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Between You and Me …I am really starting to wonder if former U.S.
Senator Scott Brown is ready to start up his pickuptruck again for another U.S. Senate election. Thisupcoming special election would be his secondspecial election and third election overall sincehe won back on January 19, 2010. He would haveto run again in 2014 for a full-term if elected thisspring. How many campaign trails does he wantto walk in a relatively short period of time? Hecould just wait until the governor’s race next year.If he does run now, he probably could win, espe-cially if he faces the Democrats’ insider choice ofEd “Do you know where Malden is” Markey. Then,he would be running again in 2014 to keep theseat. No wonder he is taking his time in makinga decision that will have a great effect on himand his family.
I don’t think Brown needs an election to justifyhimself. He is one of the few politicians whodoesn’t seem to have any ego problem. He is happyjust being himself.
Capuano Says No to Senate RunU.S. Rep. Michael Capuano, D-Somerville has
decided not to seek the U.S. Senate seat up forgrabs later this year in a special election toreplace outgoing U.S. Sen. John F. Kerry headedto the Obama Administration as secretary ofstate. Right now, top Democrats are pushing in-
On Friday, January 18th, the Mu-seum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) un-veiled The Capitoline Brutus, a rarebronze sculpture dating back to 300 BCthat is on display for the first time everin the United States. MFA DirectorMalcolm Rogers, CongressmanMichael Capuano, Italian Consul Gen-eral Giuseppe Pastorelli and Filippo LaRosa, Diplomatic Advisor to the Mayorof Rome, all addressed the crowd thatincluded George Behrakis, PeterAldrich, Anthony Pangaro and Antonio
Bartoli of the Italian Embassy in Washington. Capuano em-phasized the great sharing between the two countries andhow much he enjoys celebrating his heritage. The sculp-ture is part of 2013 The Year of Italian Culture in the UnitedStates, a year-long initiative that showcases the best of Ital-ian arts and culture in more than 40 cities across the coun-try. The Brutus will be on view in the George D. and MargoBehrakis Art of the Ancient World Wing through May 1st.Unveiling of “Bruto Capitolino”
*Sovraintendenza ai Beni Culturali di Roma Capitale - Musei Capitolini.Visiting Masterpieces: Brutus presented under the auspices of the Presi-dent of the Italian Republic’s “2013, Year of Italian Culture in the UnitedStates.” Part of the Dream of Rome Project.
Giuseppe Pastorelli, Consul General of Italy, Congressman Michael Capuano andFilippo La Rosa, Diplomatic Advisor to the Mayor of Rome.
With your support, in thecoming weeks we willachieve meaningful educa-tion reforms that will ben-efit an entire generation ofstudents and the broadercommunity. I am asking foryour help so we can moveforward together.
For nearly 25 years wehave split the city into threesprawling student assign-ment zones — North, Eastand West. Families today arefaced with a bewildering setof options with no assurancethey’ll get what they askedfor. Our schools are betterthan ever and we do ourbest to match families withtheir choices, but too often,children are sent to schoolsfar from home because wecouldn’t give them what theywanted. Many families avoidthe process altogether.
The Boston Public Schools,working with the commu-nity, has come up with a newapproach to student assign-ment — one that empha-sizes quality choices, pre-dictability for families, and
great schools that are closerto home. The External Advi-sory Committee on SchoolChoice, which I appointednearly a year ago, has doneincredible work to ensurebroad and thoughtful com-munity input, focus on asmart and honest look atschool quality, and create atransparent process that hasgenerated lots of great ideasfrom the community.
The EAC is now updatingthe public on the ‘best ofthe best’ models it received,which you can explore atb o s t o n s c h o o l c h o i c e . o r g .These models are based onthe input of more than 4,000voices at more than 50 com-munity meetings in the lastyear, including experts fromMIT, Harvard, Boston Collegeand other institutions whohave joined the effort.
One option would createten community-based zones,designed to offer a balanceof quality choices no matterwhere a child lives. Thisapproach would give fam-ilies lots of options while
giving them confidence thattheir choices were all famil-iar ones.
The other options arebased on an address-basedsystem with no zones, whichtailors school choices foreach individual student —ensuring every child hashigh quality choices on hisor her list, including schoolsthat are close to home andothers that are a little fur-ther away.
All of these options arefairer and more predictablethan what we have today.Families would still havechoices — but they wouldalso be empowered to learnmore about their schooloptions years in advance,enabling them to get in-volved, meet the principaland teachers, and ‘go deep’with the school communitybefore deciding which onesto pick.
The options would alsohelp us build stronger com-munities. For too long, we
STUDENT ASSIGNMENT:It’s Our Choice to Make
by Mayor Thomas M. Menino
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(Genesis 11: 1-9) “And thewhole earth was of one lan-guage and of one speech.And it came to pass, as theyjourneyed from the east, thatthey found a plain in theland of Shinar; and theydwelt there. And they said toone another, Go to, let usmake brick and burn themthoroughly. And they hadbrick for stone and slime hadthey for mortar. And theysaid, go to, let us build us acity and a tower whose top
may reach into heaven andlet us make us a name, lestwe be scattered abroad uponthe face of the whole earth.And the Lord came down tosee the city and the tower,which the children of menbuilded.
And the Lord said, Behold,the people is one, and theyhave all one language; andthis they begin to do; andnow nothing will be re-strained from them, whichthey have imagined to do. Go
to, let us go down, and thereconfound their language,that they may not under-stand one another’s speech.So the Lord scattered themabroad from thence upon theface of the earth; and theyleft off to build the city.Therefore is the name of itcalled Babel; because theLord did there confound thelanguage of all the earth; andfrom thence did the Lordscatter them abroad uponthe face of all the earth.”
Archaeologists differ intheir opinions as to the exactlocation and physical make-up of the Tower of Babel.Many texts refer to this as atower built in a series ofstages or levels, one abovethe other, each successivelevel being smaller than theone below.
Experts also seem to differon the height of the towerwhich is given from threehundred feet to six hundredfeet. One account claimsthis is to have been thetallest man-made structurethat the world knew up to thetime of the Eiffel Tower(1889 A.D.). Some claim that
THE TOWER OF BABEL
Pieter Bruegal painting of the Tower of Babel, 1563.(Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria)
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I did not watch the ceremonies attendant on PresidentObama’s swearing-in as chief executive for a second term.It was not because I disagree with just about every policy ofhis and believe he is harming the Republic and is a dangerto the liberty of every citizen, including the ones most laud-ing him. No, I’m just not that into it.
For his true “inaugural,” that is his first taking of office,I attended a festive event here in Boston with great satis-faction in living to see the first African-America president,even though I knew then that his policies would be severelymisguided. I attended, in Washington, the inaugural of hispredecessor, George W. Bush, but I took little notice of theofficial commencement of his second term. So I’m an equalopportunity second “inauguration” snubber.
I missed the whole thing. The comments, in print and onradio and television, regarding his speech have warned meaway from reading it for fear of elevating my blood pres-sure. I missed news coverage of the various gala balls, so Idon’t even know what the First Lady wore, which is prob-ably just as well, as her past selections have beenunderwhelming, or worse. From what I have seen, afterthe event, of commentary, the only note-worthy fashionstatement came from a highly improbable source, UnitedState Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.
Justice Scalia has set cyberspace atwitter with hisselection of headgear for last Monday’s inauguration cer-emony. He wore a black hat, a replica of the hat depicted inHans Holbein’s well-known portrait of St. Thomas More.The hat was custom-made and was a gift, in 2010, from theSt. Thomas More Society of Richmond, Virginia.
Thomas More, familiar to many from his depiction inRobert Bolt’s play (and movie) A Man for All Seasons, wasmartyred by the tyrant Henry VIII of England when he stoodagainst the King’s pretended supremacy over the church.
As Matthew Schmitz, Deputy Editor of First Things wrote:“Wearing the cap of a statesman who defended liberty ofchurch and integrity of Christian conscience to the inau-guration of a president whose policies have imperiled both:Make of it what you will.”
The King’s Good Servant, but God’s First
Pursuant to Presidential decree n. 226 of December 22, 2012, electionswill be held on February 24 and February 25, 2013 to electrepresentatives to the Chamber of Deputies and to the Senate of theRepublic. In Italy, voting at the polling stations will take place on Sunday,February 24th (from 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.) and on Monday, February25th (from 7:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.).
Outside of Italy, Italian citizens residing abroad who are registeredvoters in the Overseas District may vote by correspondence. Theycan do so by casting their vote for the candidates listed on the ballotfor the “Circoscrizione Estero” (Overseas District).
All voters residing abroad will receive a packet by mail beforeFebruary 6th from the Consulate General of Italy in Boston containing:an instruction sheet on the voting procedures, the electoral certificate,a ballot (two for voters over the age of 25, therefore eligible to votealso for the Senate), one blank white envelope for the ballots, a stampedenvelope bearing the address of the Consulate General of Italy inBoston, and the list of candidates for the Electoral zone of residence.
The stamped envelope containing the ballots, completed as indicatedby the instruction sheet, must be sent by mail as soon as possible inorder to reach the Consulate General of Italy in Boston by - and nolater than - 4:00 pm on February 21st.
The vote is personal and secret. Voting more than once orvoting on another’s behalf is prohibited. Violators of the lawwill be punished to the fullest extent of the law.
Voters who have not received a complete packet by February 10th
should contact the Consulate General of Italy in Boston to verifytheir electoral status and, if necessary, request a duplicate.
For further information, please visit Consulate’s websitewww.consboston.esteri.it, or contact
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Con Decreto del Presidente della Repubblica n. 226 del 22 dicembre2012 sono state indette per il 24 e 25 febbraio2013 le votazioni perl’elezione della Camera dei Deputati e del Senato della Repubblica. InItalia le votazioni si svolgono presso i seggi nei giorni di domenica 24febbraio (dalle ore 8,00 alle ore 22,00) e di lunedì 25 febbraio (dalleore 7,00 alle ore 15,00).
All’estero, i cittadini italiani ivi stabilmente residenti, iscritti nelle listeelettorali della Circoscrizione Estero, possono partecipare alle elezionivotando per corrispondenza. Essi votano per le liste di candidatipresentate nella rispettiva ripartizione della Circoscrizione Estero.
A ciascun elettore residente all’estero, il Consolato Generaled’Italia a Boston invia per posta, entro il 6 febbraio, un plicocontenente: un foglio informativo che spiega come votare, il certificatoelettorale, la scheda elettorale (due per chi, avendo compiuto 25 anni,può votare anche per il Senato), una busta completamente bianca incui inserire le schede votate, una busta già affrancata recante l’indirizzodel Consolato Generale d’Italia a Boston, le liste dei candidati dellapropria ripartizione.
L’elettore, utilizzando la busta già affrancata e seguendo attentamentele istruzioni contenute nel foglio informativo, dovrà spedire SENZARITARDO le schede elettorali votate, in modo che arrivino alConsolato Generale d’Italia a Boston entro - e non oltre - le ore16.00del 21 febbraio.
Il voto è personale e segreto. E’ fatto divieto di votare piùvolte e inoltrare schede per conto di altre persone. Chiunquevioli le disposizioni in materia elettorale, sarà punito a normadi legge.
L’elettore che alla data del 10 febbraio non avesse ancora ricevutoil plico elettorale, potrà rivolgersi al Consolato Generale d’Italiaa Boston per verificare la propria posizione elettorale e chiedereeventualmente un duplicato.
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As I watched the governor lay out his tax plan duringhis State of the State address, I wondered what planethe occupied. His spending agenda would be the highesttax hike in Massachusetts history. Taxpayers simplycannot finance this dream of his. His attempt at build-ing a legacy on transportation and education wouldbankrupt the Commonwealth long after he is history.Once again we get the liberal notion that we have aspending problem; we are apparently not spendingenough of our money. We also have a taxing problem;Governor Patrick wants to dig deeper into the taxpayers’pockets which are already pretty depleted of capital.
As I heard the governor talk about extending railservice across the entire state, I wondered why. Do weneed trains to the Berkshires, Springfield or evenMedford? Sounds like a Disneyland approach to transitissues. Instead of finding ways to finance what wealready have, it is like being in denial riding around inthose Disney-like monorails. Also, his whole financingscheme seems premised on raising the state’s incometax rather than lowering the state’s sales tax. Theopposite move would have been the better case. How-ever, in any case, raising taxes never produces growth.It only stifles it. Does anyone remember the “Massa-chusetts Miracle” anymore?
How much more can we take? Why isn’t the governortaking the radical approach of cutting taxes and need-less spending in order to better finance his dream worldwhere we must be growing money on trees and whereit rains coins.
We can only hope our legislators, both Democrats andRepublicans alike, up on Beacon Hill take a serious lookat Patrick’s huge spending ideas and his oppressive taxhike to pay for it. This guy is making former GovernorMike Dukakis look like a fiscal conservative.
It’s Taxachusetts All Over Againby Sal Giarratani
North End Waterfront Health (NEW Health)held a free flu clinic on Saturday, Janu-ary 12th in response to Mayor Meninodeclaring the city’s flu outbreak a PublicHealth Emergency.
“The mayor asked all health centers inthe city to host clinics so that more peoplecould get vaccinated,” said NEW Health CEOJim Luisi. “We were not given much notice,but our hardworking staff was up to the chal-lenge and ran the clinic seamlessly.”
NEW Health gave more than 300 flu shotsduring the 3.5 hour free clinic. Since theflu season began, the health center hasgiven out more than 1,800 flu shots andefforts are ongoing.
More than 750 cases of the flu have beenreported in Boston, according to the Depart-ment of Public Health. Of that amount, 25%
NEW Health Holds Free Flu Clinic,Plans Another
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have been hospitalized, with most hospital-izations occurring in people over age 45 withunderlying medical conditions.
The health center is planning anotherFREE FLU CLINIC FOR AGES 18 AND UPONLY ON THURSDAY, JANUARY 24TH from3:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. NEW Health islocated at 332 Hanover Street, North End,Boston.
“One of the easiest ways to keep your fam-ily, friends, neighbors and yourself healthyis to get the flu shot,” says NEW Health’sChief Medical Officer John Foster, MD.
Children under the age of 18 are not eli-gible to receive a free flu shot during theclinic on Thursday because children receivea more specialized dose of the vaccine. Ifyour child needs a flu shot, please contactyour pediatrician.
Rosario Cascio, president of the PirandelloLyceum, has announced the showing of anItalian film with English subtitles onSaturday morning, Febuary 2nd, at the NorthEnd library on Parmenter Street. The eventbegins at 10:15 am with cafe e biscotti fol-lowed by the film starting right at 10:30 am.The film is titled La Doppia Ora (The DoubleHour). It is an Italian film from 2009 directedby Giuseppe Capotondi and running for 94minutes. The film is free and open to thepublic with limited seating but be aware thatit is for mature audiences only. For moreinformation please call 781-640-3637.
