into other culture, cinematically. The Metro Manila Film Festival tapped the movie, Once in a Blue Moon, to be one of the Magic 7 – we’re not up on the particulars of the festival, but from what we can find it’s akin to a best of list. The story opens here with an elderly Filipina immigrant in Boston (see the relevance) trying to find her long-lost love who she believes still lives in the homeland. She’s writing to every man in the Philippines named Manuel Pineda wondering if he’s the one…the copyright police haven’t pulled this foreign flick off of YouTube yet so you can catch the subtitled version in 11 installments beginning with the opening, from a quiet Boston home.

The Red Sox are facing the Yankees tonight for the first time in this 2006 season and of course there is the usual hype. (See the Herald's tribute on the left. Please note unfriendly photo of Mrs. Damon.) But tonight's game has nothing to really do with baseball itself, but what the spectators will do when Johnny “I’m an Idiot” Damon steps to the plate for the first time as a Yankee. Since joining the...

Yesterday, a story hit the wire about the location of the Commonwealth’s most hazardous communities. The 59 page report was authored by Northeastern University sociology professor Daniel R. Faber and Eric J. Krieg, a professor at Johnson State College in Vermont and showed that 24 of the 30 most environmentally hazardous sites in the Bay State also had communities that were 25 percent or more non white. Bostonist can’t help but think about a memo we once read that had reportedly come from the desk of Larry Summers when he was chief economist at the World Bank in 1992. The World Bank memo, which was leaked to the press and published in The Economist might not have been written by Summers and it may have been doctored up before it was released to make the assertions more outreageous. The form we saw it the was certainly outragous.

A story hit the wire about a maternity chain that may be guilty of discriminating against a pregnant woman. US District Court in Boston began jury selection today in the case of discrimination in which Cynthia Papageorge is suing Mothers Work Inc. Papageorge looks to collect compensation for damages incurred in the form of emotional distress and lost wages after she was fired after May 2000. Mothers Work Inc. operates a number of maternity stores...

Bostonist spent all our money this weekend when we hit the newish Cold Stone store at the Fenway AMC and then caught a "The Interpreter" for an evening show. Incidentally, the ice cream was much more satisfying. Today a press release hit the wire announcing the increasingly ubiquitous gourmet ice cream chain’s plans for expansion. What grabbed our attention was not that they were going to be adding stores in and around Boson, not that there were going to be 40 more opened in Massachusetts within five years, but that we could own one of our very own. Then we'd get all the free ice cream we wanted.