News Briefs by Sal Giarratani (Continued on Page 14) $.30 A COPY VOL. 113 - NO. 8 BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, FEBRUARY 20, 2009 Mayor’s Column by Thomas M. Menino, Mayor, City of Boston THE POST-GAZETTE SATELLITE OFFICE IS NOW OPEN AT 35 BENNINGTON STREET, EAST BOSTON THE POST-GAZETTE SATELLITE OFFICE IS NOW OPEN AT 35 BENNINGTON STREET, EAST BOSTON THE POST-GAZETTE SATELLITE OFFICE IS NOW OPEN AT 35 BENNINGTON STREET, EAST BOSTON THE POST-GAZETTE SATELLITE OFFICE IS NOW OPEN AT 35 BENNINGTON STREET, EAST BOSTON THE POST-GAZETTE SATELLITE OFFICE IS NOW OPEN AT 35 BENNINGTON STREET, EAST BOSTON This office will be open on Mondays and Tuesdays from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM, for the convenience of our East Boston and North Shore clients and contributors Call 617-227-8929 for more information $10 Laptops from India? Did you hear about those ten buck laptops they’re making in India? They come fully- loaded with viruses. They’re powered by one squirrel on a tiny treadmill. The mouse is real. Finally, the brand name is I.D.OTT. Hiding in Plain Sight This is an honest to truth story. I think it happened in a Pittsburgh zoo. A chimp escaped from his caged area by climbing over a tall fence that had sharp wire at the top. He used a tee shirt he had in his cage to cover the sharp wire. He jumped over to freedom. The daring escape was short lived. He was caught by zoo officials as he was about to exit the zoo walking between a crowd of people with lots of little kids. He prob- ably would have made it if he had put on the tee shirt. Next time I’m sure he’ll remember to take the tee shirt with him, right. Television Violence Did you know the odds of a person sustaining a nonfatal injury from interacting with a TV set are one in 5,613? After two debate-filled weeks in both the U.S. House and Senate, and after months of review and collaboration with our partners at the federal and state levels to submit a package of Boston’s potential shovel-ready projects, Con- gress last week passed the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, commonly known as the stimulus bill. I want to thank the members of Boston’s congressional delegation for helping to see that Boston and the Commonwealth benefit from sensible investments that will go a long way in jump-starting our economy. While the economic recovery plan is by no means a cure-all for our fiscal challenges, its passage establishes funding for projects that will stabilize our neighborhoods by investing in affordable and public hous- ing, sustainable infrastructure and job creation. As I’ve said before, because of the fun- damental strength of Boston’s economy, I view the recovery plan as an opportu- nity to build on our City’s position as the economic engine that drives the state. My administration’s Economic Recovery Team worked proactively to generate an inventory of potential shovel-ready and shovel-worthy projects in Boston, and we will manage any investments in a way that will lead to both short-term job creation and long-term growth and development. The Boston Housing Authority (BHA), for example, will receive approximately $30 million in direct funding that will help preserve our public housing resources, improve the infrastructure of BHA developments, and maintain these developments for the long-term. BHA developments could benefit from energy efficiency upgrades and upgraded plumbing and heating systems that eventually pay for themselves and conserve energy at the same time. Economic recovery funds will also allow for the redevelopment of properties that are in need of dire attention. For example, funding will assist in the re- development of Washington Beech, so (Continued on Page 14) EAST BOSTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE Installation of 2009 Officers and Directors Back Row: East Boston Chamber of Commerce Executive Director, John Dudley, Outgoing EBCC Director, Derek Brodin, Michael Sulprizio of State Representative Carlo Basile’s office, EBCC President, Angelo Vigliotta Jr., State Senator Anthony Petruccelli, and EBCC Director, Pat Capogreco. Second Row: Boston City Councilor Sal LaMattina, EBCC 1 st Vice President, Neffo Cappuccio, EBCC Secretary Kim Altshcul, EBCC Director, Michael Nicastro, EBCC Directors Franz Israel and Scott Warren. Seated left to right: EBCC Director Ann DiMaria, 2 nd Vice President, Diane J. Modica, 3 rd Vice President Rhonda Dean and Treasurer Grace Previte-Magoon. On Wednesday, February 11, 2009, the East Boston Chamber of Commerce held the annual Installation of Officers and Directors at the Courtyard Marriott in East Boston. Outgoing Director, Buddy Mangini was the Master of Ceremonies. The EBCC saluted outgoing directors, Derek Brodin, Michelle Salvaggio-Capurso and Buddy Mangini. Citations were given to the out- going members from Congressman Michael Capuano, State Senator Anthony Petruc- celli, State Representative Carlo Basile, and City Councilor Sal LaMattina. Senator Anthony Petruccelli installed the following new directors, Pasquale “Pat” Capogreco, Franz Israel, and Scott Warren along with second term officers, Neffo Cappuccio, Diane J. Modica, Rhonda Dean, Grace P. Magoon, Kim Altshcul and President Angelo Vigliotta Jr. To become a member of the East Boston Chamber of Commerce, call John Dudley at 617-569-5000 or you may visit their website at www.eastbostonchamber.com. (Continued on Page 7) Despite an avalanche of objections from the public, the so-called “Economic Stimulus Bill” has passed Congress and President Obama will sign it into law. The result is bigger govern- ment and a smaller economy. Since 65 percent of the $789 billion is spending by the government for the gov- ernment, that means bigger government. About half of the remain- ing 35 percent goes to tax cuts for workers. According to an analysis by Congress- man Jack Kingston (R-GA), that means about 20 cents an hour for the average working American. That’s the same $800 per working couple or $400 per single worker that other stories have reported. Advice, don’t spend it all at once. The remaining half of the 35 percent goes to increased spending for government assistance programs. That’s good, because more of us may be getting in line soon. The bill passed because of a populist new president (he says all the right things), the politics of fear and political pandering to the gullible at its best. It’s a perfect combi- nation for more socialism. Former Congressman Ernest Istook summed it up the best. “This stimulus bill is worse than just more big government, pork barrel projects, expansion of the welfare system and bailout of irresponsible state gov- ernments. It’s the road to perpetual debt.” (Human Events.com — February 12, 2009) On the road of perpetual debt we will borrow more money from foreign coun- tries that do not like us. We will experience more taxes, more political pandering, more politics of fear, more class warfare, more arro- gance by the all-knowing political class (as opposed to the working class, the busi- ness class and the shrink- ing investment class) and even more national eco- nomic pain. The Obama-Reid-Pelosi cure for more national eco- nomic pain — more spend- (Continued on Page 15) The Obama-Pelosi-Reid ‘Stimulus’: A Victory for Socialism by Herman Cain
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News Briefsby Sal Giarratani
(Continued on Page 14)
$.30 A COPYVOL. 113 - NO. 8 BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, FEBRUARY 20, 2009
Mayor’s Columnby Thomas M. Menino, Mayor, City of Boston
THE POST-GAZETTE SATELLITE OFFICE IS NOW OPEN AT 35 BENNINGTON STREET, EAST BOSTONTHE POST-GAZETTE SATELLITE OFFICE IS NOW OPEN AT 35 BENNINGTON STREET, EAST BOSTONTHE POST-GAZETTE SATELLITE OFFICE IS NOW OPEN AT 35 BENNINGTON STREET, EAST BOSTONTHE POST-GAZETTE SATELLITE OFFICE IS NOW OPEN AT 35 BENNINGTON STREET, EAST BOSTONTHE POST-GAZETTE SATELLITE OFFICE IS NOW OPEN AT 35 BENNINGTON STREET, EAST BOSTONThis office will be open on Mondays and Tuesdays from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM,for the convenience of our East Boston and North Shore clients and contributors
Call 617-227-8929 for more information
$10 Laptops from India?Did you hear about those ten buck laptops
they’re making in India? They come fully-loaded with viruses. They’re powered by onesquirrel on a tiny treadmill. The mouse is real.Finally, the brand name is I.D.OTT.
Hiding in Plain SightThis is an honest to truth story. I think it
happened in a Pittsburgh zoo. A chimp escapedfrom his caged area by climbing over a tall fencethat had sharp wire at the top. He used a teeshirt he had in his cage to cover the sharp wire.He jumped over to freedom. The daring escapewas short lived. He was caught by zoo officialsas he was about to exit the zoo walking betweena crowd of people with lots of little kids. He prob-ably would have made it if he had put on thetee shirt. Next time I’m sure he’ll remember totake the tee shirt with him, right.
Television ViolenceDid you know the odds of a person sustaining
a nonfatal injury from interacting with a TVset are one in 5,613?
After two debate-filled weeks in boththe U.S. House and Senate, and aftermonths of review and collaboration withour partners at the federal and statelevels to submit a package of Boston’spotential shovel-ready projects, Con-gress last week passed the $787 billionAmerican Recovery and ReinvestmentAct, commonly known as the stimulusbill. I want to thank the members ofBoston’s congressional delegation forhelping to see that Boston and theCommonwealth benefit from sensibleinvestments that will go a long way injump-starting our economy. While theeconomic recovery plan is by no meansa cure-all for our fiscal challenges, itspassage establishes funding for projectsthat will stabilize our neighborhoods byinvesting in affordable and public hous-ing, sustainable infrastructure and jobcreation.
As I’ve said before, because of the fun-damental strength of Boston’s economy,I view the recovery plan as an opportu-nity to build on our City’s position as theeconomic engine that drives the state.
My administration’s Economic RecoveryTeam worked proactively to generate aninventory of potential shovel-ready andshovel-worthy projects in Boston, and wewill manage any investments in a waythat will lead to both short-term jobcreation and long-term growth anddevelopment.
The Boston Housing Authority (BHA),for example, will receive approximately$30 million in direct funding that willhelp preserve our public housingresources, improve the infrastructureof BHA developments, and maintainthese developments for the long-term.BHA developments could benefit fromenergy efficiency upgrades and upgradedplumbing and heating systems thateventually pay for themselves andconserve energy at the same time.Economic recovery funds will also allowfor the redevelopment of properties thatare in need of dire attention. Forexample, funding will assist in the re-development of Washington Beech, so
(Continued on Page 14)
EAST BOSTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Installation of 2009 Officers and Directors
Back Row: East Boston Chamber of Commerce Executive Director, John Dudley,Outgoing EBCC Director, Derek Brodin, Michael Sulprizio of State RepresentativeCarlo Basile’s office, EBCC President, Angelo Vigliotta Jr., State Senator AnthonyPetruccelli, and EBCC Director, Pat Capogreco. Second Row: Boston City CouncilorSal LaMattina, EBCC 1st Vice President, Neffo Cappuccio, EBCC Secretary Kim Altshcul,EBCC Director, Michael Nicastro, EBCC Directors Franz Israel and Scott Warren.Seated left to right: EBCC Director Ann DiMaria, 2nd Vice President, Diane J. Modica,3rd Vice President Rhonda Dean and Treasurer Grace Previte-Magoon.
On Wednesday, February 11, 2009, theEast Boston Chamber of Commerce heldthe annual Installation of Officers andDirectors at the Courtyard Marriott in EastBoston. Outgoing Director, Buddy Manginiwas the Master of Ceremonies. The EBCCsaluted outgoing directors, Derek Brodin,Michelle Salvaggio-Capurso and BuddyMangini. Citations were given to the out-going members from Congressman MichaelCapuano, State Senator Anthony Petruc-celli, State Representative Carlo Basile, andCity Councilor Sal LaMattina. Senator
Anthony Petruccelli installed the followingnew directors, Pasquale “Pat” Capogreco,Franz Israel, and Scott Warren along withsecond term officers, Neffo Cappuccio,Diane J. Modica, Rhonda Dean, Grace P.Magoon, Kim Altshcul and President AngeloVigliotta Jr.
To become a member of the East BostonChamber of Commerce, call John Dudley at617-569-5000 or you may visit their websiteat www.eastbostonchamber.com.
(Continued on Page 7)
Despite an avalanche ofobjections from the public,the so-called “EconomicStimulus Bill” has passedCongress and PresidentObama will sign it into law.The result is bigger govern-ment and a smaller economy.
Since 65 percent of the$789 billion is spending bythe government for the gov-ernment, that means biggergovernment.
About half of the remain-ing 35 percent goes to taxcuts for workers. Accordingto an analysis by Congress-man Jack Kingston (R-GA),that means about 20 centsan hour for the averageworking American. That’sthe same $800 per workingcouple or $400 per singleworker that other storieshave reported.
Advice, don’t spend it all atonce.
The remaining half of the35 percent goes to increasedspending for governmentassistance programs. That’sgood, because more of usmay be getting in line soon.
The bill passed because ofa populist new president (hesays all the right things), the
politics of fear and politicalpandering to the gullible atits best. It’s a perfect combi-nation for more socialism.
Former CongressmanErnest Istook summed it upthe best. “This stimulus billis worse than just more biggovernment, pork barrelprojects, expansion of thewelfare system and bailoutof irresponsible state gov-ernments. It’s the road toperpetual debt.” (HumanEvents.com — February 12,2009)
On the road of perpetualdebt we will borrow moremoney from foreign coun-tries that do not like us. Wewill experience more taxes,more political pandering,more politics of fear, moreclass warfare, more arro-gance by the all-knowingpolitical class (as opposed tothe working class, the busi-ness class and the shrink-ing investment class) andeven more national eco-nomic pain.
The Obama-Reid-Pelosicure for more national eco-nomic pain — more spend-
(Continued on Page 15)
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Ask any Italo-Americanwho the world’s greatestsculptor was, and Michel-angelo will probably get thevote. The Greeks have theirfavorite, too. His name isPhidias, and he was born inAttica about 500 B.C. Thisparticular time in Greekhistory is known as the “Ageof Pericles” or “The GoldenAge of Greece.” Pericles wasthe statesman who gaveout the commissions but itwas Phidias who sculpturedthose splendid statues. Inaddition to his position asthe superintendent of publicworks for Athens, Phidiasdirected the constructionof the imposing entrance(Propylaea) to the AthenianAcropolis, numerous otherworks of art, and at least twoof the most celebrated stat-ues of Athena that the worldhas ever known.
The first of these master-pieces, the colossal statueof Athena Parthenos (thevirgin goddess), was aboutthirty feet high, and it wassheathed in ivory and gold.All of the sculptured orna-ments of the Parthenonwere carved under the su-pervision of Phidias but thestatue was the work of hisown hand. This art form wascalled “Cryselephantine”,which means that thestatue was formed on platesof ivory, laid upon a core ofwood or stone for the fleshparts, while the drapery andornaments were of solid gold.Athena was shown standing,and clothed in a tunic thatreached to the ankles. Sheheld a spear in her left handand a six foot high image ofVictory in her right. Shewore a metal breastplate
while her shield was restingon the ground at her feet. Allof the gold portions were as-sembled so that they couldeasily be removed for safe-keeping during times of war.It’s easy to understand thereason for this feature whenwe realize that at today’smarket price all of the goldwas worth about twenty-twomillion dollars.
The second masterpiece,the bronze statue of AthenaPromachos (Athena theWarrior) was also attributedto Phidias. It stood on theAcropolis near the Par-thenon and was erected byusing the proceeds from thespoils taken at the battle ofMarathon. The proportions ofthis statue were so colossalthat the reflections from thetip of the lance and her hel-met were visible to sailors asfar away as the southernextremity of Attica.
The effort being put forthby the Greek Minister ofCultures and Science to se-cure the return of the Elginmarbles has received con-siderable publicity. Our cur-rent discussion concerningPhidias, the Acropolis, andthe Parthenon, prompts meto explain that the Elginmarbles are a collection ofancient sculptures that werebrought from Greece toEngland by the Earl of Elginin 1912 while he was theBritish Ambassador to theOttoman Empire.
