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[] Community New aper Company www.allstonbnghtontab.com FRIDAY, AUGUST 20, 2004 Vol. 7, No. xx xx Pages 3 Sections 75¢ Brighton shooting· still a mystery
By Erin Smith (;ORRESPONDENT A 27-year-old Brighton man wa<, shot in the be hind in Commonwealth Development early la<;t month in mysteriou~ circumstances, police said. Bronday Thoma., received a non-li fe threatening bullet to his rear after dark on July 7, while walking through "Fidelis Way," the informal tenn .for the how,ing project th.it border!-. Commonwealth A\' enue and Washington Su·eet in B1ighton. Thoma., told poli1,;c that he was walking near 840 Jette Cou1t, when he heard several loud bangs he thought were firecrackers. When he realized he had been shot, Thoma, approached two unidentified men but was refused help, Thomas told police. Later. Thomas walked home to 116 Washing St and a neighbor called an ambulance. Police could not -.ay why Thomas was walking at night through Fidell, Way. because he does not live SHOOTING, page 9 Pizza nailed for greasy Rev. Wiiiiam Salmqn, far right, walks In a proce =-ion down the aisles of Our Lady of Presentation Church during his final Mass. delivery TJ :\'busted.for dun1ping oil -1\liEN By Josh B. Wardrop A Brighton businessman who rccc1\cd a SJ,()()() tine from the cit) 111 Bo ..,ton \ ·n-,pectional Ser 1 Sa mon saysji11al Mass 1veeks before OLH closes vice~ Department Aul.!. 9. alter k.tk\ cont.1ine1 s of u-,cd coot...ing oil from his pi11a parior were found B Casey Lyons I... ~ t und.1), du ing 11e ho!) Political Notebook 19 ~ \I \El,...,- . ·.• ~ 'YVhen you ALL MA.JOH BRAND TIRES -c111 Hf »Pit\( :TU: 12 ~ say it \vith [Mortgage Loans Volunteers ?? 1 at discounted 1~ Oov.1ers make sure 1 Local knowledge. f r- Sport· they're ours! Experienced answers. 3 3 ;~ Auto ~21 ~i Shawmut Properties J Work lnjurie Minihane's Flower Peoples 134 Tremont treet • Brighton Federal Savings Bank & Garden S1top Yo ur Neighborhood Realtor® .\ll'oton 229 < H. d '>lrect MASSACHUSETTS' OLDEST 556 CarnbridJ&• St .. 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Road Race presented by New Braverman at (781 433·8365 or News f"'* caletllllr . • . . • . . allstoo-brighton events@cnc com Ip.m.forthat Friday's edition. For Featured artists will be Frederica Balance, on Sunday, Sept. 12, at · Reporter Josh W: pat (781) 433-8333 with Arts 1111111111111inmenl ...... arts@cnc:com von Slade, world-famous mezzo. noon. your ideas and su estions. Arts calenUr ...... • . . • • , • [email protected] more information, please call I 781433-8365. soprano; Chris Brubeck, jazz With the blessing of the Honan The Allstoo·Bnghton T (USPS 14-706) Is published by TAB Community Newspapers 254 Second A'le • Needham. MA 02494, artist and composer; Benjamin fam ily - and, working in con weekly. Periodlcals post paid at Boston, MA. Postmaster: SM1d adclress corr8CbonS to the Alisloo-Boghton TAB 254 Secood I Zander, conductor, Youth Phil junction with the Brian J. Honan Ave., Needham, MA 024 :TAB Community Newspapers assumes no responsd)iilly lor miStal.es 1n a:lYelbsements but WI* repmt Meet this old house harmonic Orchestra. More infor that part which is incorr if notice is given within three working days ol uie pubfJcabon date. C Copyn~ht 2003 by TAB Commuotty Charitable Fund - the Allston Newspapers. All rights r ed. Reproductioo of any part of thi• pul>ica!JOn by any means without penntSSIO'l is prohibited Sub· J This year marks the 25th an mation will be forthcoming. and Brighton boards of trade set scriptions within Allston· · hton cost $32 per year. Subscriptions outside Allstoo-Bng'lton cost $60 per year Send name. address, niversary of television's first and and check to our main o , attn; Subscriptions. aside this day for the race. most trusted home improvement Kabbala and With the starting gun set to brand, 'This Old House." To Contemporary sound at noon, participants will honor the occasion, 'This Old sttut from The Kells at 161 House" says thank you to Ameri Issues in Judaism Brighton Ave. (near the intersec A-B n t hooked on FishlJones ca with a year-lqng celebration The public is invited to attend a tion of Harvard Avenue and integrating television, publishing, Rabbi Pinchas Polonsky seminar Brighton Avenue), and return to Restaurate rs return to popular Sports Depot format Internet and special events. Pro (in Russian) at Shaloh House, 29 the host restaurant and pub just as vidi ng audiences with the oppor Chestnut Hill Ave., Brighton, on the annual Allston-Brighton pa then to do nothing and ufter" mosphere and the sports theme, tunity to meet and interact with the fo llowing dates: rade kicks off from Packard's Cohen admit\ that the change of was the tremendous number of Kevin, Nonn, 1Pm, Rich and Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday Comer. You could have n forgiven formats, which took effect la'>t No televisions spread out throughout Roger, 'This Old tJouse" is offer and Thursday, Aug. 30, 31, Sept. ParticipanL<; in the USA Track ing the first-ever national hands for experiencing a tou ofdeja vu vember, wasn't greeted with much the restr1urant - TV to aid in the I and 2, from 7 to 9 p.m., Friday, and Field sanctioned event will in recent weeks, ing down enthusiasm from the Depot\ regu viewing of variou sporting events on "Meet This Old House" tour, Sept. 3, 8 to I0 p.m. (FREE); and enjoy a host of world-clac;s race Cambridge Street in llston and lar customers, many of \.\horn had lruge and small. With the return of featuring day-long events at a Saturday, Sept. 4, 8:30 to I 0:30 amenities, including pace car pro Home Depot location in six re catching a glimpse of sign at the been coming \tnce the place the DefX>t, Cohen says that the p.m. vided by Herb Chambers of end of Harvard Aven e that read opened its doOI!-> in 1988. ''The> TVs are- back, too, and better than gions across the country - Los Admission is $ 10 per lecture Boston, pre-race stretching tent "Sports Depot." Af r all, the didn't care much for it, and \.\e e\.er. "We're back up in the 60- Angeles, Chicagd, Detroit, New (except Friday); $40 for all five stuffed by trainers from the Bone Depot - long the s of meat didn't really l!Xpect that the} something range," he says. "And York, Boston and Atlanta. Have a lectures. Students and pensioners and Joint Center at Carita'> St. and-beer-laden Sun y football would," says Cohen. four of the TVs are state-of-the-art home repair question? While in $50 percent off. Sponsored by the Elizabeth's Medical Center, on get-togethers - w Cohen says that the comersion high-definition TVs with rear pro town, the group wi ll be making Land oflsrael Committee. course and post-race refresh placed by Captain to Captain Fi'hbone!'I, and back je:tions LCO... All of the rest are one of its trademark house calls, ments provided by Pepsi and which specialized agai n, cost "a s1l!nificant amount," pla<;ma screens." taping a segment for an episode Closing liturgy Stonyfield Yogurt, a host of raf rather than pub grub. but he pointed out that much of So. where wa<, the main time of the Emmy-nominated "Ask nes, race prizes furnished by This Old House." The parishioners of the Our However, the allu that in ves~nt \'tent toward New Balance, and free long and energy expended in convert Lady of the Presentation Parish, spacious neighborh moves that would hme net.'de Pi in th face K CITY JAM lmprov, Open Mic Poetry, Fine Arts featuring: Dave Marinelli & Matt Donnelly Jenn Morazes & Beth Walsh -Bolstad Fri. August 20th 7:30 P.M. - 11 P.M. Washington Allston Gallery Corner of St. Luke's Rd . & Brighton Ave ., Allston $5 donation , more if you can, less if you can't www.sts lam.org click on "gallery" AIR DUCT CLEANING Residential & Commercial ALLERGY RELIEF Al RT EK Call About Our Other Services: Water & Fire Damage Truck Mounted Vacuums Free Estimates • Kitchen Hoods 1-800-287-4200 • Exhaust Systems S111ce 1988 "Science Magic" performer helps Michael Leone, 7, of Brighton execute an experiment Friday. Acad my makes reality shows look fake By Josh B. Wa drop to do [the acadi:my)." K-9 Unit Officer Ray Ramiret Greatfhats STAFF WRITE Ryan McLaughlin. another par \\as hiding in. Playing the part of Thi... i-. Rogers 11th year of in . The next generatio of Allston ticipant, cited paiticulai acli\ itie., a criminal, Ramirez did his best to volvement with Junior Police Brighton police offic rs may have of the week as high points. "I !lee tht scene, but Ziggy ran him Academy, and he says it's the gotten a jumpstrut I st week, a<> liked when WL \\ent out on the do\\O und t1...gged Rarnire1 to the chance to talk \I.Ith children that :Youngsters from th neighbor police boat 011\\n at the harbor. ground by c.igging his teeth into keeps him coming back. " I think hood took prut in Dis rict 14\ an and we got to '-\.X' the people ''ho the officer\ protective arm rm one of the most fortunate of nual Junior Police A demy. track stolen c.1r-.:· said ~td..au,:?h· -.hie Id ficers on the lor Allston J2.9 Nonh Harvard Street Brightm1 435 Market Street Jamaica Plain 725 Centre Street Blood/d~l Cell Sampl~ me~~ of Peoples West Ro\bury 1905 Centre Stn:ct Gum health. (617) 254--0707 Hinterested, call 617f892.8365 liederal Savings Bank www.p~b . com :l 11 or Email: n·eightreseareh@fo~1h.org Friday, August '.!O. 2004 www.allstonbrightontab.com PUBLIC SAFETY Police ex cuted a warrant 1 arrest on Qaniel C. Lee, 23, of 33 Boylsto1 St., Boston, on Aug. 11 at approximately I 0:51 a.m., after he ~as observed in a Brighton Ave~e Laundromat. Lee had an ou tanding warrant for shopliftin issued out of Brighton Distri t Court. LaGene Anthony 2 Richards n, 22, of 14 Waverly St., Brockton, was arrested Aug. I at approximate ly 3:55 p.m., a ter the allegedly stolen motorcy le he was riding hit a parked ar on Vineland Street. A witness to the alleged theft alerted two patrolling offi cers, who apprehended Richardson. Dyring a search of the suspect, qfficers found a number of pi~ believed to be Class C narc tic substances. Richardson w taken into cus tody, and charg d with receiving stolen propert~}l possession of a Class C subs nee, operating a the suspect, who was allegedly and cell phone on the front motor vehicle llowing suspen highly agitated and physically counter while he went to pick u~ sion/revocatiorl- of license and threatening toward the com some merchandise, and when he leaving the scepe of an accident. plainant following some sort of returned, two suspects were verbal altercation. Po lice leaving the store with his proper~ Michael teven Cimpher, allegedly warned the suspect to ty. After a brief confrontation., 3 43, of Henshaw St., calm down, but when the sus the victim was able to retrieve Brighton, was arrested Aug. 12 pect refused to do so, he was his car keys, but one suspect had at approximat ly 3:20 p.m., at placed under ruTest for disorder already fled with his phone. An the corner o Henshaw and ly conduct. investigation is ongoing. ' Bentley stree s. Police were summoned to the intersection Police received a report of Sean Snellman, 25, of 35 following a re~rt that one indi 4 a larceny at a Cambridge 5 Elliot St., Watertown, was See what•s new with tire vidual had blo ked the progress Street liquor store on Aug. 12 at arrested Aug. 13 at approximate -Bright on CDC in this week •s paper of another in ividual with his approximately 9 p.m. The victim ly 3:35 p.m. outside a car. At the sc~ne, police found reported that he left his car keys Commonwealth Avenue conve nience store. The store manager , called police to complain that the suspect was allegedly pan handling and blocking cus tomers' entrance to the store'. Snellman was subsequently' mested on trespassing charges. Police executed warrant 6 arrests on Juan L. Cale!, 29, of 5 1 Centre St., Jamaica Plain, and Jose Luis Boni lla, 26, of 15 Linden St., on Aug. 14, at Bonilla's residence. Calel had a default warrant for municipal law violations out of Brighton District Court, and Bonilla had a warrant for auto law violations. Police re ~ po nded to a: 7 reP-Qrt of an a-.sault and battery out UL Comrnorm calth A\ cnue apart ment building on Aug. 14 at approximately 7:0 1 a.m. The victim, a waste removal techni cian, told police that for the past several week~. he had been interrupted in the course of emp tying the bui lding's Dumpsters by items being dropped on him from an apartment above. The. building superintendent con-' firmed the problem, and said' that a possible tenant had been identified. An in vestigation by police in ongoing. Rosemaria Sheridan, 41, of 8 I 99B River St., Waltham, was arrested Aug. 15 at approxi mately 3 p.m. at a Commonwealth Avenue super market. Store security called police after allegedly witnessing the suspect auempt to leave the store with objects she had not paid for. Sheridan was placed under arrest on shoplifting charges. -=Cl.) ·-....c.:» -=~ =~ ...... Home E =c.:» delivery • of your local Cl.) newspaper is just a ·--= click away. = =3: COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER ICOMPANY .... I www . tew1ull1t .c •• =• 3: COMMUNITY 3: NEWSSTAr~D 3: .. www.allstonbrightontab.c m Friday, August 20, 2004 Allston-Brighton TAB, page 5 Volley all tourney prove real smash Mayors C~p erves up fan, socializing By Casey Lyons asked how compctilhe it \\-as, CORRESPONDENT Caten responded that "No one is It wa<; a beautiful day t taking bread of someone el e · side, a day between tw table." with proper names, and Volleyball in Bo.,ton has been Brighton took advanta operating largely under the radar, Hundreds, actually. Sat and the city does not ha\e a lot of lanky, young, athletic ty s took tournaments, so when there i an over Cassidy Park in C eveland event like the one at Cas idy C::ircle; the game was vol yball. Park, participants come out in : Cassidy Park is gen rally a droves. The BSSC also has coed ~ide-open field of gr volleyball on Sundays, \.\hich qtherwise dense city. E players say is a prctl) big dra\\-. and again, a couple wi In the mid-afternoon hours on Frisbee or a softball t Saturday, Caten \.\a5 feeling OK take on its newest rival. about his chance-., noting other But Saturday was diffi rent. An teams that had been playing to overhead view of the p k gave gether longer and thu~ would the impression of a c ain-link make very tough competition. fence of volleyball ts and For Caten, it would be a matter of boundaries. In the Ii fatigue, how long hi., bod) could were easily hundreds o hold up, he joked ball players. Sounds, "For the winner :· he said. "it calls of "Service!" ros up like is a very long day · spires from the park, I sing the Over the summer. the BSCC identity of the indivi al who hosts eight or nine.:. \.