About the film: Mixing film noir, thriller,love story and supernatural horror, TheDouble Hour has some of the dour provin-cial atmosphere and subtly menacing toneof 2007 Italo murder mystery The Girl by theLake; but it’s more intricately plotted andtakes us into much more intriguing dream-and-reality territory. It also features a
standout performance by Italy-based Russianactress Ksenia Rappoport which won her thebest actress prize on the Lido and Italianactor and writer Filippo Timi.
Plot: A chambermaid and an ex-cop meetat a speed dating event and a romancedevelops. But during a romantic getawaythings suddenly take a dark turn.
Pirandello Lyceum Announces Showing ofLa Doppia Ora
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Light the fire, make thecocoa and settle in with agood pile of books from thebig mid-winter sale at theCopley Library on February2nd. Shop the shelves from10:00 am to 4:00 pm, earlybirds get the best deals.Most books are $2 or less,with an selection of pre-mium books and multi-mediaitems at higher prices. Inaddition to books they alsohave CDs, DVDs, video cas-settes, vinyl records, music cassettes andbooks on tape. Sale held on lower level of
the McKim Building, use DartmouthStreet entrance for easy access.
This sale is co-sponsored by theCitywide Friends and the HydePark Friends of the Boston PublicLibrary. All proceeds benefit the
off-budget and programmingneeds of the BPL andits branches. Their latestproject is a donation of
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I am starting to think weare all nothing but a bunchof cliff-dwellers. As soon aswe somewhat deal with the“Fiscal Cliff,” along comesthe “Dairy Cliff.” I don’t knowabout you but I found myselfin sticker shock when I no-ticed the price of a gallon ofmilk at Super Stop & Shopover at South Bay the otherevening after work. Theprice reportedly started ris-ing right after New Year’sDay thanks to our fecklessU.S. Congress. Rememberwhen milk was inexpensivenot that long ago? Now we“Got Less Milk” for a pint,half-gallon or gallon! I hopeyou enjoyed those older andcheaper prices because fed-eral policy has just reachedits sell-by date and will havedire results for all of us gro-cery shoppers.
Current farm programsconsist of huge subsides,price supports and restric-tions set in place almost fiveyears ago, and which expiredon New Year’s Eve. Thiswhole government policy isrigged as usual against con-sumers 99 percent of thetime. Federal farm policy isnow taking the Waybackmachine of Mr. Peabody to1949 when I was still in dia-pers as were many babyboomers at that time. If Con-gress stays neutral, the De-partment of Food Stamps willdouble the price supports fordairy farm products thanksto something called “parity.”I haven’t seen any newsbroadcasts on radio or TV orread any news stories in thepapers but I have seen a
spike in milk prices as gasprices continue to drop. Thismust mean something, huh?
Have we reverted to 1920seconomics when the govern-ment stepped in when theprice of milk dropped toomuch and the governmentcreated an artificial pricefloor? While our leaders arenow haggling over raisingthe debt ceiling, they seemokay with dropping our dairyfloor further down. Theseeconomics might have madesense 90 years ago whenAmerica had so many smalldairy farms but today thedairy industry is full-timebig business.
At the moment, a gallon ofmilk is about $3.50 but couldsoon be as much as $3.50 forhalf-gallon bottles of milk.The Dairy Lobby is a big timeoutfit down in the Beltway.By the 1980s, federal dairypolicy cost the averageAmerican family enough tobuy its own cow. High dairyprices historically hurt theworking poor. Did before andwill again. The issue of sup-ply and demand works quitewell already without govern-ment price controls andhigher prices for no good eco-nomic reason.
This approaching debaclewill have a grave impact onretailers and consumerswhile lining the pockets ofthe Big Milk lobby and isfurther proof as JamesBovard, author of “PublicPolicy Hooligan” states thatthis debacle “is further proofthat the only way to reformfarm programs is to abolishthem.”
You Know Something’s Wrong When aGallon of Milk Cost More than a Gallon of Gasoline
I cannot believe that Janu-ary is almost over. It seemsthat just a short while ago,I bit into the marbled ringcake I made for New Year’sDay and groaned at the pros-pect of going back to workafter the holiday break. ThisJanuary has been an inter-esting mix of warm spellsand bitterly cold winds, deli-cate snowflakes and brightsunshine. At times, I feltcaught in an epic tug-of-warbetween winter and spring,the two seasons strugglingto hold their dominion inthese liminal, unpredictablemonths. However, Februarysoon approaches and with ita plethora of feasts that de-cidedly mark the arrival ofspring. On Valentine’s Day,one of my favorite holidaysto break the monotony offrigid and snowy winds, I loveto indulge in chocolates andcheerful heart decorationsnot only with my fiancé butwith my family and friendsas well. I wear the luckycolor red on Chinese NewYear and delight in KingCakes and beads on MardiGras. There is a less famousholiday, though, that intro-duces the month of Februaryand spring in general. It iscalled Candlemas, and it isfilled with light, hope andpromise.
Candlemas falls on Febru-ary 2nd, honoring the date theVirgin Mary presentedJesus at the temple fortydays after His birth. Theterm Candlemas derivesfrom the use of candles inreligious services duringthis feast, symbolizing thelight Jesus brings to theworld. The folkloristic ori-gins of Candlemas, however,predate Christianity. Thepagan Celts celebrated thisday as Imbolc, a holiday sig-naling the first day of spring.Imbolc, which translates to“in the belly” according to
some scholars, observes thelactation of sheep and theseasonal birthing of lambs.Indeed, Candlemas func-tions as a seasonal holiday,bursting with customs andsuperstitions that establishthis feast as a precursor tospring. In Europe, traditiondecreed that a warm, sunnyday on Candlemas presagedmore winter weather tocome, while a cloudy and chillday proclaimed an earlyspring. If this sounds famil-iar, it is because Europeanimmigrants to Americaadopted these customs intothe holiday of GroundhogDay, also celebrated on Feb-ruary 2nd — a festival thatalso pays homage to the endof hibernation season. InItaly, several sayings testifyto these weather supersti-tions, including one whichreads: “Candelora col sole,tarda primavera,” meaning“sunny Candlemas, latespring.” These folkloristicdictums speak to the uni-versal desire to welcomewarm weather and new life,whether it comes in theform of a newborn lamb orflower shoots peaking outunder the snow.
In addition to its status asa seasonal turning point,Candlemas also serves asan occasion for feasting andcelebrations. In France, pan-cakes are the traditionaldinner of the day, perhapsbecause they symbolize thesun, now becoming so preva-lent in the spring sky. Italybrims with regional and lo-cal festivities that honorCandlemas, or Candelora inItalian. Though the celebra-tions differ, they all containthe common thread of wel-coming in spring with lightand unbridled joy. In theSicilian city of Catania,Candelora fêtes segue intoprocessions in memory ofthe town’s patron saint,
St. Agatha, as celebrantsoffer huge candles that illu-minate the night sky. Thetown of Montevergine, inthe region of Catania, holdsevents commemorating gayrights and candlelit proces-sions that pray for toleranceon Candelora. All acrossItaly, in fact, a visitor willwitness candles or bonfiresdecorating churches, homesand town centers, providingprotection against the coldair yet sparkling with an-ticipation at the comingspring. Candlemas alwaysreminds me of my under-graduate days at StonehillCollege, since the holidayusually fell around the startof my spring semester,when I would walk acrossthe windy campus, noticingnew buds on tree branchessilhouetted against a cloudysky. This year, I think I maycelebrate Candlemas with apancake dinner, emulatingthe French custom, whilealso watching the goldenglow of the sun melt intonight in honor of my Italianancestors.
As winter gives way tospring, I think that weshould all learn a lessonfrom Candlemas and look forour own candles of hope thatlight our way in the dark-ness. What sorts of thingsremind us of rebirth andnew life in the midst of a darkand cold winter, whether thewinter is literal or a state ofmind? For me, these candlesconsist of a hug from myfiancé, a dessert made withmy mother, watching sillyshows on the Italian chan-nel with my father, the purrof my cat. These are all signsthat remind me that life willalways consist of beautifulmoments, even when allseems bleak. It is importantto pay attention to suchsigns in the natural world aswell: the flash of a robin’swing, a frost-encrusted cro-cus, a candlelit night. Aslong as we hold these pre-cious moments dear, springwill always live inside us.
Ally Di Censo is a GraduateStudent in History at the Uni-versity of Massachusetts Bos-ton. She appreciates any com-ments and suggestions aboutItalian holidays and folkloreat [email protected].
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February 3-9, 2013 is BurnAwareness Week and duringthis week Shriners Hospi-tals for Children® will beginits annual burn preventioncampaign. This year’s focusis on teaching children to “BeBurn Aware” — especially athome. The effort will includematerials for children, as wellas both general awarenessand scald prevention infor-mation for parents and otherconcerned adults. Scald in-juries are one of the mostprevalent, and preventable,types of burn injuries occur-ring in homes. Informationand materials pertaining tothe effort can be found onthe health care system’swebsite dedicated to burnawareness and preventionwww.burnawareness.org.
Homes are the sites ofthousands of burn injuriesto children every year, in-cluding scalds and fire-related injuries. Many ofthese incidents could havebeen easily prevented byfollowing and implementingsome basic safety tips.
“At Shriners Hospitals forChildren, preventing burninjuries and providing burnawareness education is aconcerted, continuous effort,”said Kenneth Guidera, M.D.,
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The campaign again usestwo popular and child-friendlycharacters to showcase andshare our messages: Bootsand Brewster — a caped,cuddly bear and a googly-eyed teapot. In the materials,the pair leads childrenthrough the various rooms ofa house, pointing out dan-gers and how to easily corrector avoid them.
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Mayor Thomas M. Meninoand the Boston Parks andRecreation Department in-vite families to the FranklinPark Golf Course Club-house for the ParkSCIENCEChildren’s Festival on Wed-nesday, February 20th, from10:00 am to 12 noon. Thefree Festival will provide funduring February school va-cation week with indoor andoutdoor activities.
The lineup includes theBoston Park Rangers “Horse
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of Course” program and Crit-ter Exhibit, the New EnglandAquarium Tidal Pool whereparticipants can handle andobserve a wide range of livetidal pool animals from localwaters, MIT’s “Science fromScientists” activities anddemonstrations, an exhibithosted by City ArcheologistJoe Bagley featuring arti-facts found during variouscity digs, the MassachusettsHorticultural Society’s Plant-mobile horticultural lab table
and outdoor plant parts scav-enger hunt, and demonstra-tions hosted by iRobot.
In addition, the L.L. BeanDiscovery School will presenttheir Snowshoeing Discov-ery Course, a fun and easyway to try out the sport withexpert instructors who willlead an easy guided trekthrough Franklin Park.Snowshoes will be provided.L.L. Bean will also be bring-ing the Bootmobile, a motor-ized replica of the famousL.L. Bean boot measuring 13'tall, 20' 6" long and 7' 6"wide.
Free parking is availableat the clubhouse parking lotlocated at One Circuit Drivein Franklin Park. For moreinformation, please call theBoston Parks and RecreationDepartment at (617) 635-4505, visit the website atwww.cityofboston.gov/parksor go to www.facebook.com/bostonparksdepartment.
Many states, includingConnecticut where theSandy Hook ElementarySchool shootings took place,are seeing many electedofficials trying to deal withmental health intervention.Today, the mentally ill haveso many rights, includingthe right not to take medi-cine, that it is very difficultto obtain an order to invol-untarily commit someoneagainst their will. Oftenmany mentally ill go un-treated on our streets. Manyfall victims to predators andunfortunately some becomepredators themselves. Manyof the recent shooters ap-pear to have been folkswho fell through the cracksin a system which reallydoesn’t work that well forthe ill or their strugglingfamilies.
The shooter in Aurora, whodid his shootings in a movietheater, is he competent tostand trial? What is compe-tency? Competency meansone thing in the criminaljustice and totally somethingelse in the mental healthfield. If someone plans amass shooting and looksorganized, is their act pre-meditated and did they
know right from wrongat the time of their action?I have known in my line ofwork many mentally illpeople who were highly-organized, well-spoken andlooked well, who were verysick individuals. Many ofthem quietly lived with theirpersonal demons most or alltheir lives. Some get a littlebetter. A few get worse. Butall suffer.
Without knowing anythingabout the shooters down atthe Arizona strip mall, thatColorado movie theater orthat elementary school inConnecticut, I would thinkall of them had torturedminds most of their lives andalways lived their lives fiveminutes from any midnightmadness.
We can ban all guns. Wecan put armed guards inschools. We can arm a sta-dium full of fans as someonein Texas once proposed butunless we improve our sys-tem of mental health care,we will continue to see hor-rible acts from delusionaland desperate folks. All thegun laws on the books can’tstop something that is trulynot being addressed by soci-ety today.
MENTAL HEALTHAND GUN VIOLENCE
by Sal Giarratani
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Recently, I read a New York Times editorial that I agreedvery much with as a conservative. The 4th Amendment pre-vents law enforcement from searching folks without a war-rant but the U.S. Supreme Court allows some exceptions tothe rule known as “exigent circumstances” when policebelieve that any delay involved in getting a warrant wouldlead to the destruction of evidence. Missouri v. McNeely isheaded really soon to the High Court. The police in thiscase forced a driver to take a blood test at a hospital afterhe refused to take a breath test with a portable machinewhen he was stopped for erratic driving. The blood testshowed that his blood alcohol was almost twice the state’slegal limit.
The New York Times opined, “The Missouri Supreme Courtwisely ruled that the warrantless blood test was an unrea-sonable search because there was no emergency that pre-vented the police from getting a search warrant in a timelymanner before the alcohol in the driver’s blood dissipated.”As a police officer for over 27 years, I agree with theNY Times on this 4th Amendment issue. However, the Stateof Missouri is now asking the U.S. Supreme Court to over-turn the state court ruling and in my opinion as well as theNY Times, “to radically revise the 4th Amendment law sothat police without a warrant can draw blood from everyperson arrested on suspicion of drunken driving, regard-less of the circumstances. The United States governmenthas sided with Missouri officials on these warrantless blooddraws to and I quote the feds, “to prevent the imminentdestruction of evidence.”
In over 21 states including Missouri, the police haveobtained thousands of warrants to get the blood alcoholevidence. If the U.S. Supreme Court agrees with Missouriofficials challenging the state court ruling, the NY Timesstates, “(I)t will diminish constitutional rights withoutincreasing public safety in any meaningful way.”
If you want to attain whether a driver is legally drunk,you should do so legally. Once again proving that many publicpolicy issues are neither liberal nor conservative. Theyare only to be judged as constitutional. Period. End of story.
Drunk Driving and the4th Amendment
by Sal Giarratani Winters are long in NewEngland, the cold and greyskies create a bleak andmonotonous landscape thatleaves us longing for the re-birth that comes with spring.For us, photography has al-ways offered an escape fromthe cold grip of winter,whether we are shooting agroup of house plants or acolorful sunrise, we canevoke, through our work, thefeelings of rebirth and hopethat are part of spring andsummer and for a while es-cape the cold grip of winter.
