http://www.Bostonist.com/labs/contribute en-us Reader-submitted tips http://www.Bostonist.com/labs/contribute/#2379344 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:15:37 -0500 It’s time for cyclists and pedestrians to take back the streets. http://www.Bostonist.com/labs/contribute/#2378817 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:15:37 -0500 There’s about 500 cyclists blocking traffic on one side of Huntington right now. Moving as slowly as possible, chanting “whose street, our street” and whatnot. There are cops behind them, so I don’t know how long it’s going to last. http://www.Bostonist.com/labs/contribute/#2339785 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:15:37 -0500 A cool quick article about great walk/jog/bike tours Hailing Distance: Quick walks, bikes, and jogs, starting on BU campus http://www.Bostonist.com/labs/contribute/#2312787 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:15:37 -0500 breeders’ second album not “splash” — “last splash.” http://www.Bostonist.com/labs/contribute/#2305840 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:15:37 -0500 http://blog.bigfatwhale.com/2009/08/06/comix-slideshow-beer-summit/ http://www.Bostonist.com/labs/contribute/#2300957 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:15:37 -0500 A lighter side to “Gatesgate” (ugh, I hate even typing that.) http://www.xkcd.com/617/ http://www.Bostonist.com/labs/contribute/#2297090 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:15:37 -0500 I smell a coverup here by the caller, Ms. Whalen. Vigilantes like this usually cause more trouble than they save. Robbers would not have broken into the house in broad daylight. Her lack of common sense and assumption that there was a break in speaks volumes about her. She saw their color and immediately assumed a break in. I don’t believe she could not see their race. She better join the crowd for a beer. http://www.Bostonist.com/labs/contribute/#2258441 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:15:37 -0500 Verizon .. Has hired customer service represent- atives residing in India , to provide customer service,What about american citizens who are unemployed ? All Calls for computers and phone repair are forwarded to The country Of India. http://www.Bostonist.com/labs/contribute/#2214751 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:15:37 -0500 New restaurant in Theater District in Boston - International Burger Bar at Caprice. Delicious burgers themed after locations around the world. Can view menu & photos on Facebook (search International Burger Bar). http://www.Bostonist.com/labs/contribute/#1990071 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:15:37 -0500 http://twitter.com/Boston_Police/status/2239787256 http://www.Bostonist.com/labs/contribute/#1963061 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:15:37 -0500 http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2009/06/video-jay-wexler-on-the-holy-hullabaloo-over-grendels-den.html or directly at YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKYbjNdwZHU Wexler discusses how Grendel’s Den won the right to serve liquor and whether a state could grant a coffee shop power a church isn’t allowed. http://www.Bostonist.com/labs/contribute/#1836912 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:15:37 -0500 http://www.boston.com/news/education/k_12/articles/2009/06/03/newton_middle_school_students_sent_nude_photos_by_cellphone/ SEXTING in newton!! hello, law and order episode! http://www.Bostonist.com/labs/contribute/#1778452 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:15:37 -0500 About the Esplanade… more waste and useless projects… destroying the iron fences to dig a hole and put in new fence… go check it out. Right now, they’re working outside of BU along Storrow dr. http://www.Bostonist.com/labs/contribute/#1709261 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:15:37 -0500 DCR is demolishing the outdoor gym along the Charles River Esplanade. No signed explanation as to if it will be replaced and no explanation on dcr website! http://www.Bostonist.com/labs/contribute/#1708191 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:15:37 -0500 Why is the art community in Boston so weak?? The culture seems to foster creativity yet very few live it! http://www.Bostonist.com/labs/contribute/#1639635 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:15:37 -0500 Just saw that Boston Behind the Scenes has finally made some new episodes in the last few months. Newest is an interview with Sidewalk Sam: http://www.bostonbehindthescenes.com/sidewalk-sam/ http://www.Bostonist.com/labs/contribute/#1639435 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:15:37 -0500 http://www.umassmed.edu/Content.aspx?id=69108 Two faculty members at UMass Medical were appointed as Howard Hughes investigators!! http://www.Bostonist.com/labs/contribute/#1636124 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:15:37 -0500 Please re-blog in hopes that John from Amnesia Sat night (last band) will find ROBIN from Boston so they can have an awkward coffee date and then never see each other again! Robin from Boston http://www.Bostonist.com/labs/contribute/#1635288 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:15:37 -0500 BOSTON POLICE .. A LAZY AND NEGLIGENT FORCE.. CITI ZENS HAVE NO PROTECTION WHEN POLICE IGNORE THEIR CONCERNS, THE POLICE CAN CAUSE CITIZENS TO BE A VICTIM OF BEING KILLED AS THEY JUST DO NOT CARE.. http://www.Bostonist.com/labs/contribute/#1634763 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:15:37 -0500 BOSTON POLICE.. PARTY BECOMES FORESENIC.. I went to a police dept. social with my son ,A adult female has become obsessed with him, and has threatened my life and my sons ,and has try coerce my minor son into an adult relationship, I told her to stay away from my son, and filed a police report, the police dept. because she has a connection with them are refusing to deal with the situation, my child Is Autistic ! another Boston Police scandal. http://www.Bostonist.com/labs/contribute/#1612383 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:15:37 -0500 This is the coolest thing I’ve come across in a log time http://theconesproject.com http://www.Bostonist.com/labs/contribute/#1609164 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:15:37 -0500 A little birdy told me Budweiser muscled Harpoon out of the U2 show tonight at the Somerville. If you’re going, you’re drinking Bud tonight. So much for local first. http://www.Bostonist.com/labs/contribute/#1602043 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:15:37 -0500 Parking cone art: http://theconesproject.com An installation-around-town http://www.Bostonist.com/labs/contribute/#1600258 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:15:37 -0500 came across this link on a messageboard, reportedly showing the owner of Blanchard’s in allston stomping a carrier containing a small dog: http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-220889 boycott this classy fellow http://www.Bostonist.com/labs/contribute/#1599986 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:15:37 -0500 Seems to be some dog stompin goin round here. Check the beginning of the video. Kinda tough to catch…. Do the Blanchards Dog Stomp http://www.Bostonist.com/labs/contribute/#1589922 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:15:37 -0500 Patients Beware.. Robert Hoch M.D. of Boston ma, has violated patients privacy by allowing Researchers from Harvard University, School of Public Health to read other Patients Medical records without the Patients consent. DR. Hoch is trying to involve patients In a Research study which he gets a BIG Financial Gain. People’s social security numbers are @ Risk, as well as addresses and telephone numbers. Violation Of The Federal HIPPA LAWS. http://www.Bostonist.com/labs/contribute/#1572185 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:15:37 -0500 The Hancock Tower is being foreclosed upon! http://www.warrenre.com/blog/2009/01/25/boston-foreclosure-the-john-hancock-office-tower/ http://www.Bostonist.com/labs/contribute/#1567872 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:15:37 -0500 You guys should cover University Papers around Boston: Daily Free Press, Berklee Beacon, Suffolk Journal, Harvard’s Paper, etc etc etc http://www.Bostonist.com/labs/contribute/#1564205 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:15:37 -0500 http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2009/01/15/2009-01-15_its_new_kids_on_the_lido_deck.html http://www.Bostonist.com/labs/contribute/#1560937 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:15:37 -0500 Congressman Barney Frank, originally from Bayonne, NJ, is profiled this week in a piece by Jeffrey Toobin in The New Yorker, and among the more interesting revelations is that Frank’s father, Sam, was a Genovese crime family associate: “Because Bayonne was such a sleazy place, nobody knew whether Barney was going to wind up in Congress or in jail” [said lawyer Alan Dershowitz]. According to Frank, his father was involved with the Mafia. “[Alfonse Frank] Funzi Tieri, a big-time gangster with the Genovese family, came to my brother David’s bar mitzvah, when I was twenty-three,” he said. Sam Frank died at the age of fifty-three, while Barney was an undergraduate at Harvard, and Barney took a year off to help resolve the family’s tangled financial affairs. “The Mafia guys were very helpful to me at the time,” he said. Sam Frank “operated Tooley’s Truck Terminal, near the mouth of the Holland Tunnel in Jersey City”: “My father ran a truck stop,” Frank told me. “He sort of lived on the fringes. We’re talking about Hudson County—Frank Hague was the boss—a totally corrupt place. In 1946, my father’s brother Harry got the contract to sell cars to the city, and of course he had to give a kickback to the guys who ran the city. My father was a middleman or something.” Sam was subpoenaed to testify before a grand jury about the matter. He refused and was found in criminal contempt. “For a while, he was hiding out from the cops in New York,” Frank recalled. “I was six years old, and once I went to see him in the city, and we saw ‘Robin Hood,’ with Errol Flynn. The next day, the cops came to my first-grade class to interview me, to see if I had been with my dad. My father’s sister, Aunt Minnie, taught at the school. She heard about the cops coming and went straight to my classroom to break it up, so I didn’t have to talk.” Eventually, Sam returned to New Jersey, and was jailed for refusing to testify. “They treated him nice,” Frank said. “They let my mother bring him food. He served for about a year.” Genovese front boss Funzi Tieri, whom Frank claims attended his brother’s bar mitzvah, had the distinction of being the first individual convicted under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act which specifically was enacted to target the Mafia. Rep. Barney Frank: “The Mafia guys were very helpful to me” http://www.Bostonist.com/labs/contribute/#1560932 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:15:37 -0500 Rep. Barney Frank: “The Mafia guys were very helpful to me” http://www.Bostonist.com/labs/contribute/#1553861 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:15:37 -0500 i thought this could be useful , anyhow funny ! http://www.candidcamera.be/Politics+Clinton/Clinton+Yeltsin+laugh+bush+humor/vHfbpL0NDmw%26f%3Dgdata_videos.html http://www.Bostonist.com/labs/contribute/#1550960 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:15:37 -0500 Vintage Restaurant.. Former Owner Michael Argiros, has been giving Mayor Tom Menino Money, Yet he has not refunded the customers their money for gift cards they bought this year, which are now useless! Ulterior Motive Is he also Is a developer,and Real estate person, I wonder If Mayor Menino can get Argiros saved from the halls of justice. http://www.Bostonist.com/labs/contribute/#1546455 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:15:37 -0500 Patriotic helmut follow up http://www.Bostonist.com/labs/contribute/#1544050 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:15:37 -0500 Patriotic Firefighter Ordered to Paint Helmet Black