\ eekend tour Don Cohen, of Boston, makes the play during t he Mayor's Cup Volleyball Tournament at Cassidy Playground Saturday. SP?,ke them. naments, which usually take With a skill level ra ge from place in North R · tding, Crandall Open (the best) to B (m e for fun said. In addition to volleyball, than competition), pla rs from BCYF holds a ..erie. of events all over Boston, the outlying around the city, including b~ket Subscribe to tHe Allston-Brighton TAB areas and even easte Massa ball tournamenh and a roller chusetts came out to p y a few hockey tourna!Th.'nt that take games and take home s e brag place in Brighton during the um ging rights in addition t prizes. mer, said Larelle Bry'>On. a pro Call: 888-343-1960 The event was spo ored by gram manager with BCYF. the Boston Ski and S rts Club with the Boston Center or Youth and Families and was ailed the Ninth Annual Mayor's nament. With a title lik tournament was sure to attended, hard-fought some, anyway. Packed flesh Walking through th playing fields takes on the feeli g of tight ARMANI MANIA city blocks. There are no build ings in Cassidy Park, t the red string boundary lines arried all BY GIORGIO ARMANI the weight of a physica structure. Between the nets, p1 vided by the BSCC, some resti g players 3·PC. SET, ONLY $65. sat drinking Gatorade nd eating A 94 50 value. power bars under bea umbrel Includes 3.4-oz. Eau de Toilette Spray, las. Other players did warm-up 1 .7-oz. After Shave Balm and drills to keep the muse s limber. Increasingly over e years, 1.7-oz. Hair and Body Wash. volleyball has develo into a Giorgio Armant-available 1n all stores spo1t with a large follOIWing. Sat urday, more than 80 t~o- person teams registered for t~~ tourna ment, which ran fro 9 a.m. to about6p.m. The teams of two w re broken into different skill lev Is, and in thi s tournament, all t ams were single-sex. In all areas fthe park, games marched fo ard, with off-players acting as eferees to settle dispute and note violations, said BSSC sport's rdinator Brett Crandall in a oment be tween games. His rec rd wa<> 2-2 so far that day. Holding the tou ament in Brighton has also b ught new faces to the table, he id. Gener ally, about 80 percent fthe play ers are constants, but Saturday, 10 to 15 new teams h come out tQ try their hands. · Plenty of pa~g Jn addition to the chance to play and compete, th volleyball circuit also has a big ocial com ponent, aid Evan Caten, a Somerville resident and Open class player. Caten w 3- 1 at the time, he noted, and as scouting out the competition ith a friend of his from NeMon. Having been playi volleyball f~r 12 years, Caten i a seasoned pi-o. Making mental otes of his ~ponents and with two fingers taped together, Caten was there to compete, but not wi out a good portion of fun, too. ' "It's nice to come petc and play; it's ni competition," he Ch~k. t>ut w~s happening at CHARGE fT WITH ALENE S WEALSO COME 1 ORDER ANYTIME the llbraiy in AMERICAN EXP. SS VISl\i CALL TOLL FREE this week's MASTERCARD DISCOVE CARDS IF 11 IL 1e N IE s 1-800-345-3637 paper always som~thing exciting' • -Yage o AnSton·Drigmo IAD rnaay, August LU, '-AA www.a11stonongntonrao.com ~-t--~~-§~~~~- ,. PINION • ••••••••••••••••••••• DITO RIAL WHAT REAt/.Y ·Exev ising your MAKES OL'1MP,ANS right o choose SPRINT•• , onventional isdom has held that nobody thinks about the el tion until after the World Series. CThere may ve been some truth to th1.1t m the past. even in Massachuset where few have dared even to dream of a national baseball championship. But this ycar <..cem.;; different - for the el ctorate, not the Red Sox ~Ian} peo ple are already talkin about politics and politiuans without cursing or spitting at e same time. Obviously, havin a national party conventum come to Boston, not to menti a presidential candidate from Ma s achusetts, has helped o fuel interest among voters hi:rc. But, the Bay State is no stranger to occupant of the oval office. We've had tw Adamses, a Coolidge, a Kennedy and j --- almost a Dukakis. Wi 1, almost might be a strct~h. l Obviously polariz tion over the war in Iraq ha1., gotten l . the attention of many tential voters. Those on both side-; 1 "finally seem to be m e interested in politics than m person- j 5 'alities. This year, the lection of President of the lJnited l - States has become m re than just a contest for prom king. ~ 'VA\li ~t{~~£@MET~oWe;r-0A\l-Y N~~ · And as Martha Stew would say, 'That's a g< .xl thing." 1 We should care a ut the beliefs of those who would I PERSPECTIVE lead us. We should c e enough to try to find out what moti- 1 vates those who want o govern at any level. C.111 it special l : :~~:::;~:~~:~~c ~:~~~~i.:~~~:~::,~~::~k ~=! Spring ahead with fall bulb planting ,what democracy is re lly all about. may be so frilly that they resemble We learned a lot a out the value of our votes from the ! roses. Some new hybrids even 2000 election and its ail-biting aftermath. Fir~t of all, voter have pink cups. I Daffodils are ea'>y. Daffodils turnout went well bey nd expectations. Swing state voters ::=: propagate themselves, creating ~w illingly waited hour to make their votes count. \Vi th no new bulbs that will newer in the . close races in Mas~ac usetts and no grassroot c ons to : futur\' But. 1f )Our daffodil~ <;eem to ~ blooming le'' 1' the vears "motivate voters, ncar1ecord numbers still turn1.:d out at the i prQgrcss. bulb expen Brem Heath polls. i reui111mend., aJdin!! nutrient ... m the ~pri ng and fall in the foffil of : Nationally, it was nd extremely close race. Al Gore \\On ! compost or commercial bulb fer ,lhe overall popular v e with 48.38 percent to Gt:nrge j tilizer. He says that it i'> not nece.'> j3ush 's 47 .87 percent. ut Bush got 271 electoral \ otes to sary to work the nutricRts into the l soil or to sepamte and replant the 1:Gore's 266. And beca se of the fiasco in Florida, some bit- ; bulb!-.. :ier partisans still argu over who really won. ! His company, Brent and Bed.y's Bulbs, ha-. a stellar Web ~ What was not surp ·sing in 2000, unfortunatcl), ,.,. a-. the !,_ site with excellent photos at ~ lpw turnout in Massa usetts for the September primary www.brentandbeckysbulbs.com. i ~lections. With few c tested races, voter participation was 1 Dave Burdick, based in the Berk shires, specialiLes in unusual daf ~~dismal 10 percent. l fodils: his catalog is at www.daf ::: This time around, ere are many more contc,ted mces j fodilsandmore.com. :3or state offices, both t the primary and general le\eb. Gm. 1 At this time of year, if a bulb is going off in your head, let it be a :~itt Romney has ma a major effort to encourJgc and ~ spring-flowering bulb! ;'!)upport Republican c didates in key districts, c'pt..~iall) l This week in ...: those he perceives as ulnerable. :.~, the garden A common voter c mplaint- and excuse Icir a\ oidmg PHOTO BY FRAN GUSTMAN Deadhead phlox. Phlox panic ·the polls - in past ye has been the lack of choice be- 1 Crocus the ta'>te should quickly convince er because there i'i nothing like the ulata, tall phlox, will continue to : tween cand1"dates. No th . 1 It may seem impossible to ere will be a choice, both m Sep- 1 th nk abour spring-blooming it to chew on something el~. I large golden blooms of a daffodil bloom if deadheaded. At the tip of each flowe1ing stem ru·e three ; tember and Novembe l bulb!> in Augu~t, but this is the sprayed it on the crdcus and no after winter's starkness. · The panicles; take out the panicle in ~ : We urge all citizen to take advantage of their democrat- ~ time ro look ar catalogues and to longer found any behbided stalks botanical name is Narcissus. •' l place )Ourorderfordelivel) in the in the garden bed. Some people call the plant narcis the middle when it has finished blooming. The others will bloom ~ ic privilege to choose eir leaders. And remember. \\.hi le 1. fall Some bulb., should be planted Try a pepper brew to keep off sus, or jonquil, but a narcissus by and in turn develop two side pan ~complaining is also a rivilege of democracy, it really isn't other unwelcome critters: voles, any other name is a daffodil anct chipmunks, cat<, and dogs. It does vice versa icies. Remove the spent middle ~fair to complain about our lack of choice in No\. ember if ~ URBAN n't bother birds, m, they don 't have Daffodils are not native but, al one again and sv on. :you didn't make one i September. IGARDENER ta<,te buds. If you· ve eyer regretted though they have spread like:: wild .. eating a Chine....e hot pepper at a fire, they are not im-a-,ive (that is, Local Garden Events IFRA" GLST\.IA.'