Annie Dookhan not a get-out-of-jail card for everybody convicted of drug dealing
By adamg - 5/6/13 - 9:44 amTwo men convicted of drug dealing who asked to be let out of prison because of problems at state drug labs will stay in prison while their cases are reconsidered, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.
End of the line for Davis Square bar?
By adamg - 5/6/13 - 8:42 amOn Friday, the Rosebud Bar and Grill, which is located behind the Rosebud Diner, posted this to its Facebook page:
Update on the sale and closing of the Rosebud: Between last night and this morning something has changed the closing of the sale was scheduled to happen on the 15th of May. But I was informed by the owners of the property that things have changed and we will still be here for the next month or so, maybe longer it everything falls apart with the sale(fingers crossed).
Budgie in a salad-spinner bowl
By adamg - 5/6/13 - 8:14 amPheddo reports he was chillin' by his fire pit in Brighton when a parakeet landed on the fire-pit lid. He managed to capture it with a salad-spinner bowl and now he's hoping to find the owner to reunite pet with person.
Riverside Line dead in the water
By adamg - 5/5/13 - 10:06 pmWire problems mean bustitution between Riverside and Kenmore.
Former Phoenix staffers try to give Boston a second alt weekly again
By adamg - 5/5/13 - 8:25 pm
Former Phoenix staffers Liz Pelly and Faye Orlove last week launched the Media, which they hope can alt up the Hub again, initially online, maybe some day in print. Even though they're online, they'll be following a print-like publishing schedule:
[S]oon you'll find photo essays and video footage documenting creative communities around Boston; zine reviews from librarians at the Papercut Zine Library; a forward-thinking "Know Your Rights" column covering everything from dealing with bad landlords to throwing house shows. We'll have horoscopes, comics, and mixtapes.
Pelly adds:
Lawsuit over Davis Square LiveJournal posts gets Streisanded
By adamg - 5/5/13 - 7:22 pmA Somerville man's lawsuit over posts on the local LiveJournal and on the local newspaper Web site went national today, in a request for legal help for Ron Newman, named in the suit.
Meanwhile, lawsuit bringer Johnny Monsaratt has been busy digging up the names behind comments he doesn't like and sending them letters warning them to take down their comments or be officially named in the lawsuit, rather than as one of the "John and Jane Does, 1-100."
One person says Monsaratt actually visited his mother's house, "in a large black trench coat, blond hair, asking all sorts of questions about me, my whereabouts, et cetera."
Bennett's political analysis for 4/28-5/5/13
By Douglas Bennett - 5/5/13 - 3:15 pmThis past week was a big week in politics here in Boston.
1. Steve Lynch will not run for Mayor.
Leading up to this past week, many speculated that 8th Congressional District U.S. Representative Stephen Lynch was using the U.S. Senate race to raise his profile so he could run for Boston Mayor. Lynch's chances were ruined by losing his hometown of Boston by a margin of 31,000 plus votes to Lynch's 28,000 plus votes.
Essentially, Markey "Al Gored" Stephen Lynch. To understand this, Al Gore lost his home state of Tennessee to George W. Bush in 2000 and that was the real reason why Gore lost the presidency not because of Florida. For Lynch to have won the U.S. Senate Democratic Primary, he needed to run up the vote against Markey in Boston and this just did not happen.
2. Dewey beats Truman.
The 1st Suffolk Senate race was an unbelievable contest. My parish, St. Ann's, falls right inside this state Senate district. Three great candidates fought tooth and nail to replace Jack Hart who left his seat for a high paying job at a law firm.
The age of steam
By adamg - 5/5/13 - 12:31 pm
The BPL has posted more train photos by Leslie Jones, including this one of a steam engine pulling out of South Station in 1937, and another one of a train leaving North Station sometime in the 1940s:
A very JP kind of day
By adamg - 5/4/13 - 9:20 pm
It was a perfect day for Jamaica Plain's annual Wake Up the Earth parade and festival along the Southwest Corridor Park by Stony Brook station.
