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News Notes – November 11 – Veterans Day
Boston Museum Grows by Casting a Wide Net By JUDITH H. DOBRZYNSKI/NYT – November 10, 2010 ABOUT four years ago, at the suggestion of a mutual friend, Ronald C. Wornick paid a call on Malcolm A. Rogers, the director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, looking for a home for the contemporary decorative art [...]
Everything Is Wrong With Jason Mulgrew
Everything Is Wrong With Jason Mulgrew WHO: Jason Mulgrew, self-proclaimed “Internet Quasi-Celebrity” whose blog, ‘Everything Is Wrong with Me: 30, Bipolar and Hungry’, has received more than 200 million hits since its inception and author of Everything is Wrong With Me: A Memoir of an American Childhood Gone, Well, Wrong. WHAT: Meet Jason [...]
News Notes – October 20
Video at crux of Turner case leaves doubts – Prosecution falls short of promise to show images of cash being passed to councilor By Jonathan Saltzman – Globe Staff / October 20, 2010 It was supposed to be the gotcha moment of the long-awaited corruption trial of Councilor Chuck Turner. A US District Court jury [...]
News Notes – October 19
Can it be? Work begins to replace destroyed restaurant row in the Fenway By adamg/Universal Hub – 10/18/10 – 3:04 pm Actual progress on Peterborough Street today: A small team of workers began removing debris behind the mural-covered plywood to allow for more serious construction of a new building that will house up to nine [...]
News Notes – October 18
Bankers’ event draws protests By Stewart Bishop – Globe Correspondent / October 18, 2010 As the American Bankers Association kicked off its annual convention in Boston yesterday, scores of protesters demonstrated outside the John B. Hynes Veterans Memorial Convention Center to criticize bank foreclosure policies and demand a halt to foreclosure proceedings nationwide. A crowd [...]
News Notes – October 15
Appeals court affirms MFA’s right to painting allegedly sold under Nazi duress By Martin Finucane, Globe Staff – October 15, 2010 A federal appeals court in Boston has ruled that the Museum of Fine Arts owns a valuable 1913 painting by Oskar Kokoschka, saying that the statute of limitations had run out on an Austrian [...]
News Notes – September 23
Chuck Turner: Probe ‘riddled with racism’ – Seeks to weed out prejudiced jurors By Laurel J. Sweet/Boston Herald – September 23, 2010 With less than three weeks until his federal corruption trial starts, City Councilor Chuck Turner claims in newly filed court documents he’s the victim of a government probe “riddled with racism” and wants [...]
News Notes – July 26
Student ideas for green roof make school a teaching lab – At Boston Latin, sustainability is goal By June Q. Wu – Globe Correspondent / July 26, 2010 Take Boston Latin School, and pack on top of its building a weather station, a greenhouse, two outdoor classrooms, a cafeteria, and a garden. Then add solar [...]
Fenway News Book Sale – accepting donations now!
Dear friends, Are you being crowded out of your own living space by piles of books? I know you are. Well, the Fenway News, one of Boston’s only non-profit neighborhood newspapers,* is holding a book sale on Saturday, July 10, and we’re looking for donations! So give freely of your unwanted books — then stop [...]
Will Leitch at BU Barnes & Noble Bookstore – June 24
Will Leitch asks ARE WE WINNING? WHO: Will Leitch, Deadspin.com founder/web celebrity, sports columnist at New York magazine, and author of God Save The Fan. WHAT: Meet Will Leitch at a discussion and signing for his new book, Are We Winning?: Fathers and Sons in the New Golden Age of Baseball. WHY: It starts as [...]
Print Edition: May 2012
