The Justice Department is out with list of 86 cities across the country where it will be keep a watch for "compliance with federal voting rights laws," including Everett, Malden, Methuen, Quincy and Salem (as well as Fitchburg, Leominster and Lowell). Read more.
As promised in the morning by the National Weather Service, the smelly haze that settled in over the Boston area from brush fires along the North Shore lifted early this afternoon. But when Josh Bittker looked out of his Seaport window this afternoon, he could still see smoke rising from north of the city.
Where's the Tobin? Morning haze over Boston Harbor. Photo by Josh Bittker.
On both sides of the Charles, people called 911 to report the smell of smoke this morning, as bone-dry brush in greater Boston started flaming overnight. Read more.
A Salem company that makes makes testing systems for various gastrointestinal disorders is suing YouTube, alleging the video platform screwed up and took down instructional videos about its products rather than the fraudulent ones bearing its name it had asked repeatedly to be removed. Read more.
Kevin Jordan shows us the lights over the Needham towers - just a month after he watched the total eclipse.
"I’m not even sure how to wrap my mind around this," he says. Read more.
Surveillance photo of suspect throwing lit pipe bomb.
An alleged Christian who prefers Old Testament nomenclature was arrested in Oklahoma today on charges he tossed an IED at the headquarters of the Satanic Temple in Salem on April 8. Read more.
Detail from one of Gu Wenda's pieces on display. See it larger.
Ed. note: Starting today, UHub will be posting Boston-area reviews of local cultural happenings and restaurants by Sasha Patkin of the Independent Review Crew, a new initiative of the nonprofit Online Journalism Project. Let us know what you think!
The introductory video to Gu Wenda's "United Nations" exhibit, currently on display in the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, states that a single strand of hair contains enough DNA to identify one of us from a billion of us. When the Chinese-born artist creates his pieces from the combined hair of thousands of people, therefore, his work becomes a collective portrait that both transcends and unites the singular human experience.
Kat and some of her creepy creations.
The mortuary manager at Harvard Medical School and his wife, along with the owner of Kat's Creepy Creations in Peabody and a Pennsylvania man were indicted yesterday on charges they ran a ring that stole and sold parts from bodies donated to the school for use by doctors in training - with at least some skin getting tanned into leather. Read more.
Boston Restaurant Talk reports, via the Salem News, that Salem Lowe will be re-opening next month with new owners.
Dustin Luca of the Salem News reports somebody e-mailed messages to local law enforcement and various media outlets about an alleged bomb at the Satanic Temple's Salem headquarters, which has been evacuated.
Rightwing fanatics are all atwitter about the group's Satancon at the Marriott Copley Place at end of April.
A former Salem-area man who is now a full-time Florida Man says the decision of the organizer of a Salem horror-movie series to ban most movies from Florida and Texas in protest over their LGBTQ laws and policies is a horrendous violation of his civil rights - and Constitutional protection of interstate commerce - so he's suing. Read more.
Totally unbiased rendering of Howe on trial, done long after she was dead. Source.
Jessica Shrey at the State Library of Massachusetts recounts the story of Elizabeth Howe of Ipswich, hanged as a witch on July 19, 1692, in large part based on the testimony of the Perely family, who owned the neighboring farm and who had feuded with Howe and her late husband for years. Read more.
A guinea pig at the MSPCA.
The MSPCA in Jamaica Plain and the Northeast Animal Shelter in Salem are holding an adopt-a-thon for guinea pigs and rabbits this weekend, in which they'll waive their normal adoption fees, because they are now stocked to the brim with them. Read more.
Boston Restaurant Talk reports that Salem Lowe at Salem Willows, which has served chop-suey sandwiches for 50 years, is closing forever next month.
Salem Police report arresting a couple of guys who just might be responsible for all the stenciling of Patriot Front advertising on area walls around town - in particular downtown - in recent months. Read more.
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