March 6th, 2010 by roxy
The granite façade of the Arcade next door is another example of memory confronting invention. The original granite front of 1860 has been carefully restored. But its windows are now lined with LED lights, which can be programmed to create a multistory image that will seem to be lurking just behind the rows of windows. The LEDs should turn out to be a lively 21st-century riff on the jazzy neon of the past.
To anyone who’s been around Boston for a while, the Paramount Center seems like a miracle. I can remember when a developer owned the theater and proposed to plant a new office tower on top of it. I can remember, too, when Emerson planned to abandon Boston and build a new campus on a vacant site in faraway Lawrence.
Instead, Emerson has remained to become a powerful force for Boston. No activity works better than a mass of college students for reviving a decayed urban area. Students are energetic, they’re out and about, and they’re not scared of the dark. By moving into this and other buildings of what was once Boston’s Combat Zone, a district of dealers, strippers, and hookers, Emerson has performed a great benevolence.
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March 6th, 2010 by roxy
There’s a recurring deadness here, a sense of defeat or resignation. Nearly all the people either stare back at the camera or look off into space. Berndt’s “The Combat Zone, Washington St., Boston, 1968’’ is emblematic. The slight reflection from the plate-glass window reminds us of the barrier between the woman sitting in the coffee shop and the rest of the world. Her out-to-there false eyelashes further contribute to the effect. There’s no real in between in the Zone, little or no sense of human connection. That’s as it should be. The Zone was a place of extremes. Almost all the pictures are big, and properly so. Demure and delicate are not operative words here for either form or content.
We see strippers, hookers, johns, various persons of indeterminate purpose (but they sure don’t seem to be up to any good). Almost no one is identified by other than a first name. One of the exceptions is Angier’s “Mr. and Mrs. Steve Mills, Pilgrim Theater.’’ Very Diane Arbus, it shows a baggy-pants comic in his 80s with his young wife, who looks like Sarah Vowell in a prom dress. Maybe they would have been better off not being identified.
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March 5th, 2010 by bostonharlot
At around age 16, “I found myself hanging out at the Greyhound bus station, turning tricks,” he said. “There are a lot of different reasons why I did it. At the beginning, it was [for] attention.”
“Meantime, I have a girlfriend, and she asks me where I’m getting money. Now I’m lying, conning and conniving,” he said.
Kimball still didn’t fully understand the impact of the sexual abuse, but he had not forgotten what Holmes had done. One night when he was around 18 or 19, Kimball was drinking heavily with one of his brothers and “blurted out” the truth. The two of them headed to Showa’s campus, intending to “raise hell” and smash out a few windows of the hated former Nazareth center. Security guards chased them off.
Five years into his street life, Kimball was arrested for prostitution. His name was in the newspaper. “Now I’m getting shunned by family and friends,” he recalled.
See the full article from “Jamaica Plain Gazette”
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March 5th, 2010 by afterdarkreporter
… She still has difficulties in walking,” Wen said, adding that her vision was also now impaired.
The Chinese transcripts of the online chat were ambiguous as to whether Wen’s mother suffered the haemorrhage when she saw the incident on television or once he had returned to China.
But Xinhua, a Chinese news agency, has insisted that the two events were connected. State media reported on Saturday that the haemorrhage was a direct consequence of what happened in Cambridge.
Mr Wen had been giving a lecture at the West Road Concert Hall when he was interrupted by the whistling and jeering of Mr Jahnke, a 27-year-old German student. The latter then stood up and shouted: “How can the University prostitute itself with this dictator? How can you listen to these lies?”
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March 5th, 2010 by bostonharlot
… Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and ’sinners’?” (Matthew 9:11)
Evidently Jesus hung out with a bad crowd.
We know that because the super-religious types found it offensive. One translation catches the flavor this way:
“Why does your teacher eat with such scum?” (NLT)
There are many ways to answer that question . . . .
Because he loved them.Because they knew he cared for them.Because he knew they weren’t really scum.
And maybe this is the deepest reason . . .
