Dedham
Urban Outfitters too sexy for Dedham?
By adamg - 2/6/12 - 7:38 amDedham Patch reports on one Dedham mother's efforts to get the clothing store to put the sexy books (yes, of course Urban Outfitters carries books about sex) in an "adult" section where the teenlets who flock there from as far away as West Roxbury can't have their impressionable minds sullied by titles such as Sex Tips for Girls by Guys and Get Laid.
She has, of course, set up a Facebook page.
Five-foot-tall rabbits set to invade Dedham this spring
By adamg - 1/9/12 - 12:55 pmSearch on for missing elderly man from Dedham with ties to Roslindale
By adamg - 12/18/11 - 9:48 pmUPDATE: Found OK in Halifax.
Dedham Police are seeking help finding Joseph Connnell, an 80-year-old man last seen driving away from his Dedham home Saturday night in a gray 2005 Ford Taurus with Mass. plates, 534-LPS, Dedham Patch reports (they also have a photo).
Connell lived most of his life in Roslindale, and he might have been heading there. Volunteers have put signs up across Roslindale and West Roxbury.
If you see him, contact Dedham Police, 781-326-1212.
Occupy Best Buy: Some forego Thanksgiving, others have it delivered as they wait for discounted TVs, computers
By adamg - 11/24/11 - 10:48 pm
First in line at the Dedham Best Buy.
Chris and Mihala, a young couple from Newton, got to the Best Buy in Dedham at 1 a.m. today to await its opening at 1 a.m. on Friday. It was partly so they could pick up a 42-inch TV marked down several hundred dollars and a computer, but also just so they could say they did something like wait outside a store for 24 hours - they'd never done something like that, they'd never even waited in line for concert tickets.
Food? There was takeout. Bathroom breaks? Port-a-Potties around the corner.
Greg Cameron and his wife, from Roslindale, were next to show up - at 8 a.m., followed by Kristina Milonas and her mother, from Norwood. They're more experienced line waiters - they do it every year, deciding which store to wait outside based on the sales. One year it was Target, another year, Wal-Mart, and this year, Best Buy, because of that marked-down TV.
His roots are showing
By adamg - 10/31/11 - 12:16 pmDana Reichman Gitell spotted this guy just standing there in Dedham this morning.
Daddy's bankrupty music
By adamg - 10/26/11 - 7:19 pmChannel 4 reports Daddy's Junky Music has shut all its stores.
Is there a black market in price scanners?
By adamg - 10/26/11 - 8:40 am
Dedham and Foxboro police are both looking for a guy who walked into stores and walked out with expensive price scanners.
On Oct. 15, he walked out of the Star Market in Dedham with five scanners, each worth $1,000 apiece, police say. The same day he walked out of the Bed Bath & Beyond in Foxboro with four MC 3000 price scanners, worth a combined total of $6,000, police say.
He didn't even change his clothes between heists, based on the photos supplied by the two departments.
Some troubled people in Dedham today
By adamg - 10/23/11 - 6:47 pmAround 4 p.m., Dedham Police put out an APB for a man who stabbed himself in the stomach, then drove into Boston on Spring Street. Boston Police found him around 6:30 p.m., when he crashed on Robert Street in Roslindale, near Fallon Field, Alex Jones tweets.
Not long after the first alert went out, AlertNewEngland reports:
Dedham PD also now looking for a woman who drank bleach and is running away from the train station.
Spotted dick, no balls at Stop & Shop
By adamg - 10/22/11 - 12:57 pm
The Christian Science Monitor reports Stop & Shop has decided not to carry Ben & Jerry's new Schweddy Balls ice cream. However, the Dedham store does stock tins of spotted dick, which is some kind of English pudding-like thing consisting of dried fruit in steamed suet. Stop & Shop declined to say why they refused to carry the fudge-covered rum-ball ice cream.
The Friends of Eddie Coyle, stage adaptation of classic Boston crime novel, opens Dec. 8 at Oberon
By Eddie Coyle - 10/15/11 - 6:25 amCambridge, 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.

