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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.

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!

When did they pave over Lexington Green?

adamg — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 10:41:52 +0000

A movie company hired by the Tea Party Museum will film a re-creation of the Battle of Lexington on a field just west of Richmond, Va.

The Herald summons ye olde outrage over the moviemaking, set for next month. As the Herald notes, the Tea Party Museum is getting $21 million in Massachusetts tax subsidies.

On its site, LionHeart FilmWorks claims:

The concentration of events in this 10-minute project to the events of early 1775 is allowing the Director to be able to focus on intimate details of the era and events from Lexington Green, so that it may be portrayed and illustrated with strict detail, perhaps for the first time with such detail and authenticity on screen. That is our mission.

Or maybe it's because we just don't have enough Revolutionary recreators around here. Right?

A detailed and authentic Eastern Massachusetts civilian impression is requested to most accurately portray the 77 American Patriots that stood on Lexington Green. Even though we are filming in summer, the night of April 18th and early morning of the 19th would have been more than a little chilly. Wool garments are preferred, including coats and some greatcoats.

Mmm, yeah, wool greatcoats in July in Virginia.

Five Lexington firefighters sue state to clear names over EMT training scandal

adamg — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 11:46:59 +0000

Five Lexington firefighters who say they were incorrectly accused of shirking their responsibility to attend EMT re-training classes want the state to strike their names from its records on the scandal.

Lexington lady leisurely leads leashed llama

adamg — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 18:47:25 +0000

Leslee spotted the pair on Mass. Ave. in Lexington yesterday afternoon. Is there a pooper-scooper law for llamas?

Posted under this Creative Commons license and in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.

Your ballot in tomorrow's primary

Anonymous — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 19:28:17 +0000

To preview your primary ballot for tomorrow, click on the link from the Secretary of State's website:

http://www.wheredoivotema.com/bal/myelectioninfo.php

then enter your address and select a political party. It will show you what choices you'll have on tomorrow's primary ballot.

Maybe third time's the charm

adamg — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 21:09:11 +0000

Lexington Police report the Watertown Savings Bank branch on Waltham Street was robbed yesterday - by the same pair that robbed it the day before:

A male with a knife, masked with a hooded sweat shirt and white scarf, baseball hat and gray sweat pants. A second subject waited outside in the getaway vehicle, parked by the front door of the bank. The vehicle is a Chevy Avalanche, dark color black or green, with a mass registration of US18LH. This plate was later reported stolen from a Lawrence DPW worker while parked overnight in Arlington.

Woman wanted for burglarizing Lexington church during services

adamg — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 22:15:55 +0000

Lexington Police are looking for a woman who walked into Grace Chapel during Sunday services and left two hours later with two paintings worth about $550 apiece.

She's described as white, 35 to 40, 5'3" with a large build and light brown hair, wearing a blue sweater, clam digger pants and sandals, and carrying a large Coach bag.

The fog of war

adamg — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 21:13:50 +0000

Greg Cook rose early today to take in the Patriots Day battle re-enactments in Lexington and Concord.

Discovering Lexington Center

adamg — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 21:45:15 +0000

Georgy makes the ride from Somerville, discovers it's pretty cool. And has good sushi.

Jay Kaufman, how could you?

adamg — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 02:50:45 +0000

Dan Dunn, who lives in Arlington, is not at all happy with his state rep, Jay Kaufman, because Kaufman didn't just vote to make Sal DiMasi house speaker, he did so with relish - and then defended him when the Globe first started asking questions about Cognos:

... End of questions about his integrity, Jay? Really? A grand jury still has some questions. So do I. And they're questions about you.

Stimulus where you need it: Hanscom airport taxiways

Brett — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 16:49:05 +0000

Just a few months ago whilst on the way back from a weekend in Vegas with Adam, Kaz, The Zak and Swrrrly, UHUB-1 hit a pothole in one of the taxiways at Hanscom- causing my monocle to fall into Adam's glass of port, Swrrrly's Cuban cigar to nearly set the Alpacian leather on fire, and the door on The Zak's soundproof chamber to pop open. The latter resulted in a good 5 minutes of ramblings about the libraries in Vegas until we got to our hangar and transferred to HUBBENZ (the Prius is Adam's runabout when he wants to drive himself or the chauffeur has the day off.) Well, we decided to use our massive collective influence in the Boston political and media scene to make Massport ask for $10,000,000 in stimulus funds to fix those potholes.

Unfortunately, with the recent changes around Universal Hub, the Citation had to go- so, we implore Massport: please, we don't need those runway repairs any more! Spend that change on something we can believe in!

Concord Academy grad speaks out on US policy

Anonymous — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 22:03:11 +0000

Concord Academy graduate Lisa Halaby, known now as Queen Noor of Jordan, appeared on Morning Joe this week to discuss US foreign policy with respect to Israel and Palestinians in Gaza. Her thesis was,

"There needs to be a new approach by the US that is more balanced that holds both sides accountable for their actions."

Snow closings are flurrying in

shane_curcuru@drupal.org — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 19:29:03 +0000

Arlington and Lexington have already announced schools are closing between 10AM and noon tomorrow, 19-Dec. What towns are next?

Post your favorite snow closing resources here too:

Fatal crash backs up 128 for 14 miles

adamg — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 13:07:17 +0000

Channel 4 reports on the accident northbound near Rte. 2A around 6 a.m.:

State Police say two vehicles collided and one of them rolled over several times before landing in the grass near the breakdown lane. That driver was ejected and died. The other driver was not seriously hurt.