It all started with the con-struction of the Parthenonduring the Gold Age ofGreece (about 450 B.C.). Allof the building’s sculpturedwork is believed to havebeen done under the directsupervision of Phidias. Like
most ancient buildings, theParthenon had its share ofabuse down through theages. It was used as aRoman temple, a GreekOrthodox Church, and evena Mohammedan Mosque.Greece was conquered bythe Romans, overrun by theGoths, occupied by theCrusaders and the Turks.About 1690 when the Vene-tians were besieging Ath-ens, the Parthenon wasturned into a powder maga-zine. A well-aimed Venetiancannonball landed in themiddle of the temple and theexplosion ripped the buildingin half, leaving it as we seeit today.
About 1800 A.D. Lord Elginobtained permission fromthe Turkish government todraw, make plaster casts,and even to remove someof the sculptured piecesfrom the site. His workersremoved about half of theParthenon’s 524 foot orna-mental frieze, along withother sculptured work, andshipped them all back toEngland at a cost of about75,000 pounds. About fouryears later the BritishMuseum purchased themfor 35,000 pounds, makingall this sculptured work theproperty of Great Britain.Later Lord Elgin was de-nounced as dishonest and arapacious vandal by the poetLord Byron, a proponent ofGreek independence. Formore than 150 years a bit-ter controversy has beenwaged regarding Lord Elgin’sauthority to remove thesculptured work fromGreece.
NEXT WEEK: Minerva, theRoman counterpart to Athena
PHIDIAS AND HIS ATHENIAN SCULPTURES
Mayor Thomas M. Meninois encouraged by PresidentBarack Obama’s signing the$787 billion American Re-covery and Reinvestment Act(ARRA). The act contains avariety of direct and competi-tive funding sources forAmerica’s cities. Much of thefunding is directed towardpriorities that Mayor Meninohas long championed, includ-ing modernizing public hous-ing, investing in neighbor-hood development, support-ing youth opportunities ineducation and summer jobs,strengthening public safety,and advancing renewableenergy and energy efficiencyinitiatives. ARRA representsthe federal government’smost sweeping economicpackage in decades.
“I applaud PresidentObama’s leadership in en-suring the swift passage ofthe American Recovery andReinvestment Act, and Ithank our congressional del-egation for its tireless effortsto secure a bill that makessensible investments inBoston’s economy,” MayorMenino said. “With cities andtowns across America con-fronting a very difficult fiscalpicture, this bill provides vi-tal direct funding tostrengthen education, im-prove public housing, rein-vigorate neighborhoods, andstabilize our economythrough job creation.”
Mayor Menino will travel toWashington D.C. this Fridayto meet with PresidentObama, Vice PresidentBiden, and key cabinet mem-bers regarding the legisla-tion. Along with fellow mem-bers of the U.S. Conferenceof Mayors, Mayor Menino willdiscuss implementation ofthe ARRA with the Obamaadministration.
ARRA will provide fundingfor a wide range of specificproject areas, including edu-cation, public safety, housingand neighborhood develop-ment, energy efficiency,summer jobs, and transpor-tation.
Education — Preliminaryestimates suggest that Bos-ton will receive approxi-mately $69 million in educa-tion funding over a two yearperiod as part of ARRA. It is
important to note, however,that a portion of this fundingwill be allocated to other TitleI-eligible parochial and char-ter schools located in Boston.
In addition to Title I andTitle IDEA funds, the Cityexpects to receive additionalfunding for school modern-ization.
Public Safety — The Re-covery and Reinvestment Actwill fund a total of $1 billionin COPS (Community Ori-ented Policing Services)grants to be used for the hir-ing and re-hiring of police of-ficers. The Boston Police De-partment will compete forthese grant funds upon therelease of funding criteriafrom the national COPS Of-fice.
ARRA also includes $2 bil-lion in Byrne-JAG formulagrants. Applying the standardformula, the Boston PoliceDepartment will receiveroughly $5 million. Byrnefunding will likely be used tomaintain the department’score services and support theBoston Regional IntelligenceCenter and the ForensicsDivision. These divisionsprovide essential servicesthat are critical to address-ing and reducing violentcrime.
Housing — The BostonHousing Authority (BHA) willreceive $30 million in directfunding for capital, mainte-nance, and energy efficiencyupgrades. These projectshave the potential to employover 300 people from localcompanies to complete thework. Potential projects in-clude boiler upgrades, elec-tricity upgrades, energy effi-ciency retrofits, and demoli-tion preparations for theWashington Beech housingdevelopment.
BHA can also compete forenergy efficiency fundingfrom a $1 billion nationalcompetitive grant. This fund-ing is intended to preservepublic housing resources,improve infrastructure, andmaintain developments forthe long term. The energyefficiency projects will allowthe City to upgrade outdatedinfrastructure in a way thatpays for itself over the long
INITIAL ANALYSISSUGGESTS PROMISING
GAINS FOR BOSTON FROMTHE AMERICAN RECOVERYAND REINVESTMENT ACT
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Chinatown activists areadvocating that MayorThomas Menino build a per-formance arts high school onStuart Street.
Menino has been pushinga $100 million Boston ArtsAcademy on a city ownedparking lot near TremontStreet but area residentsoppose the idea sayingCity Hall promised that site(Parcel 12) for housing.
The community is pushing
the 45 Stuart Street sitewhere a proposed 24 storyoffice building is planned inthe rear of the Jacob Wirthrestaurant.
Linda Nathan, the school’sco-headmaster and Superin-tendent Carol Johnson havenot made any public com-ments. A city hall sourcesays no one wants to discussa new school while there’stalk of 900 layoffs and 10school closings.
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The current arts highschool is located behindright field at Fenway Park at176 Ipswich Street whichhas been the IRS building, aBoston State College annexand most recently, BostonLatin Academy.
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We are very close to a Marxist takeover of our gov-ernment; it will be accomplished by increasing powersfor big labor, higher taxes, liberal judicial nominations,government takeover of our health care systems; theseare policies that lead to changing the very core of whatAmerica is all about.
I am convinced comrade Obama is a Marxist and ifhe is not exposed in time, America as we have knownit will be lost forever.
Obama is planning to create a voting block so im-mense only another Islamic attack with a nuclear bombwould break the political mold the democrats will haveestablished. They will legalize 20 million illegals thatwill benefit from liberal largess to form another votingblock for the Democrats; it will be similar to the blackand Jewish voters who consistently vote the liberal line.
To complete the coup d’etat (a sudden seizure ofpower), I read John Fund’s insightful article, “WhyObama Wants Control of the Census” (Wall Street Jour-nal 2/10). The article gives notice of how Obama isplanning to control the only obstacle in his way towardscomplete dominance of the electoral process. In hisinaugural address he planned to “restore science to itsrightful place” in government. That is a worthy goal.However, statisticians at the Commerce Departmentdid not think it would mean having the director of nextyear’s Census report directly to the White House ratherthan to the Commerce secretary, as is customary.“There’s only one reason to have that high level ofWhite House involvement, “a career professional at theCensus Bureau tells me, “And it’s called politics,not science.” The decision was made last week afterCalifornia Rep. Barbara Lee, chair of the CongressionalBlack Caucus, and Hispanic groups complained to WhiteHouse that Judd Gregg, the Republican senator fromNew Hampshire slated to head Commerce, could notbe trusted to conduct a complete Census.
In essence: The real issue is who directs the Census,the pros or the pols, says Bruce Chapman who conductedthe census in the 80’s. “You would think an adminis-tration that’s thumping its chest about respectingscience would show a little respect for scientists in thestatistical field.” He worries that a Census directorreporting to a hyperactive partisan such as White HouseChief of Staff Rahm Emanuel increases the chances ofa presidential order that would override the consensusof statisticians.
It would be nice to know what Judd Gregg thinks aboutall this — stay tuned.
CORRUPTION SHAKES THE VERYFOUNDATION OF OUR GOVERNMENT
by Edward P. Shallow
A funeral Mass forHenry W. Bosworth Jr.,84, of Braintree, formerlyof Quincy, founder andpublisher of the QuincySun newspaper longtimecommunity activist anda World War II Navy vet-eran was celebrated atSt. John the BaptistChurch on February 12th.
Mr. Bosworth died sud-denly, Saturday, Febru-ary 7th at Quincy MedicalCenter with his family athis side.
He had worked a full-day at the news-paper office the day before he passedaway. Born in Boston, he was raised inQuincy Point. He was a 1942 QuincyHigh School graduate and later attendedBoston University.
His journalist career began in highschool in his senior year. He became thehigh school correspondent for the Patriot-Ledger and wrote schoolboy sports. Aftergetting discharged at the end of WorldWar II, he returned to the Patriot Ledger.In 1956, he joined the Boston Travelerand covered among other stories, theBrinks Robbery Trial and John F.Kennedy run for president in 1960.
Henry Bosworth left the Boston Trav-eler in 1968 to start the Quincy Sun. Lastyear the paper celebrated its 40th anni-
HENRY BOSWORTH
by Sal Giarratani
He Loved QuincyA Tremendous Loss for His Family, Newspaper Staff and City
versary. Said Quincy MayorTom Koch “He served hiscountry in the Navy andwhen he came home, heserved his family and hiscommunity for the rest ofhis life.” He was a husbandfor 62 years to Dorothy(Robinson) and devotedfather of Gail Happel andhusband Fred of Weymouth,Linda Harrison and husbandBen of Randolph, DonnaGray and husband David ofPembroke, Dorothy Newman
of Quincy and Robert Bosworth and wifeAmy of Halifax.
Son of the late Henry and EllenBosworth, brother of Richard Bosworthand wife Irene of Weymouth and the lateRobert Bosworth and Vera Thomas.
To this writer, Henry Bosworth was agood friend over the years I called Quincymy home. He printed more of my lettersover the years and often kidded me thatthe Quincy Sun was turning into theGiarratani Sun.
I will miss him down at the office andthat wit of his, the last time I talked withhim was at a Pearl Harbor Day Remem-brance at the Morrisette Post in Quincy.There he asked me how my actingcareer was going and I told him I wastrying to pass for Irish. We both laughedat that idea.
“LANDSCAPES”Nick Porcaro, Photo Exhibit on Display
The Consul General of Italy, LiborioStellino held the opening of anextraordinary exhibit: “Landscapes byNick Porcaro at the Consulate Generalof Italy offices on Tuesday, February17th. This exhibition is part of an ini-tiative launched two years ago by theConsulate: “Esponi in Consolato!”(“Exhibit at the Consulate!”). The mis-sion is to devote space to Italian andItalian American artists who areinvited, free of charge, and on a rota-tional basis, to showcase their work.“Landscapes” will be on display untilMarch 20th at the Consular offices.Among the many guests present, therewas the Consul General of Turkey,Erkut Gomulu; the new Presidentof COMITES, Maurizio Pasquale; Pro-fessor, Spencer DiScala; and two
Nick Porcaro and the Consul Generalof Italy, Liborio Stellino
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The CATO INSTITUTE(www.CATO.ORG) recentlybought a full page advertise-ment in the Boston Globe(February 9) criticizing theDemocrats penchant for try-ing to spend us out of the fi-nancial melt down we arecurrently experiencing.
The ad quotes PresidentObama, “There is no dis-agreement that we need ac-tion by our government, arecovery plan that will helpto jumpstart the economy.”The quote was made in aspeech by Barack Obamaback on January 9.
The CATO Institute sayswith “all due respectMr. President, that is not true.”
Many economists are nowKeynesians who seem tosupport government spend-ing us out of the problem.Few remember that afterthe Crash of 29, first Presi-dent Hoover and then in1933, President Roosevelttried to pull us out of theGreat Depression by in-creased government spend-ing. More governmentspending didn’t work. It wasuntil December 7, 1941when Pearl Harbor was at-tacked by the JapaneseNavy that the end of theGreat Depression came toan end. It was a war thatcured unemployment, notthe WPA, no matter howmuch good it did during the30s. It took a war to get usgoing again.
As such, it is the illusionof hope over past experienceto believe as folks like ourpresident, Barney Frank,John Kerry and Ted Kennedythat more government
spending will help us today.Lower taxes and less govern-ment, not the opposite is thecure.
The $800 billion stimuluspackage has turned into ahuge pork barrel. We arepassing on a huge debt toour children and grandchil-dren and most of this moneywon’t do a bit of good andeventually liberal Democratswill return to the well formore stimulus.
Sometimes, governmentis a bigger problem than theproblem itself.
Remember those $600stimulus checks we all gotlast year? Most of us didn’tgo out on a spending spree,we paid off old bills. It was awaste of time and the prob-lem grew bigger.
Now, starving artists wantsome stimulus money. TheCity of Boston actually wasthinking of getting somestimulus cash to buy somemore wind turbines for CityHall’s Roof.
Stimulating the economyisn’t about artists who arehungry or wind turbines, it’sabout or should be abouthealing the sick economy.However, money didn’t workin the past and what makessome in Washington thinkthere will be a differentresult this time around?Printing more money andgiving government morepower isn’t the answer. Theanswer isn’t in Washington,that’s where the problemwas born. Taxing and spend-ing does little but feed theproblem. The Democrats asusual are part of the prob-lem, not the solution.
POURING GOOD MONEY AFTER BAD???The new Stimulus Pack-age restricts bonuses for ex-ecutives receiving Federalcash including the TARPFunds. The companies can-not, by law, pay top earnersa bonus equal to more thanone third of their total an-nual pay. An employee with$1 million pay could receivea bonus of no more than$500,000, which is one thirdof the $1.5 million total pay.More than 350 banks havereceived funds from the pro-gram. Also AIG and GM,Chrysler and Citigroup andBank America receivedfunds already and under thebill bonuses in restrictedstock, the recipients cannotcash in until the Treasuryis paid back. Many execu-tives will find their pay pack-ages much slimmer thanexpected. The banks will payback this money as they willnot live under these restric-tions for long; The bill re-quires a non-binding share-holder vote on banks gettingcapital and keep it for threeyears or raise private capi-tal to replace it. Bank ofAmerica is cooperating andgave bonuses of an averageof 60% with Mr. Lewis, CEO,getting none. Citigroup andMorgan Stanley will com-bine its brokerage withCitigroup’s Smith Barneyunit and will have to pay bo-nuses to retain top produc-ers but will put strings onthe payments. They willspread the costs of the bonusover 6-9 years in order tokeep the whole payment.UBS took about 100 brokersfrom Smith Barney and 200from Morgan Stanley already
and they will not be able toretain brokers without asizeable bonus on 2008 pro-duction.
The Stock Market sufferedits worst week in threemonths, as bank stocksdragged down the indexes.The Blue Chips were down5.2% for the week and thefifth decline in six weeks.Wall Street is telling us thatit doesn’t have confidencethat the stimulus bill willwork, said James Baer,managing member of UBSSecurities. Wells Fargo re-ported that it was takingmore losses on certain se-curities and fell 6.2%. Trea-sury prices fell on Fridayraising yields, and gold fell.7% to $941.70/oz. Oil fu-tures jumped 10% on Fridayto $37.41/bll., but down 66%for the week.
The best deals are CostcoWholesalers, where con-sumers can buy snacks andcandy by the crate, andPepsiCo. which sells soda popand corn chips. Today’s yieldson corporate bonds are at-tractive.
