Watertown

Best place for brunch around Waltham, Watertown, Allston/Brighton

adamg — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 18:14:11 +0000

Armenian Library sues to keep paintings by Jack Kevorkian

adamg — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 21:54:01 +0000

The Armenian Library and Museum in Watertown is suing Jack Kevorkian's lawyer in an effort to keep paintings it says the late suicide doctor donated to the library more than a decade ago - but which the lawyer and the Kevorkian estate plan to auction off next week.

In a suit originally filed in Middlesex Superior Court, but transferred to US District Court in Boston, the library says Kevorkian's sister announced at the opening of a gallery of the paintings at the library in 1999 that Kevorkian, then in a Michigan prison, said the artwork was a gift to the library.

Kevorkian's estate has, in turn, sued the library, demanding the paintings be produced in time for an auction scheduled for next week that will also include the machine Kevorkian used in his assisted deaths.

The Friends of Eddie Coyle, stage adaptation of classic Boston crime novel, opens Dec. 8 at Oberon

Eddie Coyle — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 11:25:39 +0000

Cambridge, 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.

The Hiroshima photos in the trash

adamg — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 19:50:37 +0000

Greg Cook recounts the tale of 700 post-Bomb photos of Hiroshima that the owner of the Deluxe Towne Diner in Watertown found in somebody's trash while walking his dog in 2000.

Redistricting Olympics

creightt — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 17:42:03 +0000

Common 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!

Fired Watertown cop charged with ratting out fellow cops to drug dealers

adamg — Tue, 24 May 2011 21:04:20 +0000

Allegedly turned rogue after he was fired, Wicked Local Watertown reports.

Watertown to Belmont: Suck it and leave our trackless trolleys alone

adamg — Wed, 18 May 2011 16:42:14 +0000

The poles holding up the overhead wires for the 71 and 73 electric buses may be too declassé for leafy Belmont, but gritty Watertown wants nothing to do with diesel buses, Wicked Local Watertown reports:

Town Councilor Vincent Piccirilli read several letters from Watertown and Belmont residents requesting that they vote to maintain trolley service to save on noise and air pollution. Residents attending the meeting agreed and many said that the trolley system adds character to the town.

Trucks behaving badly on area roads this morning

adamg — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 11:55:45 +0000

Massachusetts State Police tweet Watertown Square is a mess this morning thanks to a truck that brought down trackless-trolley wires.

The Staties add the ramp from 128 north to 95 north in Peabody is literally a mess - and shut down - thanks to a tractor trailer that overturned and spilled its load of ink cartridges, giving the road surface some new coloration. Photo.

Two-alarm fire in Watertown house

adamg — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 19:59:13 +0000

Firefighters from Watertown and surrounding communities are at 27 Pequossette St., off North Beacon, for a fire that broke out around 2:30 p.m.

Team of pickpocketers targeting elderly women at area malls

adamg — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 18:05:11 +0000

Police across the area and in Rhode Island suspect three women are going around lifting wallets out of the purses of elderly women at big-box stores and then using the credit cards they find at other big-box stores.

They're wanted in connection with numerous incidents in 2009 and 2010 in a variety of towns in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, including Dedham and Watertown.

Watertownie expresses displeasure at Newton swells in his town - with a knife

adamg — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 22:38:56 +0000

Wicked Local Newton reports a Watertown teen allegedly objected to the "Newton" sweatshirts three other guys were wearing at the Arsenal Mall and pulled a knife on them before fleeing.

Crenellated snow fort in Watertown

adamg — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 14:56:05 +0000

Jim Sullivan shows us how one of his neighbors put all that time - and snow - to good use yesterday.

Talking moose fall silent in Dedham, Watertown, Burlington

adamg — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 04:28:03 +0000

The company that owns the Bugaboo Creek chain of animatronic-equipped steak places is scaling back. The press release of doom doesn't mention the Framingham location, so presumably that one remains open.

Your legal term of the day: Curtilage

adamg — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 15:02:20 +0000

A Watertown man today became the latest convicted drug dealer to have his verdict overturned because of a Supreme Court ruling that defense lawyers must be allowed to cross-examine experts who certify that what police found was a particular type of drug or weapon.

In the case of Carlos Fernandez, arrested in 2005, that was the easy part for the Supreme Judicial Court: The justices ruled that the certification that the white powder found by police in a bag in his car was cocaine was a critical part of proving his guilt and that therefore he deserves a new trial under Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts, because his lawyer had no chance to question the person who signed the document.

The thornier part for the justices was deciding whether the cocaine should be allowed into evidence at all.

You might think there would be better places to expose yourself than at a school for the blind

adamg — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 21:04:57 +0000

Wicked Local Watertown reports on an incident at the Perkins School for the Blind.