\ restaurant, yol! will understand they don't bother other plants). As If }OU want to know more about that this cvn~oction ifi really po with the daylily. we h<1ve the early the woolly adelgid insect that is l a-, earl) a<; September. I don't al tent. Don't e'.en sniff It. If you get colonist'> to thank: d:rtfo en I w born, my Cathedral hou mg project fer and packed it full three times. our new home. The folks on making history. I and usually found it. parents Ii ed on East Salutation SlH~t. a skinn) strt:et The first two times, he did the Salutation Street couldn't be it like yesterday. I re ember at Every time I drive near the Canton S eet near Al connecting Hanover to Cc m move alone. On the third trip, we lieve the sight anymore than the end of that long day, we took Cathedral and Harrison Avenue, bany Street in the uth End of mercial Street all we'1t along for the ride. Me, the empty wagon back to the sta or drive down Hanover Street Boston. My father as from the I remember 195~ well. Tl my mother, my younger brother ble. We ate dinner at a nearby near tile firehouse, I remember North End. My . other from many, it was the f~t baseball and a girl whose parents were "I remember riding cafeteria across from Blackstone the summer my family moved season without the Bo ton my parents' friends. The five of up to a red light. Park, took the little girl back to lock, stock and barrel in a rig LOUD Braves, who had just relocated us and one tired brown plug who her parents, and then took tile pulled by that old horse. to Milwaukee We mi c.,ed Hank looked pretty old. We traveled The traffic cop train home to the North End. We stayed on Salutation Street Aaron by one 'eason. It \.\ ac., also from tl1e project, along Harrison My parents never forgot the SAL GIARRATANI turned around, saw until November 1955 when we the year that Joe DiMaggio mar Avenue over to Albany Street trip. I was only 6 years old and packed up boxes again to return ried Marilyn Monroe. And it was and on to the North End. There us and went into remember it well. My brother, a closer to City Hospital where we Charlestown. But orking at the year of the fiN ma!. polio \.\as no Central Artery yet. Al shock. " mere 3 years old, remembers settled into St. Philip's Parish in City Hospital, the South End vaccinations. bJny Street connected directly to nothing. As for the little girl lower Roxbury. This time my fa seemed a natural p ce to live, However, for me and my fam Atlantic Avenue. whose name I've forgotten, she ther hired movers to move us in within walking dista ce of work. ily, it was one of the mo t amaz I remember riding up to a red probably remembers it, too. a truck. Once was enough, I However, in the ummer of ing years in our famil) \ histOf). light. The traffic cop turned And to think my father was 41 guessed, for my father when it 1954, my father m e one last My father decided to • ve around, aw us and went into folks back at the Cathedral pro years old. I can't imaging doing came to horses and wagons. attempt at returning o his child money by mo» ing himself. He shock. He halted all the traffic in ject. Nobody moved with horses that kind of move. People were Amazing, how fast time goes hood roots. We wou d leave the rented a horse and "agon at the Dewey Square for us. On we and wagons, not even in 1954. different back them. They ex by, isn't it? stables on West Canton Street went to Commercial Street and I think my dad may have been pected more from themselves LETTERS Questions for t e at the Abu Gharib pri,on, and I hope that sometime during the school selections should be based right here in Suffolk County there remainder of the campaign, the upon what's in the best interest of sheriff candida es was an issue of allegedl) 11nprop voters will get a chance to hear the the parent and child. If parents Tell us what you think! To the editor: er strip searches a few year. ago. two candidate · an wers to ques were more involved in school se We want to hear from you. Letters or guest The Brighton-Allst n Improve What measun:s are heing taken, tionc., uch a<; these. lection for their child/children, columns should be typewritten and signed; ment Association and e Allston and what add1t1onal mea.-.ures Please remember to vote on they would participate more in a daytime phone number is required forver Brighton Communi Develoir should be takcn to pre\ent -.uch Sept 14. Local elections are im PTA meetings and other school af ification. Letter length shOuld be no more than ment Corporation rec ntly tried to incidents from happening m Suf portant, too. fairs. But when parents are totally 300words. organize a debate bet een the two folk County? Mark D. Trachtenberg excluded from the decision-mak By mail: The TAB Community Newspapers, Let candidates for Suffi lk County 4) (For both candidate~) To Brighton ing process of school selections of ters to the Editor, P.O. Box. 9112, Nee&am, MA 02492. By sheriff, Andrea bral and what degree du )OU believe that (EdiMr's note: The A-8 TAB where their children will be going fax: (781) 433-8202. By e-mail: · Stephen Murphy. C ral agreed "rehabilitation" of prisoner. 1-. 1n// be happy to nm answers to to school, this can alienate parents [email protected]. to the debate, but Mu hy did not. possible? these questions from the two can from being involved in school As a public service, would like 5) (For both candidate.-.) Some diJates.) matters or school affairs, and I to show your readers ome of the police complain that "once ca.-.es think school administrators need child to a school of their choice know about the No Child Left Be guestions that we ould have go to trial, we never hear what Give 1•arents more the support of parents for their public or private school. hind Law. They fear that if their asked the candidates: happens." What can be done to school budgets. President George W. Bush has school is an underperforming I. (For both candi tes) There improve communication among choices in schools I believe if Massachusetts had made education reform and ac school, the parents would pull ha<; recently been an upsurge in the various part.'> of the criminal Tc the editor. more school choices to choose countability a top priority in his their child out of that school and violent crime in soi e parts of justice system? V.'ithin three or four weeks, our from, it would improve education administration by passing legisla put them into a performing Boston. How should s te and city 6) (To Andrea Cabral) Stephen public ..chools will reopen the drastically. For in tance, most tion called "No Child Left Be school. Their school would lose government respond and what Murphy has cnuu1ed )OU for al doors to receive children for the poor urban families are trapped in hind." If public school adminis the money for that child because should be the role of e Suffolk legedly using monl!) from the fall -.eme ter. Man) of these par many underperforming public trators stop trying to skirt the law the money would follow the stu County Sheriff's De artment in prison guards' pen., ion fund to ent., \\ii be faced with the i'>sue of schools. However, if parents had and educate teachers and princi dent. School administrators don't that response? pay the settleml·nt from tht: -.triir \.