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Franklin Park Zoo Welcomes Zebra
Franklin Park Zoo has a new resident. It's a Grant's zebra foal named Bwana. He was born September 12 to James, age 16, and Cheyenne, age 13, and was first put on display on Wednesday. Bwana is...
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Francona, Owners Discuss Split
If you thought the day after an epic sports fail wouldn't produce even more news, you'd be wrong. A day after being eliminated from the playoffs in a dramatic, gut-wrenching, uniquely Red Sox fashion,...
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Photo of the Day, October 1, 2011: Drink Positively
Leave it to a liquor store to find a positive spin on the Red Sox disastrous 2011 season. Positive thinking, sports fans, that's the secret. Now, about those Celtics. [ more › ]
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Boston Blotter: BPD Arrests 14 in Drug Sweep
Boston police rounded up 14 alleged drug dealers on Friday in a warrant sweep near the area of Bowdoin Street, Geneva Avenue, and Olney Street in Dorchester as part of "Operation Independence." An...
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Sunday A.M. News, October 2
John Henry went to a hospital after sufferng minor injuries in a fall on his 164-foot luxury yacht, Iroquois, on Friday. He was reportedly wearing a neck brace. [Boston Herald] Remember to follow...
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Sports Redux: Win For Us, Pats
The Patriots are in Oakland and the team, and Boston's sports fans, need a win. The Pats, fresh off a surprising loss to Buffalo, need to find a defense to stop someone. As for fans, well, you were...
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Week Around The Ists, 10/2/11
Bostonist watched the Boston Red Sox startling September collapse come to fruition. Despite a month-long decline, the season-ending double tap in Baltimore and Tampa Bay was still shocking. We don't...
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Turbulence Injures Passengers on Two Planes
Sunday was a busy night at Logan Airport as two planes landed in Boston with up to 18 passengers injured by turbulence. Seven injuries were reported on a JetBlue flight from San Juan, Puerto Rico to...
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Sports Redux: Back Vs. Black
Whatever ailed the Patriots a week ago in Buffalo vanished in a convincing 31-19 victory on the road against the Raiders on Sunday. Tom Brady reverted to his error-free play with an efficient 16-30,...
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Boston: Occupied By Protests
The Occupy Boston protestors continued today with a morning march from the Financial District to the State House where they hope to get Fox25's attention at their Beacon Hill studio. Organizers want...
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Warren Catching Up To Brown
The least experienced Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, former Obama administration advisor and Harvard Law School professor Elizabeth Warren, is quickly becoming the main challenger to Republican...
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Occupy Boston Updates Via Channel 5
Occupy Boston hasn't been getting that much media attention, from our perspective, until today. However, WCVB has some interesting bits of news on today's demonstrations on their Live Wire twitter...
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Yanks Beer Vendor Sacked
The team punished veteran beer vendor Steve Lazarus for a verbal exchange with Red Sox reliever and former Yankee Alfredo Aceves between doubleheader games on Sunday. [ more › ]
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Amanda Knox Freed
An Italian jury freed Amanda Knox today after overturning her murder conviction in the killing of Meredith Kercher in 2007 in Perugia, Italy. Her conviction for defamation, for accusing club owner...
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Brady On The Jets
The Patriots complex, record-making offense can also run the football effectively. Just ask the Oakland Raiders who got whipped, 31-19, on Sunday by a balanced attack led by Stevan Ridley and...
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Huffington Post Buys Hub's Localocracy
We thought Localocracy was a good idea when we saw it. Now we know why. If you recall, Localocracy billed it as "an online forum for residents and decision makers to weigh in on issues facing their...
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Rain, Floods Drench North Shore
Heavy rains caused flooding and general havoc today in North Shore towns like Peabody, Lynn, Swampscott, Marblehead, Salem, and Beverly. The morning commute was a mess, flood advisories were in effect...
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Shaughnessy: Cubs Want Theo
The Boston Globe is reporting that the Chicago Cubs contacted the Red Sox in an effort to interview Theo Epstein for a job - GM or higher, presumably - with the team. Peter Abraham credited Dan...
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Read, Dance With Broke-Ass Stuart @ Lilypad On Thursday
Broke-Ass Stuart hosts Young, Broke & Beautiful on IFC and has written numerous travel books. He's churned out another book, Young, Broke & Beautiful: Broke-Ass Stuart's Guide to Living...
