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  • Bloombergs anti-gun group includes Boston bombers name on list of gun violence victims

    , the older Boston Marathon bomber who was killed in a gunfight with police, was mentioned in a list of gun-violence victims who've diedsince the Newtown shooting at a Mayors Against Illegal Guns rally yesterday. Therally, which is part of the group's 25-state bus tour, was heldin New Hampshire to protest Senator Kelly Ayotte's vote against the Toomey-Manchin gun-control ...

  • Lackey opposes Tigers rookie Alvarez in opener

    Jose Alvarez carried a no-hitter into the fifth inning of his Major League debut. What could the Tigers southpaw possibly do for an encore? "He came up. He did a wonderful job," said Detroit manager Jim Leyland. "I think he'll do fine [Thursday] if he has that same [presence]. The kid did a fantastic job. And we said if something came up, he would deserve a start, and ...

  • Uncle Patriots player had link to homicide victim

    BOSTON (AP) -- New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez had a connection to a homicide victim found in an industrial park near the athlete's home, but family and officials were mum on the nature of their relationship, two days after police first visited the upscale ...

  • Parents students protest orchestra teacher’s reassignment

    A decision by Wellesley school district officials to reassign a popular high school orchestra conductor to the elementary level has struck a bad chord with local students and their ...

  • Letter Printing story brings back fond memories

    "North Andover museum makes printing indelible " Globe North, June 13). When I got off my destroyer at the end of World War II (February 1946), I went to work for the Milford (N.H.) Cabinet, a weekly dating back to 1798 and owned by my wife’s family since ...


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Movie Review

Crumb [DVD]

Crumb [DVD]

Terry Zwigoffs Crumb is an absolutely disarming documentary and one of the very best of its kind. Ostensibly a film about the great counterculture artist Robert Crumb, whose obscenely hilarious and frequently antisocial cartoons both reflected and helped define the ideology of a generation of ... ...

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  • High school art students star in three-dimensional show

    A sculptural installation made entirely of cardboard, "The Garden: Real and Imagined" is the work of 16 high school art students who are strangers to one another, to the material they would use, and to the group process required to achieve their ...

  • Waltham artist offers a personal story across generations

    In "Family Matters: Three Generations of Women," Hodes displays paintings, drawings, and prints of her grandmother, who immigrated to New York from Lithuania in 1904; her mother, who lived most of her life in New York City and died about 20 years ago, and ...

  • Evmorphia Stratis No casino for Everett

    Evmorphia Stratis, a lifelong Everett resident, has been a vocal opponent of the casino, speaking at community meetings and participating in a panel discussion at Suffolk ...

  • Fourteenth annual Take the Lake event supports cancer survivors

    More than 1,000 runners, walkers, and bikers are expected to circle Lake Quannapowitt in Wakefield on June 30 to raise funds for the New England Coalition for Cancer Survivorship. The annual Swampscott Harbor Festival is Saturday at Fisherman’s Beach. The Food and Health Forum, a venture between the owner of Blue Moon Evolution, Kathy Gallant, and nutritionist and health coach Tracey ...

  • Pro casino Everett Ward 6 Common Councilor Michael McLaughlin

    Ward 6 Common Councilor Michael McLaughlin has been at the forefront of the Everett United movement to bring a casino to the city. He is one of three councilors who represent the ward in which the casino would be ...

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