Posted Deval Donates His Cool Dad's Jazz Junk to Berklee to Bostonist
We always thought that Massachusetts was due some residual benefit from the fact that Governor Deval Patrick's dad was a jazz legend—other than the bragging rights we have over the 49 states that aren't governed by the son of a member of Sun Ra's Arkestra. But now, HubArts reports, Patrick will donate his father's entire jazz archive to the Berklee College of Music. The booty includes "scores, photographs, personal materials, and recordings" that composer,...
Posted Hyperlocal Journalism, 1980 Style to Bostonist
Worth reading is the profile The Somerville News ran on its founder and erstwhile publisher/editor Bob Publicover. Publicover, who has survived both AIDS and cancer founded the Somerville News in 1980 with a fussy, busybody style that had its apotheosis in a column he wrote chastising the mother for letting her child play in the street. Her kid had just been run over by a car. [Somerville News]...
Posted Cahill Disses Program He's Sort of In Charge Of to Bostonist
Tim Cahill, incompetent treasurer and independent candidate for governor, had a pow-wow with the Herald in which he slammed Obama's health care bill and said that Mitt Romney's health care reform in Massachusetts has failed. According to Cahill, the problem with Romneycare is the "sucking sound of money has been going into this health-care reform." We have money in our pockets right now, but thankfully not the kind that makes a sucking sound, otherwise...
Posted Boston Blotter: Alleged Eastie Kingpin Toppled; Killing in Stoughton to Bostonist
Blotter siren -- Boston Police, with the help of the FBI and the Staties, arrested a man they called the "drug kingpin" of East Boston. Ferney Pereanez, 24, faces charges that he masterminded a massive cocaine distribution network that brought the drug from Colombia into Boston and then distributed it across the state. He and 7 of his alleged confederates were arrested today on a number of related charges. According to the Suffolk County...
Posted The Somerville Beard and Mustache Video to Bostonist
ART ON YOUR FACE - a bit rough from Sarah Ginsburg on Vimeo. Emersonians Scotty Nelson and Sarah Ginsburg have put together a short documenteary on last month's All America City Beard and Mustache Contest that kept Somerville weird for a few hours. [Embed swiped from Somerville Blog]...
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