\ hether their child got first choice. access to vouchers, tuition grants pals on how the law is suppose to want parents to understand how (For both candidate ) search lawsuit ,1gam't the Suffolk ...econd ~ho1ce or third choice of or ifthere were more opportunities work in addressing underper th• No Child Left Behind Law is a) What is your po, tion on the County Sheriff Department. and their -.chool -.elections. Parental available to parents so they could forming public schools, the No suppose to work because if par death penalty? for allegedly P·" ing cen.am Sher ch 1ices are \el) important to the have more choices. that could be Child Left Behind law helps give ents take their children out of a b) Do you believe iat Gover iff's Departm1.:nt e\pcnS ON THE WORLD'S FINEST HAND-KNOTIED RUGS. EACH EXCEPTIONAL RUG COMES WITH DOVER RUG'S LIFETIME TRADE-IN GUARANTEE ... WHICH MEANS YOU CAN TRADE-IN ANY HAND-KNOTIED RUG YOU BUY FOR THF RETAIL l>RlCf·OF ANY OTHER HAND-KNOTIED RUG WE SELL FOR THE REST Of YO,UR: l.CFE. ONLY Ai DOVtRRUGWILL YO\.Jr1NDTHE LOW&ST PRJCF Cl1ARANr£.t a~: OUR LAl~-G~RlF.ct'lON OF MACtUNE-MAOtA@ r . RUJJS, TAKE A LOOK lJNDER ..fHE TENT! Page 8 Allston-Br ghton TAB FROM PAGE ONE Ha anl's new trucks can fill up o oybeans Hi\RVARD, from p e 1 monoxide , nd particulate mat 'There 1s no additional modi veMment, according to Harris, pushing his own initiative to get from other institutions on their - Harvard has ado ted B20 (20 ter. fication needed to the existing should be paid back within the the city of Boston to adopt conversion process and success, percent s ybean-based "In add111on. our vehicle.., equipment," said Harri s. 'The first three years. biodiesel for all municipal and hopefully the city of Boston biodiesel and 80 rcent diesel have expe11enced no reduction on!) significant expense in "A benefit for us was that we diesel-powered vehicles. Ar wi ll follow suit. fu el) for use in, according to in fuel economy. and due to the curr.ed during the switch was were able to shift from buying royo plans to put the motion be "Right now, restaurants pay HarTis, "shuttle uses, dining increased lubricitv that comes that \.\e had to install an on-cam fuel retai l to buying it whole fore the City CounciI Sept. 21 contractors to di<>pose of their service delivery hicles, solid with using hio !~------· ____70______GET 10°/o______OFF J! S$ n says goodbye to OLP faithful PARISH, from page "It was easy to i troduce my 480 Washington Street, Brighton self to the parish,' Salmon re 617-787-2566 • www.dana-salon.com membered of his fi st days as a "the ultimate experience in l1and, feet & ski11 care" parochial vicar at LP. For five NATURAL NAILS - ACRYLICS - WAXING - FACIAL years, he served at at post until in 1993 he becam OLP's pas tor. "He came from h re, and so in many ways what said about coming back was v ry helpful to us,'' said Mary An McLaugh lin, an OLP parishi ner for more than five decades. He was one of our own,'' she aid, adding, "He worked very d at doing what a priest shoul do." He's every Since returning o Brighton, GUARANTEED ... ,------.. Salmon maintain a strong For as long as you own your home! :$100.00 OFF! presence through t the All NO MORE... I TM PlllChuo of a Fd I ston-Brighton area, d his min : l!Hlilll lob l -Sysltm. I Grout Problems, Mold, Mildew, ChiP(?ing or Peeling ...... ~-- : istry has branched ut. •-.:'~.:.~-'=~-' Every first Fri ay of the LARGEST SELECTION ... Of Colors, Granite. MarlJ/e, Wainscot, 4• - 6" Tile month, Salmon w Id visit and PHOTO BY ZARA TZAHEV Rev. Wiiiiam Salmon talks to his altar boys and girts before his final sennon at Our Lady of Presentation. bring the sacrame ts to people who could not leave their and had also officiated over the than!- a prie ·t who served in a by addres ing his parish: "It was homes; twice a mo th, he would christening of their onl)' child. church dedicated to her,'' he an honor to serve you here and BBB go to area hospi s to anoint "We lov~d him," he said. said. I've enjoyed it very much. -r and visit the sick; and twice a "[OLP] was really the epitome Of Salmon ' many vi rtues, Never could I have expected in Mass Reg.# 140681 month, he would ake a trip to of what a church should be. Bishop Edyvean extolled his my wildest dreams that I would lndependen~y Owned & Operaled Presentation Mann r, a nursing We're very proud he is the way ability to "look beyond him end up at my home parish." home affiliated th OLP, to he is; he's what it means to be a self." Following the old expres He added: "I can only pray to visit with the elde ly and offer priest." sion "To say goodbye is to die a God that, even though we're the Eucharist to the atholic res little, · Edyvean said, "We feel physically separated, we won't idents. Trying times badly. but we have assembled be spiritually separated because "They couldn't t here, so I ln recent year.., the Archdio here today solely for one reason: we're brothers and sisters of would go visit th n," he said cese of Boston ha<> seen in some to thank Salmon and wish him faith and that will continue to ~ith his usual am? nt o~ humil- trying times, but throughout the luck in his endeavors else- sustain me wherever I go," he ity. I ordeal, Salmon alway tried to where." said. ''Thank you and God bless SAVE Some describe Salmon as maintain an ~ven keel. Through He concluded: "May Our each of you." very accommodati g and point his guidance, pari.,hioners found Lady of the Presentation and Everyone is sad to see their to his sense of hum r. Linda and hope and st11:ngth, and through Our Lady of the Assumption priest go, but they know it all fits Phil Keenan of We twood came their hope, almon ,.,,as re- allo\\ Christ', blessing for Fa into God's plan somehow; and NOW! to say goodbye t Salt.on on newed. . ther Salmon and for us all." until that plan is known, it is Sunday. Almost 13 year. ago to During the fare\\ell Mass la<,t their responsibility to keep their the day, he had m ied e cou Sunday, Salmon was honored Happy celebration fa ith.. ple. In the midst of rep( rations by his parish1onel"\. Bi..,hop Wal Th~ celebration marked a ··we will move forward, that's HURRY! for their marriag Linda re ter Edyvean the Boston City solemn and happy day in what faith is about, moving for All Pools Include: called Salmon's se se of humor. Council, the <.tate Legblature Catholic life; it is the celebration ward in Christ and all the stuff After he wrap up a<>king and the Catholic Daughtel"\ of of the day the Virgin Mary a<, we're dealing with involves them questions rel ting to fai th the America ... for\\ horn Salmon cendtxl into heaven. Though Christ leading us,'' McLaughlin and the sacrament f marriage, had been chaplain and spiritual Salmon\ voice had run over the said. Salmon turned an asked, "So director for a do1en year,. pa-,sages o many times, and in Salmon has not yet been have you seen tha 'Alerica's During th~ homtl), Edy,ean, so '1lany different circum given his new assignment, but Funniest Home Vi os' how?" a seminm) cla.... smate of stances, this was the first time he expects he wi ll be present when At their marriage Sal on had Salmon's. mad tribute to \\OulJ celebrate a Ma'>. at OLP Our Lady of the Presentation also opened the e tire church, Salmon\ 1111m lJ'\. "It"s littine that ll•mmcmorated hi., lea\ ing. clo es it<, doors forever on Aug. though atteffilancel wa<; smaTI, on the feast ot Our Lady \\ ~ Saimon ended tile da)' Ma-.-. 29 ar;:J p.m. ~ Cheesy pizza oil dump foiled by ISD Medical Research Studies DUMP, from page 1 shipped in " aid Timberlake. c-. need to ha\e a licensed and also paid for a professional he did it [wa\te di posal] for a "The code enfon.:cment tmesti apprmed renderer, who will cleaning company to come and Have you been diagnosed li ving," said Mou "He asked, gators were able to find the pie!.. up the container<> of oil and dispose of the oi l correctly and with major depression? ·can I do it for y u?' He had name and addre.,., of the piua properly dispose of it. All places to clean up the residence in Do You Take never worked for before, but parlor marked right on them .. of business need to do that, a..