Brookline

Pleads guilty to assault and battery while on duty.

The Globe has the latest on Robert Higgins, currently being held without bail for allegedly videoing people in their apartments and owning child porn.

AlertNewEngland reports the Citibank branch at 297 Harvard St. was held up around 2 p.m. by a white guy with a black beard and wearing black clothes who fled on foot toward Beacon Street even though he also had a motorcycle helmet on.

The Small Boston Kitchen is loving the Meat House, a new meaterie in Coolidge Corner.

The star of the store is undoubtedly the enormous meat cases that line the left hand side of the store. Rows and rows of salivation inducing brightly blushing meats of varying size and shape and all at very reasonable prices are the main draw here. From specialty cuts and marinaded meat and seafood, this is the place to go for your old standby steak or to try something a little different, like spinach and feta stuffed pork.

To preview your primary ballot for tomorrow, click on the link from the Secretary of State's website:

then enter your address and select a political party. It will show you what choices you'll have on tomorrow's primary ballot.

The district covers Jamaica Plain and Mission Hill and parts of Roslindale and Brookline. Incumbent Democrat Jeffrey Sanchez is being challenged in the primary by Jeffrey Herman.

Web sites: Jeffrey Herman, Jeffrey Sanchez.

Report from a candidates' forum - Jamaica Plain Gazette.
Some more background from the Gazette.

The district covers West Roxbury, South Brookline and a sliver of Roslindale. Incumbent Mike Rush is stepping down to run for state senate.

Web sites: Matthew Benedetti, Edward Coppinger, Bob Joyce, Pamela Julian, Paul Sullivan, Kelly Ann Tynan.

Meet the candidates to be West Roxbury's state rep - Wicked Local West Roxbury.
10th Suffolk House seat candidates spar over social issues, ability to get things done - Wicked Local West Roxbury.
State Representative Candidates Talk About National Educational Standards on the Local Level - West Roxbury Patch.
State Representative Candidates Talk About How to Help Senior Citizens - West Roxbury Patch.

The following op-ed was written by Pamela Julian's son Anthony Byrne and daughter Courtney Byrne:
The local community newspapers owned by GateHouse Media, Inc., particularly the Brookline Tab and West Roxbury Transcript, have insulted their readers yet again. As the son and daughter of State Representative candidate Pamela Julian, we have witnessed biased and/or negligent reporting of this campaign from the beginning. We expected either the Tab or Transcript or both to endorse Kelly Tynan or Paul Sullivan. Why? They published nearly ten op-eds between Tynan and Sullivan while ignoring the multiple op-eds submitted by my mother, Pamela Julian. In fact, the Tab did not print my mother's announcement of her candidacy. They printed all the others. The Tab even published a picture of Tynan during the Brookline forum despite my mother Pamela Julian being the only candidate from Brookline.

As one of the six candidates for State Representative in the 10th Suffolk District, I have the most experience, both politically and professionally.

My political experience includes being elected a library trustee chair, the only candidate to have been elected to public office.  I authored pending legislation to establish a student voter registration system, which will allow students to register to vote on-campus. I helped win the Bellevue Hill area of West Roxbury in the 1983 mayoral campaign of Dave Finnegan.

I owned a business, developed an 88-acre site on Lake Sunapee in New Hampshire, and worked in both radio and television. These are some of my professional credentials but I also raised two children, both college graduates. Being a single parent, I know the challenges single mothers face.

Wicked Local Brookline reports on a warrant article for the November Town Meeting.

Based on this ad for an intern, it sure sounds like Wicked Local Brookline and Brookline Patch will soon have a new competitor.

The Herald reports (bottom of article) that Boston Development Group of Newton wants to replace the vacant movie complex with a 150-room hotel and retail space. No word if guests will be required to watch a short video with blinking arrows showing the best way to exit onto Beacon Street.

Brookline Patch reports.

Wicked Local Brookline has bad news for people hankering for a b.good burger on Harvard Street. All three of you, apparently.