Recently we were invitedto the wedding of two veryclose friends. We’ve knownAnn and Tom for years andwanted to present the new-lyweds with a gift that ex-pressed the depth of feelingwe have for both of them.Remembering that Ann isEnglish and for years hasextolled the beauty of En-glish gardens and in particu-lar roses with their scent
and endless variety of shad-ings, we decided to make ourgift to our friends a still lifeframed photo of roses.
We purchased 24 roses inpink, red and white and ar-ranged them in a large Chi-nese porcelain vase bor-rowed from a friend that per-fectly complimented theflowers. We arranged theroses against a pale grey wallmimicking a Flemish paint-ing included in a collectionof Dutch Masters that weonce saw in New York.
Wanting to create a set-ting that would evoke feel-ings of spring, we arrangedthe lighting to capture thefull beauty of the roses. Wethen photographed the ar-rangement over and overagain. Finally, after takingabout 36 photos of the bou-quet, we settled for a still lifearrangement with a compli-mentary figurine.
After three hours of shoot-ing, the picture was taken,
and finally we could sit andfor a while reminisce aboutthe many good times we’vespent with Ann and Tom. Wethen noted that in the pro-cess of creating a gift for ourfriends we gifted ourselvesby escaping into spring, ifonly for an afternoon, andleaving the dreary doldrumsof winter.
We had the photo scannedand printed in high resolu-tion then mounted it in adouble mat and framed in a10" by 14" gold wooden frame.On the back of the frame weplaced a heartfelt sentimentto two very special people. Itlooked spectacular.
We sent the picture to ourfriends confident that theywould enjoy it with thoughtsof the afternoon we spentcreating it, the unexpectedescape from winter that itscreation afforded us andwarm good wishes to Annand Tom and their new lifetogether as man and wife.
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Boston wasthe leading cityin the flu epi-demic! Bostonhospitals were
reporting record numbers offlu victims, the good news isthe outbreak may be comingto an end. Boston also has arecord number of illegalaliens who could be carry-ing infectious diseases in-to the city! Martha Coakleysays it’s not illegal to beillegal in Massachusetts! ...Al Gore has made millionson his global warming theory,enough to buy a radio sta-tion that he’s recently soldto Al-Jazeera Arab NationBroadcast. It’s reported thatAl Gore has become richerthan Mitt Romney with hisglobal warming theory.While Mitt made his moneyvia business, Gore used hisskills as a “bull crapper”to make his. According toreports Al sold the radiostation to Arab owned Al-Jazeera for millions and whomake their money by sellingfossil fuel that Al claimsis the cause of global warm-ing. I rest my case ! ... Thelatest news of Senior Sena-tor John “Ketchup King”Kerry replacing retiringSecretary of State HillaryClinton doesn’t come as asurprise! However, whispersof Kerry’s temporary re-placement Barney Frank isa joke! What a sad state ofaffairs this country has be-come! Liberal loonies nowrule the land!!! ... Heard EccoRestaurant on Porter Streetis rockin’ and rollin’ with itsnew menu! It’s been all goodreviews ... Revere is on themove! The new Market Bas-ket is scheduled to open atNorthgate behind Price Ritethat reportedly is going outof business around April orMay. Heard the new RevereMarket Basket will have abeer and wine license and isthe second largest store inMassachusetts. The largestMarket Basket is located inChelsea ... Revere and EastBoston residents will beasked to vote in April as towhether they are for oragainst a casino built intheir neighborhoods ... Whatto expect in the future: A15-story hotel built on the
former Shaw’s site in Revereacross from Suffolk Downs.A hotel on North Shore Roadacross from WonderlandTrain Station is part of thenew construction coming toRevere. On the stretch ofopen land on Ocean Avenuedevelopers are bidding for amixed use complex that willinclude restaurants andshops plus condos. Thatmixed use proposal soundsbetter for Revere residentsthan building more low in-come apartment buildingsthat can lead to more crimeand drugs ... Councilor-at-Large John Correggio, who isup for re-election is holdinga fundraiser at Demaino’sRestaurant in Revere onMonday, April 15th between7:00 and 10:30 pm ... Rumorsare George Rotondo will seekanother bid for councilor-at-large and if Rotondo wins ishe is thinking of taking an-other stab at running formayor. Not a good idea!People are happy with theirnew Mayor of Revere and ifRizzo continues to do theright thing, he’ll be mayorfor many years to come! ...Reports of poor service atCitizens Bank on Broadway,Revere continues. A coupleof bank tellers at that branchjust don’t get it! They needto take lessons in customerservice from their neighborsacross the street TD Bankwho get an “A” in customerrecognition and service. Thisbank projects an image ofcarelessness towards thecustomer! ... Eighty-eightmillion people chose not towork in the past four yearsunder the Obama adminis-tration and taxpayers arepicking up the tab. If you’rea working person expect topay more in taxes this year.Rich people are really get-ting zonked! What a shameself-made wealthy businesspeople who worked hard alltheir lives have to be sub-jected to unfair governmentpolicies. We’re becoming asocialist country! ... In 2013it’s being reported there willbe a huge rise in unemploy-ment globally. What it meansfor Americans is more peoplewill be heading to the UnitedStates to suck off the sys-tem! ... Till next time!
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The East Boston Ward 1 Republican Committee meetsSunday, January 27, 2013 at 10:00 am at the EastBoston YMCA. East Boston voters who are registeredas undeclared or unenrolled or as Republicans areinvited to attend. Please call Chris Morton at (617) 569-4075 for more information about this meeting.
The East Boston YMCA is at 215 Bremen Street (nearthe corner of Porter Street) in East Boston. The MBTAstation closest to the YMCA is the Blue Line’s Airportstation.
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Martin “Marty” Pino devoted his life to try-ing to improve the lives of young people inEast Boston. Starting back in 1975, he wasa co-founder of a youth basketball league,he worked as a camp counselor (boastingCity Councilor Salvatore LaMattina as oneof his campers), he headed a program atMaverick Gardens public housing develop-ment and even drove an ice cream truck.Sadly, Marty passed away in 2003 but hismemory lives on through all those whoselives he touched. Recently, those people hadan opportunity to repay him in a small wayfor all he had done for them by dedicatingthe Orient Heights Community Center inEast Boston to his name. On Friday, Janu-ary 18th, Mayor Thomas Menino, along withBoston Centers for Youth & Families (BCYF)and over 200 friends and family of Marty’srededicated the Community Center as “TheBCYF Martin Pino Community Center.”
It was a former player of Marty’s, MarioGallotto, who began the push to have the
Center renamed in honor of his formercoach and mentor. Gallotto now helps runthe basketball league that Marty startedback in 1975.
Mayor Menino was unable to attend theevent but Daphne Griffin, Boston’s Chief ofHuman Services and Executive Director ofBCYF, spoke for herself and on behalf ofthe Mayor. Mario Gallotto, Councilor SalLaMattina, John Forbes Sr., a lifelong friendof Marty’s, and Marty’s son Anthony spokeat the dedication.
Marty’s widow, Coleen Pino, rememberedher husband to everyone by saying, “Ourfamily is so proud and happy to share in thiswonderful tribute to Marty. Marty trulydevoted his heart and soul to the youth ofEast Boston. It is amazing that so manypeople still remember him. He touched somany lives in his lifetime and we hope allwho enter the gym doors will continue tohonor his legacy by inspiring our youth tobe the best people they can be.”
Orient Heights Community CenterRenamed in Honor of Marty Pino
(Photos by Rosario Scabin, Ross Photography)
Many family members, city officials and friends of Marty Pino were on hand at therenaming dedication of The BCYF Martin Pino Community Center.
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17th Annual Taste of Eastie Presented by East Boston Main Streetsby Sal Giarratani
East Boston Main Streets presented the 17th annual “Taste of Eastie”celebration at the Hilton Boston Logan Airport Hotel on Thursday, Janu-ary 17th to a packed crowd of hungry folks looking to try all kinds of greatethnic foods, Buon Appetito! Buen Apetito! Bom Apetiti! or as my motheralways said at the kitchen table, “Mangia!” East Boston Main Streets hasbeen dedicated to creating a vibrant business district and to improvingthe quality of life for all who live, work and do business in the East Bostoncommunity.
As I walked around the crowded room, I was tantalized by various tastesand aroma from the many diverse culinary experiences the neighborhoodhas to offer to please every possible palate. There were at least 25 differ-ent restaurants and eateries. There were appetizers and desserts and inbetween main courses from all over East Boston’s main streets. I stoppedcounting how many tables I sampled but it was probably around a gooddozen or so. No one left the room hungry and everyone seemed to have agreat time once again at this yearly showcasing of Eastie’s incredibleculinary delights.
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The Celebrity Series isHeating Up in the Hub ….On Sunday, January 27th at3:00 pm at Symphony Hallthe West-Eastern DivanOrchestra with conductorDaniel Barenboim will per-form their All-Beethovensymphony program.
The formation of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra be-gan in 1999. The orchestrais composed of musiciansfrom Israel, Palestine andother Arab countries, wherethe open ear has been toooften replaced by the un-sheathed sword, to the detri-ment of all. Now, over10 years later, they haveachieved an orchestra that isworthy of the venues theyplay. “One which shows thatpeople who listen to eachother, both musically and inall other ways, can achievegreater things.” – DanielBarenboim.
Their program will includea tribute to the greatBeethoven by performingSymphony No.2 in D major,Op.36 and Symphony No.3 inE-flat major, Op.55 Eroica.
Also on Thursday, January31st at 8:00 pm at the BerkleePerformance Center, theMon-terey Jazz Festival willmake a stop on their 55th an-niversary tour.
Monterey is the longestconsecutively running jazzfestival in the world. Thisexclusive presentation, Mon-terey Jazz Festival on Tour,55th Anniversary, celebratesthe Festival’s legacy expand-ing the boundaries of live jazzpresentation. With vocalistDee Dee Bridgewater leadinga stellar lineup of instrumen-talists, including GrammyAward-winning bassistChristian McBride, this con-cert promises to be an unfor-gettable evening of great jazz.
Each season from Octoberto May, the Celebrity Seriespresents more than 50 multi-cultural and internationalartists and performing en-sembles to audiences in the
greater Boston area. Byutilizing a number of differ-ent performance venuesthroughout the Boston area,each year the Celebrity Se-ries presents programs ofclassical music, modern andclassical dance, jazz, folk,world music, family musicand multi-media perfor-mances. If you are interestedin attending these shows orlooking for the upcomingschedule you can contact theCelebrity Series of Boston at20 Park Plaza, Suite 1032,Boston, call 617-482-2595 orvisit www.celebrityseries.org.
33 Variations Hits theStage in Boston …. Nowthrough February 2nd at TheLyric Stage in Boston, thestory of a mother coming toterms with her daughter, acomposer coming to termswith his genius. Separated by200 years, these two peopleshare an obsession that tran-scends the boundaries oftime. Moisés Kaufman (TheLaramie Project and GrossIndecency) has written anextraordinary play aboutpassion, parenthood and themoments of beauty that cantransform life.
Moisés Kaufman has madea career out of creating playsthat are quasi-documenta-ries. They deconstruct areal-life event and its impacton a community, such as themurder of Matthew Shepardin The Laramie Project or thetrials of Oscar Wilde in GrossIndecency. Much of the dia-logue in these plays is takendirectly from primary sourceslike newspaper articles andtrial transcripts. 33 Varia-tions continues on that pathand adds a new element. Thestory of how Beethoven cameto compose the DiabelliVariations is rendered asfaithfully as possible, withmuch of the dialogue takenfrom Beethoven’s conversa-tion books and Anton Schind-ler’s biography. It alsoaddresses the issue of howtruthful either of thosesources really can be. Kauf-man introduces an entirelyfictional character to thestory, one who lives inthe present day and whoserves as a kind of envoy fora modern audience intoBeethoven’s world. This char-acter, Dr. Katherine Brandt,also becomes the protagonistin a searing personal dramathat takes the idea of “varia-tion form” to a level of deepemotional resonance. AtLyric Stage, Paula Plum playsDr. Brandt, a musicologistwho journeys to Bonn in or-der to inspect Beethoven’ssketchbooks for the DiabelliVariations as research for amonograph she is preparing.She’s determined to answerthe question that has puzzledscholars since the workwas published: why would
Beethoven, who in the years1819-1823 had more impor-tant commissions to fulfill,severe health problems, anda devastating legal disputewith his relatives, wreakhavoc with his personal andprofessional relationships inorder to write 33 variationson a theme he apparentlydidn’t like, was it just tosatisfy his publisher’s sillyvanity project?
Known as the intimate“4-star theatre” in CopleySquare, The Lyric StageCompany is Boston’s oldesttheatre company, dedicatedto presenting a wide range ofthe highest quality plays andmusicals. Founded in 1974and deeply committed tonurturing the talents of Bos-ton-area theatre artists, TheLyric Stage Company pre-sents seven productions eachseason to an annual audi-ence of over 40,000, includ-ing over 2,000 season ticketholders. 33 Variations will beon stage until February 2nd
at The Lyric Stage Companyof Boston, 140 ClarendonStreet. For tickets you call617-585-5678.
The Boston Festival ofFilms from Iran …. ModestReception is playing nowthrough January 31st at theMuseum of Fine Arts Boston.A film by Mani Haghighi,Modest Reception is a story ofa Tehran couple that distrib-utes large bags of money toresidents of an impoverishedtown and captures theirshocked reactions on a cellphone. What seems like anact of generosity is actuallysomething perverse and puz-zling. The film’s mood shiftsbetween black comedy andpsychological thriller bril-liantly in the hands of direc-tor Mani Haghighi, giving usan intriguing and honestlook into the darker side ofhuman nature.
The MFA is your opportu-nity to experience great cin-ema. From the U.S., France,
Iran, Turkey, Israel, Greeceand more, the Ruth and CarlJ. Shapiro Film Programbrings more than 300 newfilms from around the worldto the MFA every year. Visit-ing directors, writers andproducers frequently attendscreenings and discuss theirwork with the audience. Seefuture award winners, dis-cover emerging talent andwatch independent filmsthat may never play again inBoston.
The Museum of Fine Artsis located at 465 HuntingtonAvenue Boston. For moreinformation on tickets andshow times you can call617-267-9300.
Sister Act Plays BostonOpera House … Now throughFebruary 3rd one of the bestshows on Broadway makesits way into the city. Thefive-time Tony-nominatedsmash hit musical Sister Actis coming to Boston for a lim-ited time. Sister Act is pro-duced by Whoopi Goldberg,Stage Entertainment andTroika Entertainment and ispart of the Lexus Broadway InBoston Series.