Lloyd’s Banking Group dis-closed big losses relating toits purchase of HBOS, PLC,Lloyds share dropped 30% onFriday after issuing a sur-prise statement that it ex-pects to lose $10 billionpounds for 2008. This spellstrouble for U.K. Prime Min-ister Gordon Brown whobrokered the merger ofHBOS and Lloyd’s last yearto stabilize the country’sbanks. Lloyds is already 43%owned by the U.K. Some 40%of the liability is tied to theU.K. commercial property
sector. The GDP is expectedto decline 2.2% in 2008.They are waiting on the re-sults of the Royal Bank ofScotland, which reports onFebruary 26th.
Hedge Funds and privateequity firms are buyingbased on risky home loansat prices as low as .05/onthe dollar, as banks, insur-ance companies and pen-sion funds are unloadingthese securities that con-tinue to lose value. Theseloans are clogging up banks’books. The lack of buyinginterest, as there are fewbuyers, and there is nomoney to spend, and ratingsdowngrades, and their bondshave the hallmarks of a dis-tressed opportunity. Theprice would be dependent ondifferent variables such ascredit worthiness, and thedocumentation available.
General Motor’s is to offertwo choices: bankruptcy ormore aid. They need a com-mitment of billions of dollarsin bailout money or providemoney in a Chapter 11 bank-ruptcy filing. Some expertsin Congress say bankruptcyis the best way for GM in theshort run with the ability tocut costs and become viable.However, this is politicallybad because of the unemploy-ment situation. Negotia-tions with GMs unions andbondholders have not giventhe concessions it needs. Aplan must demonstrate thatthe sacrifices to restructurethe company will protect theinterest of the taxpayer.
It’s time to call your finan-cial advisor or call me at617-261-7777.
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WGBH welcomes back ac-claimed trumpeter andcomposer Chris Botti topresent “Chris Botti in Bos-ton,” featuring Botti per-forming with a once-in-a-lifetime lineup of some oftoday’s most popular musicartists including Sting,Josh Groban, John Mayer,Katharine McPhee, Yo-YoMa, Steven Tyler, LuciaMicarelli and Sy Smith.These talented stars joinBotti to give masterful per-formances of material dif-ferent from their usual rep-ertoire. Filmed in high-defi-nition before an audience atSymphony Hall in Boston,with Keith Lockhart con-ducting the Boston Pops,“Chris Botti in Boston” airsMonday, March 2 at 7:30pmon WGBH 2.
From the opening mo-ments of the program, Bottiand his special guests keepthe audience riveted. AfterBotti’s beautiful renderingsof “Ave Maria” and “When IFall in Love,” viewers willbe treated to violinist LuciaMicarelli accompanyingBotti on a breathtaking ver-sion of “Emmanuel” followedby Sting’s performance of“Seven Days.” Other high-lights include Josh Grobanand Sting performing to-gether on stage for the firsttime; John Mayer and
Katharine McPhee perform-ing Sinatra classics; andAerosmith’s Steven Tylerdedicating his performanceof Charlie Chaplin’s “Smile”to his father, who is sittingin the audience.
“Chris Botti in Boston” isa follow-up to Botti’s 2006platinum DVD and PBS spe-cial “Chris Botti Live.” Thislatest musical event will bereleased March 31, 2009, onBlu-ray, DVD and CD for-mats through ColumbiaRecords and will featureperformances not aired dur-ing the broadcast on WGBH.
Since the release of hisfirst solo album in 1995,Botti has created a series ofrecordings that have madehim a star in the contem-
porary jazz and pop world.Through his singular com-bination of lush atmo-spheres and thoughtful im-provisations, Botti hasearned both critical acclaimand mainstream apprecia-tion for a succession of best-selling albums, includingWhen I Fall in Love (2004),To Love Again: The Duets(2005) and Italia (2007). Inthe studio and on stage,Botti has worked with suchleading singer-songwritersand composers as PaulSimon, Joni Mitchell, Stingand renowned film com-poser John Barry, amongothers. Botti’s associationwith Sting — who joinedBotti on both To Love Againand When I Fall in Love —dates to 1999, when thetrumpeter joined the poplegend’s band as featuredsoloist on Sting’s “BrandNew Day” tour, which lastedtwo years.
One of the world’s mostpopular concert attractions,Chris Botti currently main-tains one of the busiesttouring schedules moni-tored by the industry, andthe requests for televisionappearances, film scoringand other projects are onthe rise as the sound of histrumpet is heard by moreand more listeners aroundthe world.
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Acclaimed Trumpeter and Composer Chris BottiReturns to WGBH to Present
A Special Star-studded Concert Recorded Live at Symphony HallYou know the year has got-ten off to a rotten start whenit’s February and the bestnews we’ve had is that anairline pilot landed his planein the Hudson River and no-body died.
Let’s see … our greatestOlympic athlete was photo-graphed smoking pot, ourgreatest baseball player con-fessed to using steroids thenlying about it to KatieCouric, our new TreasurySecretary was caught cheat-ing on his taxes and ourmost listened-to talk-radiopersonality says he’s hopingBarack Obama fails.
Fortunately, none of thesethings is as depressing as itfirst seems. For example:
Michael Phelps, potsmoker — Phelps spendshours of his day swimming,an activity that makeswatching paint dry seemelectric. Little wonder that inhis off hours he seeks theescape of a drug-inducedhaze. To do so in a crowd thatbristles with cell-phone cam-eras, however, is like stick-ing your finger in the light-socket to see if the electric-ity is on. Mr. Phelps is obvi-ously dumb as a box of rocks.If you have him as a rolemodel I suggest you raiseyour standards.
Alex Rodriguez, steroid-user — The reigning World’sGreatest Ballplayer copped aplea after a magazine re-
vealed that he’d tested posi-tive for the drugs in 2003, atest he took after being as-sured that no one would everpublish the results. (A prom-ise that ranks up there with“I’ll respect you in the morn-ing.”) Mr. Rodriguez, tearyand apologetic, suggested ithad been a “loose time” forMajor League Baseball andthat he’d been caught up inthe permissive spirit of theage. Sports writers werequick to jump on him, doingtheir best Mary Poppins imi-tations: “Just because ev-erybody is doing it is no ex-cuse for you to do it” theywrote, again and again.
Actually, it’s a better ex-cuse than most. If you’re ina highly competitive busi-ness and your competitorsare cheating and not gettingcaught, you have to be aplaster saint not to betempted to cheat too. (Ifthose sports writers couldtake a pill that would makethem write like Rodriquezhits they’d take it in ablink.) There are two rea-sons for not taking steroids:
They are bad for yourhealth. They are illegal. Inany case, someone shouldtell Alex that there’s no cry-ing in baseball. But if youwere thinking of AlexRodriguez as a role model,think again.
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dents. Then we hear 403public school teachers areon the chopping block andanother 500 teacher posi-tions will disappear. Addto this, cuts in the policedepartment in areas like
It is useful and instructiveto look back in time andinform ourselves of thepurpose and meaning ofmany of the rituals, reli-gious and civil that confrontus in our lives. Too oftenwe go through rituals withlittle knowledge of their ori-gin and significance, be-cause of our lack of under-standing the ritual seemsirrelevant. If we take thetime to look into the originof the ritual in question of-ten we find a meaning andpurpose that affirms its con-tinuance as a source of in-spiration and instruction inour lives.
The dispensation of asheson Ash Wednesday is such aritual. It is the opening riteto the 40 day period knownas Lent, beginning this yearon February 25, a time ofgrowth when new lifeemerges from the deathlikegrip of winter that is sin, atime of rebirth, leading toEaster Sunday. Ushered inby Ash Wednesday, Catho-lics are marked with asheson their foreheads as a signof penance and a reminderof human mortality. Thesymbol of ashes dates backto ancient times whenashes were sprinkled on per-
sons practicing penance.Lent is about growth facili-tated by acts of penance. Thevery word Lent comes fromthe Germanic root forspring, lencten, a time ofrebirth.
The origin of the sac-ramental ashes and thecustom of using ashes inreligious rituals is lost inthe midst of history, but wefind repeated references tothe practice in the Old Tes-tament. The prophet Jere-miah, asks the people ofIsrael to gird on sackcloth,roll in the ashes as a signof their repentance. Theprophet Daniel pleaded forGod to rescue Israel withsackcloth and ashes as asign of Israel’s repentance.In the New Testament,Jesus refers to the use ofsackcloth and ashes assigns of repentance.
There are only a fewrecords of the use of ashesin the Church in the firstmillennium of Church his-tory. The name dies cinerum(day of ashes) is found in theearliest existing copies ofthe Gregorian Sacramentaryand probably dates from atleast the eighth century.On this day all the faithfulaccording to ancient custom
are urged to approach thealtar before the beginning ofMass, and there the priest,dipping his thumb intoashes previously blessed,marks the forehead of eachwith the sign of the cross,saying the words: “Remem-ber man that thou art dustand unto dust thou shaltreturn.” At first, clerics andmen had ashes sprinkledon their heads, whilewomen had the sign of thecross made with ashes ontheir foreheads. Eventuallythe ritual used with womencame to be used for menas well. At the beginning ofthe 11th century, AbbotAelfric notes that it wascustomary for all the faith-ful to take part in a cer-emony on the Wednesdaybefore Lent that included theimposition of ashes. Nearthe end of that century, PopeUrban II called for thegeneral use of ashes on thatday. Only later did this daycome to be called AshWednesday.
The Ashes we receiveon Ash Wednesday are areminder of human mortal-ity and a sign of repentance,an expression of heartfeltsorrow with the firm pur-pose of sinning no more.
Origin, Ash Wednesdayby Bennett Molinari and Richard Molinari
community policing. Whatwe have is a death sentencefor the City of Boston. Publicsafety and public educa-tion going up in red inkmeans Boston’s future isendangered.
The stimulus package, theAmerican Recovery and Re-investment Act (H.R. 1), in-cluded legislation offered byCongressman Larry Kissellof North Carolina mandatingthat textile and apparel prod-ucts contracted by the U.S.Department of HomelandSecurity’s (DHS) be manu-factured in the UnitedStates with 100 percent U.S.inputs. This mandate, com-monly known as the BerryAmendment, was first ap-plied to the U.S. Departmentof Defense (DoD) beginningin 1941.
“The Kissell Amendmentwill immediately help textileand apparel companies be-cause it will cover uniformsand other textile productspurchased by DHS for TSAand the Coast Guard. Thisprogram can be expanded bythe Obama Administrationto cover other DHS agenciessuch as the Federal Emer-gency Management Agency(FEMA), U.S. Customs andBorder Protection, the U.S.Secret Service, and U.S.Citizenship & ImmigrationServices. Needless to say, wewill be encouraging Presi-dent Obama to do this,” saidKarl Spilhaus, President ofthe National Textile Asso-ciation (NTA).
The U.S. textile and ap-parel sector has been hitparticularly hard by the eco-nomic downturn with 60,000jobs lost during the pasttwelve months.
The Berry Amendment re-quires the DoD to buy cer-tain products, judged essen-tial to military readiness,with 100 percent U.S. con-tent and labor. These prod-ucts include clothing andother textile items, specialtysteel, and food. The Berry
Amendment ensures mili-tary readiness through anactive defense-industrialbase and provides a reliabledomestic source for certainvital goods during times ofwar.
The Kissell Amendmentextends Berry to cover U.S.Coast Guard and TSA pro-curement of textile and ap-parel products. DHS maywaive the requirements ifthe specific item is not pro-duced in the United Statesor cannot be procured in areasonable time at a reason-able cost.
The reason why the KissellAmendment provisions wouldonly extend to TSA and theCoast Guard and not otherDHS agencies is becausethe U.S. government is a sig-natory to the WTO Agree-ment on Government Pro-curement (GPA), which pro-hibits Berry-type provisions.The United States has theoption to exempt agenciescritical to national securityfrom the GPA, but only haschosen to exempt the CoastGuard and TSA within DHS.Nevertheless, The KissellAmendment also allows theObama Administration toapply the Berry Amendmentto other agencies withinDHS (Customs and BorderProtection, Secret Service,FEMA, and Citizenship andImmigrations Services) shouldthe U.S government chooseto exercise its discretionand also exempt them fromthe GPA.
David Trumbull is thechairman of the Boston WardThree Republican Committee.Boston’s Ward Three includesthe North End, West End, partof Beacon Hill, downtown,waterfront, Chinatown, andpart of the South End.
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Left to Right: Franz Israel, Scott Warrenand Pat Capogreco take the Oath of Office.
Boston City Councilor Sal LaMattina(center) presents outgoing directors,Derek Brodin (left) and Buddy Mangini(right) with a Citation from the BostonCity Council.
Seated, left to right: East Boston MainStreets Executive Director, ClarkMoulaison, Tom Russo and Al Russo.Standing, left to right: EBCC Director,Michael Nicastro and Past East BostonChamber President Pat Todisco.
Dan Ryan from US Congressman MichaelCapuano’s office, presents outgoingdirectors, Derek Brodin (left) and BuddyMangini (right) with a Citation.
• East Boston Chamber of Commerce Installation (Continued from Page 1)
Boston Logan Airport Hilton’s Director of Catering, Jim Callahan, EBCC President,Angelo Vigliotta Jr., State Senator Anthony Petruccelli, Sargeant John O’Connell,and District 7 Police Captain Robert Cunningham.
Senator Anthony Petruccelli (center)presents outgoing directors, Derek Brodin(left) and Buddy Mangini (right) with aCitation from the Massachusetts Senate.
Michael Sulprizio from State Repre-sentative Carlo Basile’s office (center)presents outgoing directors, Derek Brodin(left) and Buddy Mangini (right) with aCitation from the Massachusetts Houseof Representatives.
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A chorus of more than 80frogs and tadpoles from aroundthe globe is hopping, gliding,and singing along the way tothe Museum of Science, Bos-ton, through May 25, 2009.The Museum will presentFrogs! A Chorus of Colors.Frogs! is the most completeexhibition of live frogs evercreated, covering more as-pects of the order Anura thanever before and featuring 18species of frogs from aroundthe world.
For those who have neverthought of frogs as beautifulor melodious, this exhibitmay change their minds.Frogs are among the mostcolorful, musical, andadaptively remarkable ani-mals on Earth. In addition totheir aesthetic value, frogsare important to the study ofhuman medicine. The pro-
tective toxins that cover theskin of these “hopping phar-macies” may be used to treatheart ailments, Alzheimer’sdisease, depression, andsome cancers.
Sadly, though frogs havefilled the night with song forsome 360 million years, frogsand other amphibians maybecome the next dinosaurs.According to the IUCN RedList of Threatened Species,32% of the world’s amphibian
species are threatened byextinction. With 1,856 threat-ened species, there are morethreatened amphibian spe-cies than threatened mam-mals or birds. As humans al-ter natural environments,and threats like habitat loss,pollution, and disease loom—frogs around the world aredisappearing. Although noneof the species in Frogs! arethreatened or endangered,some are protected in theircountries of origin, such asthe Vietnamese mossy frog(protected in Vietnam) andthe dart poison frog (protectedin Suriname). Most of the fea-tured species are in declinein their native habitats. Byshowcasing the remarkabletraits of frogs, the Museumhopes to educate visitorsabout the importance of theseincredible creatures.
“Much more than say‘ribbit,’ frogs chirp, whistle,growl, and snore. Their skincan startle predators with daz-zling jewel colors or serve ascamouflage. And their re-markable adaptations havetaught us information that isvaluable to human health,”says Lew Stevens, senior cu-rator of living collections atthe Museum of Science. “Thisexhibit will immerse mu-seum-goers in the surprisingsights and sounds of frogs,and we hope that visitors willcome away with a better un-derstanding of these animalsand the need to protect them.”
