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Your head may be reeling from what is the fifth redesign of the Fenway News website in two years. We started with a free Blogger template, made a slightly customized one, did heavy redesigns to it then made a whole new one from scratch, which you can still view online. But now it’s time to [...]

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Excellent Play at Huntington Theatre

by Tracey Cusick Stick Fly. the latest production of the Huntington Theatre Company at the Calderwood Pavilion, is a play about examining other people. The play takes place in a well-to-do house on Martha’s Vineyard, a vacation home belonging to the LeVays, an upper class African American family. It captures a few days in [...]

News Notes – March 10

The passions run high as libraries’ fate debated By Andrew Ryan – Globe Staff / March 10, 2010 Sell a page from the 556-year-old Gutenberg Bible, one woman suggested. Charge a modest fee for library cards, said another, waving a $10 bill. One man said that he was a prison librarian while serving time in Walpole and that [...]

News Notes – March 7

One college gains true diversity Globe Editorial – March 7, 2010 WHEELOCK COLLEGE is without peer in diversity, with a tenured and tenure track faculty that is 23 percent black and Hispanic. A Globe survey found the percentage of such faculty to be between 3 and 8 percent at Harvard, MIT, Boston University, Boston College, Brandeis, Emerson, [...]

News Notes – March 6

They’re fighting to stay on top at Latin – Students rallying for honors courses By James Vaznis – Globe Staff / March 6, 2010 Students have collected more than 500 signatures on a petition. Hundreds have joined a Facebook group. And their parents have been firing off letters to school administrators. They are rallying behind a push to [...]

Stick Fly Adds Performances

WHAT: Due to popular demand, the Huntington Theatre Company adds performances to its run of Huntington Playwriting Fellow Lydia R. Diamond’s Stick Fly, a smart, moving, and funny portrait of a complex African-American family. This production is produced in collaboration with Arena Stage. WHEN: Now – March 28, 2010 Evenings: Tues. – [...]

Excellent Play at Huntington Theatre

04 March 2010

by Tracey Cusick Stick Fly. the latest production of the Huntington Theatre Company at the Calderwood Pavilion, is a play about examining other people. The play takes place in a well-to-do house on Martha’s Vineyard, a vacation home belonging to the LeVays, an upper class African American family. It captures a few days in [...]

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News Notes – March 4

04 March 2010

DNA clues hunted in ’90 art theft – FBI hopes technology can yield lead in Gardner Museum case By Stephen Kurkjian – Globe Correspondent / March 4, 2010 On the eve of the 20th anniversary of the theft of masterpieces from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the FBI is resubmitting evidence taken from the crime scene for [...]

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News Notes – March 3

03 March 2010

House of hoarder: Home condemned – Boston firefighters blocked by clutter By Marie Szaniszlo/Boston Herald – March 3, 2010 A gentle “pack rat” who stuffed his Back Bay brownstone with mounds of clutter had his home condemned yesterday a day after firefighters couldn’t get inside to investigate an oil leak. The owner, 73-year-old Herbert Hamilton, had to crawl [...]

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News Notes – February 28

28 February 2010

Fiscal woes at T roll on for another year By Noah Bierman – Globe Staff / February 28, 2010 It’s the least wonderful time of the year for MBTA riders, when the T sorts out how broke it is for the coming budget year in July. The good news for passengers is that Governor Deval Patrick promised in [...]

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March Paper Issue – Correction

26 February 2010

The caption for the page 1 photo of a presentation by Wentworth students (March issue) included placeholder text that we should have replaced. The semester-long studio for fourth-year architecture students is led by professors Manuel Delgado, Herman Zinter, Andy Johnston, Philippe Revault, and Quilian Riano. The students will analyze conditions in the West Fens and [...]

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Police Blotter – February 15-21

26 February 2010

BREAKING AND ENTERING ON SYMPHONY ROAD On Feb. 16 at about 10:10 a.m., police responded to a breaking-and-entering call at 20 Symphony Road. The caller said she awoke to the sound of someone banging on the glass window to her rear bedroom door. She looked up to find the noise was coming from an unknown male [...]

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