\ Dorchester- an addi tional cost Anti-Depressant Medication? I trusted him. It wa. a bad idea. I part of the State San ital) Code." he estimates at about $400. If so, you may be eligible for our study. don 't know his nai e-if I did, Too stupid for crime Timberlake said that cooking While he understands the cul Researcher> at Bo~· on Medical Center arc That fact alone. \1ou said. oil is labeled hazardous waste, pability he ha~ in the situation, testing a computcri' cd telephone system for I would give it to em [the in p~ticnrs who take an iJeprcssants. Participants spectors.l If I ha his phone should be enough to convince and t at dumping it in a residen he said he's also surprised by will make phone ca Is nnd will come to our number, I would c II the health authorities that he never intend tial area can really pollute the the severity of his penalty. research office SC\'cr. limes. They will be paid a department and tell them." ed to have the unnamed dumper neighborhood. ··1 think that the fine was compensation fee at ~ch visit. If you want to learn more about this project, According to Lis Timberlake leave the oi l on someone's pn "Used oil has food particles in maybe a linle too steep - I please call us at (611} 414-1824. of ISO, the owner qf a residence vate property "Why \\Ould I tell it, and it can absolutely attract think there should 've at least . on Spencer Street ih Dofchester him to do something ..., rong rodenl'> and vermin," she said. been a warning, maybe," Mou called in last Mon~ay to repo1t with the oi l, to dump it, \\hen ''Also, when it's leaking - par said. "I've owned my business suspicious-looking bartels in my name is all over it? I don't ticularly with the rain we've had for nine years, and never done front of her three-decker, want to hurt my business." - it could get into the catch anything bad, you know?" If you are a medical facility Once ISO inspe tors showed Regardfe.,.., of what Mou basin and mto the water supply." Expensive though it may looking for volunteers to further up, it didn't take them long to thought th!! man Y..Ould or Mou, who said that he's never have been, Mou said that he has your research studies, here is your identify what they Were dealing wouldn't ha\e done \\Ith the oil, been cited for any health code learned his lesson. "I' ve got a opportunity to rsach more than with, or where it came from. said Timberlake, Mou's viola violations during his nine years professional company now," he 80,000 households in the Greater "The containers were the ones tion was in not reta111111g a li 111 business, was assessed the said. "Everybody learns from Boston area every week/ censed profes. ional. "Bu iness- $3,000 fine fo r the dumping and their mistakes.'' To find our more, .. please call Jody at 781-433-7987 .. shooting still mystery to cops ..• Bri~tl~~~ / __,,.,.,,-,..,,,...---/ ~:; /' - / SHOOTING, from pcfge 1 840 Jene Court and a trail of at Hanscom Air Force Base. shooting until asked about it by blood leading out of the develop There was no answer when a the Tab. th~~mas could ~t be reached ment where Thomas allege~ he Tab reporter knocked on other Boston has witnessed a sharp AUGUST for comment was shot. Residents in neighbor ktte Court apartments directly in rise in violent crime this year. Police list a seco d address for ing apartments did not ansy..er front of the scene of the shooting. There are al~dy more murders 116 when police knocked on the The reporter heard voices and in 2004 than in all of 2003. INVENTORY REDUCTION Thoma<;, at hington St. e'l:i - hut there wa<> no telephone listing doors and the few \\-ho did, said noise from a television in one of they did not hear hots or witness the apartments, but the people in- HUGESAVINGSONSELECT for a Bronday Thomas at that ad Check I• OVERSTOCK AND FLOOR MODELS dress. the shooting. ide turned off the televi ion and Bobby Willis, Y..ho \\as visit became ~ilent after the reporter SALE Thomas was rel'Ortedly "not out forthcoming with $fonnation at ing a friend ac 902 Jette Court, knocl-..t!d. ti) the scene" when aflice officer told the Tab he heard gunshots Police did not find empty bul what's arrived at Thom ' agartment near his friend' apartment about l~ casing or .,,,.itnesses to the happening at with the Beth Is el Hospital 9 or I0 p.m. the night of the hooting, according to police re- bound ainbulance t I I :41 p.m., shooting. poru.. the library in according to police. 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SUNOAl N.,,Jfl-11, MONO,;, ; ri:'lUUGH rR1DAY 10-9 30 SA.URDAY 10 8 INS DE BRUDNOY ATTHE MOVIES More llston Sci-fi without Bright the silliness PAGE 14 ••••••••• ft. ··················· · ·· ··· ·· ······· ···~······················································· ·· ·············· · ·················· • •• Som times the odde t couples get Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver the reatest results prove that Republicans and Democrats can work together. sounded like a match made in hea en: avante garde theater urti t Julie aymor teaming with the IBM of ent rtainrnent, Disney. And yet, when II was said and done, the re sult w s a stage version of "Lion King' that smashed attendance left critics agog. ALEXANDE STEVENS Jerry Springer (pla11ed with eerie perfection by Michael Brandon) and opera? Hey, It works. It's not th first time that an unlikely duo made beaut ful music together. Here are that not only do oppo ·ites attract, some I0 other su cessful odd couples, proving time they complement each other beauti full;. '!O\\, some of the most unlikely and ucce ful matches ince yin met yang: "Jer~ p rini~er'' and opera: Is there a more rarefied art form than opera? ls The Dropkick Murphys punked-up a 100-year-0ld baseball ditty an turned into a Red Sox ralJy song there a more lO\\ -brow entertainment for a new generation. than .. Jerry Springer"') And yet when music man Richard Thomas (who also "The Osbournes'' and TV: The boob cO-\HOte the lyrics'"' ith Ste\vart Lee) tube would be about the last place you'd mixed the two together in his inventive expect to find the obscenity-laced family ne\\ opera, "Jerry Springer: The values of Ozzy, Sharon and the kids. But Opera'' - now playing MTV's "Osboumes" turned out to be an at the Cambridge The Ozzy and Harriet for a new generation. atre in London - the And who knew that bleeping all the ex result is a funny, edgy pletives would just make it that much opera that takes Jerry to more (bleep)-ing funny? hell. Musical highlight: the baroque Act Two ob "Tessie" and The Dropkick Murphys: scrnity duet between Jesus The Dropkick Murphys wouJdn 't seem and The Devil. like the kind of band that would be inter ested in a I00-year-old ditty about base Shania T~'\-ain and Mutt Lange: ball. But the Boston Irish-punk rockers just Record producer Mutt Lange made his released their pumped-up version of name producing heavy metal bands like "Tessie," originally sung by the baseball AC DC and DefLeppard. But when he The benign world of TV and the spiky lives of the team's Royal Rooters in 1903, as the teamed up with Shania Twain on l 995's Osbournes have made a perfect match. Boston Pilgrims went on to win five ofthe "The Woman in Me" album, he gave the stratosphere. And one other sign that this first 15 World Series. The Murphys are off countr) singer pop appeal and helped match seems to be working: They've to a good start with the jinx-breaking song: Shanta Twain and AC/ DC producer Mutt Lange make a formi able match. propel her career into a whole new been married since 1993. CO,UPL:ES, page 13 ooking was Child's play and passion Julia Child 'launched a thousand culinary ships,' including the authors e: Our cooking columnist Abraham Lincol;s {who wa$ reported to have a cooking teacher. Italian cooking was "too Christopher imball not on(v knew Juba ( luld rather high voice totally at odds with hi:. brood easy" and the less said about American cook - he dined ii 'th her, he cooked with her he ing countenance), and p-..!rhaps Ross Perot, who ery the better. She never took up the banner of has followed n her footsteps, devoting his pm elucidated the l'D0:-1 complex of national issues "meals in minutes." She never offered a recipe fessional life o the kitchen, and hosting hi.