Visitors will witness, up-close, a diverse range of frogsand their behaviors. Specieson display include:
American Bullfrog —Named for their loud, deepmating calls, bullfrogs eat in-sects, fish, birds, snakes,baby turtles and other frogs.These frogs are native to theeastern U.S., but they havebeen released west of theRocky Mountains where theyhave devastated local popula-tions of frogs and other smallanimals.
African Bullfrog — These
giant frogs can grow up toeight inches in diameter andlive for 40 years. They eat al-most anything – insects,small mammals, and otherfrogs. Adult African Bullfrogsbear a striking resemblanceto the Star Wars characterJabba the Hutt.
Dart Poison Frog — DartPoison Frogs from therainforests of the Americascome in a dizzying array ofcolors and patterns. Some areused by native tribes to poi-son the tips of blowdarts forhunting. Complex compoundsin the skin secretions of dartfrogs are now being studiedby scientists for potentialmedical use. These frogshave provided a possible sub-stitute for morphine that isnon-addictive and 100 timesmore potent.
Chinese Gliding Frog —These beautiful tree frogshave enlarged webbing be-tween the toes. When leap-ing between branches or es-caping toward the ground, thetoes spread and the webbingacts like a parachute. Al-though no frogs can truly fly,gliding frogs can soar andland gracefully from dauntingheights.
Fire-bellied Toad — Thesemostly aquatic creatureshave the warty skin of a toad,but swim and require mois-ture like pond frogs. When ingroups, fire-bellied toads areoften seen in amplexus, themating posture where malesgrasp females around thewaist to fertilize eggs. The
backside of the toad is greenand black, providing camou-flage from above. But whendisturbed, they throw theirlegs into the air revealing abright red “fire belly” to startlethe intruder.
The exhibit recreates a glo-bal range of habitats fromSouth American rainforeststo African aquatic environ-ments with advanced enclo-sures complete with water-falls, live plants, and rockledges. The custom habitatsprovide controlled lighting,humidity, temperature, andwater quality to meet theneeds of the animals.
Frogs! offers many interac-tive stations that invite visi-tors to hear recorded frogcalls, view videos of frogs inaction, spin a zoetrope, andtest their frog knowledge.
To complement Frogs! theMuseum will present specialprograms and live animalpresentations during the ex-hibit run. Museum Interpret-ers will be available in theexhibit to educate visitorsabout comparative anatomy.The public can also visit theDiscovery Center to meet alive Giant African Bullfrog,examine a frog skeleton, andlearn about frogs in theCharles River.
The exhibit is just one ofseveral offerings that makethe Museum of Science awarm winter getaway thisFebruary. Museum visitorscan escape the cold with thegiant-screen film, Amazon, avisit to the balmy ButterflyGarden, and a gourmet,South American menu atScience Street Café.
Frogs! A Chorus of Colorswill be presented at the Mu-seum of Science now throughMay 25, 2009. Frogs! A Cho-rus of Colors was created byPeeling Productions at ClydePeeling’s REPTILAND. Admis-sion to Frogs! is included withregular Exhibit Halls admis-sion. For more information,call 617-723-2500, (TTY) 617-589-0417, or visit mos.org.
Most Complete Exhibition of FrogsFeatures Over 80 Live Animals from Around the Globe
at the Museum of Science, Boston
AMERICAN BULLFROG(photo by Joe McDonald)
CHINESE GLIDING FROG(photo by Joe McDonald)
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On Tuesday, February 24,diners will leave more thanjust a tip when they visitThe Chateau’s Waltham lo-cation, and a portion of theirdinner bill is donated to au-tism research. Partneringwith Teamsters Local 25 andtheir mission to raise funds
for autism, The Chateau willdonate 25% of proceeds fromall eat-in and take-out din-ers who present a couponfrom 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
In the last year, Team-sters Local 25 has raisednearly $200,000 for autismand has become New
England’s premier fund-raiser for Autism Speaks, anational advocacy organiza-tion dedicated to fundingresearch into the causes,prevention and treatment ofautism.
“We’re excited to part-ner with The Chateau onthis worthwhile effort,” saidSean M. O’Brien, president,Teamsters Local 25. “Withone in 150 children diag-nosed with autism each yearmost everyone knows a fam-ily affected by this disorder.As a parent and representingmore than 11,000 membersof Teamsters Local 25, I feelit is our job as leaders notonly in the workplace, butalso in the community, tohelp raise awareness andfunds for advanced research.I congratulate the Nocerafamily for stepping up to theplate for autism and hopethat area diners will makea date for The Chateau onFebruary 24.”
“This is an opportunity forpatrons to make a donationwithout spending anythingmore than what they wouldnormally pay for dinner,” saidJoe Nocera, president of TheChateau family of restau-rants. “The Chateau pridesitself on being part of thecommunity, and we arepleased to present the Team-sters Local 25 Autism Fundas our latest fundraiser.”
The Chateau is located at195 School Street, Waltham.Diners may download a cou-pon at www.teamsterslocal25.com/autism-chateau.html.The coupon must be pre-sented to the server forparticipation.
Teamsters Local 25 willpresent the “Second AnnualGala for Autism,” on Satur-day, March 28, at theInterContinental Hotel Bos-ton. Tickets include dinnerstations, cash bar, a liveband and dancing, silent andlive auctions, and manymore surprises.
As part of this year’s Gala,Local 25 will raffle off a newBoston Whaler; you do notneed to be present to win theboat. To learn more, visitwww.teamsterslocal25.com.To learn more about TheChateau family of restau-rants, visit their websitewww.chateaurestaurant.com.
……. We have an updateregarding “A MoveableFeast: With America’s Fa-vorite Chefs,” which wementioned in a recentcolumn.
According to WGBH publi-cist Leah Orfanos, the hour-
long pledge special pre-mieres on WGBH-Channel 2Boston on Saturday, Febru-ary 28 at noon. It will re-peat on Sunday, March 8 at3:30 p.m.
The special will have thespirit of a “progressive din-ner,” with each chef cookinga single course, ultimatelycreating a complete “move-able feast” that starts withappetizers and ends withdessert. It salutes cooking
Pictured at a recent gala culinary feast at the JamesBeard House in New York are Danielle deBenedictis, left,and her husband Peter Karlson, right. The couple, ownersof Nantucket’s Summer House, hosted a dinner for 80members of the James Beard House, a prestigious venuefor chefs to display their talents. Marc Orfaly, center,the Summer House’s Executive Chef, prepared anambitious and very well received menu.
(Photo courtesy of Betty Levin) We share another photo from The Spaulding Rehabilita-tion Hospital’s Annual Gala, featured in the February 6“Socially Set” column. Themed “Technology in Motion,”the gala was held at the Citi-Wang Theatre, raising fundsfor state-of-the-art programs and groundbreaking researchat the hospital. Pictured celebrating the success of theevent are Citi Performing Arts Center President and CEOJosiah Spaulding, left, and committee member TerryWilliams. (Photo by Roger Farrington)
Enjoying The Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital’s AnnualGala are committee members Kita Reece, left, and hermother Louise Riemer. (Photo by Roger Farrington)
traditions across the globe,representing the diversity offood and culture that makeAmerica the world’s greatmelting pot.
The featured public televi-sion culinary experts in-clude: José Andrés, “MadeIn Spain”; Lidia Bastianich,“Lidia’s Italy”; Rick Bayless,“Mexico, One Plate at aTime”; Chris Kimball,
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Bob D ’s Beatby Bob DeCristoforo
RALPH ‘OZZYBOW’DEMARCO
Ralph DeMarco was one ofthe North End’s very best. Hewas involved with the NEAAand NEAA Baseball. He lovedhis family, and his manyfriends. He had a very bigheart. We all will miss‘OzzyBow’. He was buriedfrom Sacred Heart Churchon Tuesday. I hope the ‘new’NEAA Baseball League willremember him in a specialway.
NAZZARO CENTER:THE HUB OF THE
NORTH ENDIn the North End we are
most fortunate to have theNazzaro Center aka the Bos-ton Center for Youth andFamily Nazzaro CommunityCenter. In thinking foryouth and families is onlypart of the title, because youcan add for seniors, for orga-nizations, for meetings, orbetter for everyone. It’s agood place to go, and a goodplace for kids to grow. TheNazzaro Center, named inhonor of Michael Nazzaro,like any place, is only as goodas the people, who run it,and in people like Coordina-tor Carl Ameno and ProgramDirector Laurie D’Elia theNazzaro Center is the best,and definitely the ‘best littleCenter’ in the City. We canbe proud of this place.
HIGH SCHOOL PREPNOTEBOOK
On the ice Eastie defeatedSouth Boston 10-5. CamHarrington had four goals forthe Jets! The Eastie hoopteam was defeated by CM79-67. Charlestown fell toboth Brighton 71-60 andMadison Park 78-52.
In the City Boys TrackChampionships O’Bryantwon it all. Charlestown fin-ished second, and BostonLatin finished third. Char-lestown track star Omar Abdihas accepted a full Scholar-ship at the University ofArkansas for this comingSeptember. On the girls sideO’Byant won the title, fol-lowed by New Mission, SouthBoston, and East Boston.
Matignon won the SpartanCup defeating Sandwich 4-1and Bishop stang 3-0 toqualify for the State Tourna-ment. CM defeated Thayer2-1 in the Mark Bavis Cupand Tabor Academy took theTravis Roy Cup defeatingSt. Sebastian 7-4. The Bos-ton Latin Cheerleaders fin-ished 12th in the Nationals.
WOMEN’S BEANPOT7th ranked BC shutout
Harvard 1-0 in the Women’s
Beanpot held at Northeast-ern. Kelli Stack had thegame winner and MollySchaus had 40 saves for theEagles. Boston Universitywon the no-consolationgame defeating Northeast-ern 2-1. The BC BeanpotChamps were ‘saluted’ at theBC Men’s Hockey game onFriday.
COLLEGE BOARDOn the hardwood Sunday
evening up at the HeightsBoston College defeatedDUKE 80-74 ... nothing elseneeds to be written!
In the ECAC hockeyHarvard nipped Colgate 3-2.Chris Huxley had the gamewinner, and then Coach TedDonato’s team shockedCornell 4-2 at the standingroom only Bright Arena.Ryan Carroll had 42 savesfor Harvard.
Over in Hockey East #1 BUmoved to within one point ofHE leader Northeastern tak-ing three points from Mainebeating up the Bears 7-2 andthen coming from behind totie up the Bears 2-2. NickBonino got the tying goalwith just 4:09 to go in thethird period. I took in my firstgame (hard to believe) of theyear at ‘Hockey Mad’ North-eastern. I went home mad.NU, who came from behindto defeat UMASS 5-3 on Fri-day, may have played it worsegame of the season, andUMASS may have playedtheir best game of the sea-son in defeating the Huskies4-1. The Minutemen hadfour goals before NU got theirfirst very late in the thirdperiod. My Friday night’sencounter was at BC, andthe Eagles just didn’t have it.Opponent Lowell did shuttingout BC 6-0! In game two ofthe home and home seriesBC picked up a point tyingup the River Hawks 4-4.Watch out with John Musein the BC net, the defendingNational Champions willmake some noise comeplayoff time!
Vermont and Merrimacksplit their weekend series.Merrimack winning thefirst 3-2, and Vermont win-ning the second 4-3. UNHtook three of four points fromProvidence tying up theFriars 4-4 and upping theFriars 4-2.
Tommy DeRosa had boththe tying goal and winninggoal as Tufts came from be-hind to defeat Salem State4-3. The Jumbos also tied upSouthern Maine 5-5. Teamleader Tom D had two as-sists in the tie.
On the Women ice North-eastern qualified for theplayoffs defeating Vermont4-3 and UConn shutoutMaine 1-0. St. Anselm’sadded two more wins to itstotals defeating Manhattan-ville 6-3 and Salve Regina2-1.
HOCKEY EAST25th ANNIVERSARY DVD
ON SALEHockey East is celebrating
its 25th Anniversary thisseason, and the commemo-rative DVD highlighting thismilestone is now on sale atall Hockey East venues, andonline at www.hockeyeastonline.com. It was ‘debut’ atTD Banknorth Garden onWednesday and is excellent.Many who made the leaguewhat it is, were at the Gar-den for the premier. For me“25 Years of Hockey East —A Tradition of Excellence” pro-duced by StarGames, waslike watching a part of mylife fondly remembered.
‘RED SOX CENTURY’Someone gave me a copy
of ‘Red Sox Century’ a fewmonths ago, and I finally fin-ished it. The history of theBoston Red Sox, as we allknow, is quite interesting,and I found that a lot ofthings that happened in thepast have a lot of similari-ties to things that are hap-pening now like the BabeRuth and the Manny sagas,and the Royal Rooters, andRed Sox Nation just to namea couple. The book alsopoints out how very wrongthe Red Sox were when itcame to Blacks on the RedSox ... Jackie Robinson!I’m also very glad that ‘RedSox Century’ is PAST His-tory. Next up: Joe Torre: TheYankee Years!
TIDBITS
- City Councilor RobConsalvo will hold hisAnnual Winter BreakfastSaturday February 21st atthe Boston Lodge of Elks inWest Roxbury. Checkoutwww.robconsalvo.com.
- USA defeated Mexico2-0 in a World Cup Soccerqualifier.
- Wednesday, February25th is Ash Wednesday.
- The NBA Finals MVP willbe named the Bill RussellMVP Award in honor of theBoston Celtics Great.
- Celeb Sightings: PhilOrlandella ‘scooping up somenews’ at the NEWNC meet-ing, Harvard Hockey assis-tant Johnny Guiliotti viaEastie and Savio at theBeanpot, and Mayoral Can-didate Mike Flaherty’s NorthEnd man Sal Diecidue
- Red Sox Home Opener isMonday April 6th versusTampa Bay!
SMILE!
Boston Latin Cheerleaders
Johnny Guiliotti
EMERGENCY! SEASONFIVE (5-DVD)
Universal StudiosHome Ent.
With sirens blaring, Emer-gency! Season Five is on DVDwith all 24 gripping episodeson a 5-disc set. Heroic para-medics Roy DeSoto (KevinTighe) and John Gage(Randolph Mantooth) race tothe scene of desperate citi-zens trapped in some of LosAngeles’s most dire situa-tions. This engaging seriesby Jack Webb of Dragnetfame is loaded with all thesuspense, humor and heart-tugging decisions that couldonly come from real-lifedrama. (17 hrs. 13 mins.).
ROMAN POLANSKI:WANTED AND DESIRED
(DVD)Image Entertainment
One of the most controver-sial and brilliant directors,Roman Polanski has longbeen a subject of fascinationfor his films and his personallife. Reopening a case thatsent shock waves throughthe world over three decadesago, Roman Polanski: Wantedand Desired intensely exam-ines Polanski’s convictionfor having unlawful sexualintercourse with a minorand the chaos that followed.With unprecedented accessto the lawyers representingthe case, the media cover-ing it and the victim herself,the documentary is a star-tling indictment of our legalsystem and our intoxicationwith celebrities. If you thinkPolanski should be bannedfrom the United States, thisfilm may change your mind.(1 hr. 40 mins.).
BLOOD +:VOLUME FOUR (DVD)
Sony Pictures Home Ent.The battle continues in
Blood +: Volume Four, moreadventures as Saya Oton-ashi battles the evil Chi-ropterans! A normal highschool student, who suffersfrom amnesia, her destiny ispartially revealed when astranger presents her witha katana. Soon she findsherself fighting Chiropter-ans — ravenous creaturesthat can change their form,disguising themselves ashuman beings. An organiza-tion call the Red Shield hasbeen waging a private war towipe them out. They travelto Ekaterinburg during thecontinued struggle, but noone’s safe. (2 hrs. 4 mins.).
