Bay Village
Going up
By adamg - 11/23/11 - 12:00 am
BostonCityWalk stopped on a walk to snap the new Liberty Mutual headquarters going up on Columbus Avenue.
Copyright BostonCityWalk. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.
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.
Redistricting Olympics
By creightt - 7/20/11 - 12:42 pmCommon 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!
July 3rd with the Pops
By adamg - 7/4/11 - 3:02 pm
Leslee took in the rehersal performance at the Hatch Shell.
Posted under this Creative Commons license and in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.
Citizen complaint of the day: Last one off the movie set, turn off the lights
By adamg - 6/26/11 - 11:58 am
Bicyclist struck, killed at Arlington and Tremont streets this morning
By adamg - 1/24/11 - 11:00 amBoston Police are investigating the 8:10 a.m. collision that left a 74-year-old man dead.
UPDATED with correct age.
Stuart Street club: Out-of-control sergeant went berserk New Year's Eve
By adamg - 1/2/11 - 6:47 pmUPDATE: The Herald identifies the officer in question as Daniel Keeler, a former homicide detective with an interesting past.
Darrin Morda, who co-owns Rise, says the stanchions and barriers in place outside his club New Year's Eve were there at the request of the Boston Fire Department, which asked for them about two months ago.
It's one of numerous issues Morda has with an official police account of the way the club was shut down at 11:40 p.m. on Dec. 31. Morda said a BPD sergeant, unfamiliar with the private club's status - or a Superior Court injunction that he says bars police from entry except in emergencies - basically shut the place down in a rage.
Four-alarm fire heavily damages Bay Village building
By adamg - 12/28/10 - 11:14 am
District chief at fire scene. By Courtney Sacco.
A fire that broke out shortly before 11 a.m. at 34 Church St. quickly spread to all four floors and the basement and went to four alarms before it was brought under control about a half-hour later. The home's occupants were not home at the time, the Boston Fire Department reports.
The department estimates the fire caused $750,000 in damage and says it sent two firefighters to the hospital, one with a back and shoulder injury, the other with a cut leg. The cause of the fire is still under investigation.
Photo copyright Courtney Sacco. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.
Join SoJust at the Connecting for Justice Open House on 1/27 from 6-9 PM
By Socializing4Justice - 12/15/10 - 10:00 pmDid you resolve to “do more good” in the world? Join Socializing for Justice and make your New Year’s resolution count this year!
Meet like-minded progressives at Connecting for Justice on January 27 from 6-9PM at Lir Irish Pub and get connected to great social justice organizations in Boston. Have you been lurking on SoJust? It’s time to meet the friendly faces of the group that’s grown to almost 1600 members, hosted 85+ events and fostered hundreds of connections since our founding 4 years ago.
Join us if you are ready to go BEYOND ALLIES and build a CROSS-ISSUE PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENT.
RSVP at www.sojust.org (our main website) and view Member Profiles, Message Board and Calendar of Progressive Events. Newcomers always welcomed!
Cost: $2-$10 collected at the door
This is not a meeting - it's a fun networking social!
No Program. No Speaker. Just Us. For Justice.
Remembering the Cocoanut Grove disaster
By adamg - 11/28/10 - 5:25 pmBoston Fireman reports that he and some other folks placed flowers today on the plaque commemorating the 492 people who died in the Cocoanut Grove fire 68 years ago tonight.