When disco diva DelorisVan Cartier witnesses amurder, she’s put in protec-tive custody in the one placecops are sure she won’t befound — a convent. Disguisedas a nun, she finds herselfat odds with both the rigidlifestyle and an uptightMother Superior. Using herfabulous disco-ness and killervoice to inspire the choir,Deloris breathes new lifeinto the church, but in doingso blows her cover. Soonit’s nun-on-the-run, but
she finds salvation in theheavenly power of her newlyfound sisterhood. Based onthe mega-hit feature film ofthe same name, Sister Actfeatures an original AlanMenken-Glenn Slater scorewith a vast spectrum ofmusical styles from Motown,soul and funk to great bigdisco anthems and BarryWhite inspired musicalcomedy. Directed on Broad-way by four-time Tony Awardwinner Jerry Zaks (Guysand Dolls, A Funny ThingHappened on the Way to theForum and Smokey Joe’sCafé), the production fea-tures choreography by Tonyand Olivier Award nomineeAnthony Van Laast (MammaMia and Bombay Dreams) andis based on the TouchstonePictures motion picture Sis-ter Act written by JosephHoward.
For tickets and info stop bythe box office at 539 Wash-ington Street in Boston,call 1-800-982-2787 or visitwww.BroadwayInBoston.com.
In Her Voice: JacquelineKennedy, The White HouseYears … The John F.Kennedy Presidential Li-brary and Museum presentsa new exhibit highlightingMrs. Kennedy’s 1964 oral his-tory interview. Sealed for47 years and published inSeptember 2011, it is a se-ries of wide-ranging conver-sations with historianArthur Schlesinger, Jr., inwhich Mrs. Kennedy revealsher thoughts and impres-sions on topics spanningJohn F. Kennedy’s early cam-paigns to the Cuban MissileCrisis.
The conversations coverMrs. Kennedy’s impressionsof world leaders and events,her role as First Lady and herlife as a wife and motherliving inside the WhiteHouse. In the spring of 1964,a few months after PresidentKennedy’s death, Jacque-line Kennedy recorded aseries of interviews with his-torian and family friendArthur Schlesinger, Jr. Atthe age of thirty-four, withthe White House years be-hind her, she was speaking
This one of a kind look intothe trials of Beethoven’slife comes to The LyricStage in Boston untilFebruary 2nd.
(Photo courtesy of LyricStage Productions)
At the Boston Opera House, Broadway in Boston bringsSister Act, the story of a murder witness who finds refugewith a group of nuns.
(Photo courtesy of Broadway in Boston)
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The time has come, the walrus said,
TO TALK OF MANY THINGSof shoes and ships and sealing wax of cabbages and kings
by Sal Giarratani
NEW QUINCY CENTERSECURES MILLIONS
The City of Quincy has an-nounced more than $55 mil-lion in equity financing thatwill allow developers Street-Works and Beal Cos to startconstruction of MerchantsRow, a 306-unit loft residen-tial, retail and office com-plex, the first phase of the$1.6 billion New Quincy Cen-ter project.
NEAD FAMILY DINNERHONORS J.R.
In his last official event asNEAD’s president, John Ro-mano hosted this year’s NorthEnd Against Drugs FamilyDinner/Family Talk on Jan-uary 7th at the NazzaroCommunity Center. CityCouncilor Sal LaMattina pre-sented a City Council cita-tion to Romano recognizinghis 23 years of service to theorganization. Sal remindedfolks present that BostonAgainst Drugs started inBoston 23 years ago andthere are only two neighbor-hoods left with this anti-drugcommunity group, here inthe North End and across thebridge in Charlestown. Notsurprisingly since folks likeRomano are in it for the longhaul as was the late BobbyD who was well-known forhis tireless work in bothneighborhoods.
EATING FOR DIABETESBENEFIT?
Eight North End restau-rants are participating inCity Feast 2013 to benefitthe Joslin Diabetes Center’sHigh Hopes Fund. This spe-cial event will take place onJanuary 27th.
WE CAN FIND THEMBUT CAN WE FINE ‘EM?Mayor Tom Menino wants
to crack down on aggressivepanhandlers including fin-ing those who violate any newcity restrictions set up. Themayor in part also blamedcuts in human services bythe state and federal govern-ment for the upsurge ofbeggars at street cornersbadgering motorists at redlights. The mayor says it isall about law and order on themean streets of Boston. Themayor says fine them be-cause they do get “checks”and sometimes actually havesome sources of income. Ithink the source often is theempty coffee cup they carryhoping to fill up with coinsand dollar bills. Over inDorchester by old St. Mar-garet’s Church, trees wereplanted in the middle of theroad to force the homelessonto sidewalks. However,the trees that were plantednever took root and even thehomeless standing therebegging looked better thandead sticks pretending to betrees.
BLUE STATE COFFEE?Blue State Coffee is a cool
little coffee shop over onComm Avenue near BostonUniversity to the right andAllston Village down thestreet to the left. It is a greatlittle place, good food and gooddrinks. They have quotesup all over the place, one byThomas Jefferson and theother of course by the Presi-
dent of the Blue StatesBarack Obama. I am admit-tedly a Red State conserva-tive but I just loved that greatvanilla latte I had there in areal coffee cup. Best tastinglatte ever! Paper cups justwon’t do to appreciate a goodcup of java.
A DAY WITH THEKNIGHTS AT FOXWOODSThe North Quincy Knights
of Columbus has a tripscheduled for Foxwoods onSunday, January 27th. Don’tforget your coffee and donutsat the Council before head-ing out to Connecticut. Busleaves at 8:00 am and re-turning about 6:30 pm. Forfurther information, callCharlie Feetham at 617-773-2523 or Duane Slatteryat 781-767-1242.GREAT LETTER TO EDITOR
Recently, there was agreat little letter in theBoston Herald from DavidRimmer from Methuen thatwrote truth to power, “Re-garding Gov. Deval Patrick’sunemployment reform: It’s asad state of affairs when en-forcement of common senseregarding unemploymentbenefits is called sweepingreform. It tells you just howlow the bar was to begin with.Real reform should start withconfronting EBT abuse.”
QUINCY CHAMBEREVENT JANUARY 31
The Quincy Chamber ofCommerce Annual Meetingand Business Expo will beheld on Thursday, January31st from 4:30 pm until7:30 pm. For more details,call 617-471-1700 or visitwww.thequincychamber.com.THEY’RE DOING WHAT UP
IN NEW HAMPSHIRE?I came upon this news
item and thought it worthyto repeat here. Long beforethe shootings at the SandyHook Elementary School inNewtown, Connecticut, theNew Hampshire Chiefs of Po-lice Association announceda planned gun raffle to raisemoney for a youth trainingacademy. Some of the weap-ons to be auctioned are high-powered semi-automatics.When asked recently if theauction was still a go, theanswer was yes, of course.The police chiefs still thinkit is a great idea to let folksbid on these babies.
ANOTHER NHNAKED CITY STORY
Recently, a neighborhooddog somewhere up in NewHampshire, who roamedunleashed and was known toall, entered someone’s yardand upset that guy’s twocaged bunny rabbits. Theguy went inside and cameout with his AR-15 semi-automatic rifle and took outthe little dog whose onlycrime was being unleashedand barking. This guysounds like a sick puppy tome, one who like big gunsand quiet dogs.
Dog owners were upset toknow that under New Hamp-shire law, anyone can killanyone else’s unleashed dog
if it scares someone else’srabbits or other animals asa trespasser. The same lawis also in effect here inMassachusetts.
NEAD/NEAA SKATINGEVENT COMING UP SOON
On Sunday, January 27th
from 2:00 pm until 5:00 pmat the Steriti Skating Rink,North End Against Drugsand the North End AthleticAssociation will be holdinga fundraiser during FreePublic Skating thanks to thegenerosity of Fred White ofthe North End Skate Shop.All proceeds from rentalsand the snack bar will bedonated to the fundraiser.There will also be bocce anda bake sale. Last year thiswas a very successful fund-raiser. For more informa-tion, contact J.R. via emailat [email protected].
JEWELLCOMING TO THE WILBUR
Jewell will be arriving atthe Wilbur Theater with herGreatest Hits Tour on March12th. For more information,go to www.thewilbur.com.SOMERVILLE IS GIVING
CATS THEIR DAYThe first Copy Cat Festival
will take place on Sunday,February 17th at the Armoryon Highland Avenue. AsRachel Strutt from theSomerville Arts Councilobserved, “I think histori-cally dogs have received afair amount of programming,but it’s time for the cats tobe in the limelight.” Forfurther information, go towww.somervilleartscouncil.org.
REPUBLICANS OUT INWEST ROXBURY LOOK TO
FUTURE PROSPECTSThe Ward 20 Republican
Ward Committee recentlymet for their monthly meet-ing at the Area-E communityroom. Outgoing ward secre-tary Mike Twohig presentedhis case for the future say-ing, “What I would like to seebetween elections and whatI think we need here, in thestate is a head of the (state)party who is going to beappearing on morning talkshows. It’s down time.It’s between election cycles.They should be out thereonce or twice a week, con-stantly. You know, appearingon ‘Howie Carr’ in the after-noon where people are hear-ing it constantly.” Anotherward member added thatRepublicans were in “thebusiness of sales.” Statingfurther, he said “It’s all abouttargeting, repetition andexposure. You can’t justshow up once and hope …”
Members also hoped thatformer U.S. Senator ScottBrown would be runningsoon again in the next spe-cial election and hope thatthe Brown campaign defi-nitely will open up an actu-ally working West Roxburyoffice. In the last electionthe Brown campaign had anoffice in nearby Dedham, itneeds to be physically inWest Roxbury too. Hopefully,it will.
ENLIGHTENED:FIRST SEASON (DVD)
HBO Home Ent.An HBO original series
starring Laura Dern as AmyJellicoe, who comes home toCalifornia after a stay at aholistic treatment facility,the result of having a men-tal breakdown at work trig-gered by her self-destructiveways. Amy returns to her oldlife with a new cultivatedapproach and perspective,involving daily meditationand inner healing. Rehiredat Abaddonn Industries, butin a demeaning position,there she uncovers corporateabuse and corruption thatfuels her quest to make achange in the lives of others.Although well intentioned,those who know her best arestill skeptical.
GEORGE LOPEZ:IT’S NOT ME, IT’S YOU
(DVD)HBO Home Ent.
George Lopez’s comedylives on the edge from themoment he hits the stage ofL.A.’s Nokia Theater, duringhis record-breaking stand-up performance. He imme-diately has the packed housein hysterics with his dis-cussions that involve datingand marriage, kids, parent-ing, irritating pets, gettingold and of course politics.Lopez is the first Mexican-American to star in his ownself-titled hit sitcom and talkshow and has twice hostedthe Latin Emmy Awards.Funny!
GAME CHANGE (Blu-ray)HBO Home Ent.
‘Game Change’ offers asearing behind-the-sceneslook at John McCain’s 2008presidential campaign, fromthe decision to select AlaskaGovernor Sarah Palin asMcCain’s running mate tothe ticket’s ultimate defeatin the general election just60 days later. ‘Game Change’pulls back the curtain on theintense human drama sur-rounding the McCain team,the critical decision madebehind closed doors andhow the choice was made tobring Palin on the ticket.A defining moment in U.S.politics that won five EmmyAwards!
UNDERCOVERBRIDESMAID (DVD)Gaiam Vivendi Ent.
Tanya Harsin (BrookeBurns) has been hired to pro-tect Daisy (Nicole Paggie),the daughter of Texas mogulJim Thompson (Gregory Har-rison), as Daisy has beenreceiving death threatsweeks before her wedding.From the playboy cousin withan inheritance at stake, tothe money-hungry aunt whois depleting the family schol-arship fund, an angry busi-ness partner and a groomwith a wandering eye,makes everyone a suspect.Brooke blends in as the un-dercover bridesmaid, mak-ing sure not to lose control
of her mission, even ifdistracted by a handsomefriend of the groom!
BEST OF WIDGET! (DVD)Anchor Bay Ent.
Widget is the busiestbuilder and fix-it whiz inWuzzleburg, and Wubbzy’sgood friend! Enjoy six “bestof” episodes, plus a bonus epi-sode. Widget’s adventuresinclude modifying a roadracer for the WuzzleburgDerby, trying to become aballerina in “Gotta Dance,”invents a solar-powered ro-bot, builds the ultimate tele-vision and searches for hermissing wiggle wrench. Allmachines, workshop won-ders, plus plenty of goodtimes with the Wuzzleburgcrew!
CRIME STORY/THE PROTECTOR (Blu-ray)
Shout! FactoryMartial arts sensation
Jackie Chan provides adouble-shot of adrenalinewith a double feature ‘CrimeStory/The Protector.” CrimeStory has Chan in one of hisgrittiest roles ever as apolice detective on the edge,who must race against timeto solve a deadly kidnappingcase. In “The Protector” Chanteams up with Danny Aielloas a pair of NYPD cops sentto Hong Kong to catch adrug lord who kidnapped thedaughter of his former asso-ciate. Action plus!
THE MEN WHOBUILT AMERICA (Blu-ray)
Lionsgate Home Ent.Meet the titans who forged
the foundation of modernAmerica and created theAmerican Dream. “The MenWho Built America” mini-series shines a spotlighton the influential builders,dreamers and believers asAndrew Carnegie, J.P. Mor-gan, Henry Ford, John D.Rockefeller and CorneliusVanderbilt. Men who trans-formed a nation decayingfrom the inside after theCivil War, into the greatesteconomic and technologicalsuperpower the world hadever seen. A nation at thecrossroads, catapulted intoprosperity by these men!
THE IMPOSTER (DVD)Indomina Releasing
‘The Imposter’ tells thegripping true story of a Texanboy who went missing in1994 and was miraculouslyfound three and a half yearslater, thousands of milesaway in southern Spain.Despite glaring inconsisten-cies in his physical appear-ance, the boy’s familybrought their long-lost “son”home to restart his life inTexas. A deluge of questionsarose, but truth soon provesstranger than fiction as thereal story emerges. It is ajaw-dropping story about thelies we want to believe andthe truths we choose to con-struct. A film documentarythat is unforgettable, chill-ing and emotional!
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CARNEVALE - BALLO 2013 - Saturday, January 26, 2013 at the DanteAlighieri Society, C,A, Pescosolido Building, 41 Hampshire Street, Cam-bridge. Cocktails at 6:30 pm and dinner at 7:30 pm. Music by SeabreezeBand. Dancing, costume parade and more. For information and reserva-tions call the Dante at 617-876-5160 or visit www.dantemass.org or callLino Rullo at 781-862-1633 or by email at [email protected].
ITALIAN RADIO PROGRAMS“The Sicilian Corner” 10:00 am to 12 Noon every Friday with host TomZappala and Mike Lomazzo and “The Italian Show” with Nunzio DiMarcaevery Sunday from 10:00 am-1:00 pm. Go to www.1110wccmam.com.“Italia Oggi” Sundays 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm with host Andrea Urdi1460 AM www.1460WXBR.com.“Dolce Vita Radio” DJ Rocco Mesiti 11:00 am-1:00 pm Sundays 90.7 FMor online www.djrocco.com.“The Nick Franciosa Show” Sundays from 12 Noon to 3:00 pm on WLYN1360 AM and WAZN 1470 AM.“Guido Oliva Italian Hour” 8:00 am–9:00 am Sundays on WSRO 650 AMand online at www.wsro.com.“Radio Italia Unita” - Thursdays 2:00 pm–3:00 pm on www.zumix.org/radio or itunes, college radio click on Zumix. For more information, log ontowww.italiaunita.org.“Tony’s Place” on MusicAmerica WPLM FM 99.1 - Sundays 9:00 pm–10:00 pm on MusicAmerica. Host Ron Della Chiesa presents Tony's Place.Visit www.MusicNotNoise.com.