MURDER, SHE WROTE:THE COMPLETE NINTH
SEASON (5-DVD)Universal Studios
Home Ent.Everyone’s favorite sleuth
is back for the ninth seasonof Murder, She Wrote. The 5-disc set includes all 22 epi-sodes, starring AngelaLansbury. Writer/detectiveJessica Fletcher (Lansbury)continues to follow the cluesto uncover the truth, both at
home in the charming townof Cabot Cove and on hermany travels. Joining her atthe crime scenes are gueststars, David Soul, HarveyFierstein, Neil Patrick Har-ris, John Polito and AmyBrenneman. (16 hrs. 58mins.).
THE TENTH CIRCLE (DVD) Sony Pictures Home Ent.Based on the bestseller,
The Tenth Circle is about aplace where innocence isnot always innocent. LauraStone (Kelly Preston) is acollege professor married toDaniel (Ron Eldard), a comicbook artist. Their pride andjoy is their 15-year-olddaughter Trixie (BrittRobertson). But when Trixiecomes home from a partyand claims her ex-boyfriendraped her, their lives are for-ever changed. The high pro-file investigation puts thefamily under everyone’sscrutiny —but who’s toblame among the young andinnocent? (1 hr. 29 mins.).
TYLER PERRY’S THEMARRIAGE COUNSELOR:
THE PLAY (DVD)Lionsgate
Roger Jackson (TonyGrant) made sacrifices sohis wife Judith (TamarDavis), could set up practiceas a marriage counselor.Now the most disastrous re-lationship of Judith’s careercould be the one she shareswith her husband! Masterplaywright Tyler Perry craftsan unforgettable tale oflaughter, loss and love.When the honeymoon’s over,that when the real work be-gins! (2 hrs. 23 mins.).
BOOGEYMAN 3 (DVD)Sony Pictures Home Ent.When college sophomore
Sarah Morris witnesses thealleged suicide of her room-mates, it sets into motion aseries of horrific events thatcause Sarah to fear the su-pernatural entity known asthe Boogeyman. As she triesto convince the rest of herdorm that the Boogeymandoes exist, the evil forcegrows stronger and herfriends begin to pay theprice. Now Sarah must stopthis ultimate evil before theentire campus falls prey be-cause the question isn’twhether or not the Boogey-man will get … it’s HOW andWHEN! (1 hr. 34 mins.).
SAW V (DVD)Lionsgate
The SAW film series hasratcheted up tension andinvention with each succes-sive film, while jangling mil-lions of nerves worldwide. Inthe fifth installment, SAW V,Detective Hoffman (CostasMandylor) is seemingly thelast person alive to carry onthe Jigsaw legacy. However,when his secret is threat-ened, Hoffman must go onthe hunt to eliminate allloose ends. (1 hr. 36 mins.).
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UPTOWN & DOWNTOWN
THE COLONIAL THEATRE106 Boylston Street, Boston, MA
MOVIN’ OUT - March 20 - 22, 2009.Five-time Grammy winner Billy Joeland legendary director and choreog-rapher Twyla Tharp have joined forcesto create the spectacular new musi-cal Time Magazine declares “The #1show of the year!” The New YorkTimes calls MOVIN’ OUT “a shimmer-ing portrait of an American genera-tion. These tornado driven dancersand rock musicians propel the audi-ence into delirious ovations.” MOVIN’OUT brings 26 Billy Joel classics toelectrifying new life as it tells the storyof five life-long friends over two tur-bulent decades. It all adds up to oneunforgettable Broadway musical.
A BRONX TALE – March 31through April 11, 2009. Actor ChazzPalminteri gives an unforgettable per-formance as a young boy’s rough child-hood in the 1960s-era Bronx, and theunforgettable people he encountered.For tickets call Ticketmaster at: 617-931-2787.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY THEATRE264 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA
WHAT THE BUTLER SAW – Nowthrough February 28, 2009. The pre-miere of this play sent shockwavesthrough London audiences, who werescandalized by its lewd humor andmadcap energy. Forbidden trysts, aweb of lies and a government inquisi-tion highlight this farce. For more in-formation call: 617-266-0800 or logonto www.huntingtontheatre.org.
SHUBERT THEATER265 Tremont Street, Boston, MA
JERSEY BOYS - July 23 - August30, 2009. JERSEY BOYS, winner ofthe 2006 Grammy® Award for BestMusical Show Album, features theirhit songs “Sherry,” “Big Girls Don’tCry,” “Rag Doll,” “Oh What a Night”and “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You.” “ITWILL RUN FOR CENTURIES!” proclaimsTime Magazine. The JERSEY BOYScreative team comprises two-timeTony Award®-winning director DesMcAnuff, book writers MarshallBrickman and Rick Elice, composer BobGaudio, lyricist Bob Crewe and cho-reographer Sergio Trujillo.For generalinformation call 617-482-9393. Fortickets log onto www.telecharge.comor call (800) 432-7250.
THE BOSTON CONSERVATORYTHEATER31 Hemenway St, Boston, MA
42ND STREET – March 4-8, 2009. Aclassic reproduction of the smallBroadway hit about a young actress,
THEATER
Special Events
MUSIC
Peggy Sawyer, who gets her big breakon the stage.
SHOWBOAT – April 24-26, 2009.It’s a majestic, sweeping classic aboutlife, love, tragedy and survival on theMississippi River at the turn of the20th century. For tickets, times of theperformances and more information,call the box office at: 617-912-9222 orwww.bostonconservatory.edu
THE FACTORY THEATRE791 Tremont Street, Boston, MA
THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK –Now through February 22, 2009. Thisis a story of a girl who with her family,goes into hiding during World War IIin order to escape persecution byHitler’s plan to rid Europe of Jews.For tickets and more information,please call: 617-697-6012 or visit:www.bostonstagecompany.org.
TUFTS UNIVERSITYBalch Arena TheaterMedford, MA
ANYTHING TO DECLARE? – Nowthrough through February 28, 2009.When newlyweds Paulette and Rob-ert return from their honeymoon, thebride’s overbearing parents are dev-astated to hear that their new son-in-law was unable to consummate themarriage. This deliciously libidinousFrench farce keeps the laughter flow-ing and the energy up. For more in-formation, directions to the theaterand tickets, please call: 617-627-3493.
sary. All concerts begin at 8:15 p.m.,except where noted.
THE REGENT THEATRE 7 Medford Street, Arlington, MA
THE MAN IN BLACK: A TRIBUTETO JOHNNY CASH – Saturday, Feb-ruary 21st at 8:00 PM. Shawn Barkertakes the stage with traditionalJohnny Cash greeting to his exit.Shawn truly captures the presenceof Cash, not only through his music,but in his storytelling. For tickets andmore information, please call: 781-646-4849 or visit: www.regenttheatre.com
THE BOSTONCONSERVATORY THEATER31 Hemenway St., Boston, MA
SERSE – April 2-4, 2009 at 8:00 PMand April 5, 2009 at 2:00 PM. This isan opera by George Frederic Handeland tells the story of King Xerxeswho harbors an unrequited love fora princess who loves his brother.The opera is sung in Italian withEnglish surtitles. For tickets andfurther information, please call: 617-912-9240 or 617-912-9222 or visit:www.bostonconservatory.edu/perfor-mances.
NATIONAL HERITAGE MUSEUMLexington, MA
AN AMERICAN JOURNEY – March1, 2009. Irish, Italian and EasternEuropean Jewish immigrants sharesongs, dances and stories as they sailto New York in 1907. For more infor-mation, visit: www.revels.org.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY THEATRE264 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA
LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR – April16-19, 2009. The moors of 17th cen-tury Scotland are the melancholy set-ting for Donizetti’s classic tragedy of ayoung woman driven to madnesswhen forced to marry a man whodoesn’t love. This evening of musicis in Italian with English super-titles. For tickets, times of the per-formances and more informationplease call: 617-933-8600 or visit:www.BostonTheatreScene.com.
THE SHUBERT THEATRE265 Tremont Street, Boston, MA
RUSALKA – March 20-31, 2009.This opera will captivate the audiencewith its tale of obsessive love and itsconsequences. A performance not tobe missed.
DON GIOVANNI – April 24-May 5,2009. This opera will captivate theaudience with its tale of obsessive loveand its consequences. For more info,and tickets call Tele Charge at: 800-447-7400 or visit: www.telecharge.com
THE NEW ENGLAND CONSERVA-TORY - JORDAN HALL30 Gainsborough St, Boston, MA
MUSIC OF BEETHOVEN,BRITTEN AND FINZI – Friday, March13, 2009 at 8:00 PM. For tickets andmore info, please call: 617-868-5884or visit: www.cantatasingers.org.
HOUSE OF BLUES BOSTON15 Lansdowne St., Boston, MA
TOM JONES - Sunday, March 1,2009 at 8:00pm. Going strong after allthese years. Don’t miss Tom Jones atthe newly built House of Blues loca-tion. Call 888.693.BLUE for tickets andinformation.
DICK’S LAST RESORTQuincy Market at Faneuil HallMarketplaceBoston, MA
ENTERTAINMENT LINE-UP FORTHE MONTH OF MARCH – FromMarch 3rd through March 31, 2009,there will be a line-up of wonderfulentertainers to perform their musicfor you. For a detailed listing of per-formances and times, please call: 617-267-8080.
SEUILLY HALL8 The Fenway, Boston, MA
STRING MASTERS SERIES –February 24, 2009 at 8:00 PM. Theprogram features the works of Faure,Weir and Part.
PIANO MASTERS SERIES withBoris Berman – March 10, 2009 at8:00 PM. Boris is admired worldwidefor his intellectual rigor and techni-cal perfection. The program featuresthe music of Chopin and Debussy. Fortickets and info, please call: 617-912-9240 or you may visit the website:www.bostonconservatory.edu
ITALIAN EVENTS & PROGRAMS
TD BANKNORTH GARDENCauseway Street, Boston, MA
SPINNING THE GLOBE – Sunday,March 29, 2009 at 1:00 PM and Mon-day, March 30, 2009 at 7:00 PM. Thelegendary Harlem Globetrotters are
ITALIAN RADIO“The Sicilian Corner” 11:00 AM
to 1:00 PM every Friday with host TomZappala and Mike Lomazzo and “TheItalian Show” w/Nunzio DiMarcaevery Sunday from 10AM to 1PMwww.1110wccmam.com
“Italia Oggi”(Italy Today) Sundays1PM to 2 PM with host Andrea Urdi
1460 AM www.1460WXBR.com“Dolce Vita Radio” DJ Rocco
“The Nick Franciosa Show” -Every Sunday at 12 Noon to 3:00 PMon radio stations WLYN 1360 AM andWAZN 1470 AM.
BOSTON’S NORTH END LIBRARY25 PARMENTER STREET
Saturday, February 28, starting at10:15 AM - the Pirandello Lyceumwill sponsor an Italian film Alcide deGasperi, Italy’s Man of Hope, withEnglish subtitles, caffe e biscotti willbe offered. The film starts at 10:30AM SHARP. The film is free and opento the general public, however the filmmay not be suitable for children,adults only. Weather advisory: Ifthe library is open, the film will beshown. RSVP is not required for thispresentation.
SONS OF ITALY HALLKing Hill Road, Braintree, MA
ITALIAN CARNIVAL (Carnevale)Saturday, February 21, 2009 from6:30 PM -12 Midnight. Sponsoredby Festa Calabrese this event willinclude a delicious dinner and danc-ing. Festa Calabrese is a non-profit organization that raises moneyto support local charities in Eastern,Massachusetts. For tickets to thisevent and for more informationabout Festa Calabrese pleasecall 617-842-4222.
FAIRMONT COPLEY PLAZAHOTEL138 St James Ave, Boston, MA
“LA FESTA DELLA MUSICA” -February 28, 2009, a great eventfilled this year with a specialItalian flavor, to benefit NECScholarship’s fund. HonoraryChairman is Consul General LiborioStellino. For more informationand tickets please log ontowww.newenglandconservatory.edu/feastofmusic.
SANDERS THEATER45 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
RENZO PIANO - March 9, 2009at 6:00 PM. Renzo will discuss therenovation of the Harvard ArtMuseum, in the context of his archi-tectural work. Free admission, butticket are required Harvard Box Office:617-496-2222.
ALGONQUIN CLUB217 Commonwealth Ave., Boston
ITALIAN NIGHT - February 27,2009. Celebrate an evening of cultureand fun. Please check back for moredetails.
BOCELLI’S RESTAURANT374 Main St, Medford, MA
FESTA DELLA DONNA -Domenica, 8 Marzo 2009 - Ore1:00 P. M. - La Societa’ SanDomenico, Protettore di Augusta hail piacere di invitarVi all’ “Interna-tional Women’s Day”, per celebrarela giornata dedicata alla donna ,commemorando tutte coloro chehanno sofferto e si sono battute perottenere i risultati di oggi. Il menuconsiste Antipasto Pasta Choice ofSurf & Turf, Chicken Marsala or BakedHaddock Contorni Soft Drink Caffe’ &Dolce Musica by Enzo Amara Seinteressati, siete pregati di chiamareal piu’ presto una delle seguentipersone: Maria Mellace -781-289-6323, Maria Teresa Costa-781-662-2752, Carmela Noe-781-284-3353,Silvana Lanzerota-603-437-0055,Franca Daniele- 781-485-1042.L’assegno deve essere intestato allaSocieta’ San Domenico e spedito aMaria Mellace al 76 Fairfield St., Re-vere, MA 02151. entro il 20 di Febbraiospecificando la scelta del secondo. Allincome will be donated to charity
THE SAINT DOMENIC SOCIETYOF AUGUSTA cordially invites you toparticipate in the “Festa della Donna”– International Women’s Day on Sun-day, March 8, 2009 at 1:00 PM held atBocelli’s Restaurant at 374 MainStreet, Medford, MA. There will beplenty of food and entertainment byEnzo Amara. For tickets and more in-formation you may call Maria Mellaceat 1-781-289-6323, Maria TeresaCosta-781-662-2752, Carmela Noe-781-284-3353, Silvana Lanzerota-603-437-0055, Franca Daniele- 781-485-1042.
TD BANKNORTH GARDENCauseway Street, Boston, MA
FLEETWOOD MAC - March 11,2009 at 8:00 PM. “We love our bandand think the title of the tour“UNLEASHED” perfectly describeshow we all feel when we get on stagetogether — especially in 2009. We’reso happy to get back out on the road,perform everyone’s favorite songs andsee our fans.” Direct from FleetwoodMac. Do not miss this performance.For tickets call 617-931-2000 or logonto www.ticketmaster.com.
BERKLEE PERFORMANCECENTER136 Massachusetts Ave., Boston
The Sovereign Bank Music Seriesat Berklee. Pop music chases fads;great music surprises us. The Sover-eign Bank Music Series presents greatmusic from Peru to Nashville; fromsoul to lando to jazz. Eight shows. Noboundaries. Full of surprises. MintCondition, March 1, 2009 – TheGreat American Songbook: TheMusic of Burt Bacharach, March7, 2009 – Shining Stars: The Musicof Earth, Wind & Fire, April 16, 2009 –Singers Showcase: The 25th Anniver-
bringing their world tour to Bostonfor 2 shows only. For more informa-tion and tickets, call: 1-800-745-3000or visit: www.ticketmaster.com.
BOSTON HARBOR HOTELBoston, MA
BOSTON WINE FESTIVAL – Nowthrough April 3, 2009. Come and en-joy the annual celebration which in-cludes events, tastings, seminars, rarewine auction, and celebrity guests. Formore information, call: 617-330-9355or visit: www.bostonwinefestival.net.
