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.

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.

Norwood Police report they are continuing to look for two guys who walked into a Dunkin' Donuts on Rte. 1 north around 3:40 p.m. last Saturday and held the place up:

Suspect #1 described as 6'2", thin build, late 30's early 40's. Pale complexion with thin pointed nose and small lips. Suspect #2 described as 5'11"-6', 230lbs, husky build. Suspect #2 had a mask on and was carrying a black case and put stolen money in same. Suspect #1 acted like he had a weapon in jacket. He threatened patrons. They demanded cash from both registers and tried to demand cash from safe.

Police say the two seemed to come from the neighboring Petco lot and may have gotten away in two vehicles: A tan pickup, possibly a 1990s GMC and a newer black Range Rover.

AlertNewEngland reports a 1200x200 commercial building at 1400 Boston Providence Highway, behind the IHOP, collapsed this afternoon. Firefighters were inside at the time, but all got out safely.

Megan McPhilemy takes a trained professional bartender with her on a trek to find the best poured pint, but reports they never made it past Lewis' in Norwood:

Despite a slightly quick pour and no shamrock decor, the taste was impeccable. It was pretty, creamy, refreshing, clean and good for a second round.

As black and white as the beer itself, there are good and bad pours.

"It's incredible" says Gillespie “like drinking a whole different beer."

To preview your primary ballot for tomorrow, click on the link from the Secretary of State's website:
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then enter your address and select a political party. It will show you what choices you'll have on tomorrow's primary ballot.

A man who wraps his head in gauze and walks with a cane is wanted for at least three drug-store robberies in Massachusetts and Rhode Island.