ITALIAN EVENTS & PROGRAMS
Tony Bennett comes to the Boston Opera house for aspecial Valentine’s Day concert. See MUSIC SECTIONfor more details.
MUSEUMS
MUSEUM OF AFRICANAMERICAN HISTORY46 Joy Street, Beacon HillBoston, MA617-725-0022www.AfroAmMuseum.org
PORTRAITS OF PURPOSE: ATRIBUTE TO LEADERSHIP - BOS-TON 1980-2012 — Now throughApril 15, 2013. During the 18th and19th centuries, Boston was a leaderamong Northern communities of color.Black Bostonians traveled and inter-acted with leaders nationally andinternationally. They were entrepre-neurs, educators, artists, authors,activists, elected officials and patri-ots. This tradition continues. Lead-ers and citizens in Boston’s commu-nities of color have continued to leadand form institutions that haveproved critical to the fabric of this city.
BOSTON OPERA HOUSE539 Washington St., Boston, MA617-259-3400www.BostonOperaHouse.com
SHEN YUN 2013 — February 8-10,2013. Shen Yun brings to life 5,000years of Chinese civilization throughclassical Chinese dance and music inan exhilarating show you will neverforget. Shen Yun captures the spiritof a culture long lost. The show movesquickly through regions, dynasties andlegends. Ethnic and folk dances fillthe stage with color and energy. Tre-mendous athleticism, thunderousbattle drums and masterful vocalistsare all set to animated backdrops thattransport you to another world. It is agrand production with nearly 100 art-ists, 400 costumes and the only or-chestra in the world featuring bothclassical Western and Chinese instru-ments as permanent members. ShenYun is the first company to presentclassical Chinese dance to the worldon a large scale. And it has taken theglobe by storm, performing in over 100cities. Shows in top venues, like NewYork’s Lincoln Center, are sold out.
makes critics and audiences cheer is“Working Its Way Back” to Boston.JERSEY BOYS, is the Tony®, Grammy®
and Olivier Award-winning Best Mu-sical about Rock and Roll Hall ofFamers The Four Seasons: FrankieValli, Bob Gaudio, Tommy DeVito, andNick Massi. This is the story of howfour blue-collar kids became one ofthe greatest successes in pop musichistory. JERSEY BOYS features theirhit songs Sherry, Big Girls Don’t Cry,Rag Doll, Oh What a Night and Can’tTake My Eyes Off You.
REAGLE MUSIC THEATRE617 Lexington St., Waltham, MA781-891-5600www.ReagleMusicTheatre.org
VICKI LAWRENCE AND MAMA:A TWO WOMAN SHOW — Sunday,February 17, 2013. Vicki Lawrencereturns with the role that took her tostardom. The Emmy award winningperformer gained esteem for her roleas Thelma Harper (also known asMama) from the Carol Burnett Showand the celebrated show Mama’sFamily. She is bringing back the char-acter that made her famous in VickiLawrence and Mama: A Two WomanShow. Instead of revisiting the nowlegendary skits, this performance willfeature brand new pieces that mixcomedy, music and Vicki’s views onthe real world. This is the perfectshow for audiences looking for laughsand satire. Prepare to laugh yourheart out!
COMEDY
SPECIALEVENTS
BOSTON CONVENTION ANDEXHIBITION CENTER415 Summer Street, Boston, MA617-954-2000www.mccahome.com/bcec.html
THE PROGRESSIVE INSURANCENEW ENGLAND BOAT SHOW -Februray 16th–24th. New England’spremier winter boating event is heldat the state of the art Boston Con-vention & Exhibition Center. The Pro-gressive Insurance New England BoatShow has grown into the Northeast’slargest boat show, attracting thou-sands from the New England Sea-board. The show fills 300,000 squarefeet with hundreds of the newestboats from the region’s top dealers,along with a wide selection of marineaccessories and special features, cre-ating a marine marketplace andboater’s paradise like no other! Seepowerboats of all makes and modelsfor cruising, fishing, wakeboardingand all the water sports! The Progres-sive Insurance New England BoatShow offers dozens of sailboats fromskiffs and one design dinghy racers toCoastal Cruisers. All rigged and readyfor your inspection! The show also hasmore than 250 exhibits of the latestin marine accessories to stock up oneverything from the newest naviga-tional equipment, hardware and gal-ley ware for your boat. There will beseminars and informational clinics,interactive displays, giveaways, con-tests and more!
SPRINGFIELD SYMPHONY HALL34 Court Street, Springfield, MA413-788-7033
AN EVENING WITH BILL COSBY- March 2, 2013 at 8:00pm. NewEngland Public Radio presents BillCosby Live for New England PublicRadio, a benefit concert for WFCR andall-news WNNZ. Proceeds will godirectly to support New England PublicRadio. One of America's most belovedcomedians of all time, Bill Cosby hascaptivated generations of fans withhis comedy routines, iconic albums,the groundbreaking series, The Cosbyveteran comic created and producedthe Emmy-winning cartoon Fat Albertand the Cosby Kids, which began air-ing in the 1970s and was made intoa film in 2004. Perhaps Cosby's great-est contribution to American enter-tainment and culture is The CosbyShow, about a close-knit, upper classblack family. Cosby said his intentwas to portray an American family.Time magazine called the show “anencouraging sign of maturity in mat-ters of race.” The Cosby Show domi-nated the #1 spot for years, earningnearly unanimous critical praise. Lifemagazine described the program as“a gentle, whimsical, warmhearted”show whose “delicious ordinarinessof its pleasures and tribulations hasgiven millions a fresh, laughter-splashed perspective on their owndomestic lives.” For his philanthropicefforts and positive influence as aperformer and author, Cosby washonored with a 1998 Kennedy Cen-ter Honors Award. In 2002, he receivedthe Presidential Medal of Freedom,America's highest civilian honorand the 2009 recipient of the MarkTwain Prize for American Humor andthe Marian Anderson Award in 2010.Presented by Bulkley RichardsonAttorneys at Law.
Their activism, community involve-ment and commitment have led to abetter Boston and a better world. Aselection of these dedicated citizensis represented in Don West’s Portraitsof Purpose, a collection of life-sizedphotographs. Portraits of Purpose givesus an understanding of the manypeople of Boston and beyond whohave acted their conscience and madea difference. Their history will notbe forgotten. Don West, noted Bos-ton photographer, has been photo-graphically recording the eventsand the people in Boston for over 35years. He began his career as afreelance and news photographer,making a conscious choice to captureaffirmative images of people of colorin all facets of community life. In the1980s he worked for United Press In-ternational and Boston’s black weeklypaper, the Bay State Banner. Westhas since gone on a host of assign-ments with major newspapers andmagazines such as the Boston Globe,New York Times, Christian ScienceMonitor, Ebony, People and BlackEnterprise.
musical that Jon Stewart of The DailyShow describes as, “a crowning achieve-ment, so good it makes me angry” andby Entertainment Weekly as “the fun-niest musical of all time.” Featuringchoreography by Tony Award-winnerCasey Nicholaw, The Book of Mormonis directed by Nicholaw and Parker.Don’t miss your chance to see whatBen Brantley of The New York Timescalls “the best musical of this cen-tury.” Contains explicit language.
CITI PERFORMING ARTSCENTER WANG270 Tremont Street, Boston, MA617-482-9393www.CitiCenter.org
JERSEY BOYS: THE STORY OFFRANKIE VALLI AND THE FOURSEASONS — January 30, 2013 -March 3, 2013. More than 117,000theatergoers cheered when JERSEYBOYS made its sell-out premiere atthe Citi Performing Arts CenterShubert Theatre and 84,000 moreduring its triumphant Winter 2010return to the Citi Emerson ColonialTheatre! Worldwide, more than 13million people have seen JERSEYBOYS. And now, the show that
PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUMEast India Square161 Essex Street, Salem, MA978-745-9500, 866-745-1876978-740-3649www.PEM.org
HATS: AN ANTHOLOGY BYSTEPHEN JONES - Now throughFebruary 3, 2013. Explore thedelightful realm of hats, wildly plumedbonnets, silk turbans, sequined caps,embroidered crowns, Sarah JessicaParker’s lime-green fascinator and250 other elegant and sometimesoutlandish styles. Displayed with thewit and whimsy of British milliner-to-the-stars Stephen Jones’ Hats revealsthe boundless creativity of hat designand our own fascination withwearing these indescribable works ofart. Support provided by the East In-dia Marine Associates (EIMA) of thePeabody Essex Museum. Exhibitionorganized by the Victoria and AlbertMuseum, London. Extended museumhours until 9:00 pm only onWednesday, January 30th-Saturday,February 2nd. Reduced admission af-ter 5 pm for these dates.
Think of it as a journey into a long-lost world you cannot see anywhereelse — from ancient legends to heav-enly palaces to the dusty plateaus ofthe Middle Kingdom. You cannot evenfind a show like this in China, wherethis ancient heritage has been de-stroyed. But now you can experienceit live on stage. For thousands of years,Chinese artists cultivated virtue, be-lieving that to create true art worthyof the heavens, there must first beinner purity. Today, Shen Yun’s art-ists follow this noble tradition. Theresult is a performance of consum-mate beauty, purity and goodness.Find out why artists and theatergoersaround the world are calling ShenYun “breathtaking,” “mesmerizing,” “amiracle” and “inspiring.” Allow your-self to be taken away to distant landsand ancient legends.
THE BOOK OF MORMON — April9–28, 2013. Winner of nine TonyAwards including Best Musical. FromTrey Parker and Matt Stone, four-timeEmmy Award-winning creators of SouthPark and Tony Award-winner RobertLopez, co-creator of the Tony Award–winning Best Musical Avenue Q, comesThe Book of Mormon, a new Broadway
MUMFORD & SONS — Tuesday,February 5, 2013. Mumford & Sonsconsists of Marcus Mumford (vocals,guitar, drums, mandolin), Ben Lovett(vocals, keyboards, accordion, drums),“Country” Winston Marshall (vocals,banjo, guitar, resonator guitar) andTed Dwane (vocals, string bass,drums, guitar). Mumford & Sonsformed in December 2007, emergingout of what some in the media la-beled the “West London folk scene”with other artists such as LauraMarling, Johnny Flynn and Noah andthe Whale. Mumford & Sons recordedan EP, Love Your Ground and performedin small to moderate venues in theU.K. and U.S. to expose audiences totheir music and build support for aneventual album. Their debut album,Sigh No More, was released in theU.K. and Ireland in October 2009 andFebruary 2010 in the United States.The album reached number one inIreland, Australia and New Zealandand eventually peaked at number twoon the U.K. Album Chart and the Bill-board 200 in the U.S. The band's sec-ond studio album Babel was releasedin September 2012. The album de-buted at number one in the U.K. andU.S., becoming the fastest sellingalbum of 2012 in the U.K. and thebiggest selling debut in 2012 in theU.S. The band gained popularitythroughout 2010, performing for largeraudiences and making their first net-work television appearances in theU.S. On December 1, 2010, the band
HOUSE OF BLUES15 Lansdowne Street Boston, MA888-693–BLUE (2583)www.HouseOfBlues.com THE LUMINEERS — February 4,2013. Hot off the success of theirdebut single Ho Hey, The Lumineerswill be making a stop in Boston ontheir 2013 world tour. The Lumineersare an American folk rock band basedout of Denver, Colorado. The coreband consists of singer Wesley Schultzon guitar, Jeremiah Fraites on drumsand Neyla Pekarek on cello andvocals. Two fulltime touring membersare with added musicians for tours.Their self-titled debut album wasreleased on Dualtone Records on April3, 2012, peaking at number 8 on theBillboard 200 chart. As of December2012, their debut album has beencertified gold in the US, Canada andIreland. Fraites has classified themusical style of The Lumineers as“...not reinventing the wheel or doinganything that different, the songs aresuper simple. The ideas themselvesare very simple ideas. Anyone whocan play an instrument can play aLumineers song.” Don’t miss youropportunity to see the one of thehottest bands in the country at theHouse of Blues. Doors open at7:00 pm and the show begins at 8:00pm. Call the House of Blues at888-693-BLUE or visit their websiteat www.houseofblues.com for moreinformation about the show and theHouse of Blues.
received two Grammy Award nomina-tions, one for Best New Artist and theother for Best Rock Song. The liveperformance at the Grammys in Feb-ruary led to increased popularity. Theband won the ARIA Music Award forMost Popular International Artist in2010 and the Brit Awardin 2011 for Best British Album.In 2011 they received a European Bor-der Breakers Award for their interna-tional success. In December of 2012the band was nominated for sixGrammys including Album of the Year,Best Rock Song and Best Long FormVideo. For more information on their2013 tour, visit their website atwww.mumfordandsons.com.
BOSTON OPERA HOUSE539 Washington St., Boston, MA617-259-3400www.BostonOperaHouseOnline.com
TONY BENNETT — Thursday,February 14, 2013. Go from Rags toRiches with Tony Bennett in 2013!Legendary crooner Tony Bennett isback on tour and tickets are nowavailable! The Grammy Award-winning I Left My Heart in SanFrancisco singer is out on the roadonce again, and fans won't want tomiss their chance to see the iconicperformer live. Along with being aniconic singer, Tony Bennett is also aserious and accomplished painter,having created works — under thename Anthony Benedetto — that areon permanent public display inseveral institutions. He is also thefounder of the Frank Sinatra Schoolof the Arts in New York City. Raised inNew York City, Bennett began sing-ing at an early age. He fought in thefinal stages of World War II as an in-fantryman with the U.S. Army in theEuropean Theatre. Afterwards, hedeveloped his singing technique,signed with Columbia Records, andhad his first number one popular songwith Because of You in 1951. He thenfurthered his aproach to include jazzsinging. His career suffered anextended downturn during theheight of the rock music era. Bennettstaged a comeback in the late 80s and90s, putting out gold record albumsagain and expanding his audience tothe MTV Generation while keepinghis musical style intact. He remains apopular and critically praised record-ing artist and concert performer.
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Going to confession! After the pastor ofSt. Aloysius Church in Springfield, Ill., called911, saying that he was stuck in a pair ofhandcuffs, he’d been “playing with.” Whenpolice arrived, they say, they also foundFather Tom Donovan wearing a gag. Amen.
Bang! Bang! Finding the right bar, after aMinneapolis man who’d been shot six timesstumbled into a bar that happened to bepacked with off-duty nurses. Six medics usedbar towels to apply pressure to the bulletwounds, saving the man’s life. “I love youguys,” he said.