THE REGENT THEATRE 7 Medford Street, Arlington, MA
THE BANFF MOUNTAIN FILMFESTIVAL - Monday - Wednesday,February 23-25, 2009 at 7PM.The Banff Mountain Film FestivalWorld Tour brings the spirit ofoutdoor adventure to the Bostonoutdoors community, at the RegentTheatre. For more info log ontowww.banffmountainfest ivals.ca/tour/ or call 781-646-4849.
THE HARVARD COOP1400 Massachusetts AvenueCambridge, MA
VACATIONS – Saturday, February21st at 11:00 AM. Today we will take avacation and will read stories aboutall kinds of vacations and make a va-cation craft!! For more info call: 617-499-2000 or visit: www.thecoop.com.
WILBUR THEATRE246 Tremont Street, Boston, MA
THE COMEDY CONNECTION ATTHE WILBUR – Friday, February 20th
at 7:30 PM, comedian Dom Irrera willcause you to laugh very hard and onSaturday, February 21st at 7:00 PM,Norm MacDonald will give you anevening you’ll never forget. For tick-ets and more information on theabove offerings, call: 1-800-745-3000.You’ll be glad you did!!!
Conceived by Twyla Tharp, the musical tells the story ofa generation of American youth growing up on Long Is-land during the 1960s and their experiences with theVietnam War. The principal characters are drawn fromthose who appeared in various Joel tunes: high schoolsweethearts Brenda and Eddie (“Scenes from an ItalianRestaurant”), James (“James”), Judy (“Why Judy Why”),and Tony (Anthony in “Movin’ Out”). The show is unusualin that, unlike the traditional musical, it essentially isa series of dances linked by a thin plot, and none of thedancers sing. All the vocals are performed by a pianistand band suspended on a platform above the stage whilethe dancers act out the narrative sans dialogue, makingthe show, in essence, a rock ballet. Check out Theatersection for more details.
ARTPEABODY ESSEX MUSEUMEast India Square, Salem, MA
GATEWAY BOMBAY – Nowthrough March 1, 2009. This exhibi-tion features works from the HerwitzCollection and a dynamic installation
in the Atrium by Bose Krishnamachariof video-enhanced tiffin carriers.
MAHJONG: Contemporary Chi-nese Art from the Sigg Collection– February 21st through May 17, 2009.This is an exhibition of 100 works fromthe famed Uli Sigg Collection. It en-compasses a range of media, paint-ings, drawings, photographs and videoinstallations. For more information,call 866-745-1876 or go online towww.pem.org
THE STERLING AND CLARK ARTINSTITUTE225 South St.,Williamstown, MA
TOULOUSE-LAUTREC ANDPARIS – Now through April 26, 2009.This is an exhibition of over 80remarkable oil paintings, posters,photographs, drawings and litho-graphs by the extraordinary artistToulouse-Lautrec. For more informa-tion, call: 413-458-2303 or visit:www.clarkart.edu.
MIT LIST VISUAL ARTS CENTER20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA
MELANIE SMITH: SPIRAL CITY& OTHER VICARIOUS PLEASURES– Now through April 5, 2009. This ex-hibition includes paintings, photog-raphy, and video works that the artistherself has made in collaboration withother artists. For more information,please call: 617-258-7265 or visit:www.mit.edu/lvac.
DAVIS, CHERUBINI IN CONTEN-TION – Now through April 5, 2009.The artists share an interest in opendistressed forms, in which each startssculptures in their own materials. Formore information please call: 617-258-7265 or visit: www.mit.edu/lvac.
PEABODY MUSEUM OFARCHAEOLOGY11 Divinity Avenue, HarvardUniversity, Cambridge, MA
A GOOD TYPE – TOURISM ANDSCIENCE IN EARLY JAPANESEPHOTOGRAPHS – Ongoing. Thisnew photographic exhibition pre-sents 46 compelling images of Japa-nese photographic prints, many hand-colored, that were produced for thetourist trade in the late nineteenthcentury. For more information pleasecall: 617-496-1027 or visit:www.peabody.harvard.edu.
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4 tablespoons of olive oil1 medium onion chopped1 medium size head escarole2 lbs pork spareribs1 hot pepperoni cut up in two-inch portions or thinner (Optional)1 can white Navy or Cannelini beans1 bay leaf (optional)1 garlic clove (optional)1 cut up tomato
In a bowl, wash sscarole once or twice thoroughly in coldwater to remove any sand that may be imbedded betweenleaves of sscarole. Place in strainer to remove excess water.
In a saucepan, heat oil and simmer chopped onion untilonion is opaque. Garlic is optional as is bay leaf. Add porkspareribs and braze both sides of meat over low/mediumheat. Add cutup pepperoni but do not brown. Simmer slowlybefore adding cut up tomato. Stir and simmer for one minutebefore adding beans and 8 ounces of water to saucepan.When water boils, add escarole and cover. Additional watercan be added if desired. Cook over medium/low heat. Stiroccasionally.
Cooking time – about 45 minutes depending on tender-ness of spareribs.
Add salt and pepper as desired.
NOTE: This is a hearty meal and easy to prepare. lamb chopscan be used in place of spareribs. Cabbage can be used inplace of escarole.
You can be the judge as to how much tomato you desire inthis recipe either by using additional fresh cut up tomatoes orcanned crushed tomatoes, or no tomato at all.
ESCAROLE AND PORKSPARERIBS SPECIAL
Did you know newspapers date to the six-teenth century; they started as newsletters,sometimes printed, sometimes copied byhand, and sent from one place to another,carrying stuff about politics and trade. Theword “newspaper” didn’t enter the Englishlanguage until the sixteen-sixties. Vene-tians sold news for a coin called a gazzetta.Yes, gazzetta originated in Italy. Well, wehave different spellings of the word, mostpopular is gazette.
The Post-Gazette, founded by James V.Donnaruma in 1896 was originally calledLa Gazzeta del Massachusetts, The Italian-American Voice of Massachusetts.
The astute Tom Analetto of Medford saysit’s not a bad idea for a politician to remem-ber that no newspaper can misquote silence.
A small town newspaper in Texas adver-tised, “Read your Bible to know what peopleought to do. Read this newspaper to knowwhat they actually do.”
East Boston’s Social Center in CentralSquare is where you will discover individu-als who are dedicated newspaper readers.And the brainy and well-informed readersare: John Kelly, Executive Director, SiteManager Jeannie Spinazola, RichardSpataro, Joe and Ann Albano, Philip “Bucky”Spataro, Archille Delellis, Jerry and MarieDeneumoustier, Sam Zichella, JanetGalante, Helen Sheetlar, Susan Bassett,Paul Battaglia and Angelo Paglucca. Yes,many of them are dedicated Post-Gazettereaders. Bravo!
On January 17, the noted Boston Heraldnewspaper columnist Howie Carr celebratedhis 57th birthday. Howie was born in Port-land, Maine and he also lived in Deerfieldwhere he attended the Deerfield Academy.Wonder if Whitey Bulger sent him a birth-day card.
The world’s oldest person is now 114-year-old Gertrude Baines of Los Angeles, who wasborn to former slaves during the GroverCleveland administration.
Questions people ask: What does the ZIPin ZIP code stand for? The code was namedfor the national Zoning Improvement Plan.What was the first instant coffee? Nescafedeveloped by the Nestle Company and in-troduced in Switzerland in 1938. It hadtaken eight years to develop. How muchwater does a person drink in a lifetime?About 16,000 gallons. Which U.S. presidentswere bachelors? James Buchanan (1857-1861) was the only lifelong bachelor. He hadbeen engaged in 1819 to Ann CarlineColeman, but she died of an overdose oflaudanum before the two were married.
According to a Gallup Poll, two-thirds ofAmericans think religion is “losing its in-fluence” on life in the U.S., a sharp jumpfrom just three years ago, when Americanswere evenly split on the question. 67% nowthink religious influence is waning, whilejust 27% say it is increasing.
According to Mother Superior FrancesFiztgerald, “When the collection basket isbeing passed, some men are always readyto put in a good word for religion.
Your choice of a surgeon may determinewhether you live or die, yet most people tendto treat that decision as almost an after-thought, says The New York Times. A surveyby the American College of Surgeons foundthat the average patient devotes an hour orless to researching his surgeon or surgicalprocedure. More than a third of those oper-ated on in the past five years made no at-tempt at all to review the credentials of thedoctor who cut them open. In fact, the studyfound, people are likely to spend more timeresearching a job change or a new car thanan upcoming operation. This laissez-faireapproach is not in the patient’s best inter-ests, says Dr. Thomas Russell, ExecutiveDirector of the Surgeons Association.“Today, medicine and surgery are reallyteam sports,” Russell says. “The patient, asthe ultimate decision-maker, is the mostimportant member of the team and mustunderstand what’s going on.”
Carlo Scostumato thinks, to the surgeonwho collects the bill in advance, everyoperation is a success.
The bril-liant andc h a r m i n gR o s a l i eCunio ofW a l t h a m ,says, “There’s no one so frustrating to asurgeon as the patient who recovers justbefore he has a chance to operate.”
Bella Culo of Chestnut Hill thinks notevery operation is necessary, unless ofcourse the surgeon needs more money.
There’s only one guidebook you need totake on a trip to Florence, said Adam Begleyin The New York Times. It’s E.M. Forster’s ARoom With a View. Though Forster capturedthe city as it was 100 years ago, the “perni-cious Florentine charm” remains just asseductive today. The city’s “vast cultureriches” are visible with every step. Florencerequires time and a fair amount to see.Tourists flock to the Uffizi Gallery; the city’scentral cathedral, known as the Duomo; andits smaller baptistery, whose bronze doorsby Lorenzo Ghiberti were named the “Gatesof Paradise” by Michelangelo. But the trueart connoisseur also won’t miss the Basilicadi Santa Croce, which houses the tombs ofMichelangelo and Ghiberti, as well as thoseof Galileo and Machiavelli. Yes, we have vis-ited the great city of Florence and not onlyenjoyed the sights, but also dining in theirgreat restaurants. Just recalled pouring aglass from the table’s “big bottle of red wine.”
Ouch! The number of workers forced bytheir employers to take unpaid vacations,or “furloughs,” is at a 17-year high. Of the10.3 million people unemployed in Novem-ber, about 12 percent, or 1.2 million, are ontemporary layoff.
Waiters and even musicians working inIowa bars may soon be subject to randombreath tests to determine if they’ve beendrinking. City Councilor Mike O’Donnellsays the proposed ordinance would ensurethat the bar staff is sober “when checkingIDs” and deciding whether to serve patrons.
Speaking of drinking, some men arealways drinking — either to cure a cold orprevent one.
Joey Antonelli of Somerville thinks whena man drinks too much, he becomes tight;when a woman does, she becomes loose.
Time to do some reminiscing with thepopular musicologist Albert Natale. As ateenager, Carol Channing danced with theSan Francisco Ballet. In the 1950s, Univer-sal Studios let the contracts of both ClintEastwood and Burt Reynolds expire on thesame day because it felt that neither oneshowed any promise. Perry Como is the God-father to Vic Damone’s son Perry. WalterPidgeon began in show business as a singerand was the first to record “What’ll I Do,”composed by Irving Berlin. Both Van Johnsonand Van Heflin turned down the part of EliotNess in “The Untouchables” on TV, beforeit was accepted by Robert Stack. JudyHolliday, who won a Best Actress Award forher dumb blonde role in “Born Yesterday”(1950), actually had an I.Q. of 172. SingerCrystal Gale owns a gift and jewelry storein Nashville. Frank Sinatra, during a periodof time with the Tommy Dorsey Band, hadas his roomie drummer Buddy Rich. LesBrown’s “I’ve Got My Love To Keep Me Warm”was being played by the band for almost fiveyears before it was recorded.
Italian American contributions: ThreeItalian regiments, totaling some 1,500 men,fought for American independence: theThird Piemonte, the 13th Du Perche, and theRoyal Italian. Barbara Grizzuti-Harrison,one of the most well-known contemporarywriters, is the author of Italian Days, con-sidered a masterpiece of travel writing. Shehas also written The Islands of Italy.Mr. Peanut and the Planters Peanut Com-pany were created by Italian immigrantsAmedeo Obici and Mario Peruzzi in 1887 inPennsylvania. By 1930, the partners hadfour huge factories, and raked in over$12 million annually. Obici was called “ThePeanut King.”
AMERICA IS A BEAUTIFUL ITALIAN NAME
Boston Centers for Youth & Families in partnership withthe Boston Parks and Recreation Department and spon-sors Comcast, The Boston Bruins Foundation, andTD Banknorth Garden, have announced that their contestgiving young hockey players a chance to win a college schol-arship has been extended to March 6.
The inaugural essay contest will give a $1,000 collegescholarship to a Boston youth hockey player who competedin the 2008 Mayor’s Cup Hockey Tournament at the Squirtlevel. One player from each neighborhood hockey leaguewill be recognized at a Boston Bruins game at TD BanknorthGarden and the winner will be chosen by a panel of judges.
According to the contest rules, interested players mustsubmit a one to two page essay on the following: “What isthe importance of hockey to you? What does it mean to youto play the sport and how does it affect your life now andhow do you think it will affect your future?” Players mustalso submit one letter of recommendation from theirschool’s principal, teacher, or guidance counselor. Allessays should be typed with 1.5 spacing on 8.5" x 11" whitepaper and sent by Friday, March 6, at 5 p.m. to: Mayor’sCup Hockey Essay Contest, Boston Centers for Youth &Families Recreation Division, 1483 Tremont Street, Boston,Massachusetts 02120.
For more information, please call the Boston Centers forYouth & Families Recreation Unit at (617) 635-4920,ext. 2145.
MAYOR’S HOCKEY TOURNAMENTEssay Contest Deadline Extended
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I received a call fromDean Saluti last weekend.He and Margie were able toaccept a weekend invitationand headed for Florida. Theyboth needed a rest and I washappy when Dean called tosay that they were both en-joying themselves and re-laxing. Their schedules usu-ally don’t allow for downtimeand they were and are de-serving. That evening, I be-gan to think about headingto Florida as a young man,and the memories kickedin.
The first time I headed toFlorida on my own was myfirst year working. Prior tothat, any vacation was al-ways with my parents, andNanna and Babbononno tag-ging along here and there.(August in Maine) I had juststarted teaching at BostonTech and was playing withdifferent bands severalnights a week. On top of this,I had begun taking coursestoward a masters degree.I had made quite a bit ofextra money playing Christ-mas parties and did excep-tionally well on New Year’sEve. As a result, as the Feb-ruary school vacation ap-proached, I had enoughmoney to afford myself a tripto the tropics, first-class.
Back in those days, MiamiBeach was the “in” place forwinter travelers. I was asun worshiper and that iswhere I wanted to head. Icalled a musician friendwho lived in Cocoanut Grove,a suburb of Miami, andasked him which MiamiBeach hotel would be thebest for me to stay at duringthe Washington’s Birthdayschool vacation. He wouldn’thear of me staying any-where while his spare bed-room was not being used. Headded that most hotels onthe beach were booked tocapacity months ahead oftime. He did recommendthat I rent a car as he wasnot close to the beach. Ithanked him and acceptedhis offer.
I told Mom, Dad, andBabbononno what my planswere and Babbononno wantedto know if he could go withme. Of course he couldn’t. Hewas too old and probablywould want to travel by train.Flying was totally beyondhis scope of comprehension.Mom talked him out of it tell-ing him she needed him athome to help her, and hebought it.
