Malden
The Friends of Eddie Coyle, stage adaptation of classic Boston crime novel, opens Dec. 8 at Oberon
By Eddie Coyle - 10/15/11 - 6:25 amCambridge, Mass. — Tickets are on sale now for George V. Higgins’ The Friends of Eddie Coyle, Stickball Productions’ world premiere stage adaptation of the quintessential Boston crime novel. The production runs Dec. 8–Jan. 15 at Oberon in Harvard Square, for tickets, visit www.thefriendsofeddiecoyle.com
It is the winter of ‘69 in Boston and Eddie Coyle is a bottom of the barrel hood attempting to stay alive and out of jail among his “friends” – cops, bartenders, radical hippies, bank robbers, hit men and informants. Weeks away from a prison sentence for trucking stolen booze, Eddie’s making a few bucks supplying the guns for a rash of brazen bank heists, while looking to tip someone in for a kind word to the judge.
George V. Higgins’ classic novel has been called the “best crime novel ever written” by Elmore Leonard, and literary scholars have compared his unforgiving and realistic depiction of Boston’s underworld with the works of Dickens, Dostoevsky, and Balzac. Through dialogue quintessentially Bostonian, and the most poignant homage to Bobby Orr and the ’69-’70 Boston Bruins in literature, The Friends of Eddie Coyle has set the bar for Boston crime stories for nearly 40 years.
Chinese nationals charged in Porsche-related, failed kidnapping
By adamg - 8/25/11 - 2:59 pmA federal grand jury yesterday indicted two Chinese nationals, one living in Malden, in a kidnapping plot to steal a Providence man's Porsche SUV.
The FBI charges the two did manage to kidnap the man and an acquaintance on April 2 as they brandished a knife and a stun gun. But things went downhill for them, the FBI says:
More T stations to get bike parking
By adamg - 8/22/11 - 9:35 amBoston Biker reports on the planned facilities at Braintree, Ashmont, Davis Square, Oak Grove and Malden Center - and that they will use a different and better rack design than the existing cages, based on input from actual bicyclists.
Redistricting Olympics
By creightt - 7/20/11 - 12:42 pmCommon Cause Massachusetts is hosting a Redistricting Olympics this summer. We will be taking citizen drawn Congressional, State House, and State Senate maps all summer, evaluating them, declaring a winner, giving out prizes and submitting the winning maps to the MA Legislative Redistricting Committee for consideration.
The purpose of the redistricting Olympics is threefold: to educate the public about the steps in the redistricting process, to initiate public participation in the political arena, and to pressure the legislature to draw the districts so that the citizens are appropriately represented.
Help show the legislature that redistricting is about our interests, not theirs. By participating in our redistricting Olympics and learning how to draw your own fair districts, you can acquire the tools you need to expose attempts by public officials to politicize the state’s new legislative maps.
For more information check out and/or email us at .
Participate in our democracy!
Feeling like some Sri Lankan tonight?
By adamg - 7/19/11 - 10:06 amBoston Restaurant Talk notes a new Sri Lankan restaurant in Malden and points us to info on Sri Lanka Day in Acton next month.
Dorchester man charged with 2004 murder of woman whose body was found in the Charles, wrapped in plastic
By adamg - 6/29/11 - 9:01 pmThe Boston Haitian Reporter has the story.
New MBTA system map?
By adamg - 6/6/11 - 7:13 am
That must be what that is, because surely the T isn't so short of cars on the Orange Line it would send one out with a cracked window held together with tape, would it? Dave Rodrigues took this photo this morning.
Malden is a special place
By adamg - 3/17/11 - 8:59 amA very, very special place, where, among other things, the natives can't get enough of chicken, broccoli and ziti.
Via Boston Reddit.
A New England snowstorm
By adamg - 2/27/11 - 11:35 am
The view out Greg Cook's window in Malden at 2 a.m. But for those getting just a bit tired of snow, Greg also posts photos from the Rhode Island Spring Flower and Garden Show.
Living stereotype: Charlestown resident charged as violent bank robber
By adamg - 2/17/11 - 8:05 pm
Oops!
The FBI reports agents today arrested Anthony M. Hamilton, 24, of Charlestown, on charges he held up a Malden Citizens Bank branch in December, then shot his way out of a locked vestibule.
The FBI says the vestibule was actually a "man-trap," designed to capture people like Hamilton.
Upon his exit, the bank employees activated the MAN-TRAP. Once captured within the vestibule, the robber pulled out a silver semi-automatic pistol and began firing at the doors. The robber was able to exit the vestibule and was seen exiting in an unknown direction.
The FBI says Hamilton was captured due to a tip sent into Mass. Most Wanted, a Web site rn by Massachusetts bankers to help ID wanted criminals.
If convicted, Hamilton faces up to 25 years in federal prison.
Innocent, etc.