Because the professional religionists wanted nothing to do with him. Prostitutes and tax collectors got along just fine with Jesus because he knew what they were and he loved them anyway. He enjoyed their company, laughed with them, listened to them, and made himself available to them.
See the full article from “Crosswalk.com (blog)”
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March 5th, 2010 by bostonharlot
A 64 year-old tugboat operator faced two quite different charges in Tofino court March 1 and pled guilty to both. Edward W. Hudson was charged with impaired driving of a motor vessel and also with communication with a person for the purposes of soliciting prostitution.
Crown attorney David Kidd said the impaired charges stemmed from an incident May 15, 2009, when Hudson was hired by a group of three people to take them to Hot Springs Cove aboard his vessel, the Go Getter.
Ahousaht RCMP and the Tofino Coast Guard eventually engaged in a rescue after one of the motors and the navigational equipment on the boat malfunctioned. When rescuers found the vessel and finally succeeded in boarding it, Hudson, who was intoxicated, became aggressive. Hudson continued to be “vulgar” with police when they returned him to the Tofino detachment. Tests showed Hudson had a blood alcohol level of 140 mgs.
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March 5th, 2010 by bostonharlot
World? Please let Tiger Woods just be great. Let him be the Nerd Golf George Clooney. Let him just be single and let him just do whatever gross stuff he wants to do with those ladyfriends of his and let me NEVER HEAR ABOUT THEM AGAIN. And let him pimp walk around the golf course all day long blasting LL Cool J’s “Mama Said Knock You Out” while Phil Mickleson curls up into a fetal position, crying, having flashbacks of Winged Foot while someone plays Mark Jackson in a loop shouting over and over “Mama, there goes that man again!”
See the full article from “Se7en Magazine”
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March 4th, 2010 by roxy
Maybe I’ve been sent to cover too many accidents that were bad enough for the pedestrian or crash victim to lose a shoe that gets left for police to use in a reconstruction of events or just gets forgotten but nonetheless marks the spot of a tragic event.
I don’t think that’s the case with either of these shoe sites, but both just get me wondering what happened. What would cause a person to dump or lose a shoe at this time of year and not go back to retrieve it?
I suppose there are much bigger things to worry about. Teen stealing cars in Ashland and other towns… Mendon strip club proposal back in the news… a bereaved brother in Milford making threats against the family of a man injured in the crash that killed his sister.
See the full article from “Weston Town Crier (blog)”
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March 3rd, 2010 by afterdarkreporter
He examined the Winthrop Apartments, a former luxury hotel that was converted into subsidized apartments in the 1970s. The condition of the aging structure has been a concern of city officials in recent years. The Winthrop is showing the effect of decades of under-investment, he said, noting it needs millions of dollars of repairs.
Several Winthrop residents attended and fielded questions from the audience. They pointed out maintenance issues in the aging building, as well as the fact some families with young children are crowded into small units.
Johnson discussed his investment 10 years ago in the Passages Building, an office complex on Broadway. At the time, drug dealing and prostitution were rampant. Since then he has built a condominium building and rehabilitated another old building, the Vintage Y, into condominiums. He and his wife moved into the latter. Downtown now has millionaires living near the very poor, something Johnson feels creates vibrancy.
See the full article from “Tacoma Weekly”
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March 3rd, 2010 by afterdarkreporter
There was widespread speculation among neutral observers that Terry’s bizarre choice of hairstyle was proof positive that the former England skipper was losing the plot and all set to go into meltdown amid sordid revelations regarding his private life. A bit like the Travis Bickle character from the movie ‘Taxi Driver’ who also dramatically sported a Mohawk haircut before going postal in the final reel.
However,Travis Bickle freaked out for completely different reasons to the former England skipper, and as far as anybody can ascertain, John Terry does not actually possess a small arsenal of illegally held handguns. Nor is he on a crusade to rescue a twelve year old prostitute who looks amazingly like a young Jodie Foster. Indeed, JT, as his friend calls him appears to be very popular with the ladies. Unlike Travis Bickle, who wasn’t really very popular with anybody, especially all those blokes he killed.
See the full article from “The Spoof (satire)”
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