\ by simply telling us t.o look under the hood. for "lite" cheesecake. She never allowed her own PBS coo ing show. He offers his thouyhts I had the opp0!tuJlity to w1mess Julia's en name to be used in the promotion of any com on theAmeri an icon and 40-year Cambridge dearing ec~ntricily more then once. Yes. she mercial enterprise. She never wavered in her resident, who assed away in her sleep on Aug. was a re..l charactf'r. At one particularly poorly convictions and she stood the test of time. She 13. She was J. lit Italian w.-taunmt where\\e: what vr.: Gra\e is someone who can go head high, had no regrets, and dined thoughtful be roasted was not comedic but it was star the di tance de p1te the odds. And that's the Americans may have wanted everything to be ly off centuries past while the rest of us were tling. It rem· ed one ofother ratherodd but en essence ofJulia Child. fast, but Julia Child knew that a good stock grabbing a bite from the take-out window. dearing Am ·can figures: Eleanor Roos4=\ elt. She wa nothmg more nor le s than a french takes time. CHILD, page 13 Page 12 Allston-Bright TAB Friday, August 20, 2004 'WWW.allstont)rightontab.com. f ooa & DINING ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• • • 1nco or swllTI~ Berry, berry nNantucket good muffins antucket resi ents are buzzing about with red wine, citrus juices, randy and cava, the om muffins, the type often sold on the and instant polenta turned out coarser muffins, al two restauran : Cinco and American ·parkling wme of Spain - is the perfect accom street with a cup of coffee to go, are though the flavor was great. So, Arrowhead Mills N Seasons. paniment to dinner. "It's addictive," boasts our C often monstrous, over-sized cupcakes it was. The two eggs and the stick of butter were smiling server. One is tempted to say the same with a dense, oily interior that defies digestion. on the money, but we fiddled with the leavener Cinco - Michae Sturgis is Nantucket's about Cinco. Great com muffins are moist but not wet, dense and ended up with I l/2 teasPQons baking pow best-known former bart der. An affable guy with but not heavy, slightly sweet and toothsome. Add der and a half-teaspoon soda. Julius Caesar silver 1 cks, Sturgis was the As for the dairy component, we tested milk, longtime barkeep at 21 Federal and the White American Seasons --Amongtheseven THE KITCHEN buttermilk and sour cream. The combination of hottest seats in antucket these days are the sour cream and milk produced muffins with the barstools at American Seasons. The popular DETECTIVE best flavor and texture. We boosted the sugar to RESTAURANT restaurant recently added a tiny bar area - 7/8 cup and used white granulated sugar instead CHRISTOPHER MAT SCHAFFER between the canvas-covered side patio and main of brown, which tended to mask the com flavor. dining room - and everyone has been corning in KIMBALL Salt was the last dry ingredient since other flavor Elephant Hotel. He an his wife, Connie, have to check it out. ings simply got in the way. For the blueberries, a just opened Cinco, a tap s restaurant out near the American Seasons i certainly one of the is blueberries and you have a great American break- generous two cups was right but they should be airport. land's mo t romantic p1aces to dine. It's so dimly fast. All you need is that cup ofcoffee to go. firm as well as ripe. The small frozen blueberries It's already a mob see . But with its self-confi lighted it's difficult at times to see what you're eat Getting there is not so simple, however. We from Wyman's are also terrific. dently simple Spanish-i uenced cuisine, knowl ing, but the lo"" wooden ceilings, window bench- started with our own com muffin recipe which As for method, the muffins are put together edgeable and fiiendly ait es, hurncane lamps and har contains a stick of melted butter, two eggs, two quite simply. The dry ingredients (less the sugar) staff and reasonable p 'ces vest murals create a magical cups flour, cornmeal, leavener, buttennilk, salt are whisked together in a large bowl. In a separate (particularly for Nantuc et), an1bience. and sugar. We started the testing with the flour bowl the sugar, eggs, sour cream and milk are that's to be expected. Cinco The menu is divided into and cut it back to 1 2/3 cups in order to make combined. The wet is folded into the dry and four S<,'Ctions - Pacific room for the berries. Both cake flour (too when almost combined the butter is folded into You can't miss the iant 5 Amelia Drive, bronze horse (patrons is Coast, Down South, New crumbly) and bleached (odd flavor) were tested the mixture. Finally. the blueberries are added and Nantucket; take it for a bull) outsid on England and Wild West - and discarded. We finally settled on 2/3-cup com- the batter is mounded into the paper-lined cups of the front walk. In ide, 508-325-5151 ; regions from which chef meal and preferred Arrowhead Mills. It is a fine a muffin tin. The muffins baked up best at 400 de- Cinco's rooms are beau ful www.cincoS.com owner Michael LaScola ground cornmeal but has great com flavor. Quak- grees for about 20 minutes, at which point they are ly appointed with choc ate, takes his inspiration. Unfor er produced rather dry muffins with less flavor, cooked through and beautifully golden brown. pistachio and mango lls, American tunately, LaScola is one of colorful paintings and s iny those chefs who practices a wooden floors. It's very ean Seasons more-is-more approach to Bluebeny Com Muffins and modem - as is hef 80 Centre St., cooking, and most of his dishes are tarted up with fla Jason Carroll 's fare. Nantucket; Ripe, sweet blueberries - they should be finn - should be used in the muffins. lf?hey are Though Cinco offe a vor-masking extras. 508-228-7 111 ; unavailable, you may substitute individually quick-frozen berries. (We like the frozen wild handful of entrees (inclu ing Perhaps the too-busy blueberries from Maine sold by Wyman's. You can add them still fro7cn.) These muffins are www.americanseasons.com a paella, priced at $26 per plates are meant to justify the best eaten on the day they are baked. person, with a two-pe on high prices. Only on Nan minimum), tapas are the tucket would a tower oflocal 1 213 cups all purpose flour focus here. They're as 1 ely tomatoes and mozzarella 213 cup/me-ground corn meal (Arrowhead Mills preferred) •, to look at as they are d licious; order an assort cost $13.50 - even with the well-intentioned, if 1 112 teaspoons baking powder ment to share. Start with bowl ofgarlic and rose- · unneccssaI), addittons of a laced potato touille, 112 teaspoon baking soda mary house-marinated ives ($5) while you pe fried eggplant and arugula aioli. And why wrap a 112 teaspoon salt ...j -! ruse the menu. prislme piece of sushi-grade tuna in shredded 2 largeeggs I The tuna tartare ($10) we're told, has just been katafi pastry ($14.50) and fiy the coating crisp? 