Weird! Dave Schneider, a rock-band gui-tarist, who was forced by airline staffers tocheck his $10,000 vintage Gibson guitar intobaggage before a flight. After the planelanded, Schneider watched as the guitar gotcaught in the baggage machine and wascrushed.
Air rage, after a drunken airline passen-ger went on a violent rampage and was duct-taped to his seat to shut up. Of the passen-ger, Gudmundur Arthorsson, 46, a relativesaid, “Gudmundur likes to drink, but hisbehavior has the family scratching theirheads.”
Giuseppina, cosce storte, claims, when aman drinks too much liquor he can approachyou from several directions at once.
Shame! Shame! A South Carolina restau-rant is defending employee uniforms thatmock illegal immigrants. Servers at TacoCid wear T-shirts that depict an animaltrap baited with tacos, beneath the slogan,“How to Catch an Illegal Immigrant.” Therestaurant said the slogan was “a witty andcomical statement regarding ILLEGALimmigrants,” and not aimed at “any specificethnic group.”
Wow! The mysterious death last year of alottery winner is now being investigatedas a homicide after medical examiners dis-covered cyanide in his system. Urooj Khan,46, won $1 million on a scratch-off ticket inJune. But little more than 24 hours after thestate issued him a check for his after-taxwinnings of $425,000, he awoke at nightscreaming in pain before collapsing and laterdying in the hospital. The Cook County medi-cal examiner initially declared his deathnatural, but after a relative suggested thatauthorities examine Khan’s death further,toxicology tests revealed a lethal amount ofcyanide. Chicago police, who are heading theinvestigation have made no arrests. Khan’swife, Shabana Ansari, 32, said he was “thebest husband on the planet”
America the beautiful: Bulgarian Presi-dent Rosen Plevneliev was widely ridiculedby his countrymen after his televised NewYear’s address praising the “unique beauty”of Bulgaria showed a photo of Colorado’s RockyMountains. Tourism officials and much ofthe Bulgarian Internet criticized Plevnelievfor failing to apologize for the mistake. Butthe president insists the gaffe was not hisfault. “Ask yourself the simple questionwhether the president is a technician sit-ting behind a computer and composingimages,” he said. The average elevation ofBulgaria’s mountains is a bit over 4,000 feet,while the Rockies soar to more than 14,000feet.
Bow wow! Dogs go wild: Feral dogs savagelyattacked and killed four people in a MexicoCity park. Locals living near the large Cerrode la Estrella on the outskirts of the city firstfound the partially eaten bodies of a 26-year-old woman and her baby and authorities saidthe two had bled to death of bite wounds. Afew days later a teenage girl called her sis-ter from her cell phone shrieking that sheand her boyfriend were being attacked by apack of dogs. Their mauled bodies were founda few hours later, Mexico City Public SafetySecretary Jesus Rodriguez told people to stayout of the park until officials trap all the dogs.The city’s poorer districts are home to hun-dreds of strays that run in packs.
According to the great Kyle Waters ofSwampscott, “A dog is smarter than somepeople. It wags its tail and not its tongue.”
A shoe-in! A Washington state man hasbeen arrested because of his enormous foot-prints. Police first arrested Benjamin Pickrell
— who is6 - f o o t - 9with size 16feet — onsuspicion ofcar theft andthen released him. Later that same day, thecops responded to a report of a robbery bya knife-wielding burglar and noticed“extremely large” footprints in the frozengrass. Pickrell, cops say, was “the only per-son that came to mind that would have thatsize of shoe.” They say they found him nearbywith a knife and stolen money in his pocketand promptly re-arrested him.
Meow! Guards at a prison in Brazil foiled abreakout attempt when they apprehended acat sneaking through the prison gate withescape tools taped to its stomach. The cat,officials said, was carrying two small saws,two drill bits, a cell phone, three batteriesand a mobile-phone charger. All 263 prison-ers are suspects in the breakout plot said aprison spokesman, but “it will be hard to dis-cover who is responsible since the cat doesnot speak.”
America now has more devices that con-nect to the Internet than it has people. thenation’s 311.5 million residents own morethan 425 million personal computers, tab-lets, smart phones and gaming consoles,according to the research company NPDGroup.
To think, decades ago, in my office, weowned a computer and at that time it wascalled “The brain.” Yes, we do own a com-puter. So what is my e-mail [email protected].
The computer is a great invention. Thereare as many mistakes as ever, but nowthey’re nobody’s fault.
Interesting! There are too many lawstudents. The Bureau of Labor Statisticsestimates that the economy will create21,880 new jobs for lawyers annually until2020. But law schools produce more than44,000 graduates each year.
A noted jurist says our laws should berewritten in simple language so that every-body could understand their meaning. If thiswere done, a great number of lawyers wouldhave to go to work for a living.
Carlo Scostumato, says, “If you can’t get alawyer who knows the law, get one whoknows the judge.
The astute Mona Lisa Cappuccio remindsus, “Old lawyers never die. They just losetheir appeal.”
Steven Sebestyen claims lawyers wouldhave a hard time making a living if peoplebehaved themselves and kept their prom-ises. And Steven’s gorgeous, brilliant, wifeTheresa, says, “Many wives of young lawyersare buying sewing machines. They want tohelp their husbands make loopholes.”
Bang! Bang! About 600 teachers from 15states have signed up for free firearmstraining in a program launched by the Buck-eye Firearms Association. Only three states— Kansas, Mississippi and Utah — allowconcealed guns in schools.
Wee bit of show business reminiscing withthe stately musicologist Albert Natale. Bythe age of 3, Sophie Tucker was singing inher parents’ cafe in Hartford, Connecticutin 1894. She had a small role in “ZiegfeldFolies of 1909” and was a headliner by 1911.“The Last of the Red Hot Mamas” is remem-bered best, perhaps, for her approach to thesong “Some of These Days.” The “Hit Parade”radio and television series featuredmany singers. Among the well known’s wereWee Bonnie Baker, Dorothy Collins, DorisDay, Georgia Gibbs, Dick Haymes, SnookyLanson, Ginny Simms, Frank Sinatra,Martha Tilton and Bea Wain. Worth repeat-ing! Three-time Academy Award winnerHarry Warren (1893-1981), was bornSalvatore Guaragna in Brooklyn and wasthe son of a Calabrian boot maker. One ofHollywood’s most successful and prolificcomposers, he wrote “Chattanooga ChooChoo,” “I Only Have Eyes for You,” “That’sAmore,” “You’ll Never Know,” “Lullaby ofBroadway” and “A Love Affair to Remember.”AMERICA IS A BEAUTIFUL ITALIAN NAME
Heat oil in a skillet and add chopped onion, chopped celerystalks and simmer until onion is opaque. Add capers, stir,and simmer slowly. Do not brown onion. Add tomato andcover. Cook slowly for about five minutes. Check frequently.A little water can be added to keep mixture from sticking toskillet.
Meanwhile, peel and cut potatoes into quarters. Wash andset aside. Rinse swordfish under running water and dry.Cut swordfish into two-inch portions. It is not necessary toremove outer skin of swordfish. Add potatoes first to skillet;add half a cup of water and cover. Allow cooking for aboutten minutes. Then add swordfish pieces to skillet. Theswordfish can be placed on top of potatoes if skillet becomescrowded. Spoon some of the tomato sauce over the sword-fish. Add only small amounts of water if needed after a fewminutes. Cover and simmer slowly for about ten to fifteenminutes or until swordfish is fork tender. Try not to over-cook swordfish. Add wine (optional), cover and bring to aslow boil. Then remove from burner.
Serve with fresh Italian bread, vegetable of choice or salad.Serves two.
Variation: Prepare the swordfish recipe without potatoes.Instead, cook rice or pasta of choice as directed on thepackage and serve topped with the tomato sauce from theskillet. Serve the swordfish separately with vegetable ofchoice or salad and Italian bread.
NOTE: Each time I prepare this swordfish meal, I picturemy mother-in-law, Mary Sinopoli, at the kitchen stove in ourBattery Street apartment. As she carefully prepared the ingre-dients, she stated, “Swordfish should not be cooked toomuch as it becomes dry and loses its flavor.” I found that to bevery true.
1 swordfish steak(about 1¼ pounds)
1 medium onion chopped2 celery stalks chopped3 teaspoons capers in
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Last week, I was talkingabout my first trip to MiamiBeach. It was during a Feb-ruary school vacation whenI had just started teaching. Iwas supposed to stay with amusician friend but my staywith him was cut short by theunannounced arrival of hissister with no place to stay.I found a place on MiamiBeach and was ready for avacation week of fun in thesun. I received a message atthe hotel to call Larry, themusician I was supposed tostay with, and when I called,he told me that his sisterwanted to meet me and hewas bringing her to the beachfor an early Sunday dinner towhich I was invited.
As I mentioned last week,a heat wave hit southernFlorida and that Sunday Ispent more time in the tropi-cal waters of the Atlanticthan on the towel I had pur-chased. When it was time tomeet with Larry and his sis-ter, I dressed. Back in theday, you dressed at almostevery location on the beach.The problem was that, overthe weekend, I had lost aboutten pounds due to the cli-mate and my suit was justhanging on me like a sack.
At the appointed time, Imet Larry and his sister.There was a famous steakplace on one of the sidestreets off Collins Ave. calledthe Embers. We met there foran early dinner. The food“was great and I enjoyed thecompany of friend Larry’s sis-ter. She was an older womanfrom a working class familyfrom Boston and Larry wasthe star of the family havingbecome a well known pianoplayer in show businesscircles. When it was time forthem to head back, Larrygave me a list of placeswhere he thought I mightenjoy the night life and meetsome interesting people whoalso were on vacation.
On my own, I walked alongCollins Avenue checking outthe hotels, stores and thewell dressed tourists. Thefirst place I decided to stop atwas a club called MurrayFranklin’s on a side streetnot too far from the Emberswhere we had eaten. Do youolder folks remember a Bos-ton comedian named FreddieRoss? Yes? Well, he wasthe headliner there. I wasushered to a table near thestage, ordered a drink andwatched the opening act. Arather attractive young ladycame out on the stage hold-ing a dummy. She sat downwith the dummy on her lap
and began her act. Thedummy had a Yiddish accentand the voice was a malevoice. When the younglady spoke, she had a femalevoice and spoke with anaccent, also. As I found outlater, she was from Naples,Italy, not Naples, Florida.So, the dummy had a Yiddishaccent, she had an Italianaccent and you couldn’t seeher lips move when she didher routine.
When she had finished,Freddy Ross was announcedand he spent an hour tellingjokes. I gave the waiter anote to give to Freddy Rossand after he finished his act,he left the stage and cameover to my table. The notestated that Nick Conti wasmy uncle. At that point intime, Uncle Nick was thevice president of the Musi-cians’ Union and knew justabout every entertainer inBoston. Ross and I spokefor several minutes aboutBoston’s club scene whichhe was an integral part of.There were two peoplenamed Freddy that wereBoston headliners backthen, Freddy Ross and FreddyHall, both good comedians.Just before he decided toleave the table, he spottedthe ventriloquist with thedummy that had a Jewishaccent. He called her overand as we were introduced, Istood up and said, “Multopiacere.” She answered mein Italian and then asked inEnglish how I knew she wasItalian. I told her that Ithought she had a Neapoli-tan accent. She said, “You’reright, but how did you know?”I told her that my family wasAvellinese and I was famil-iar with the accent. Shesmiled as I complimentedher on the Yiddish accent sheused through her dummy.The answer explained thesituation. She came fromNew York’s Lower East Sidethat, back then, was loadedwith Jews and Italians.
When I left the club afteran hour of conversation withthe entertainers, it was timefor their next show. I wan-dered Collins Ave again andran into a bunch of peoplefrom Revere. They wereschool teachers who, likemyself, were trying to obtaina Florida tan during theFebruary school vacation. Wehad recognized each other asthree of the four people, likeme, were taking graduatecourses at Boston State acouple of evenings a week.They invited me to join themand we headed for what would
be a tour of the night clubsthat were part of the betterMiami Beach hotels.
As time went on, I discov-ered I was not a drinker. Iwould order a rum and Cokewith the rum on the sideand gave the rum to which-ever of the others wantedit. I drank the Coke. As theevening continued, I toldthem the story of how a travelagent wanted to book me intoa hotel where he said, “mykind” could be found. WhenI mentioned the hotel, theJohnina, one of the crowdsaid that there was a loungein the hotel and that theywanted to visit as the enter-tainment was supposed tobe good. We headed to thehotel and the Dream BarLounge. The entertainmentconsisted of just a short mannamed Willie Rustum. Hewas dressed like a beach-comber and sounded likeTony Bennett.
I was totally impressedwith his voice. An hour later,one of the crowd said, “It’stime for the Boom BoomRoom.” I asked what theBoom Boom Room was andwas told that it was the mostfamous night club on MiamiBeach. Located on the lowerfloor of the FontainebleauHotel it featured two bands,one Latin American and theother American.
After waiting for a table, weordered drinks and I dancedthe night away with one ofthe girls in the party. Frommy ventures at the Cave, aBoston Latin American nightclub, I had become quiteproficient at handling amambo, meringue and a chacha cha. She was a good Latindancer and I held my own.This venture would be thefirst of many to the long goneBoom Boom Room. Over thenext few years, every time Iwas in Miami Beach, one ofthe stops had to be that nightclub.
We parted company in thewee hours of the morningand I headed back to the ho-tel I was staying at. The nextday, I headed for South Beachto catch up with the samecrowd. Back then, SouthBeach was not the SouthBeach of today. It was wherethe inexpensive Kosher ho-tels were located and thecrowd was mostly old folks.From here on in, I wouldspend most of the vacationwith the same crowd. It wassunny and hot every day andat the end of the week, I haddeveloped a dark tan.
I flew home that Sundaynight at the end of the week.Dad drove past me twice as Istood waiting for him outsidethe Logan terminal. Momapologized stating they didn’trecognize me at first due tomy deep tan. On the wayhome, I sat with Babbononnoin the back seat and told himthe story of the vacation. Heinsisted that, the next time,he would come with me. Isaid OK, but I knew it wouldnever happen.
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for the historical record — topreserve and shape herhusband’s legacy. The inter-views, held on deposit hereat the Kennedy Library, weresealed for 47 years. Jacque-line Kennedy Onassis died in1994. In 2011, the 50th anni-versary year of the KennedyPresidency, her daughter,Caroline Kennedy, decided itwas the right time to sharethese conversations with thepublic. Selections are fea-tured in this exhibit.
