Yesterday, an even worse disaster was thankfully averted. A man fell into the train pit on Wednesday afternoon at North Station. Other commuters warned the driver of an oncoming Orange Line train, who quickly stopped, allowing consumers to pull the him out of the pit. He didn't touch the third rail and was taken to Massachusetts General Hospital.
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The President of Ireland is visiting Massachusetts. Keep an eye out for her at The Purple Shamrock. [Boston Herald]
Johnny Law is planning to tamp down the drunken fun along the Saco River. [Boston Globe]
You can buy a video of JFK Jr.'s wedding (or probably find it on BitTorrent). [Boston Herald]
If your medical bills are out of control, you're not alone. [Boston Globe]
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Charlie Sheen can use his extraterrestrial mind to keep his godesses interested in his winning ways, however, he might have met his match in warlock Christian Day. Day and his magical crew at the Coven of the Raven Moon in Salem performed their witchy ritual on Sunday to cure Sheen of his wicked ways, and to stop him from using the word warlock with prejudice.
The Bruins returned to TD Garden and didn't lose their winning touch with a 2-1 decision over Tampa Bay, the team's seventh straight win. Boston (38-19-7) has 83 points and is in second place in the East. Milan Lucic got the game-winning goal, his 28th, late in the third period. In the second period, Lucic fought Eric Brewer. Steve Kampfer also scored with help from newcomers Chris Kelly, Rich Peverley. Tim Thomas had 27 saves.
Andy the pony was rescued from beneath a truck. Einstein, the puny pony, is so much larger than life that he's got a book and, possibly, a movie.
In an incident seemingly ripped from the legendary Saturday Night Live "Samurai Deli" skit, a Quincy man brandished a hatchet at a Subway shop in a Wal-Mart in Quincy on Friday. It wasn't a samurai sword, and he certainly wasn't John Belushi, but someone violently chopping food with a dangerous weapon reminded Bostonist of the classic SNL skit.
Stop us if you've heard this before: Hosni Mubarak quit as President of Egypt, a day after refusing to resign Thursday. Mubarak reportedly left Cairo for Sharm el-Sheikh in the Sinai and gave up power to someone. ABC News is vague on who really is running - except for saying the military is in charge - whatever government Egypt has. Crowds appear elated with the news.
That's right. The Red Sox equipment truck is headed for Fort Myers as we speak. We're just glad no snow crushed the truck. [Globe]
-- Even though Jay Severin will eventually resume spewing racism over the air, progressive radio has returned to Boston. [Blue Mass Group]
Coming from North Adams, western Mass.'s wilderness outpost of contemporary art, the Books delivered their thoughtful concepts to the ICA on Friday night* via a Postal Service of gentle electronica and indie (soft) rock boy vocals. Nick Zammuto and Paul de Jong also brought several closets' worth of tightly-edited found footage to match their pop musique concrète. A mood of inexplicable optimism pervaded, in the split-screen video of animals stampeding forth into an avant-garde National Geographic documentary, in the birdsong stitched together into makeshift jazz, and the virtuosic solos built from archived laughter.
Bostonist is still in shock because of yesterday's four alarm fire on Peterborough Street in the Fenway that wiped out an entire block of independent restaurants. The damage? Thornton's, Sorento's Italian Gourmet, Umi Japanese Restaurant, Greek Isles, Rod-Dee Thai Cuisine II, El Pelón Taqueria, and Bon cleaners, a dry cleaning shop. Firefighters say that the fire traveled quickly and horizontally through the strip of single-story businesses, spreading through the hazardous roof air conditioning units.
Chicks did pierre lascott. And just a friendly reminder from your Veggiest - these babies are too cute to become nuggets!
shoothead, one of our favorite local photographers and the brains behind the super-smart lens rental service ZipLens, put together this video of 892 sequential pictures taken on his morning bike ride commute. Not only is this video insanely clever and very well done, it is also a reminder that Boston needs to do more to become a more bike-friendly city.
Flickr this week added a short video feature to the site and there has been a bit of an uproar against it in the Flickr photo community. Our friend Chris Seufert, who also happens to be a documentary producer, tried out the new feature with this clip of clamming on Monomoy Island. What do you think of the addition of video to the site?