Well, school closed on Fri-day afternoon and I headed
for the airport with the en-tire next week to bask in thetropical sunshine. I drove toLogan Airport with a fellowteacher who was going todeliver my car to my fatherand get a ride home fromhim. This would allow me tocatch my late afternoon flighton Northeast Airlines. I hadbooked a car from the Hertzoffice at the Statler Hotel inBoston and was all set for myfirst vacation without myparents.
The booking I had made forthe flight was evidently first-class. I just thought that win-ter trips to Florida were ex-pensive. I didn’t even knowthere were such things asfirst-class and coach ar-rangements. Sitting in first-class was an awaking expe-rience, champagne, steak,salad, wine with the steak,coffee and dessert, and anafter dinner drink. As I’menjoying all of this, I thought,“Not bad for a kid from athree-decker on EutawStreet.” There were severalothers in first-class whostruck up a conversationwith me and the flight wasshortened considerably.
When I arrived, I headedto Hertz to pick up my carand was told that they hadmade a mistake. I had or-dered a sedan to keep thecost down and the mistakewas a Chevy convertible. Iwas told that the mistakewas their fault and I wouldn’thave to pay extra. So far, Iwas in heaven. I threw mytwo suitcases in the trunk(back in the day, men andwomen dressed to go every-where) and headed to myfriend’s place, following thedirections he had givenme. A short time later, Ipulled into his driveway.When he heard the car, heand several other men cameout of the house, all dressedin tuxes. They were thesidemen in his band andthey had just finished a joband decided to hang out tomeet this Yankee bassplayer who was taking aFlorida vacation.
My friend taught at amusic studio during theday and was playing justabout every night. First ofall, he was a pianist and sec-ondly, it was tourist season.What this meant was that Iwas on my own. Each ofthose first couple of days, Iexplored Miami Beach andfound a spot where I couldpark, sun myself and watchthe girls go by. Added to myluck, they had a heat wave
that entire week and itwas in the 80s. I was in myglory.
After the second day’ssojourn to the beach I re-turned and found my friendat home with a lady sittingin his kitchen. She was hissister and had dropped inunexpectedly with no placeto stay. He only had the sec-ond bedroom which meant Ishould go looking for a place.He apologized continuouslyand I told him not to worry. Iheaded back for the beachand tried to check intoseveral hotels with no luck.Every one of them was filledto capacity. But, I had anidea. On the side streetsthat ran perpendicular toCollins Avenue, the mainstreet in Miami Beach,there were several apart-ment buildings that rentedrooms by the week. I stoppedat one that looked promis-ing, walked inside and askeda bellboy what the manager’sname was. Finding out theman’s name, I proceeded tothe front desk and asked theclerk if I might see Mr. Soand So. When he was sum-moned, I introduced myselfand told him that JackKramer from Boston told meto stop by if I needed a room.He treated me like long lostfamily and had the bellboybring me to a first floor roomthat turned out to be the onlyone left. Even though theweek had started, I had topay for the entire week, butthe charge was minimal andI didn’t mind. The irony ofit all was that I had neverheard of Jack Kramer, andI guess, neither did the man-ager. Not knowing who hewas nor what his impor-tance might be, the man-ager wasn’t taking anychances. I had my place forthe rest of the vacation.
I spent each morning andafternoon for the rest of theweek covering my skin withbaby oil and soaking up theFlorida sunshine. The waterwas a little chilly, but I wasused to Revere Beach anddidn’t mind it.
Later that day, I headedto a concession stand fora cold drink and ran intothree or four people I hadmet at the college takingthe same graduate coursesI was involved in. They wereteachers also and had theweek off. I now had a placeto stay, a place to tan myselfand some people to hang outwith at night. What a way togo. To be continued … GODBLESS AMERICA
“America’s Test Kitchen”;Ruth Reichl, “Gourmet’sDiary of a Foodie”; and MingTsai, “Simply Ming.”
Yum! We can’t wait!……. You are invited to
have the “Time of Your Life!”The international stage hit“Dirty Dancing — The Clas-sic Story On Stage” is cur-rently making its Pre-Broad-way East Coast premiere atthe Boston Opera House fora limited engagementthrough April 12.
That it’s an audience fa-vorite was clearly evidentthe evening we attended, asmany clapped and sangalong with the cast.
Produced by Jacobsen En-tertainment, in associationwith Lionsgate and MagicHour Productions, it waswritten by Eleanor Berg-stein, who wrote and co-produced the successfulmovie. The movie “DirtyDancing” is a legendary en-tertainment phenomenon.The soundtrack continues tosell millions of copies. Andnow live audiences are en-joying it as never before.
Re-imagined for the stageit is an unprecedented liveexperience, exploding withheart-pounding music,breathtaking emotion andsensationally sexy dancing.
Step inside the classicstory of Baby and Johnny, twofiercely independent youngspirits from different worlds,who come together in whatwill be the most challengingand triumphant summer oftheir lives – told by a tremen-dous cast of 39 and featur-ing 35 hit songs, including“Hungry Eyes,” “Hey Baby,”“Do You Love Me?” and theAcademy Award-winning“(I’ve Had) The Time of MyLife.”
The cast is lead by AmandaLeigh Cobb playing Frances‘Baby’ Houseman and JosefBrown re-creating the role ofJohnny Castle, Baby’s head-strong love interest. Brownpreviously played Johnny inthe London and Australianproductions.
Britta Lazenga, a memberof the Joffrey Ballet, playsthe role of Penny Johnson.Ben Mingay reprises his roleas Billy. Previously he hasplayed the role in Australia,London and Toronto. Theyare joined by John Bolger asBaby’s father Dr. JakeHouseman, Kaitlin Hopkinsas her mother Marjorie, andKatlyn Carlson as Baby’s sis-ter Lisa.
Broadway Across America-Boston will be hosting anOpen Captioned perfor-mance for the hearing im-paired on Sunday, March 8at the 2 p.m. matinee per-formance. Tickets may bepurchased through Voice at617-880-2419 or TTY at617-426-3444.
All other tickets are avail-able through Ticketmaster617-931-2787, at all Ticket-master outlets, by visitingBroadwayAcrossAmerica.comand directly at the BostonOpera House. For groups of20 or more, call BroadwayAcross America at 1-866-633-0194. For additional in-formation, go to www.DirtyDancingAmerica.com.
Enjoy!(Be sure to visit HildaMorrill’s gardening Web site,www.bostongardens.com.In addition to events coveredand reported by the columnist,“The Socially Set” is compiledfrom various other sourcessuch as news and press re-leases, PRNewswire services,etc.)
Johnny and Baby have the time of their life during the“Dirty Dancing” finale at The Opera House.
(Photo by David Scheinmann)
PRAYER TO ST. JUDEMay the Sacred Heart of Jesus beadored, glorified, loved and pre-served throughout the world nowand forever. Sacred Heart ofJesus pray for us. St. Jude,worker of miracles, pray for us.St. Jude, help of the hopeless,pray for us.
Say this prayer 9 times a day andby the 8th day your prayers will beanswered. It has never beenknown to fail. Publication must bepromised. My prayers have beenanswered. L.M.D.S.R.
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TO TALK OF MANY THINGSof shoes and ships and sealing wax of cabbages and kings
by Sal Giarratani
LO SAPEVATE CHE …I ‘bar’ italiani sono in prima linea nella lotta al carovita.
Dal primo novembre (2008) locali pubblici aderenti alla FIPE(Conformeccio) bloccheranno I loro listini a tempoindeterminato, per rilanciare i consumi che riesntono delladifficile congiuntura. Essi potranno anche fare sconti su‘caffe’, brioche e bevande gassate, e ripristinare il prezzominimo del ‘cono’ ad un ‘euro’. Questa iniziativa era statasollecitata il 2 ottobre (2008) da ‘mister prezzi’, AntonioLirosi che durante una recente conferenza stampa dipresentazione della campagna della FIPE ha ancheannunciato un’accelerazione per la riduzione dei prezzidella pasta. “Stiamo lavorando per eliminare ritardi cheesistono nella filiera per trasferire al consumatore lariduzione dei prezzi delle materie prime”, ha detto Lirosi.Questo intervento era atteso dopi I dati ISTAT sui rincaridela pasta (+ 24.9%) sin dal settembre del 2007. A fine 2008,gli italiani avranno speso per l’acquisto di pane, pasta edaltri cereali 3.4 miliardi in piu’ rispetto al 2007. Si calcolache il 41.5% degli italiani ha ridotto la frequemtazione diquesti locali pubblici, e nel 2008 si prevede una tendenzaalla diminuzione del 35%. Naturalmente la diminuitadisponibilita’ di soldi (24.5%) e dalla necessita’ dirisparmiare (22%) si fa sentire anche al ‘bar’.
DID YOU KNOW THAT …The Italian ‘cafes’ are on the front line in the fight against
the high cost of living. Effective November 1 (2008) all publicestablishments that are members of the FIPE (ItalianFederation of Public Establishments) will freeze their ‘menu’indefinitely in order to bring back consumption which pres-ently reflects the difficult economic conditions. They mayalso discount coffee, brioches, and fresh drinks, and bringback the lowest prices of ice-cream cones, to 1 euro ($1.30).This initiative had been urged on October 3 (2008) by ‘MisterPrice’, Antonio Lirosi, who during a recent press confer-ence that had introduced the policies of FIPE’s, has alsomade known a ‘speed up’ of the roll-back of the price ofpasta. “We are working to eliminate a slow-down in thedelivery process (of goods) to the consumer: the pricereduction of basic products”, stated Lirosi. This ‘stop’ wasanticipated after reading the ISTAT (statistical agency) data,on the increase of the price of pasta (+24.9%) sinceSeptember 2007. At the end of 2008, Italians will havedisbursed 3.4 billion euro ($4.9 billion), more than in 2007.It is estimated that 41.5% of Italians has cut down thepatronage of these public establishments, and it is antici-pated in 2008 a tendency to cut down 3.5%, because of thereduced availability of money (-24.5%), and the need to save(22%) will be felt at the cash register.
Charlestown VietnamMemorial
The Abraham Lincoln Post11 at Memorial Hall onGreen Street plans to createa granite memorial to the sixCharlestown natives whowere killed during the Viet-nam War. The project isgetting closer to comple-tion. Recently, a communitymeeting was held to get in-put from the community. AllCharleston Vietnam veter-ans were invited to the meet-ing and many showed up.Stay tuned right here for the
latest news on this memo-rial project.
Did You Hear the OneAbout ...
A monkey is sitting quietlyat the bar, the bartenderasked him what he wantedand the monkey says,“Gimmie a beer”. The bar-tender brings it to him. Themonkey gives him ten bucksand the bartender goes backto a friend at the other end ofthe bar and says, “That mon-key just ordered a beer andgave me ten bucks.” The otherguy tells him to go back to the
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ANOTHER BABY BOOMERBAND MEMBER BITES THE DUST
Dewey Martin, drummer for the short-lived, but long remembered band BuffaloSpringfield passed away. He was 68.
Buffalo Springfield was one of the firstcountry-rock groups back in the late 60s andearly 70s.
The group’s biggest single was “For WhatIt’s Worth”, peaking at number 7 in 1967.Often this group is confused with Crosby,Stills, Nash and Young, which is easy sinceStills and Young wrote most of BuffaloSpringfield’s songs. The best song fromeither of those “two groups is one” had to be“4 Dead in Ohio” which sang about thestudent killings at Ohio State College by theNational Guard on May 4, 1970.
ALPHA MALES AT THE ZOO?Recently, according to a study on chim-
panzees, politicking as well as aggres-sive behavior can help small chimps becomealpha males telling big chimps what to do.
The study led by Anne Pusey of theUniversity of Minnesota showed that in a typi-cal chimpanzee group of 6 to 12 males, therank of alpha male is given to larger mon-keys through fear or intimidation, but rathersmaller guys can also rise to the top too.
It appears the smaller chimps justschmooze like we do, kissing up to otherchimps, being friendly. If chimps hadmoney, these smaller guys would probablytry and buy the election.
Are monkeys starting to act more like usor is it the other way around?
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that the project results in asustainable developmentthat meets the housingneeds of our most vulnerableresidents.
Investments in neighbor-hood stabilization, like thosefor public housing, are an-other central element of theeconomic recovery plan thatwill directly impact the peopleof Boston. The Department ofNeighborhood Developmentwill receive $15.5 million indirect funding and grantsthat will supplement ourexisting foreclosure inter-vention and homelessnessprevention efforts. Funds willhelp to restore vacant prop-erties and support home-owners who invest in thesecommunities by buyingand renovating these homes.Our Foreclosure Interven-tion Team has worked hardto achieve positive resultsin areas of the City hardest
hit by foreclosures, such asHendry Street in Dorchester.One year ago, there were 16troubled properties in thesmall, four-block HendryStreet area. Today, all butthree of them are out of fore-closure and are being re-habbed and readied for newhomeowners.
New funding sources willmake it easier to combatthe problem of foreclosureand promote responsiblehomeownership, which willultimately strengthen ourneighborhoods. In earlyFebruary, the City receivedapproval for $4.23 millionfrom the U.S. Department ofHousing and Urban Develop-ment as part of the federalNeighborhood StabilizationProgram. Combined witha matching $4 million in-vestment from the state, wewill use this $8.23 millionin funding to directly ac-
quire more troubled proper-ties from lenders as partof the City’s strategy to re-store neighborhoods andput vacant homes back inthe hands of responsiblehomeowners.
Although we still face veryreal financial challenges inthe upcoming fiscal year,the passage of a nationaleconomic recovery and re-investment act will giveBoston another tool to helpreinvigorate the local econ-omy. By focusing on projectsthat promote short-termjob creation and long-termsustainable growth, Bostonis positioned to build uponits fundamental strengths.Direct investments in pub-lic housing, neighborhoodstabilization, and sustain-able infrastructure will helpto stimulate the local econo-mies that power our stateand the nation.
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monkey and see if he wantsanything else, he does andthe monkey asked for an-other beer and gives himanother ten bucks. The bar-tender returns to his friendand tells him what happened;the other guy says he’s neverseen a monkey in there be-fore. “Ask the monkey what’sup.” The bartender goes backand tells the chimp, he’s thefirst monkey ever in the bar-room and the monkey looksat him and says, “At 10 bucksa beer, you won’t be seeingthis monkey here again either.
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Tim Geithner, TreasurySecretary-tax cheat — Hesaid that not paying hishousekeeper’s payroll taxwas an oversight, under-standable for a busy maninvolved in matters of greatmoment. And besides that,the dog ate his tax return.
The fact that a high flyerlike Geithner was doing hisown taxes would indicatethat he might have some-thing he wanted to keep froman independent accountant.We can only hope that the 30grand he owed for the house-keeper was all he was hid-ing.
I favored his confirmationas Treasury Secretary be-cause he seemed to be theonly person on earth who
understood the proposed bail-out of the financial system.Then he rolled out his planand proved that a guy wholooks like a pencil-neckedgeek can be just as terrify-ing as Hank Paulson.
Seeking a role model?Seek elsewhere.
Rush Limbaugh, talk-show-buffoon — This bag ofwind makes Don Imus looklike Winston Churchill. Thefact that the leaders of theRepublican Party line up tokiss his ring every time heraises an eyebrow tells youall you need to know aboutthe Republican Party.
Obama is trying to put outa raging forest fire thatthreatens us all and they’recomplaining he’s using too
much water. House Repub-licans actually congratu-lated themselves on oppos-ing the stimulus packageunanimously.
