Peter Gelzinis has one common-sense observation in his column today - that hipsters who don't know where Roche Bros. is, let alone want to collect signatures there, pose little real threat to Tom Menino.
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By adamg - 5/27/12 - 12:06 am
Nobody hit, though, as things broke up on Kittredge Street between Wellesmere and Denton shortly before midnight.
By adamg - 5/24/12 - 3:43 pm
School Superintendent Carol Johnson has released details of plans to ensure more students get to school on time in the coming school year.
For starters, BPS has already started mapping out bus routes for the fall, rather than waiting until later in the summer. BPS blamed new routing software for a busing crisis that saw hundreds of students getting to school seriously late, if their buses showed up at all.
By adamg - 5/24/12 - 11:10 am
A homeless man found with a serious head injury Monday at the Paul Revere Park fishing pier under the Charlestown Bridge may have been attacked there Sunday night.
Authorities are looking for people who may have been in the park and seen anything, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports:
By adamg - 5/23/12 - 1:32 pm
Ross: "Irresponsible" to make kids pay for superintendent's mistakes.
A divided City Council today approved a plan that moves seven schools around and creates two new schools, but even councilors who voted in favor told School Superintendent Carol Johnson and School Committee Chairman Gregory Groover they're skating on thin ice.
Councilor Ayanna Pressley (at large) said the $20-million plan, which will mean 1,400 new seats in what BPS says are high-performing schools, forced her to vote for a plan that moves the Mission Hill K-8 School to Jamaica Plain. But she said she will never again vote for a BPS capital request unless officials pair it with a comprehensive five or ten-year plan. The council has final say over borrowing for large-scale capital projects.
By adamg - 5/23/12 - 7:38 am
Wait, is that Tom Menino up there with them?!?
Mayor Thomas M. Menino yesterday brushed off claims of an upstart group of hip entrepreneurs that he's out of touch, saying he's tried to extend late-night buses and has infused his administration with several young, new staffers.
By adamg - 5/22/12 - 6:51 pm
1202 Comm. Ave. just inbound from Harvard Avenue around 6:30 p.m. Police looking for two men, who may have made a point of stabbing the guy in both legs.
By jp_guy - 5/22/12 - 12:58 pm
I just picked up an exceptional book on Boston's jazz history called The Boston Jazz Chronicles - Faces, Places, and Nightlife 1937 - 1962.
The few sections I've read so far are captivating and beautifully recreate this pivotal time in our fair city's transition from an economically depressed backwater to what it is today.
By adamg - 5/22/12 - 8:24 am
WBUR talks to Leonard Nimoy about being forced to leave his boyhood neighborhood:
I wish I could go back to my roots. I can't. They’re gone. The buildings are all torn down. I try walking with my wife to show her where I lived, but it's so difficult because the street configuration has changed so much that I feel it’s gone. I feel my roots are gone.
By adamg - 5/22/12 - 6:37 am
Because the idea of a woman running up to a giant screen showing a droning mayor and throwing a sledgehammer at it was already taken:
By adamg - 5/21/12 - 5:23 pm
Thomas O'Connor, a Boston College professor who made a career of writing about Boston, has died at 89, the Globe reports.
By adamg - 5/21/12 - 8:21 am
The Herald reports MBTA Transit Police today launch an iPhone app that will let T riders instantly report pervs and suspicious packages.
The new app is already available for download in the Apple App Store as MBTA See Say and will be available today on the Transit Police Web site.
In addition to text reports, users will be able to click a button to connect to a police dispatcher, at least in areas along their route where they have cell service.
An Android version is planned for later release, the T says.
By JohnAKeith - 5/20/12 - 6:04 pm
A then-and-now.
It's like a mirror!
Boston Common at Twilight by Childe Hassam, 1885-1886, from the Museum of Fine Arts collection.
And, from earlier today, May 20, 2012.
By adamg - 5/19/12 - 9:12 am
Don't just sit/stand there vacantly staring at the clinical depression study ads anymore. Play MBTA Bingo!
That link will take you to an alpha version of the game. If you don't like the choices, hit reload for a new card. Needs some formatting work. This would be perfect for a mobile app, which, alas, is way beyond my abilities, but I should be able to at least get checkboxes on the items, so you can click when you see/hear/smell one of the items (or you could go old school and just print out a card before you go).
By adamg - 5/18/12 - 7:52 am
The shrinking Phoenix Media Group still has one possible ace in the hole - a patent lawsuit against Facebook that, if successful, would give it ownership over one of the most fundamental parts of social networking.
At issue is a patent held by Phoenix subsidiary People2People on the concept of creating a personal page on a Web site.
People2People, then known as Tele-Publishing, Inc., sued Facebook in 2009, because Facebook, of course, lets users build personal pages.
By adamg - 5/17/12 - 8:27 am
Summer jobs, more anti-violence street and case workers, chats with people getting out of jail, efforts to broker ceasefires among gangs, more surveillance cameras among the efforts announced yesterday.
By adamg - 5/17/12 - 8:07 am
Jef Taylor reprints some tips from a guy who likes driving around town looking for Agaricus bitorquis, an edible mushroom that grows well in curbs that have been raised up a bit by tree roots:
Don't run over a dog or cat or rear end a car. Drive slowly ignoring that half-wit behind you blowing his horn. Hunt one side of the street at a time for safety's sake. Season expires around the end of May. This is a delicious mushroom big time.
By adamg - 5/16/12 - 2:23 pm
Mission Hill teddy bear explains the problems with moving Mission Hill K-8.
BPS officials are scheduled to explain a proposed $21-million school relocation plan to a skeptical City Council committee at a hearing that starts at 11 a.m. in the council's fifth-floor chambers in City Hall.
Under the proposal, two high schools, including New Mission High School, would be moved to the closed Hyde Park High School - for which state officials are now withholding renovation funds because the money was supposed to be spent only for schools that are open and Fenway High School would be moved into the building that now houses New Mission and the Mission Hill K-8 School, which would be moved into the mold-infested Agassiz School, along with a new high school BPS is opening in the fall.
By JohnAKeith - 5/16/12 - 2:04 pm
A sad day in Copley Square today as 20 London Plane trees are being cut down.
The affected trees are located throughout the park and average eight-inches dbh (diameter at breast height). All specimens are dead or dying due to canker stain fungal infection. Other tree species in the park are not affected by the disease.
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