Mrs. Kennedy had a rarecombination of gifts — intel-ligence, courage, discipline,artistic creativity and a styleall her own. She had an ad-venturous spirit and was anaccomplished horsewomanwho lived life at a full gallop.Her oral history interviewreflects these gifts. As wife ofthe President, she witnessedhistoric events at close rangeand had first-hand experi-ence with world leaders. Shehad a clear sense of her placein history and significantaccomplishments as FirstLady, yet she also believedthat her primary obligationwas to her family. Thisexhibit joins Mrs. Kennedy’swords — her unique way ofseeing the world — with thephotographs, documents, andartifacts she describes, add-ing new illumination both tothe great events and person-alities of the 20th century, aswell as to the sensibilities ofthe woman describing them.The John F. Kennedy Presi-dential Library and Museumis dedicated to the memoryof our nation’s 35th presidentand to all those who through
the art of politics seek a newand better world. Located ona ten-acre park, overlookingthe sea that he loved and thecity that launched him togreatness, the Library standsas a vibrant tribute to thelife and times of John F.Kennedy. The PresidentialLibrary and Museum islocated at Columbia PointBoston, and can be reachedat 617.514.1600 for informa-tion and hours. You can alsovisit www.jfklibrary.org forupcoming exhibits.
As always I like to includea restaurant to accompanythese fantastic events foryou to make a night or day ofit. This week I found a hid-den gem.
Petit Robert Bistro …Many restaurants nowadaysrefer to themselves as bis-tros, despite the fact thattheir food, ambiance andprices are at odds with thetrue definition of the term. InFrance, a bistro is whereblue collar workers go to eathome style fare at very mod-est prices. It is often servedon bare wood or with draughtbeer and vin ordinaire. Dailyblackboard specials are pre-pared by Chef Jacky Robert,whose career and reputationare well-known to both Bos-ton and west coast diners.Manager Loic Le Garrec is anative of Brittany and a vet-eran of Boston and NewYork’s top dining room. Thereare two locations in Boston;468 Commonwealth Ave(617-375-0699) in KenmoreSquare and 480 ColumbusAvenue (617-867-0600) inthe South End.
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“It was really the happiest time of my life. It was whenwe were the closest— I didn’t realize the physicalcloseness of having his office, in the same building andseeing him so many times a day.”
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HOW TO BECOME A SUPERMOM! The process, or ap-proach, isn’t easy. How to stop a child from crying? What isthe appropriate food to give to a child? Is it OK to fly duringa pregnancy? How to manage things while the mother-in-law tries to ‘lecture,’ often in an invasive manner? Theseare questions the new mothers ponder, finding an answer,eventually, sometime later.
Something, however, has come to help them recently; anew book entitled “101 Ways to be a Super-Mother,”authored by Giovanni Canzi (Newton Compton, publisher,pp. 214). Canzi describes all the vicissitudes associated withpregnancy, using the wisdom of having experiencedmaternity herself. The first thing or secret, as she sug-gests, is to get set for the nine-month pregnancy with peaceof mind by choosing the right physician who will monitorthe pregnancy’s progress. For those who like to travel, it isbetter to fly between the fourth and the sixth month of thegestation, never forgetting to carry a doctor’s certificate torequire a seat with a frontal space and take a walk duringthe flight. After delivery, an excellent way to regain thephysical shape is power strolling. The early formativeperiod to teach something to the new born is by readingloudly, even beginning on the first day of the child’s life.Also, it’s important to play classical music, mainly Mozart(we previously wrote about the influence of Mozart’s musicon the infant). It is also important to rearrange the log-istics of the residence and make it suitable for the baby.Canzi, the author, has suggestions for the mother, butalso cautioning that it is better not to raise a child to‘perfection’!
THE NOURISHING ADVANTAGES OF MOTHER’S MILK.Mother’s milk has been found to contain an anti-cancerprotein that protects the newborn. An Italian study,published by the Journal of Human Lactation, describesthe discovery. The researchers at the “IRCCS Burlo” ofTrieste, Italy analyzed the first sample of milk producedby the mother, a more mature milk, versus ‘artificial’milk (formula) and discovered that the concentration of theprotein TRAIL — which may possess anti-tumor proper-ties — is 100–400 times higher in the blood but is entirelyabsent in the artificial formula. The maternal lactationcan prevent a few types of cancer such as lymphoblasticleukemia, Hodgkin’s disease and Neuroblastoma. Thesoluble TRAIL is a strong candidate that can explain theoverall biological effect of the maternal lactation vis-à-viscancer.
MARIO MONTI’S SMART CABINET EXPANDS. A new con-sultant to the ‘Government of Professors,’ FrancescoGiavazzi, is an economist of international stature as wellas a colleague for many years of Premier Monti himself.He is a well-known political economics professor at the‘Bocconi University,’ in Milan, but only a few are awarethat Giavazzi, born in the City of Bergamo on August 11,1949, is also an electronic engineer from the “Politecnico”in Milan and received a PhD in Economics in 1978 fromthe Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston. Heis an engineer that also can “count”!
sider U.S. Rep. Ed Markey forthe nomination. Apparently,Markey’s entry is scaringaway the opposition. Itappears that it is being leftto U.S. Rep. Steve Lynch,D-South Boston to decideif he wants to challengethe Washington insiders’choice. Here’s hoping Lynchdecides to take on Markey inthe special election. Some-body should. I thought theDemocrats were the party ofthe people, not the party ofthe elite people.Living in the Real WorldTeri O’Connor from
Leominster had a great littleletter in the Boston Heraldthe other day talking aboutlife in the real world. Readthis opine, “Shame on Con-gress and the president forfailing to keep the 2 per-centage point payroll tax cutfor Social Security. Trying toprotect the middle-class?Really? They should all haveto live paycheck to paycheckand still not have enoughmoney to live on. Then theywould see how the real worldis.” Kudos!
A Great Book Titleif Ever There Was OneRecently, Herb Silverman
(I really don’t know who heis) wrote his own autobiog-raphy. He is a Jewish athe-ist who comes from the BibleBelt. His new book’s title? —“Candidate Without aPrayer.” Not a bad brandname, huh?
Charles Durning, R.I.P.Actor Charles Durning was
always a great Hollywood ac-tor but never really got therecognition he truly de-served. He played a crookedcop in “The String” starringPaul Newman and RobertRedford, he was the lonelywidower in “Tootsie” star-ring Dustin Hoffman and ahostage negotiator in “DogDay Afternoon” with AlPacino. He was always thebest man but never thegroom. He did win two Sup-porting Actor Oscar nomina-tions. Over the years, hemostly played supportingroles on screen and wasgreat at this role for so manyyears.
Isn’t This Great,an Illegal Perv Worked for
U.S. Senator!U.S. Sen. Robert Menen-
dez, D-NJ reportedly em-ployed an intern in his officewho was both illegally in thiscountry and a sex offender toboot. Homeland Securitywaited until after this past
November election to arresthim. Menendez told MSNBCthat once his arrest came tohis attention, the kid waslet go from the intern pro-gram. Big question? Didn’tthey vet this guy properly?How, many other illegals orsex offenders are working upon Capitol Hill?
Dealers Want Out ofBill to Fix Recalled
VehiclesCar dealers and smaller
rental-car companies wantto be able to sell, rent or lendcars that have been recalledfor safety defects before theyget around to fixing them.Many of them are lobbyingbehind the scenes to makesure they can. Major rentalcar companies agreed lastyear not to do that. However,Capitol Hill wants all aboard.Legislation to block all rentalcar companies from lendingout recalled vehicles beforerepairs are made will bere-introduced soon in thenew Congress says the bill’sco-sponsor U.S. Sen. RichardBlumenthal, D-Conn.
Accidents, injuries anddeaths have been attributedto rental cars with defectsnot repaired subject to re-calls. The National HighwayTraffic Safety Administrationbelieves all vehicles underrecall should be promptlyrepaired regardless ofwhether they are new, used,leased or rented. The Gov-ernment Accountability Of-fice urged NHTSA to seekauthority to require used cardealers — who sold 11 ve-hicles in 2009 — to make re-call repairs before sellingthem.
The Raechel and Jacque-line Houck Safe Rental CarAct is named for sisters fromCalifornia killed when theirrental car caught fire andcrashed into a truck. Thedefect in the car was subjectto a recall but the car had
never been repaired.Passage of this piece of
legislation seems like a no-brainer. I find it sad thatthere is lobbying going on todefeat this safety imperative.Once I Thought He WouldMake A Good PoliticianI thought we all heard the
last of Arnold Schwarzen-negger when he finished histwo terms as governor butlike a bad cold he’s BAAACK!He had been redeemed byHollywood and is now backon the large screen in “LastStand” where he plays alawman in a sleepy Arizonatown about to be invaded bytrouble. Considering hismessy personal life, he prob-ably needs all the cash hecan get to cover his familyor should that be plural“families” responsibilities. Iwon’t be seeing this flick.Not exactly “Lincoln,” is it?Give me an old Rambo movieanytime.
Both SidesHit Low Blows
The National Rifle Asso-ciation put together a TV adabout President Obama’santi-gun stance and sadlyused the President’s twodaughters to make a point.Then, the president himselftrots out four young childrenat his press conference tomake his point on his gunlegislation. In this case boththe White House and N.R.A.are guilty of using kids asfodder in their on-goingbattles with each other. Theliberals had a field day withthis N.R.A. advertisementbut were silent on thepresident’s equally offensiveploy. I have no blindside, Icriticized the N.R.A. and nowI also criticize the presidenttoo.
Quote to Note“Faith is taking the first
step, even when you don’tsee the whole staircase.”
— Dr. Martin LutherKing, Jr.
My Quote to Note“You don’t have to fully
agree with everythingDr. King ever said or did buthe was right about faith. Itcan move mountains. Morepeople need it.”
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it was six stages high andothers claim seven. Anotherinteresting theory is thatthe seen stages were builtin an earthen platform,each stage or light was of adifferent color, and each wasconsecrated to a differentplanet. Many claim this tohave been the chief towerin Babylon, others place iteight miles away in a sub-urb of the city, and stillothers claim it was built onehundred forty miles away inthe ancient City of Ur.
A few facts seem to beaccepted among all of theexperts: (1) The tower wasconstructed of sun-driedbricks; (2) it was an ex-tremely high tower; (3) itwas built by the ancestors ofNoah, either to escape froma possible second deluge, orto converse with the gods,or both. In any event, theLord came down to see thecity and the tower, andregarding this building as animpious assertion of humanpride, He confounded theirlanguage so that they couldnot understand each other.Consequently they gave upthe building scheme andwere scattered abroad. TheLord scattered them over theface of the earth, and thuswe have one explanation forthe different languages ofthe world, or so sayeth theGood Book … and you’d bet-ter believe it!
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ST. JUDE AND ST. ANTHONY NOVENAMay the Sacred Heart of Jesus beadored, glorified, loved and preservedthroughout the world now and for-ever. Sacred Heart of Jesus pray forus. St. Jude, worker of miracles, prayfor us. St. Jude, help of the hopeless,pray for us. St. Anthony, most lovingprotector and wonder worker, prayfor us. Say this prayer 9 times a dayand by the 8th day your prayer will beanswered. It has never been known tofail. Publication must be promised.My prayers have been answered.Favor received. P.G.V.F. Run date: 1/25/13
To all persons interested in the above-captioned estate, by Petition of PetitionerRobert Scarpone of Woburn, MA, a Will hasbeen admitted to informal probate.
Robert Scarpone of Woburn, MA has beeninformally appointed as the Personal Repre-sentative of the estate to serve without suretyon the bond.
The estate is being administered underinformal procedure by the Personal Represen-tative under the Massachusetts Uniform Pro-bate Code without supervision by the Court.Inventory and accounts are not required to befiled with the Court, but interested parties areentitled to notice regarding the administrationfrom the Personal Representative and canpetition the Court in any matter relating to theestate, including distribution of assets andexpenses of administration. Interested partiesare entitled to petition the Court to instituteformal proceedings and to obtain ordersterminating or restricting the powers of Per-sonal Representatives appointed under infor-mal procedure. A copy of the Petition and Will,if any, can be obtained from the Petitioner.
Commonwealth of MassachusettsThe Trial Court
Probate and Family CourtMiddlesex Division
208 Cambridge StreetEast Cambridge, MA 02141
(617) 768-5800Docket No. MI12P5742EA
Estate ofARMANDO P. SCARPONE
Date of Death September 26, 2012INFORMAL PROBATE
PUBLICATION NOTICE
LEGAL NOTICE
Run date: 1/25/13
To all interested persons:A petition has been filed by Lydia Z. Dyett
of Bowie, MD requesting that the Court enter aformal Decree and Order of testacy and for suchother relief as requested in the Petition. Andalso requesting that Lydia Z. Dyett ofBowie, MD be appointed as PersonalRepresentative(s) of said estate to serveWithout Surety on the bond.
You have the right to obtain a copy of thePetition from the Petitioner or at the Court.You have a right to object to this proceeding.To do so, you or your attorney must file a writtenappearance and objection at this Court before10:00 a.m. on February 19, 2013.
This is NOT a hearing date, but a deadlineby which you must file a written appearanceand objection if you object to this proceeding.If you fail to file a timely written appearanceand objection followed by an Affidavit of Objec-tions within thirty (30) days of the return date,action may be taken without further notice toyou.
The estate is being administered underformal procedure by the Personal Represen-tative under the Massachusetts Uniform Pro-bate Code without supervision by the Court.Inventory and accounts are not required to befiled with the Court, but recipients are entitledto notice regarding the administration from thePersonal Representative and can petition theCourt in any matter relating to the estate,including distribution of assets and expensesof administration.
WITNESS, Hon. PETER C. DIGANGI,First Justice of this Court
Date: January 22, 2013
Tara E. DeCristofaro, Register of Probate
Commonwealth of MassachusettsThe Trial Court
Middlesex Probate and Family Court208 Cambridge StreetCambridge, MA 02141
(617) 768-5800Docket No. MI13P0298EA
Estate ofERNEST LOVELL DYETT
Date of Death May 29, 2012CITATION ON PETITION FOR
FORMAL ADJUDICATION
LEGAL NOTICE
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On Saturday, January12th, I attended the “HotStove Cool Music” winterconcert at the Paradise RockClub on CommonwealthAvenue. Hot Stove CoolMusic was co-created byformer Red Sox G.M. andpresent President of theChicago Cubs Theo Epstein.This fundraising event cel-ebrated “Music, Baseball &Giving Back.” Among themany non-profits who ben-efited by this “giving back”was The Home for LittleWanderers. At the event rep-resenting the Home wasBoard of Ambassadors mem-ber Sherri Raftery who isalso the executive secretaryof the East Boston Chamberof Commerce.
Among the many bandsparticipating at this fund-raiser were: Mike O’Malley,Hometown Hollywood Hero,Hot Stove All Stars featur-ing Peter Gammons, TanyaDonelly, Reigning Monarchs,Bill Janovitz, Theo Epstein,Len Kasper, Robin Lane,Christian McNeill & the SeaMonsters, Chad HollisterBand and my favorite groupThe Parkington Sisters fromCape Cod.
I had a terrific time lis-tening to the Parkington Sis-ters do their folk rock andtalking baseball with TheoEpstein and Peter Gammonstoo. Lots of money was raisedfor many good causes.Remembering Bruce Hurst
Bruce Hurst will probablynever make it into Coopers-town but there was a timewith the Red Sox when hemight have been called thebest lefty in pitching history.Hurst played in the shadowof Roger Clemens and nevergot his due recognition out-side of the Fenway fans.He finished with 88 winsfor the Sox, one fewer thanBabe Ruth. In nine seasonswith Boston, he tossed 54complete games. Not a badstat considering how weak
today’s pitchers are withall their pitch counts pergame.
