The Wall Street Journal reports on the trend of Boston-area college students hiring concierges who will wash their dick, sir "find and decorate apartments, get academic tutoring, snag coveted restaurant reservations and handle a litany of other bothersome chores."
The newspaper of the monied class naturally talks to one of the modern-day butler agencies:
Richard Stutman, president of the Boston Teachers Union, explains his thinking on longer school days.
Kinvey puts together the map. And it's just startups actually within Boston city limits - none of that frou-frou Kendall Square or 495 stuff.
UPDATE: Cantore is actually headed to Worcester this time. Who'll keep Roker company on the Common?
Both Jim Cantore and Al Roker are headed our way again, for the second time in a month, this time to cover Nor'easterpalooza 2013 II: Plum Island Dies Harder. But where are Ginger Zee and Anderson Cooper?
The Onion reports:
Boston residents once again hustled and bustled their way into the nation’s hearts this week as they continued playing their adorable little game of "Big City," a live-action role-playing adventure in which Bostonians buzz about their daily routines in a delightful hubbub of excitement as if they lived in a major American metropolis.
A Quincy man who chickened out of robbing a Sovereign Bank branch in South Boston on Feb. 26 when a teller demanded he remove first his sunglasses and then his hat was arrested after he robbed the Citizens Bank branch across the street minutes later, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office says.
Patrick Hennessey, 31, was arraigned in South Boston District Court yesterday arraigned for unarmed robbery and attempted unarmed robbery, the DA's office reports. Prosecutors asked for $50,000 bail; Judge Michael C. Bolden set bail at $15,500.
UPDATE: A law-enforcement source and a fan say the victim in the attack was One Armed Push-Up Guy, well known outside Boylston Street bars and in the Fenway for doing one-armed pushups for a fee, like this:
Boston Police report that around 2 a.m., a guy standing in the middle of Boylston Street outside Whiskey's, 885 Boylston St., yelled "Fuck Boston and fuck your businesses!" and then turned around and punched a nearby man, who fell unconscious into the street:
Witnesses reported a cab traveling inbound on Boylston Street ran over the victim while he was unconscious in the road and dragged him under the vehicle.
The screaming puncher then ran inbound on Boylston and disappeared down Fairfield Street, police say. He's described as 30 to 32, 5'10" and clad in a dark jacket with a fur-lined hood.
The cab driver told police he did not realize he'd hit somebody and stopped only when bystanders started motioning to him. The victim was taken to Mass. General and is expected to survive, police say.
If you know the guy, contact D-4 detectives at 617-343-5619 or the anonymous tip line by calling 800-494-TIPS or texting TIP to CRIME (27463).
Back in December, MBTA officials warned they'd have to make their annual spring pledge to cut service and raise fares unless the legislature decided to give it more money.
We're now under a Winter Storm Watch for Wednesday night through Friday:
STRONG WINDS AND HEAVY WET SNOW WILL WRAP TO THE N OF THIS LOW...LIKELY AFFECTING PORTIONS OF EASTERN MASS... THERE IS STILL SOME UNCERTAINTY...BUT CONFIDENCE GROWS THAT THIS STORM WILL HAVE A MODERATE TO HIGH IMPACT ON SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND.
Today's turn comes on Slate, which ultimately sides with Roadrunner, but in an essay that somehow finds "a hard-core New York envy" at the heart of the song. Oy.
Jennifer Lord Paluzzi, who helped build a chain of town news sites in the suburbs of Worcester that got sold to a sort of mini-Patch outfit headquartered in Tribeca, reports she and all the other Massachusetts employees - seven reporters and three salespeople - were laid off yesterday. The sites are still up, but there's nobody left to update them.
David Wade at WBZ, meanwhile, wondered what a real Boston Olympics might include: Read more.
Where and when was this photo taken? From the Boston City Archives. See it larger.
Boston Police report that when six drug dealers got into a loud, angry argument inside a Blue Hill Avenue apartment early Saturday, somebody called police. Arriving officers surrounded the building and arrested them all - but only after three tried to escape by climbing on the roof of the neighboring building and then jumping back on the roof of the building they'd just fled.
The Globe reports on the decade-long influx of 20somethings willing to live in shoeboxes and empty nesters with money to spend on fancy condos into Boston; says no relief in sight for the middle class, especially if you define Boston as consisting entirely of downtown, the South End, Beacon Hill, Charlestown and South Boston.
"I think the farthest I would go is the South End," one Beacon Hill resident struggling with the cost of rent said.
Rob reports sitting in line at Dunkin' Donuts while listening to Letters to Cleo.
It's a happy ending for the Hayden building, located on Washington Street, on the edge of Chinatown and Downtown Crossing.
The five-story office building, long run-down and in rough shape, has been renovated as four apartments, with retail at street level. Most-recently, the first floor was a bank. In the 1970s, it was an X-rated "peep show" cinema and gay bathhouse.
During its 135-plus year life, the building has been home to "tailors, jewelers, engravers, printers; a dental parlor advertising $6 false teeth and innovative cocaine-free dentistry “without the least particle of pain or danger’’; a uniform company and an employment service; a record shop; an Army-Navy store," according to the Boston Globe.
A re-dedication of the renovated building, built circa 1875 by H.H. Richardson (of Trinity Church fame), was held yesterday. According to the Boston Herald, the developer faces a unique challenge:
Join Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders at our annual Summer Party held outside in the heart of Provincetown, MA on Saturday, July 27 from 4:00-7:00PM. Enjoy the view of the harbor, mingle with other GLAD supporters and learn more about our ground-breaking cases.
Tickets are $75 online | $85 on site | $30 student
Purchase at www.glad.org/events.
Don't miss our amazing auction and celebrity auctioneer Kate Clinton. You don't have to be present to win. Travel packages, restaurants, massages, and much more - something for everyone!
The T's started soliciting bids from companies willing to bolster WiFi service on the Purple Line and ferries in exchange for advertising opportunities, starting with painting over the AT&T logos now on the sides of commuter-rail trains (unless, of course, AT&T bids and wins). According to a T press release:
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