For Your Approval (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
As we come to the end of our Communication Cookout, I’m compelled to think about the future of our profession. The dessert is a dilly: Mission Hill Pears with Rhubarb Compote. Perfectly ripe Anjou pears are grilled until tender on...
For Your Approval (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
For readers of this blog who think all I do is lament the lack of appreciation for the print medium as a useful way to communicate with employees, here's your summer reading for this year. I thought it would be...
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
SACRAMENTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The two top winners on this week’s show plan to take the significant steps of financing a wedding and a house. The grand
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 07/12/2008
Before "Bad Girls" and "She Works Hard for the Money," before she was dubbed a disco diva and won numerous Grammys, Donna Summer was just another girl growing up in Mission Hill.
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
A Hyde Park teenager has been charged with last week's shooting that hospitalized a 7-year-old playing kickball with his friends near his Roxbury home, in what police called another incident of gang violence with no regard for the neighborhood.
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
While his partner smeared chemicals over the tangle of spray-painted names and initials on a South Boston building façade, Alan Lockhart surveyed the vandals' damage and readied his countermeasure: a city power-washer.
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
Officials with the Boston Boys & Girls Club are urging people not buy candy from youths claiming to be raising money for the organization.
Bostonist (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
-- A 7-year-old boy was shot last night amid the crossfire between warring youths. The child had been playing kickball near Smith Street on the Mission Hill end of Roxbury when he was apparently struck by ricocheting bullets. He remains hospitalized with multiple injuries. The shooting started when a man on a bicycle allegedly fired at two men in a Honda SUV, hitting the driver, who was later hospitalized...
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 06/28/2008
Today, I have selected five winners from more than 100 wines tasted that are newly arrived on shelves in Vintages stores. The wines shown below are my ounce-for-ounce best value wines. However, for those with unlimited credit cards, I commend a few killer wines that, while not phenomenal value, are stunning in their own way.
What was I THINKING? (Free subscription) | 06/25/2008
I've been seeing such weird things lately, maybe I ought to get out more often. Today's sighting was pretty darn funny. We're driving down Huntington Ave right by the Brookline line when it starts pouring. Torrential rains, an absolute downpour. We drive under the bridge as Huntington heads into Mission Hill and there are not one, but two Boston motorcycle cops standing around chatting each
TV Barn (Free subscription) | 06/18/2008
You may have read something in the trades last week about trouble on the set of "Sit Down, Shut Up." It's the new animated TV comedy that brings together some of the funniest minds I know: Mitch Hurwitz, creator of...
dispatches from TJICistan (Free subscription) | 06/12/2008
http://www.boston.com/news/local/article… The two women were alone in a Mission Hill dormitory room that September night. But as Rosanne Strott and Emily Niland lay in bed together, at least two men were videotaping them from a Wentworth Institute of Technology dormitory across the alley. The women learned about the videotape of their intimate encounter seven [...]
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 06/12/2008
The two women were alone in a Mission Hill dormitory room that September night. But as Rosanne Strott and Emily Niland lay in bed together, at least two men were videotaping them from a Wentworth Institute of Technology dormitory across the alley.
BPDNews.com (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
WHO: Boston Police Captain Paul J. Russell, officers from District B-2 (Roxbury) and 50 local teens from Youth NOISE (“Neighborhood Outreach for Inner Street Empowerment”). WHAT: With Celtics fever upon us, offices from B-2 and a group of local youth...
The Natural Truth (Free subscription) | 06/07/2008
When a NU student from Connecticut was shot to death on Mission Hill here in Boston and none of her neighbors called the cops, we talked about what it said about us. Now there's another disturbing example of disregard for fellow citizens from Connecticut, where folks in Hartford stood around and stared at a hit-and-run victim lying in the street. Watch this troubling video for yourself.