Thus the soldiers of theGOP line up behind GeneralLimbaugh, who’s beginningto resemble a Macy’sThanksgiving Day balloon bythe way. Perhaps it’s not hisring they’re kissing afterall.
If Rush Limbaugh is yourrole model … try wearing acorrective hat. Sometimes itworks.
Don Kaul is a two-timePulitzer Prize-losing Washing-ton correspondent who, by hisown account, is right morethan he’s wrong. Email:[email protected].
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A-Rod Admitsto Roids
Alex Rodriguezhas admitted heused performanceenhancing drugsbetween 2001 and2003 saying, “Iwas young, I wasstupid, I was naïve,and I wanted toprove to everyone
that I was worth being one of the greatestplayers of all time.” Rodriguez, 33, has 553career home runs and is on pace to over-take Barry Bonds atop the all-time home runlist (762). While with the Texas Rangers(2001-03) Rodriguez hit 156 home runs.Since joining the Yankees (2004), he hasaveraged 39.2 homers per year.
Pete Rose reacting to Rodriguez admis-sion said, “I don’t want to listen to all thisB.S. on ESPN about how he was a kid anddidn’t know what he was doing and stuff likethat …”
Apparently, A-Rod never found a steroidthat prevented choking in playoff games.Since Game 4 of the ALCS in 2004, A-Rodand the Yankees are 3-14 in post-season.
In 59 at bats, he has eight hits and batted.136. Even Jason Varitek hit better thanthat last season. It is difficult to feelsorry for him. There’s no excuse for stick-ing a needle in your behind to bat better, isthere?
Schilling’s Right!Kudos to Curt Schilling on his blog he
recently stated that the entire list of play-ers who failed drug tests should be madepublic. Said Schilling, “I’d be all for the 104positives being named, and the game movingon … It appears that not only was it 104, butthree of the greatest of our, or any, generationappear to be on top of this list.”
McNamee: I Couldn’t LieIn related news, Brian McNamee says he
couldn’t risk lying to federal agents whenthey asked him about Roger Clemens andperformance enhancing drugs. Says,McNamee about a federal grand jury, “Youthink of circumstances. It wasn’t worth thatrisk of that being over my head for six years— that’s the term they have to investigateyou and convene a grand jury.” McNameesays he doesn’t think he violated Clemensloyalty by confessing to authorities.
ing, more taxes and moresocialism! That’s just morepavement for the road to per-petual debt.
A lot of liberals are uncom-fortable with the word social-ism, because they do notwant to scare off the gullible,those who believe the sys-tem has cheated them orthose that believe that, nowthat Barack Obama is presi-dent, they will not have toworry about buying gas fortheir car or keeping up ontheir mortgage payment.
Liberals are even moreuncomfortable when some-one makes the analogy ofthis “rodeo” to another simi-lar rodeo in history, namely,the fall of the Roman Empire.
That’s exactly what we arewitnessing little by little andbit by bit. We are becomingjust like the other smallerstruggling socialist econo-mies of the world.
And, that’s exactly whatthe rest of the world wantsto see, a world of perfectlybalanced mediocrity! Wow!How exciting.
The economy will getsmaller because of less taxrevenues from businesses.Many businesses can nolonger hold on for some di-rect stimulus in the form ofa tax holiday, which they didnot get. My Economic SurvivalTips for Small Businessesmay give you some helpfulideas.
Income tax revenues willalso be less because ofhigher unemployment. Thetax on the whopping 20 centsan hour for the averageworking American won’tquite offset the shortfall.
Speaker of the HouseNancy Pelosi stated it cor-rectly after the House passedthe first version of the Demo-cratic-votes-only stimulusbill. They won the election,they wrote the bill, and nowthey have passed the bill —a victory for socialism.
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term and conserves energyat the same time.
In addition to the BHA, theDepartment of NeighborhoodDevelopment (DND) will re-ceive $14 million in directfund through CommunityDevelopment Block Grants(CDBG) and Emergency Shel-ter grants (ESG) to encouragecommunity and economicdevelopment and continueefforts to combat the issue offoreclosure. ESG funds canbe used for rental assistanceand other initiatives to pre-vent families from becominghomeless.
DND will also compete for$2 billion in grant fundingfrom the federal govern-ment’s Neighborhood Stabili-zation Program. DND re-cently received approval touse $4.23 million from HUDas part of this program. Alongwith a matching grant of $4million from the state’s De-partment of Housing andCommunity Development,DND plans to leverage $8.23million total directly acquiretroubled properties and reha-bilitate them for responsiblehomeownership.
DND is also eligible to com-pete for HOME funds, whichare directed through thestate to access gap financingthat can be used in place oftax credits to jumpstartstalled development projects.
Energy Efficiency andRenewable Energy — TheCity expects to receive $5million in direct fundingfrom the Energy EfficiencyBlock Grant, which was notfunded until now. MayorMenino fought for the cre-ation of this block grant forcities through the U.S. Con-ference of Mayors. Fundingcan be used to implementRenew Boston, a program toretrofit municipal buildingswith energy efficient and re-newable energy technologiesand support green jobs.
ARRA appropriates an addi-tional $5 billion nationally forweatherization of low-in-come properties. ThroughEnvironmental and EnergyServices, the City will engageresidents in opportunities toweatherize their homes.
Funding is also availablefor green jobs training, andthe City will pursue thesefunds to build upon the GreenJobs Training Program thatMayor Menino initiated in
2008. Through the Neighbor-hood Jobs Trust, Bostonawarded the first green jobstraining grant to the AsianAmerican Civic Association(AACA). Through this$250,000 grant, 56 low andmoderate income residentswill be trained as “green col-lar” facilities maintenanceworkers.
Summer Jobs — Bostonwill receive an estimated $2million in direct funding forsummer jobs. Summer jobsare a critical investment,both to expose young peopleto the benefits of work and acareer, and to provide an im-mediate stimulus to theeconomy. The federal gov-ernment is once again in-vesting in a national sum-mer jobs program, and theCity of Boston hopes to re-ceive support from the statefor additional summer jobfunding.
Mayor Menino has been aleader on raising awarenessand funding as well as estab-lishing partnerships thatcreate hundred of summerjobs each year for Boston’syouth. The Boston YouthFund’s Hopeline is currentlyopen for youth to register forupcoming summer job oppor-tunities.
Transportation — TheCity is working through thestate’s Executive Office ofTransportation to accesstransportation funding thatthe state’s Metropolitan Plan-ning Organization will be di-recting. Boston has identifiedover $180 million in bridge,roadway, resurfacing, and re-construction projects thatare ready-to-go.
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HOOPS and HOCKEY in the HUBCORNER TALK by Reinaldo Oliveira, Jr.
At Joe Angelo’s Cafe’ & Deli Brockton.We are at an elaborate function put on byDennis Marrese. Honoring Marine, Mark“The Bazooka” DeLuca, who comes from agreat family. You’re what they call a “Chipoff the Old Block!” A young man, guided bypeers, such as your father, Chief MarkDeLuca . You in your own decision makingprocess, now guides yourself into being agreat addition to society. A budding top pros-pect in Boxing. A Marine! A protector ofsociety. Mark went back to Camp LejeuneNorth Carolina for “Advanced Infantry Train-ing.” Dennis Marrese put together awonderful time for all. The turnout wasexcellent. You scored A Knockout. “Oo-rah!”to Marine Mark DeLuca, who was greetedat Joe Angelo’s Cafe’ & Deli in Brockton,by Four World Kings of the Ring (in Alpha-betical Order,) World Champions all,Middleweight Vito Antuofermo, Heavy-weight Biddick Bowe, Welterweight TonyDeMarco, lightweight Missy Fiorentino.The food, and guest were all terrific. Manyspecial guest from this world of ours, Box-ing were present. Dennis Marrese extendsa special thanks to Mark DeLuca and hisfamily for their support. Also to Joe Angelo,Bill Carpenter of WXBR, Plymouth CountyCommissioner Tony O’Brien, Mark DeLucaSr., Tony Petronelli, Goody Petronelli,Derek Barnes, Iron Mike Pusateri, Chris
Sarno, The two Janet’s, Peter Marciano,Peter Marciano Jr., Tim Flamos, TigerMoore, Mike Boyd a good friend who Ihaven’t seen in many years, PeterCataloni, Richard Hand, Skip Sergio, RichCappiello, Mike “Little Rock” Cappiello,Donnell Wigfall, Tommy Martini, HankTartaglia, and to the many, many more thatcame to pay honor to, Marine MarkDeLuca. This function also raised $2,500for the South Shore Police Athletic League,which helps many. Congratulations! MarkDeLuca Sr. also extends his thanks to all,for their support. We hope to have you backhere in Massachusetts displaying yourtalent, in the ring soon. We are all proud ofyou. Semper Fidelis!
Pugs Luncheon, Florian Hall Dorchesterwith Pug Ring Leader Tommy Martini. ThePug of the Month goes to former World RatedLight-heavyweight contender Bob Benoit.Also, in attendance we have Art Boyson,Dan Boyle, Ed Casey, George Colton,Jimmy Connors, John Crowley, WorldChampion Great Tony DeMarco, PaulDoyle, Bill Evan, Ring 4 Boston PresidentMickey Finn, Dick Flaherty, Ed Fitzgerald,
Left to Right: Rich Cappiello, DerekBarnes and Mike Cappiello
Left to Right: Joe DeAngelo, Ronnie Petronelli, Tony Petronelli, Riddick Bowe, IronMike Pusateri, World Champ Tony DeMarco and Tim Flamos
Bobby Franklin, Don Green, Walter Groves,Peter Koutoujian, Danny Long, Boxing Com-missioner Gary Litchfield, SkeeterMcClure, Joe Marques, Pops Lynch, JocO’Leary, Karen O’Leary, Jack Lightfoot,John A. Pacella, Jordan Tinker Picot, IronMike Pusateri, Matt Paturzo, Snuf Pratt,Ed Quigley, Rick Rudolph, Ted Sares, MattTroiani. All listed are great. You are the best.“The Salt of the Earth!” Thank you Kathy,for your great service.
Last week, I received a call from IronMike Pusateri. In turn I spoke with BrianWallace, whom I worked for in the 1970’s.Brian Wallace was an owner, in some of thebest nightclubs in Boston. Lucifer’s, Cel-ebrations to name a few. It was great talk-ing with Brian Wallace. Tough Johnny Ottois recovering from recent surgery. All Broth-ers in boxing, say your prayers for JohnnyOtto, and his recovery. We have HappyBirthdays in February, going out on the 21st
to Tom McNeeley, 24th to Tom Conlin andRIP World Champion Lou Bogash Sr.,25th Ralph Wright, 26th Ronnie Gerstal, andDennis Marrese, 28th Rick Marinick.
Left to Right: Dennis Marrese, MarkDeLuca, Mark DeLuca and Tim Flamos
Four Kings — Left to Right: MissyFiorentino, Vito Antoufermo, Riddick Boweand Tony DeMarco
SPARED FROM TRAGEDY —American Hockey Leaguereferee Jeff Smith and hisfamily were approaching thedoorway, the one that wouldprovide entrance to Conti-nental Airlines Flight 3407bound for Buffalo.
The boarding passes wereready as Smith, his wifeKathleen and their two youngsons ages 7 and 4 prepared toget on the plane. But at thelast moment a friendly flightattendant told Jeff that theflight would probably be quitebumpy and suggested they nottake it “for the sake of yourchildren.”
A little more than an hourlater that plane would crasha few miles from the Buffaloairport, killing all 49 peopleon board plus one person onthe ground.
Meanwhile, the Smithswere rebooked on a U.S. Air-ways flight to Buffalo thatlanded in the Western NewYork City later that nightwithout incident. All theSmiths lost were their lug-gage — which was nevertaken off the original flight.
The Smith family’s amaz-ing story was carried in theValentine’s Day edition ofJeff’s hometown paper, theHamilton, Ontario Spectator— on a day usually meant forlove but one that was awashin grief as the horror of thetragedy played out acrossWestern New York and theadjacent sections of Canada.
The Smiths were comingfrom their residence inFlorida for a two-week tripduring which Jeff had assign-ments to work a total of fiveAHL games in Toronto, Roch-ester and Hamilton.
A few days after the tragedyJeff still had the boardingpasses for the original flight,noting that he would look atthem and then at his chil-dren. He indicated that hewould very much like tothank the flight attendantwho advised the family totake another plane. But hethinks he may never get thatchance. He fears she died inthe crash.
CONGRATULATIONS: toGlen Wesley who had hisnumber retired by the Caro-lina Hurricanes in a cer-emony just prior to the gamewith the Bruins on February17 at the RBC Center inRaleigh. Wesley came to theBruins as their first selection(third overall) in the 1987NHL Draft, the result of a pickthey received from Vancouverin the trade that landed theB’s Cam Neely for BarryPederson.
Wesley, an Alberta native,played seven seasons as adefenseman with the Bruins,scoring 77 goals and accumu-lating 230 assists for a totalof 307 points over a span of537 games. Over the courseof his 14-year career heplayed in 1,457 NHL games,logging 128 goals and 409 as-sists for 537 points. Those1,457 career games rank him16th all-time in NHL history.
He appeared in the StanleyCup Finals four differentyears: in 1988 and 1990 with
the Bruins and in 2002 and2006 with the Hurricanes —that last year being the onethat the Hurricanes won theCup.
Wearing number 26 whilewith the Bruins, he wasretired as a number 2 — hisnumber while with Carolina.Former Bruins defensemanRay Bourque was among thelist of invited guests.
Wesley was traded to thethen Hartford Whalers in1994 for three first round draftpicks — over time those se-lections turned out to be KyleMcClaren (1995), JonathanAiken (1996) and most impor-tantly, Sergei Samsonov(1997). Sammy, a one-timefavorite in Boston, now playsfor Carolina, having beenacquired from Chicago inJanuary 2008.
Wesley remained with thefranchise when it left NewEngland in 1997 and becamethe Carolina Hurricanes. Hewould remain with Carolinafor the rest of his career, ex-cept for a brief period withToronto in the spring of 2003.
The team’s alternate cap-tain, he was the only playerfrom the Hartford franchisedays to play in each of theHurricanes’ first 13 seasons.He retired in June 2008 buthas stayed on with theHurricanes in a player devel-opment capacity.
Former Carolina coach andFranklin, Massachusetts na-tive Peter Laviolette, who wasbehind the bench when Caro-lina won the Cup in 2006,said in a press release that“from a coaching point ofview, Glen was an effortlessplayer to coach because heknew his job, he knew his as-signment, and he knew howto play the game. He alsoknew how to prepare himselfand to take care of himself.There were never any anticswith Glen. It was just trueprofessionalism. It was a realpleasure to work with him.”
CAROLINA SHORTS —Former Harvard Universitygoaltender Tripp Tracy is atelevision analyst with theHurricanes. After graduationin 1996 Tracy signed a freeagent contract with theHurricanes and spent twoseasons in the minors, play-ing for Richmond, (ECHL),Springfield (AHL) and NewHaven (AHL). He is in hisninth season in the Carolinabroadcast booth.
Meanwhile, Samsonov hadscored 12 goals through themiddle of February. Thosedozen scores plus 19 assistsgave him 31 points, goodenough to rank him fourth inteam scoring. He reached acareer milestone back onJanuary 10 when the Hurri-canes came to Boston, play-ing in his 700th NHL game.
In addition, South Bostonnative Mike Ryan has justbeen recalled by the Hurri-canes from their Albany (AHL)farm team for the third timethis season. At mid monthRyan, a center who wassigned as a free agent lastOctober, was leading theRiver Rats in both goals (25)and points (42).