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Wednesday A.M. News, October 5
Massachusetts Republicans are shocked at a recent poll showing Senator Scott Brown leading Democrat Elizabeth Warren by just three points. They can't believe a "fresh face" can be so close to the...
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NU Students Join Occupy Colleges Walkout
With Wall Street and Boston successfully Occupied, now the focus of the Occupy movement is working on colleges. Today, an Occupy Colleges walkout is planned across the country as college students are...
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Business News: Friendly's Shuts 30 Sites
Friendly's closed over 60 restaurants and eliminated 1,200 jobs on Tuesday and decided to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The chain closed 30 Massachusetts locations. [WCVB] Remember to follow...
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Francona Joins Fox TV Crew
Terry Francona lost his gig as replace Tim McCarver as Joe Buck's partner for the first two games of the American League Championship Series. MLB teams may face stiff competition for Francona's...
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Bite Size News, October 5: Nature News Edition
Several North Shore towns are dealing with severe damage a day after heavy rain caused flash floods on Tuesday. [WBZ] Bundle up! Parts of the Bay State are getting freeze warnings and frost advisories...
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Steve Jobs, Dead at 56
Apple's founder Steve Jobs (1955-2011) has died at the age of 56 after a lengthy fight with cancer. He leaves a wife and four kids. [ more › ]
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Thursday A.M. News, October 6
A Bostonian named Caroline Holda called the late Steve Jobs a "modern day Leonardo DaVinci." Jobs died yesterday at 56. [WCVB] Remember to follow Bostonist on Twitter and like us on Facebook. [ more › ]
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Sports Redux: Go Get Another One
The Bruins are back tonight less than four months after winning the Stanley Cup and bringing it back to Boston. The summer-long Cup fun is over, the players got their much-earned rings - 505 people...
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Do You Have To Take Your Clothes Off To Be A Senator?
Let the real campaign begin! Senator Scott Brown has finally engaged apparent Democratic Senate campaign frontrunner Elizabeth Warren in the build up to the 2012 election. Naturally, it's on a...
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Don't Ask, Don't Tell In Cambridge
Attention criminals! Don't ask cops to smoke crack and don't tell them you have crack on you to smoke with them. Last week in Central Square, two undercover detectives arrested a Medford man who...
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Mitt Romney Helped By Palin Not Running?
Sarah Palin isn't "seeking the 2012 GOP nomination for President of the United States" - her words. We're not sure that rules her out entirely as a third-party candidate because she might just decide...
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Comedian Bill Burr Gives Us a Tour of Boston - Part 1
Comedian Bill Burr came back to his hometown on September 23rd to do 2 nights of sold out shows at the Wilbur Theatre but he gave us some time to do a Tour of Boston, driving by old haunts and places...
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Bite Size News, October 6: Banner Edition
The Bruins won the banner raised tonight in June. Watertown-based New England Flag & Banner made it. [Boston Herald] Cam Neely and Charlie Jacobs brought the Stanley Cup to Beacon Hill today. We...
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Throwdown Vs. Occupy Boston: Who's Whining Now?
The Boston Herald's Friday Throwdown topic is: Occupy Boston: Rebels or whiners. We love the idea of participation in any public forum. But, we have a pretty good idea of what the Herald forum...
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Bruins: Banner Up, Lose Game
The Bruins ended the 2010-2011 season with a win and began the 2011-2012 season with a 2-1 loss to Philadelphia last night. The evening was also a production of the team's coronation as Stanley Cup. A...
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Sports Redux: Banner Edition
Yes, the Bruins lost the season opener last night. But, hey, they put the banner up! How cool is that? Still a great night. And, of course, it's always a good night if Bobby Orr shows up....
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Comedy Highlights for This Weekend
Here are the weekend comedy highlights for the region - see the full list in the post but tonight we recommend checking out Sketchhaüs at Improv Boston and tomorrow you have a chance to see Scott...
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Bite Size News, October 7: Final Edition
Mitt Romney apparently wishes Osama bin Laden was alive because he hired several former Bush administration staffers as foreign policy advisers and criticized President Obama's foreign policy. [Boston...
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Herald Fail With Obama Gotcha Ploy
We've got a new controversy, courtesy of the Boston Herald. President Obama mentioned meeting a teacher from Boston named Robert Baroz who has been laid off three times in four years. Baroz visited...
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Bostonist Bids Adieu
There's no clever way to say it: This is the last word from Bostonist. Last week, Gothamist informed me that Bostonist will be going on hiatus and the blog will be shut down. At least we outlasted the...
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