Red Sox Looking atVazquez Again
The Red Sox are checkingout right-hander JavierVazquez again. Our scoutswere down in Puerto Ricowatching Vazquez pitch forCaguas in a Puerto RicanWinter League game. TheWhite Sox and Nationals alsosent scouts to watch himstart his game. The 36 yearolder is still undecided aboutstaying retired or pitchingagain in 2013. He is alsoplanning to pitch for PuertoRico in the World BaseballClassic in March. He had agood night on the mound too.He allowed one run on sixhits, one walk and 10 strikeouts in six innings. The RedSox are still trying to buildup its starting rotation.
Vazquez hasn’t pitched inthe majors since 2011 whenhe started 32 games with a3.69 ERA in over 190 inningsfor the Florida Marlins. In2009, he finished fourth forthe Cy Young Award with theAtlanta Braves. In his 14year career he has done bet-ter in the National League.In five starts thus far, Vaz-quez has a 3.52 ERA with 30strikeouts in 23 innings.Dale Murphy Should Have
Made the Hall of FameWhen I think of ballplayer
Dale Murphy, I think ofsomeone whose team is trail-ing by 10 runs with two outsin the ninth. He knows histeam is doomed but he stillgives it his all at bat. Thatis how he played his entirecareer. This year was Dale’slast year on the ballot forHall of Fame induction. Thisyear like the previous 14, hefailed to garnish the 75 per-cent of the votes needed foradmission into Cooperstown.
Once he was called one ofthe best players in baseball.He was N.L. Most ValuablePlayer in 1982 and 1983 forthe Atlanta Braves. He wasa Gold Glove outfielder withplenty of power and speedand his fame to fame, henever missed a game. How-ever, he was finished by age36 mainly because heplayed the game so hard. Hewas a winner of the LouGehrig Award, the RobertoClemente Award and theSports Illustrated Sportsmanof the Year. Lifetime he hit.265 with 398 homers. Dur-ing the 1980s only MikeSchmidt hit more homeruns. He ended up with thePhillies and Rockies beforecalling it quits in 1993.Murphy now joins the likesof great players like JimKaat, Luis Tiant, Dave Coneand Gil Hodges. Their inclu-sion should have been a no-brainer.
Murphy, 56, is one of thoseguys who had a long lastingpositive effect on the sportof baseball and a guy who
doesn’t need a bronze plaquefor validation. He was oneof the good guys who playedby the rules and as he oncestated, “There’s a messageto kids. Whatever you do inlife, do it the right way.”
Ryan Freel Dead at 36Former Major League ball-
player Ryan Freel knownmostly for his fearless playand whose career was cutshort by injuries after 8 sea-sons of play has passed awayat 36 years of age. Freel diedfrom allegedly a self-inflictedshotgun wound. He spent 6of his 8 seasons with theReds and finished his careerin 2009 with a .268 average.During his career it is saidhe sustained up to 10 con-cussions. He missed 30games in 2007 after crash-ing into another outfieldergoing for a fly ball and, guesswhat, got a concussion. Hestarted off with the BlueJays then went to the Rays,Reds, Orioles, Cubs and end-ing with the KC Royals.
In 2006 he was quoted inthe Dayton Daily News assaying “he had an imaginaryfriend inside his head whohe named Farney. Everybodythinks I talk to myself, soI tell ‘em I’m talking toFarney.” Makes you wonderabout all those concussions,doesn’t it?
Back in the DayWho Didn’t Love Sonny?Lefty Sonny Siebert had
double-digit win seasons infour straight years with theRed Sox (1969-72). Always agreat third starter in therotation. Always underrated!He finished his 12-yearcareer with a 140-114 witha 3.21 ERA. Doesn’t belong inCooperstown but certainlyshould be in the Red Sox Hallof Fame.
Finally for this WeekBoston Herald sportswriter
Michael Silverman did a re-cent piece on slugging firstbasemen in reaction to MikeNapoli finally being officiallywelcomed on to the Red Sox.Silverman mentions greatslugging first basemen of thepast who covered the bag atFenway. He mentioned CarlYastrzemski, Jimmie Fox,Mo Vaughn, Dwight Evans,Kevin Youkilis, Adrian Gon-zalez and Brian Daubach. Isa player’s OPS the new statto judge folks on nowadays?I don’t remember anyone’sOPS being an important stat.Has the OPS taking the placeof slugging percentages.
My favorite Red Sox firstbasemen back in the sixtieswere Pete Runnels, whowas always a threat to winthe batting crown and DickStuart who cracked 75 homeruns in his two seasons inBoston.
Stuart never hit for a highaverage and was indeed asloppy fielder but at the platehe was always a threat toknock one over the GreenMonstah.
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have relied on our vastthree-zone system to adjustfor changes in population.These sprawling zones alsoallowed us to place programsthat served students withspecific types of disabilitiesor English Language Learn-ers in buildings often farfrom where these studentsactually live. We are readyto put these days behind us.Our schools should respondto what children need, andthat’s what these proposalswould do.
Ultimately, of course, thisis a conversation about qual-ity — and the urgent needto make every public schoola great choice. When I tookoffice, just one in four highschool students earned apassing grade on statewidemathematics tests. Today,thanks to the hard work ofteachers, students and fami-lies, 86 percent pass on theirfirst attempt. Perhaps mostencouraging, 94 percent oftoday’s parents told us in asurvey this spring that theirschool is a great place fortheir child to learn.
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Not a single change cameeasily. We fought hard foreach and every reform andthere were always voicesthat asked us to do lessor slow down. Over the lastyear I have watched as anextraordinary public processhas played out — and ourstudents stand to benefitgreatly from this sharedeffort. Today, I am asking foryour support as we take yetanother important step ourchildren deserve.
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pot titles, that means theseniors at the other threeschools all have the possibil-ity of graduating without everhaving won a Beanpot. Thescramble will be on to see ifthe seniors at Northeastern,Harvard and BU can makethe most of their last oppor-tunity to emerge victoriousover the course of those firsttwo Mondays in February.
BEANPOT NOTES — Thelast time the tournamentwas played on February 4th
and 11th was in 2008 … Bos-ton University has lost onopening night only four timesover the six-decade history ofthe event. Boston College hasfailed to make it to champi-onship night only six times… BU has participated in 49championship games whileBC has played in 32 … Thelast Beanpot that was playedat the old Boston Garden wasin 1995. BU defeated BC,5-1 to win the final champi-onship game in the hallowedstructure. That wrote thefinal chapter on a fantastic
42-year run in the originalGarden … One of the positiveaspects of the new Garden isthat it allows more peopleto see the tournament inperson. The capacity of theoriginal Garden was justunder 14,500. The presentbuilding on Causeway Streetsits 17,565 for hockey —an increase of over 3,000seats … The most remem-bered Beanpot is history isn’trecalled for the games but forthe weather. It was on open-ing night (February 6, 1978)that the Blizzard of 1978struck, leaving several hun-dred fans stranded in theGarden for a number of days.While both first round gameswere played that night, thosescheduled for the secondMonday were not played un-til March 1st. This year’sBeanpot will mark the 35th
year since the Blizzard of1978.
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HOOPS and HOCKEY in the HUBCORNER TALK by Reinaldo Oliveira, Jr.
Keep open the date,Saturday, January 26th, for“Night at the Fights!” at“TD Garden” in Boston’sfamed North End. Scheduledis a fight card that shouldgive you plenty of action.Here’s the fight card you’llget: In the main bout, twotough battlers, 19-1-0, 7 KODanny O’Connor of Fram-ingham and 8-0-0, 4 KODerek Silveira of Salem,both battling for supremacy.Both fighters are coming offkayo victories. Also on thisfight card will be tough RyanKielczewski of Quincy. Five(5) Amateur Match-ups willalso entertain you this night.There will also be an auto-graph show of legends MickyWard, Vinny Pazienza andMarlon Starlings. Come ondown. You will get plenty of
entertainment at this“Night at the Fights!” Jan-uary 26th at Boston’s famedTD Garden. “Come onDown!”
2013 New EnglandLowell Golden Glove TitleChampionship Fights. AllNew England teams repre-senting Greater Lowell,Greater Vermont, SouthernNew England and WesternMass will be fighting, vyingto fight and win New Englandtitles. All four fight teamshave won their own RegionalChampionships already. Allfighters who enter these fourtournaments have no ideawho might be entered in andpossibly be their opponent.This Golden Glove tourna-ment is loaded with greatfighters from surrounding
January 26th at TD Garden, It’s a “Night at the Fights!”2013 Lowell Golden Gloves Tournaments
Punches Off with Excitement! “Bing! Bang! POW!”Champions Fighting Champions to be “Champion!”
cities and towns in NewEngland. Golden GloveChampionship Team Fight-ers. All talented and the bestin their area. Fighters whoare champions, fightingchampions, to be champion.It gets no better than this.Some of the great fighterswho have come out of thistournament: Rocky Marci-ano, Mike Tyson, JohnRuiz, Vinny Pazienza,Marlon Starling, TonyDeMarco, Tony Petronelli,Marvin Hagler, ChadDawson and Micky Ward.
Speaking of Golden GloveChampions, I was in alaundromat the other daywhen a familiar lookinggentleman approachedme. After we spoke a fewminutes, I realized it wasJohn Cabral, who remindedme he trained at the Boys’Club in New Bedford. John
Vinny “The PazmanianDevil” Pazienza.
Ryan “The Polish Prince”Kielczewski.
John “The Quietman”Ruiz.
Marlon “Magic Man”Starling
Cabral did well. He won the1983, 119 lb. Novice S. N. E.Golden Glove title. Fightfamily members though theyears (past and present) aregreat and always a pleasureto run into, read about andspeak with. Champions,fighters, trainers, promoters,sponsors, commissioners,endorsers, fans, promotersand all. Bernard “Ben”Doherty Boxing Commis-sion Boston, Joe Dias FallRiver, Charles P. DwyerPortsmouth, RI, Vito DeLucaSeekonk, Florian HallDorchester, Jerry CahillManager, Wayne Elcock,Mickey Finn President Ring4, Sean Farley Farley Box-ing, Dave Gemelli GEMHanover, Hamid’s AcademyMaster Hamid LahriziBrockton, Gary J. LitchfieldBoston, Joe Lauzon Brock-ton, Lowell Sun Charities,Tony Magnifico Boxing atRingside Gym, John MadfisAuburndale, O’Malley’s Box-ing Gym James A. FarrellQuincy, John O’Brien Hull,Petronelli Bros. Gym Brock-ton Goody & Pat Petronelli,Promoter Doug PendarvisDorchester, Roger Pit Per-ron Brockton, John Russo’sAwards Unlimited Somer-ville, Charlie “Punchlines”Ross Milton, Tommy Raw-son, Rino’s Place chefs &owners Tony and Anna EastBoston, Sanford A, RedockBrooklyn, NY, Hank TuohySandwich, The Great “Val-enti Family!” (Al, Fred, Ripand Tony Valenti.) CharlesBabe Wood Historian Man-omet, Dana White Ware ofthe UFC went to Universityof Massachusetts.
GOLDEN GLOVETOURNAMENT
SCHEDULELowell 2013
January 29th 7:30 pm,Open & Novice Open SemiFinals.
February 5th 7:30 pm,Greater Lowell/Central NewEngland Open and NoviceClass Finals.
12th 7:30 pm, New EnglandNovice Class semi finals.
15th 7:30 pm, New EnglandNovice Class Finals.
19th 7:30 pm, New EnglandOpen class semi-Finals.
20th 7:30 pm, New EnglandOpen Class Finals.
RETURN OF THE B’S — Justwhen many thought the sea-son might be lost, the NHLpowers that be settled theirdifferences and the seasonbegan — with the Bruins re-turning in what appeared tobe some semblance of mid-season form. The Gardenwas jam-packed for the twoopening weekend contestsagainst the New York Rang-ers and the Winnipeg Jets.The spirit in the stands wasgreat to behold.
Plus, in the compressed 48-regular season schedule, theBruins picked up two victo-ries to jump out of the box at2-0, something that would benice in any season but wasespecially important in thisshortened campaign.
“I mentioned to the playersjust before the third period (ofthe Winnipeg game) thatthose next 20 minutes wouldbe just as important as thelast 20 we’ll play during theregular season,” noted headcoach Claude Julien in hispostgame press conference.“We had to do whatever wecould to come up with twopoints (a shootout victory). Ithink that kind of answersthe question. We realized howimportant a good start is forevery hockey club. We needto continue to think thatway.”
It’s early, of course, but al-ready there are some open-ing trends. One has been theB’s performance as a team,with particular emphasis onthe defensemen.
“I think our team as awhole has been pretty goodat getting back to basics,”said Julien. “Our defensehas done a great job. They tryto force shots from the out-side and that gives (goalie)Tuukka Rask the bestchance possible to see thosepucks and make the saves.Tuukka has come up big forus. Defensively, I think we’restarting to play more throughour identity and because ofthat we’re getting some offen-sive opportunities as well.”
BEANPOT TIME — The firsttwo Mondays in Februarybring the return of that all-time winter classic — The
Beanpot Tournament — tothe front and center of thelocal sports scene.
This year’s annual renewalat the Garden has the firstround scheduled for Monday,February 4th with Champion-ship Night set for Monday,February 11th. The openingnight has Boston Universitymeeting Northeastern in thefirst game at 5:00 pm. whiledefending champion BostonCollege faces Harvard in thesecond game at 8:00 pm.
One of the most memorablenights in recent Beanpothistory came in 2005 whenChris Bourque, the son ofBruins great Ray Bourque,won the tournament with anovertime goal as Boston Uni-versity beat Northeastern.Chris Bourque, following inhis father’s footsteps, is nowwith the Bruins.
The 2013 event will be the61st renewal of the classicthat dates back to the 1952-1953 season. They used tocall it the “BU Invitational”because Boston Universitywon so often (29 titles) butlately that has changed. TheBoston College Eagles havewon the last three Beanpotsin a row and four of the lastfive title games. Three ofthose BC victories came inovertime.
BC’s recent wins indicatethat there is a renewed par-ity of play in the Beanpot.BU hasn’t won since 2009.Here’s another. Although ithasn’t won a Pot since 1988,Northeastern has played intwo of the last four Beanpotfinals. The last time Harvardplayed in the championshipgame was 2008. The last timethe Crimson won it all was1993.
One thing’s for sure. TheBeanpot is the start of whatBC coach Jerry York calls“trophy season.” All the regu-lar season victories to datehave been nice but a win inthe championship game pro-vides something that a teamcan take home — a trophy.
There’s also additional mo-tivation this year. Since BChas won the last three Bean-
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GAME ON — The Boston Bruins were victorious 3-1 intheir season opener against the New York Rangers onSaturday, January 19th at TD Garden.