Feeling green. Photo copyright Charlie Rosenberg.
Mayoral Campaign 2013: The theme songs
By anonism - 5/4/13 - 9:16 pmFelix Arroyo's campaign seems to have "Si Se Puede" as its theme song. Well, if his campaign can have one, maybe other mayoral campaigns could come up with one, too. But campaign staffers likely have other work on their minds, so what follows are just a few ideas.
Let's see if we can have fun with this. Got one to offer? If you decide to pitch in, please follow this format:
Candidate, Song Title, Performer
--Connection to Candidate or Campaign
So for Arroyo, we have:
Felix Arroyo, "Si Se Puede", Linda Allen
--Chanted by his supporters shortly before his formal announcement.
Anyway, here are my ideas:
Bureaucratic wrangling delays battle news
By adamg - 5/4/13 - 8:10 pmJ.L. Bell explains why it took news of the Battle of Bunker Hill three days longer to reach New York than news of the Battle of Lexington:
The Provincial Congress delayed its report until its committee had a good sense of what had happened and/or could put a good spin on events.
Maverick Square gets a food truck of its very own
By adamg - 5/4/13 - 8:04 pmLiveEastie.com interviews one of the owners of Shuckin' Truck, which now serves up seafood in East Boston.
We do try to source our seafood from the family of fishing vessels in RI. However, due to the fact that we now operate 7 days a week, it's hard for them to keep up with the demand. Our secondary source is directly from the Boston Pier every morning.
Tablet wars: BU not only local concern suing Amazon over Kindle LEDs
By adamg - 5/4/13 - 9:38 amA tiny company called Lexington Luminance is suing both Amazon and Google over a patent it claims is violated by the LEDs used in the companies' tablets.
Boston University this week filed its own LED patent lawsuit against Amazon over the LEDs used in its Kindle tablets.
Yesterday, Formosa Epitaxy, the company that makes the LEDs that Google uses in its Nexus 7 tablets, filed a lawsuit against Lexington Luminance to try to forestall an anticipated Lexington Luminance lawsuit against it.
Lexington Luminance sued Amazon and Google last November, claiming the devices use violate a patent held by Tien Yang Wang for minimizing defects in the manufacture of LEDs. It seeks damages and interest and an order to stop the companies from selling the products with the LEDs.
The company has no Web site and lists Wang's Lexington home as its corporate address in its complaints.
Bouncer, two patrons stabbed in Theater District club
By adamg - 5/3/13 - 11:49 pmBoston Police report a melee around 1:45 a.m. at Underbar, 275 Tremont St., sent three men to the hospital.
Police say the bouncer was attempting to break up a fight between two or three men when one of them whipped out a knife and stabbed the bouncer in the arm and stomach. Police say he managed to get himself to nearby Tufts Medical Center - where two other men went after also being stabbed, one in the face, arm, chest and back.
Police are looking for two suspects, both black men, between 20 and 30. One wore a yellow shirt, the other a plaid shirt.
Stabbing downtown
By adamg - 5/3/13 - 9:02 pm
Taped off Downtown Crossing intersection. Photo by Stephanie Giunta.
Several streets downtown became a taped-off crime scene tonight after somebody was stabbed at Washington and Hayward streets around 7:30 p.m.
Man shot to death in Dorchester
By adamg - 5/3/13 - 4:38 pmBoston Police report a man shot Sunday evening died.
Malcolm Campbell of South Boston was 23.
According to police, Campbell was shot around 7:50 p.m. in the area of Howard Avenue and Wayland Street.
Police say security guards nearby reported hearing six shots. Officers responding to the shooting first spotted a purple PT Cruiser speeding away from the scene on Howard Avenue and then came upon Campbell lying on the ground. He was rushed to Boston Medical Center, where he died.
Local chefs to do their own One Fund fundraiser
By adamg - 5/3/13 - 3:14 pmBoston Bites Back at Fenway Park on May 15. Tickets are $211.99 and $1039.95 for food from 100 local chefs.
