Fenway Park

Fenway News Online reports movie filming will be going on in and around Fenway Park starting this weekend, and that "they will be doing a lot of stunt and special effects work, including simulated gunfire." Also, "there will be some helicopters related to filming."

The Globe Spotlight team reports.

Especially when you factor in the costs of having to drive back to Boston from Portland to answer those disorderly-conduct charges you now face for allegedly yelling at and "disparaging" beer-stand workers at Fenway at last night's game.

Ryan Adams reports on, posts video of a protest over the federal Defense of Marriage Act outside a Demmie fundraiser at Fenway last night.

Martin Lieberman attended both shows at Fenway Park, advises that if you have a choice, always choose a seat on the field for a concert there, rather than one in the grandstand.

Up in a helicopter, Ryan captured the 7 cut into the grass at Fenway in honor of Dom DiMaggio.

See more copter pix from the Boston Photo Mob's helicopter ride.

Copyright Ryan.

Boston Police report arresting a Somerville man on charges he took a leak on car from a Fenway Park railing after last night's game:

The fan's actions were observed by the thousands of fans walking out with him as well as others standing on the street below where he urinated on a parked car.

David A. Kennedy, 26, was charged with open and gross lewdness. No word if officers on the scene attempted to locate the owner of the car to let him or her know it now needed a wash.

Empty bladder until proven full to bursting.

Poor baby.

Keep reading the story to see how the reporter braved Yawkey Way to ask Sox fans if they wouldn't really rather have the creature comforts of a $1.3-billion taxpayer-funded stadium:

David Surabian of Providence, R.I., wanted to know if all the Yankee Stadium seats were cushioned, or "is it just the empty ones?"

A classic photo.

Paul Keleher, who went to last night's Sox game, reports the crowd was loving the numbers going up in the Cleveland/New York game.

Meanwhile, Beth discusses justice at 30,000 feet.

Boston Police report arresting a New Hampshire man at last night's Sox game after other fans saw him urinating from the upper deck onto the street below:

When officers observed the fan, the fan was violently struggling and flailing his arms. Officers observed the suspect almost strike several female fans. When officers informed the suspect that he needed to leave the park, the suspect swung his elbow and struck one of the officers. As officers were attempting to escort the fan from the park, the fan broke free and began yelling, "I'm not leaving!!! I’m not leaving!!!"

Boston Police, however, are trained in the art of making somebody leave and so they managed to escort Jared Giarrusso, 23, out of the park - in handcuffs - and then charged him with being disorderly, assault and battery on a police officer and open and gross lewdness.

Innocent, etc.

The Herald, of course, is all over the story of a fan who got punched in the nose while waiting hopefully this morning for tickets to Opening Day early this morning:

Witnesses told police that the fight started when three men stumbled out of the Cask 'n Flagon.

The three alleged goons were taken away, as was the fan. Police then dispersed everybody else waiting for tickets, including people who allegeldy set a bonfire, forcing them all to wait around until the coppers beat it and they could reassemble for a chance to buy tickets to a game that was later postponed.

Chis Devers took a tour of Fenway yesterday.

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Red remembers his best Opening Day ever.

Steve Buckley makes the case for building a new stadium:

... You put last year's Pittsburgh Pirates into Fenway Park for 81 games and see how long your streak of sellouts lasts. ...

And that means business is slow at the Bleacher Bar.

Mark posts photos of Fenway after dark - and explains how he came to be there, accompanied only by his iPhone:

... It was such a cool feeling, wandering around empty Fenway when I shouldn't be. Like I was getting away with something sneaky. ...

Boston Foodie, late of New Jersey, gives a thumb's up to the pastrami at the Bleacher Bar, that place built into the side of Fenway Park:

Bleacher Bar is now ranking as my favorite Fenway hang out.

Boston Police report arresting a Roxbury guy and a young sidekick from Dorchester last night on charges they carjacked two people sitting in their car on Camden Street around 11:30 last night.

... The victims state that they were parked on Camden St. when the two suspects approached them and threatened to kill them with a knife unless they gave them a ride to the Mass. Ave. MBTA station. As it turns out, officers spotted the suspects as they made their way to the MBTA station and panicked and fled the car.

So by failing to simply walk the three or four blocks from Camden Street to the Mass. Ave. stop, Terrell T. Banks, 23, and his 14-year-old accomplice now face kidnapping and carjacking charges - along with charges related to the possession of crack, police say.

Meanwhile, earlier in the evening, police say, a Cambridge duo didn't know when to leave well enough alone at the Sox game at Fenway. Police say Kenneth Rudgis, 22, refused to shut up and move back to his seat after police came over to investigate somebody yelling obscenities at some guy (Orioles fan? BPDNews doesn't say):

The suspect was then told that he would have to leave the park because of his refusal to return to his seat, his loud and raucous behavior, and his continuous assault on the victim. While officers were about to place suspect, Kenneth Rudgis in custody, Karalyn Rudgis, who was seated behind the victim poured two full cups of beer on the victim followed by suspect, Kenneth Rudgis pouring another cup of beer on the victim and attempting to grab the victim by the shirt.

Following a brief struggle, police say, the pair were removed to a place where they could yell all they wanted to.

Innocent, etc.

Dirty Water is in Chicago, where he reports on a black couple he met at last night's Red Sox/White Sox game:

... They are from Randolph and ardent Red Sox (and especially Coco) fans. I asked if they get to Fenway often and their reply stunned me. They don't go to Fenway *NOT* because they can't get or afford tickets but because they fear for their safety because of their race. ...

Boston Police report arresting a pair of alleged knuckleheads from Waltham in Section 31 at Fenway Park last night:

Officers spoke to witnesses who stated that they observed two fans throwing beer at another group of fans. Witnesses further stated that the fans responsible for throwing the beer, then, attempted to escape capture by changing their shirts in hopes of blending into the crowd. That plan, however, proved unsuccessful when numerous fans positively identified and pointed out the suspects.

Innocent until proven covered in beer.

Or as Lewis Forman puts it: I Can Haz Droppingz at Finwayz?

Red: Yet another argument for drinking beer at Fenway:

... it helps wash away the taste of stagnant weenie water. ...

Tear down Fenway Park?

NESN HD camera operator and independent documentary producer, Tom Guilmette, works the left field camera up by the new Coca-Cola deck in Fenway Park.

He brought his PMW-EX1 XDCAM EX camcorder to work, mounted it on an automated telescope tripod and created this outstanding One Day at Fenway time lapse film from over 7 hours of an evening in Fenway Park (condensed down to one-and-a-half minutes with a frame recorded every 10 seconds of real time). Read more