Community journalism
Jumpstart Your Season! bicycling workshop
By Ferris Wheels B... - 2/2/12 - 5:15 pmLaura Smeaton, a League of American Bicyclists LCI (League Cycling Instructor) presents a free workshop for those who want to get out on their bikes earlier this year. Stubborn patches of ice, chilly breezes, and cold spring rains will be no match for you once you're equipped with the knowledge from this workshop! Winter? What winter?!
When: Sunday, February 12, 4:00-5:30pm
Where: Ferris Wheels Bike Shop, 66 South Street, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130 (www.ferriswheelsbikeshop.com)
Newton gets a new Web site
By adamg - 12/28/11 - 6:56 amVillage 14 is a collaboration between longtime local blogger Sean Roche and Greg Reibman, who is also a longtime blogger and who was, until recently, publisher of the regional chain that owns the Newton Tab. Reibman, however, writes the site is not a strike back at GateHouse. The duo aren't looking for ads, to start. It's just a couple of Newtonites who are really interested in the place and who love to blog, he says.
H/t Ian Lamont.
Occupy Thanksgiving: a cookout to feed Occupy Boston
By Modemac - 11/21/11 - 6:40 pmA volunteer effort to provide food for the Occupy Boston tent city will be holding a Thanksgiving cookout at Dorchester's Franklin Park on the morning of Thursday, November 24, from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM.
Organs available! Second owner, exc cond, lightly used. Principals only, please.
By Jay Levitt - 11/21/11 - 12:52 amCopy edit fail:
Massachusetts General Hospital is launching Boston’s second hand transplant program.
Why, oh why, can't we have a better press corps?
Welcome to Boston, Mr. Rumsfeld. You Are Under Arrest.
By ralphlopez - 9/22/11 - 5:58 pmInternet viral article originally posted at DailyKos.com, without images. For image version go here. Please call and email Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley and send her this blog: email: Phone: (617) 727-2200 ARREST RUMSFELD
How not to get a visit by the police at 2 a.m. or be cited to the Dean of Students
By abetterbrighton - 9/11/11 - 9:12 pmWelcome back everyone to a great year!
This year Police District 14 is under pressure from the city to strictly enforce the law in the problem area of Allston, particularly the Linden and Gardner Street area.
Disturbing the peace means:
50th Birthday Party and Rededication Ceremony of the golden anniversay of The Roslidale Branch Library Building with Mayor Menino Sept 16
By Wicksda - 9/6/11 - 1:31 pmFriday, September 16, Roslindale Branch Library 4246 Washington Street, Roslindale, MA
Join present and past staff, your neighbors, The Friends, The Mayor and officials.
3-5 PM Refreshments, games, goodie bags for kids, Davey The Balloon Man
5-PM Redeication Ceremony, ribbon and cake cutting with Mayor Thomas Menino, Councilor Rob Consalvo, BPL President Amy Ryan.
5:30-7PM Refreshments, games, music by DJ Pat Francis
All are welcome to come and enjoy the fun.
Who is Annie Mulz? Sticker Plague
By jp_guy - 8/27/11 - 10:14 amI've started seeing "Who is Annie Mulz" stickers all over my neighborhood. On signs, signposts, mailboxes, and so on.
A quick search shows me that Annie Mulz is an edgy clothing store on Newbury Street. By edgy, I mean the kind of place that looks like it might hire a publicity firm that might carry out a guerrilla marketing campaign that plasters stickers all over the place, all while being plausibly deniable and non-liable for damages and cleanup. This kind of thing makes our neighborhoods ugly and pisses me off. Does anyone have better insight into this problem...
Below the mud: Beneath Chelsea Street's new bridge, another work in progress
By icoverthewaterfront - 8/6/11 - 10:36 amThe Longfellow Bridge has its design challenges ahead, and the BU bridge has been no picnic for engineers.
But another bridge in Boston – the Chelsea Street bridge between Chelsea and East Boston – is a simple affair. By the end of the summer, the new bridge, designed by HNTB and built by J.F. White of Framingham, may be complete. It may even happen ahead of schedule.
Although the men working with iron above the river are having no trouble, the men who move mud below it have been facing a dozen daunting engineering tasks for over a year.
They’re all trying to figure out how to make the channel for oil tankers wider. Engineers, pilots, tug captains, oil companies, private landowners, and Coast Guard and Army personnel have been at the drawing board for two years now.
The new bridge, after all, will span the more than 200-ft. wide channel without interruption. That’s thanks to two superstructures that now dominate the Chelsea skyline (anyone can see them from the Tobin Bridge). So the bridge, when opened, might be wide enough to fit a “Panamax” oil tanker headed to the Gulf, Irving and Global tanks upstream.
Beans in a Can: Cheap & Thrifty
By jdrazz - 8/2/11 - 9:54 amBroke and trendy? Roslindale film maker and blogger Elaine McMillion has put together a directory of every thrift store, boutique, and consignment shop in the Boston area along with ideas of what to do with all the homeless ex-belongings.
