The Dropkick Murphys I'm Shipping Up To Boston was a ready made fight song for the Red Sox during the championship run, and it also gave some punch and local flavor to Scorsese's Boston-based crime thriller, The Departed.
It seems (http://boston.craigslist.org/gbs/eve/777260668.html) that zombified superheroes will be descending on Park Street Station tomorrow at noon. Hadn't seen this posted anywhere else, so I thought this would be a good place to start.
I think the Grammar Police needs to head down to Channel 5's headquarters. I definitely want to be hired as Wally but I'm not into the 'job lising.' I like using the letter 't' when I talk about lists.
Suddenly, this Hollywood East thing is starting to wear a bit thin. Sam Baltrusis reports some Italian crew making a TV movie took over South Street today and tried to push innocent Bostonians around:
... Similar to "The Surrogates" production assistants, this crew is equally abrasive and I had an unsavory run-in with one of their wannabe PAs. Words of advice to location scouts: If you want a closed set without pedestrians moving in and out of frame try shooting on the weekends when this street is literally a ghost town. ...
N U M B S K U L L By Mark Kilner, is a plastic skull covered in 630 tablets of paracetamol (aka acetaminophen). Art that makes you think. More here.
If you're planning on seeing the latest Batman movie, don't read Ty Burr's review in the Globe, Riggs advises.
First we hear about the small protest against Mel Gibson in Roslindale. Now Sam Baltrusis tells us moviemakers are bullying slobs, in a report on the filming of Bruce Willis's movie downtown:
Brian Keaney of myDedham e-mails in a report that while scenes for Mel Gibson's next movie, "Edge of Darkness," will be filmed on Bradfield Street in Roslindale next month (in fact, filming of still shots started there today), crews will have to find a different way to light a key scene:
They wanted to pay (my uncle) to use the front porch for lighting or something, but Mel Gibson is involved and so my Jewish aunt nixed that. ... My uncle told the movie people exactly why he wasn't allowing them, but they are still trying. The tenants are upset, too, because they were going to get paid as well. I guess in the movie Mel Gibson's daughter is going to be shot on the front porch across the street.
On June 28th, DCR kicked off it's new Park Passport, a stamp book with stamp stations placed in 76 parks across the state (15 parks in the Boston area, including John Paul II, Castle Island, and the Southwest Corridor). Each park has a different stamp, so you have to go to all of the parks if you want to collect all of the stamps. When you complete any one of the 5 regions, you can use the completed passport at the regional office (starting August 15) to receive a t-shirt with the stamp pictures on it for that region.
Jim posts video from last night's Cambridge Dance Party, in which Mass. Ave. in front of City Hall was turned into an outdoor disco.
Overmatter posts some photos:
... My friend N. noted that the D.J. was aiming to cater to everyone in the crowd, starting with the 60s soul music, then to Latin dance music, then to hipster hip-hop, then to Latin hip-hop, then to gay dance party music. We left a little early, and assume we missed the Latin gay disco hip-hop-folk-soul music. ...
Could you imagine something like this on Newbury Street?
Don't worry if you were always picked last in gym class - this afternoon of field games is Keshet-style. From fashion design relay races and gay Jewish trivia to a "Name That Folk Song" challenge and colorful game of capture-the-flag, the Keshet Color War has something for every type of athlete. This is one event you won't want to miss!
Details:
Sunday, August 24, 1:00-6:30 pm
Check back here for a full schedule of events and location!
"All the world's a stage..." including the Boston Common. Bring your own picnic and enjoy a beautiful summer evening as a group from Keshet takes in a performance of the gender-bending As You Like It by the Commonwealth Shakespeare Company.
Details:
Wednesday, July 23, 8:00 pm
Meet at 7:00 pm. (Show begins at 8:00.)
Parkman Bandstand, Boston Common 02116
RSVP by July 22 for contact phone number to Orly: [email protected] or 617.524.9227.
So if you're a bad, bad girl with a wicked good accent, here's your chance.
I'm not a big action movie fan, but it's cool when scenes for a film are shot just a few buildings down from where you live. Here's the article from the Lynn Item and a link to some photos I took as they were getting ready the night before.
http://itemlive.com/articles/2008/05/31/news/news0...
Earlier in the week I thought this was going to be a real store. I wish we were getting more shops. Maybe the film buzz and the crowds coming down will help? Lynn isn't as bad as its reputation. Except for a few neighborhoods, most of it is quite nice.
Jeff reports he was one of just six men in a full theater watching the movie - and details the reaction to his answer to a woman who exclaimed:
Oh look at the nice gentlemen, you must be the only guys here. Did you come with your wives or are you single and looking for love?
John Greiner-Ferris reports on the spring reappearance of one of his favorite busking duos, Coco and Lafe, outside the Downtown Crossing Borders:
... Nice fun people who love their music and love performing. They play a lot of folksy covers--Bob Dylan, John Prine, Lyle Lovett--plus their own tunes. ...
Teddy Kokoros happens upon Ben and Jennifer and baby Violet in Cambridge and doesn't take the picture. He provides two reasons, both of which have to do with local roots.
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