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Men's leggings were unveiled in Milan during fashion week. Blame some designer named Marni!

Boston Commuters - Get Your Passports at South Station on January 23rd!

Boston commuters can apply for or renew their passports on site at South Station between 7:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m. on January 23, or pick up the necessary forms.

From Wikipedia:

"Mandela was a proposed city that would be formed as a result of some districts seceding from Boston...including parts of Roxbury, Dorchester, and the South End....The name was inspired by Nelson and Winnie Mandela, popular South African anti-Apartheid activists. The proposal was defeated in 1986."

Currently, civil rights are a Massachusetts hot button, with gay marriage and Jimmy Kelly penatrating the headlines and blog fodder.

Today being Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a day of reflection on civil rights, I present two brief snapshots from Boston's voluminous civil rights history:

First, many people don't know that Dr. King first met Coretta Scott, a New England Conservatory student, during his time pursing a doctorate at BU. While here, he rented a room at 397 Mass Ave, where a small plaque still stands to commemorate his time in the Hub.

Are you looking for like-minded progressives to hang out with in Boston? Want to cross-promote your events and campaigns? Are you new to the area and looking for groups to get involved in? Are you psyched about building strong cross-issue coalitions?

Join Socializing for Justice at the Foggy Goggle* for the Second Putting the Social Back in Social Justice Event: "The 1/31."

Wednesday, January 31st @ 7:00 PM

No program. No speaker. Just arrive and enjoy yourself.

RSVPs greatly appreciated! www.sojust.org

A driver of a purple VW yesterday on Rt 2 heading West about 8 am hit my car intentionally watch me spin around out of control and into the jersey barrier twice then get launched into the woods.

THEN LEFT THE SCENE.

I was injured and unable to help myself. But the driver of the VW did not stop.

Anyone who has information leading to the capture of this fugitive will recieve a reward. Contact myself or the Lincoln police department and I will send you money for the reward.

From the MBTA Web site:

"SUNDAY, December 31st – New Year's Eve
Blue, Orange, Green and Red Line trains will operate on a SUNDAY schedule..."

While digging through local newspapers this morning I came across an alarming article in the, "Cambridge Chronicle," that seemed familiar.

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It was! It was originally published September 11th 2002!

I guess some people are more concerned with hitting the highway than fact checking.

Friday night, we took our children to see the Boston Pops' Holiday show. Barenaked Ladies were the special guest.

To read the chronicle of our adventures in Symphony, read more here.

The office building at 1 Broadway in Cambridge's Kendall Square is reported to be on fire with about 30 people trapped on the roof (as of a Boston Globe report at 11:30AM). I used to rent space in that building from the Cambridge Innovation Center. Yikes!

More info at Boston.com.

I don't know about anyone else, but I'm almost certain that I've been exposed to Polonium-210 (Bill Clinton shook hands with Yegor Gaidar in the 1990s, and I shook hands with Clinton in 2001) and am consumed with Pololonium Panic. I also see a Michael Jackson link to this issue...
---W. David Stephenson

Are you looking to hang out and skate with like-minded progressives in Boston? Want to cross-promote your events and campaigns over the ice? Are you new to the area and looking for groups to get involved in? Are you psyched about building strong cross-issue coalitions while you take a break from holiday preparations?

Join Socializing for Justice at the Frog Pond* on the Common for Ice Skating for Justice!

(Even if you can't skate, come on out! There will surely be others with wobbly ankles.)

No program. No speaker.
Just lace up and enjoy yourself.

At Socializing for Justice (SoJust) events you can hang out with friends, make new ones, find a date, get the scoop on a job, and find out what's going on this weekend - political or social. And the best part is that SoJust members share your vision of building a more just world.

I'm finally moving out! I'm going to be independent and responsible and all those grown up things I'm supposed to be at 24-years old, right? Wrong.

I'm living in NY right now and have lived here my ENTIRE life (including college) so it's time for a change... so that's why I'm moving to Boston!

This decision was not made overnight. I've been thinking about moving out of NY for the past year actually. The thoughts became a reality when I started dating a guy who lived about an hour outside of Boston. I had never even been to Massachusetts before meeting him so it was all very new and exciting.

It is that time of year when college kids who got pets, can not take them home, and can not leave them in the dorm rooms. Or kids who got what they thought was a great pet, only to be overwhelmed with the care and feeding of another living creature. An animal, which may not have responded the way the student expected the pet to.

I read so many postings on Craig'slist, long postings, some full of sorrow, about the loss of a pet. From people who had never been given the slightest lesson in how to care for the animal in the first place.

I decided to send letter to two posters tonight, not to talk about adopting their animals, but how to help them keep their pets. One poster had a rat, the rat had bit him. Out of fear I think. I will know further once he responds to my letter. The second poster does not believe he is able to properly care for his pet as it looks unhappy. Again, when he responds to my questions I will better understand what he means by 'happy' and if the young owner, is properly caring for his pet.

Are you looking for like-minded progressives to hang out with in Boston? Want to cross-promote your events and campaigns over a couple of cocktails? Are you new to the area and looking for groups to get involved in? Are you psyched about building strong cross-issue coalitions?

Unwind with us at the Enormous Room in Central Square!*
Wednesday, November 29th @ 6PM

No program. No speaker. Just arrive and enjoy yourself.
For more info & to RSVP (greatly appreciated!): www.socializingforjustice.org.

There isn't a DJ on Wednesdays so come prepared to just lounge and sample an array of excellent martinis and tapas. Not into martinis? Red Stripe's always an option... or just come for the atmo and company.

What the Hell was WHDH thinking when they booted Todd Gross (a scientist) and replaced him with Pete "At Milk & Cookies Time..." Bouchard? The nitwit couldn't keep up with Romper Room! Did they pluck Bouchard from a special ed class in Newton? And what's with that Phillipino chick's war paint and collagen suction cups? Just wonderin'.