Signal problems, flooding, disabled trains, they're all so passe. AlertNewEngland reports Riverside trains are being delayed because police at Brookline Village are searching for "man with a snake."

John Hilliard of Wicked Local Brookline gives the Masterpiece Theatre version of a Craigslist men-seeking-women ad.

Ed caution: Those of you who lived through the '70s who have no wish for flashbacks are cautioned that Hilliard is sporting some serious sideburns to go with his Davey Jones hair.

Linda reports that on Sept. 17, four parking spaces on either side of Harvard Street by the Upper Crust and the Friendly's will become impromptu parks:

In front of Upper Crust Pizza and the Coolidge Corner Theater there will be a colorful activity center with games and "movies" showing pavement to parks improvements from around the country.

Across the street, in front of Friendly's there will be an urban oasis where visitors can sit on the grass or in a beach chair and dangle their toes in the water or play in the sand.

It's part of an international effort to get people to reclaim their streets. One of the Brookline sponsors is the town transportation department, so presumably organizers won't have to keep feeding the meters.

Nicholas Pancoast, General Manager, Hampton Inn, Boston Logan Airport, Revere, MA and Area Director of Operations for Linchris Hotel Corporation, based in Hanover, MA is going to ride his bicycle 630 miles in 10 days in an effort to raise funds for children with cancer.
The Linchris Challenge titled, Nick’s Ride for Kids (www.NicksRideforKids.com), will take place September 2-12 and will benefit three New England children’s hospitals:

- Patient Care at Children’s Hospital Boston, Boston, MA.

- Vermont Children’s Hospital at Fletcher Allen Health Care, Burlington, VT

- Pediatric Cancer Program at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Norris Cotton Cancer Center, with locations in Lebanon, Keene and Manchester, NH and St. Johnsbury, VT

Injuries did not appear life-threatening.

Wicked Local West Roxbury profiles five of the six Democrats running to replace Mike Rush.

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UNRELIABLE NARRATOR THEATER GROUP DEBUTS CYBERPUNK MUSICAL COMEDY ENTITLED 2010: OUR HIDEOUS FUTURE: THE MUSICAL!

BOSTON, MA--July 23, 2010--Unreliable Narrator in collaboration with The Pluto Tapes presents 2010: Our Hideous Future: The Musical!, a cyberpunk musical comedy that will be staged Friday, August 20 through Saturday, August 28 at the Boston Playwrights’ Theatre located at 949 Commonwealth Avenue,
Boston MA 02215.

It’s A.D. 2010, East Coast Metro Zone A, New Malden, a time of techno-studded blechhiness. Lonely human freedom fighter Kate Brick plans a last stand against the oppressive Artas, artificial life forms who control humankind through torture, brainwashing, and Facebook. But judging by the apathy of her lover Dehnise Compuserve and of her fellow humans, it may be too late.

2010: Our Hideous Future: The Musical! features Kamela Dolinova, Emily Taradash, Julia Lunetta, Timothy Hoover, John Deschene, Kay Coughlin, Katie Drexel, Ginger Lazarus, and Will Todisco.

MBTA Transit Police report arresting a Brighton man on charges he exposed himself to riders at the Reservoir stop on the Green Line on several occasions.

John A. Beyers, 64, was formally charged with open and gross lewdness after his arrest last night, according to the T, which says he is wanted for similar offenses in Brookline and Connecticut.

Innocent, etc.

Earlier:
Photo in the field and the wanted poster.

Jeff Egnaczyk lives in Brookline and works in Natick, and he raves about the MetroWest Regional Transit Authority's Green Line shuttle bus from Woodland. Not only does it save him $76 a month over his old route (C line to Copley, commuter rail to Natick, Natick Neighborhood Bus to work), it runs more frequently and:

MWRTA customer service is light years ahead of the MBCR.

But doesn't involve a single pun, Kosher Blog reports.

As the Outraged Liberal notes, one of the Globe's suggestions for beating the heat today is to go to Wulf's Seafood in Brookline and stand there watching the owner chop up fish.