Brookline
Joel Brown has the details on an award in which the recipient does not have to dress in drag.
A Proper Bostonian is amazed to count nine dry-cleaning places in Brookline Village:
... I never thought of Brookline Village as terrifically pressed and creased. I've always experienced it as more of a yuppie-hippie enclave. After all, there's the hot yoga and at least one holistic spa. I envision the typical Villager wearing organic natural fibers that were washed in biodegradable suds. ...
Brookline Mama swears that's what she saw and heard outside around 10 p.m. on Wednesday:
... Suddenly there is a racket in the street. A small dog barking very, very loudly? Surely that's not a dog? I go outside with my flashlight. It's 10F and I'm wearing a skirt and a thin sweater and my breath is almost obscuring my vision, but the first new yowl I hear sets my whole body on fire. Hair-raising. Repelling, but oh so magnetic too ...
Democrat Paul Sullivan of West Roxbury said today he is running for the 10th Suffolk seat being vacated by state-Senate hopeful Mike Rush:
As an ADA, I have fought day after day on behalf of victims of violent crime, parents seeking child support and those battling drug addictions. I have served the people of the Commonwealth with the utmost passion and tended to each individual with the proper focus and effort they deserved. I look forward to utilizing my work ethic and hard working attitude that was required of me at the DA's Office into advocating on behalf of the residents here in the Tenth Suffolk District.
Also declared: Kelly Tynan and Matt Benedetti.
The district includes West Roxbury, South Brookline and a small part of Roslindale.
A Proper Bostonian finds plenty to like in the Brookline neighborhood, but, in the end, decides she still likes her Back Bay more.
Paul Levy reports he wasn't the only one in Chef Chang's on Beacon Street yesterday for a last meal before the place closes forever (in his case, two last meals - he went for lunch, returned for dinner):
There were so many customers in the last few days that they ran out of Peking duck, the house specialty. A special shipment was brought in, and they spent overnight last night roasting the ducks to have some available today. A week's worth of other supplies likewise only lasted two days. ... The Chan's were genuinely surprised at the outpouring of affection. Those of us who know them are not in the least surprised.
Wicked Local Roslindale reports Kelly Tynan, formerly director of West Roxbury Main Streets and now a teacher at the Conley School, is running for the state representative's seat that Rush is vacating to run for Marian Walsh's state Senate seat. Walsh has yet to say if she's seeking re-election.
Also running, Wicked Local reports: Matt Benedetti. Benedetti tried to run in 2008 against Rush but the Secretary of State ruled too many of the signatures on his petitions were invalid.
This missed connection ad on Craigslist reads like a modern day love poem. Bearded men of Boston...pull your faces out of the PBR pitcher, it looks like someone has their eye on you...
http://boston.craigslist.org/gbs/mis/1567745744.html
OK, Brookline, anything you're not telling us? First we read about the dentist charged with sawing equipment in half. Now Wicked Local Brookline tells us police are investigating a resident's complaint that somebody keeps stuffing wigs into his car's tailpipe:
He told police his estranged friend was married to a beautician who could supply him with wigs.
Wicked Local Brookline reports a Beacon Street dentist in a dispute with another dentist over how to split up their partnership used a saw to cut a piece of dental equipment in half. Police declined to name either dentist, so we don't know if the guy with the saw is named Solomon.
Cleary Squared remembers the Beacon Street restaurant, about to transmogrify into another Chinese restaurant:
... The sweet and sour chicken at Chef Chang's House is the yardstick to compare restaurant sweet and sour chicken made at Chinese restaurants. ...
Sunday's the day for people to doff pants on the Red Line, starting at noon at Alewife.
But the Herald reports Brookline police hope to get a leg up on a pantsless guy who asked a couple of girls for directions yesterday.
No, not Golden Temple. Boston Restaurant Talk reports that Chef Chang's House on Beacon Street has been bought by somebody who will turn it into another Chinese restaurant.
A Brookline man bit the bullet today and pleaded guilty to charges he used the same broken tooth to try to drill an amalgam of Boston-area restaurants with phony injury claims. Read more
Boston Restaurant Talk reports the chain has started advertising for workers at a new Friendly's Express at an unspecified location in Brookline.
Quincy Police report they are looking for this guy for a Nov. 24 holdup of the Bridgewater Credit Union on Clay Street in Quincy.
Police say he's about 5'6", in his early 30s, with a short beard and, of course, wearing a Red Sox hat.
Police say he's a suspect in bank holdups in Dorchester and Brookline as well. Photos from a Nov. 30 holdup of the Brookline Bank on Beacon Street sure look like the same guy.
Tom O'Keefe took this video in Brookline tonight, reports "I'm not sure if they're Christmas lights or a form of alien communication."
Stephen Walsh photographs the remains of an accident on Washington Street in Brookline Village this morning in which a driver apparently blinded by solar glare took out a light pole.
Samantha Star snapped a photo of some burning Green Line tracks in Coolidge Corner around 6 p.m. today.
Michael Sesling has been writing about his daily commute on the C line - in poetry. From his latest poem:
and they stared
everyone looked at this seat
and then looked at everyone else
looking at the seat
but not a soul moved toward it
it just stayed
empty
some days an empty seat is like
an injured animal
being circled by hungry vultures
but this day
who knows why nobody made a move
maybe we were all too aware of our own selves
the woman in green sweater
seated in the adjacent seat
surely wondered why
everyone stood around
as she turned
looked
with a momentary stare
before she drifted back into
her shuffled papers
Yesterday, Boston Police reported a man arrested after he was spotted sitting in some woman's lap by her boyfriend was wanted on unspecified warrants.
Channel 4 reports one of those warrants was for an attempted rape near the Brookline Village T stop in 2007. In that incident, Samuel Prado allegedly chatted the woman up from Government Center to Brookline Village, then attacked her as they both left Brookline Village. Channel 4 says he was released on bail, then never showed up in court.
After the Brookline arrest, the Globe described him as "a homeless drifter," who drifted up here from New York because Boston was "quieter."
No, that's not quite true, Paul Levy reports: They do warn you that fare evasion is a crime so you better pay your damn fare:
I have to give the MBTA something for truth in advertising. It describes this capital improvement project (or one like it) as follows: This project will install new LED information signs on the platforms and lobbies of busy subway stations. These signs will provide visual equivalent of audio information on train arrival times and destination information.
In that sense, the signs are the visual equivalent of the public address system on this line, which for years has also failed to give audio information about delays or train arrivals.
Ian Lamont reports the publisher of Newton Magazine, Brookline Magazine and MetroWest Magazine, has thrown in the towel and ceased publication.
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