--So, just how many new construction jobs will the casinos proposed by Governor Deval Patrick create? He said 30,000. An independent analyst says no way: "... building three casinos at a cost of $1 billion each in Massachusetts would create a total of 4,000 to 5,000 new construction jobs for the duration of the building period, probably three years." [Boston Globe]
From satire by the Upright Citizens Brigade (see video above) to Bob Ryan to editorials in the Boston Globe magazine, the media appears to be wailing on Patriots coach Bill Belichick after Spygate and the Super Bowl loss.
We've been sitting on this one for a while, but it's hard to resist. Bostonist is fascinated by the return of H Bomb, Harvard University's sex magazine. So, what are they doing to bring the sexy to the Ivy League? For starters, they took nude photos. And then they brought in the big guns--former presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich.
Mike of The Food Monkey shares his thoughts about cooking, food history, restaurant trends, and any other Epicurean issues. He promises to discuss what tastes good, but not always what is in good taste. For more on consuming the opponents and other food news, go to the Food Monkey website. To contact Mike, go to the Food Monkey's contact page.
Bostonist realized the other day that, when Tom Brady is spoken of on this site, it is usually in the context of his tremendous play and his devastating effect on the ladies. But we never really thought of his devastating effect on the guys … until now. A gentleman named Dave Hoke posted a song explaining all those funny feelings straight guys get when they think about Tom Brady:
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones' Hometown Throwdown, which concludes tonight at the Middle East, is already going viral. YouTube user
It's a hot debate right now. The Somerville Journal posted pictures and video of the annual Tufts Naked Quad Run. The video and pictures are far from titillating. It's tush, tush, tush as far as they eye can see.
A viral video posted by our brothers and sisters at Gothamist shows some women who pole danced in a train car on a dare from darejunkies.com, much to the chagrin of the MTA. The video is something to behold, although, after seeing all the crotch-grinding and the dubious looks of some of the men enjoying themselves, we wouldn't want to touch anything in that car after the women finished. Here's the video: Given that this...
Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee is gaining appeal among Republicans thanks to his hard-right views, his ability to lose weight, and Chuck Norris. Obviously, this has former Massachusetts governor and presidential aspirant Mitt Romney thoroughly freaked out because Romney has spent boodles of money and has less to show for it. All Huckabee had to do was lose weight and gain an action star. Hence, Romney has unleashed an attack ad. However, we think Romney...
The Holiday season is in full swing in NYC, with holiday lights in Brooklyn, a giant snow globe in Bryant Park and Chanukah specials for ham. One citizen decided to go vigilante on annoying car alarms, a murder suspect used a fake Asian accent on the stand and a video of a man being beaten up by teenage girls on a subway shocked the city. And we interviewed soon-to-be-leaving-Gawker editor Choire Sicha, who said,...
In Cambridge, some residents are irritated by the sound of leaf blowers--as opposed to all the other noises one can hear in Cambridge. So, the City Council is spending its valuable time debating when and where the dastardly leaf blowers can be used. According to Matt Dunning at the Cambridge Chronicle, the City Council spent the "better part of two hours" discussing how strong bans on leaf blowers should be. Exceptions to the ban kept...
Ann Marie McNally died when her car and a BPD cruiser hit each other in South Boston in November. Yet she lives on because hackers, for some strange reason, are using her name as a way to draw people to their own sites. Louise Story at the New York Times spoke with McNally's friends and family because several of them thought they found a video for her memorial service on the web. The memorials were...
The Eight Saturday, December 10, 9:00 pm T.T. the Bear's 10 Brookline Street, Cambridge (T: Central Square) $12 advance / $15 at the door More info Taglit-Birthright Israel and JDub Records is hosting a Hanukkah rock concert that will be held in cities all over the United States. Boston will represent at T.T. The Bear's this Saturday. The Boston celebration will be split between rock and electronica. The Brakes are straight-up pop-rock, and press for...
The Five Brothers, aka Mitt Romney's kids who all blog for Dad, are toothy, cute, and so wholesome it could make your brain bleed. They strike us as mostly harmless sorts who just want to tell the world how cool their Dad is. But they do not, under any circumstances, need to be playing touch football with streamers dangling around their butts. The Team Romney football game marks the second time that Bostonist has seen...