718 cup granulated sugar I made. It's superb, mi~ d with chewy bits of R~tcd salmon ($27.50) is delish with red 113 cup whole milk parmesan cracker and t ppcd with salmon roe. mole gravy. but meet grapefruit chow chow and 2 3 cup sour cream 1 Summer watermeion fet salad ($8) drizzled with soggy poknta fnt.: are distractions. Given the 8 tablespoons (I stick) unsalted bune1; melted balsamic is a sweet an salty treat, Mondrian bounty of area fanns, the urnmer vegetable tast 2 cups blueberries esque in presentation. Ci sy-tart striped bass ce ing ($26) is an O\ erpriccd disappointment ofleek viche ($9) has subtle ha nero chili sass and jica blue cheese tart, mashed potatoes, tomato-bread I. Heat the oven to 400 degrees and adjust the rack to the center position. Line a standard ma crunch. Seared blu fin ($ 18) dappled with olive panzanella salad, parll'esan risotto, shallot 12-cup muffin pan with paper liners. diced olives is plated w h wam1 artichoke heart confit. pineapple chutney and a few spears of as 2. Whisk flour, cornmeal, baking powder, baking soda and salt in large bowl to combine, set and emerald-green herb il. It's heavenly. paragus. Grilled jerked loin of pork ($27.50) is aside. Whisk eggs in second medium bowl about 20 seconds, Add sugar and whisk until well Dip slices of spice- bbed pork tenderloin moist but salty: accompanying pulled pork in combined and thick. Add the milk and sour cream and whisk until honiogcnous. Add wet in ($ 11 ) into tangy cilantro pesto, and fiied salt cod tamarind barbecue sauce, se ed with com cake gredients to dry and mix gently with a spatula a few times. Pour in melted butter and continue and fa\a succotash, is much better. fritters ($7) into bric -red, almond romesco to fold until batter is smooth. Add the blueberries and fold until the~ arc evenly distributed. sauce. Dunk souffle-lig t, cheddar-covered chili Even pa3try chef Natasha Misanko 's desserts Using an ice cream scoop or large spoon mound the batter evenly into the muffin cups. relleno tart ($9) into de ightfully smoky tomato get a little crazy. Too much caramel and chocolate 3. Bake until the muffins are golden brown and a tester comes out clean, about 20 minutes, vinaigrette. Spanish po toes ($7) - slow-roast syrups gunk up the vanilla cnmch ice cream sand rotating the pan l 80 degrees halfway through the baking time. Cool in pan five minutes; re ed white and purple ta rs - are unabashedly wich ($ 10). Marshlnallow s ·more brioche bread move from pan and serve warm or at room temperature. earthy. pudding ($9.75) with graham cracker ice cream Makes 12 muffins. Pastry chefTheo Paq in's desserts are equally may tip you into sugar shock good, especially creamy range flan ($6) and co That said, top-notch service, a wine list deep You can contact writers Christopher Kimball and Jeanne Maguire at conut cheesecake ($8) s ewn with flakes of co enough to dive into and the enchanted atmos [email protected]. conut. phere go a long way toward compensating for A pitcher of excellen sangria ($32) - made American Seasons' culinary extravagances. crusted pizzas - although in a town favorites - but not the variety avail accomplished. (M.S.) mixed results. The slogan is "flavor 11 75 - There's a commonly held that is passionate about pizza, their able at some other dim sum houses. CATCH , 34 Church St., Winchester; ful food, simply put " but many items belief that the higher up in a building picture-perfect, dimpled 10-inch. pre Try the bean curd skin rolls, wrapped 781-729-1040 -At Chris Parsons' on the menu (pizza, roast chicken, a restaurant is located, the higher the fabricated crusts may not pass around celery and spongy shrimp Winchester bistro, the menu is 99.9 grilled lamb sirloin-entrees prepared tab and the worse the food. Top of muster among cognoscenti. Choose paste, and soft tofu doused in sugar percent seafood (even the steak without butter or cream) are either the Hub is trying to change that from simple to silly pies, salads and syrup. (M.S.) comes with grilled shrimp). The too simple or not simple impression with a Hawaiian-influ oven-baked pastas and Parms. (M.S.) CARMEN , 33 North Square, Boston menu varies, depending on what's enough.(M.S.) enced menu from new chef Mark HEI LA MOON RESTAURANT, 88 (North End); 617-742-6421 - One available from the fishmonger. SALTS, 798 Main St., Cambridge; Porcaro. Uve jazz ~ightly in the Beach St., Boston (Ch1natown); of Boston's most romantic restau There's always lobster but the prepa 617-876-8444 - The best new lounge is a bohus treat! (M.S.) 617-338-8813-Business is boom rants Carmen is a North End-style, ration varies. Only the pan-seared restaurant of the year thanks to its SCOLLAY SQUARE, 21 Beacon St., CROMA, 269 Newbury St., oston; ing at Chinatown's newest dim sum fantdSy version of Italian countryside scallops ($27) with short rib ravioli elegantly relaxed, countryside decor, Boston (Beacon Hill); 617-742-4900 617-247-3200 - This is th first US palace (through the Chinatown Gate dining that supersedes realism. The remains the same. (M.S.) friendly, informed staff and superb - If you're looking for decent eats outpost of a Manchester, En land and across the surface road). They appetizers and pastas are especially LUCY'S, 242 Harvard St., French-inspired regional fare from (fancified Italian and Asian-influenced pizzeria. Croma specializes i thin- have all the best-known dim sum good but ertrees like roast breast Brookline; 617-232-5829 - At chef/owner Gabriel Bremer. In pub grub along with a handful of and confit leg of duck, and slow Lucy's in Coolidge Corner, they try to Bremer's kitchen, the seasons rule steakhouse favorites) at a reasonable roasted rack of pork, aren't nearly as balance taste and nutrition-with and fresh, local ingredients hold price in a convivial atmosphere with sway. (M.S.) an affable staff put this new Beacon TOP OF THE HUB, 800 Boylston St. Hill watering hole at the top of your {Prudential Tower), Boston; 617-536- list. (M.S.) No more climbing dangerous ladders. 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Ift nator might seem li k1.. an odd n..--cent New Yorker arti- hard-driving and infectious r match. But not only ha\e they cle. Shriver picked Ah-nold's ' romp doesn't reverse the curs been married for 17 years a mO\ 1c.:s for him, and regardJess of Peanut butter and chocolate, may at least kick it on its arse. lifetime in celebrity rnamagcs \\hat you think of Arnold the a great duo since the 1920s politician, if hC' 's able to break dO\\ n some of the ''alls of parti enough to think outside the box, ~sh; p in politics (how can the and give the world a gift called Republican no1 be sensitive to the Reese s peanut butter cup. As the Democratic view when hes candy bars go, its second only to marned to a Kennedy?), that the flm\ less Snickers bar. And as sollll from herself to him - to his speak to our better instincts? paintings, to his life story. I lere Who \\ 111 save us from our was a woman who launched a selves? Yes, I can look back wist Child: good food deserves time thousand culinary ships, who fully and say, "I knew Julia gave so many of us the confi Child. I cooked with her. I knew CHtLb, from page 11 was busy throwing oil the 'hack O\er the years. Julia defied us ncss. the lady who \\Ould get to dence and insp1rat1on to do good her a,.1., a friend." But that's not I have always though of les of the past and with them, the at C\ n rum. Diet \\ere anathe kno" each ,md e\ef\ star-struck work. in the k.1tchen . good enough for Julia. She Julia's entrance onto the na ion notion that there wa somdhing nk'l to -Julia since the) implied bu)er at a book -.ig~ing, even if It feels as ir wt: have lost the woul~ politely suggest, with a al scene as unfortunate tit ing. to learn fTom it. \ c ,,.mted that food wa.' harmful. . he had it took hours. \\hen interrupted best of us in recent years, as if twinkle in her eye, that we tum Women were leaving heir bright lights and Juli. otkrcd us no truck wit the organic and during a restaurant meal, she these men and \\Omen \\.·ere de on the stove, grab a knife, and homes for careers by the mi l hard work and anor ymil) \\e n:uural !Ooc.I mO\ ements - had \\Ould be gracious and unhur scended from a race of people start preparing a proper dmner, lions. America was just g ting n't \m1.:ncan agriculture fed the ried in her attentions. When she who walked the earth in strides the typ~· of food that \\Ould satis serious about becoming a ast \\orld'? Yes. butter and cream \\as \\1th Paul, her beloved hus too long for our times. Who now fy our -.outs and not JU'>l. our food nation. Agribusiness was could be n..' Sonia Flew • BY MEllNDA LOPEZ. DIRECTD BY WCHOLAS MARTIN Octobei: i - ovember 28 lnaugt uil production at the CaidErwvod Paviltofl ilt the BCA WORLD PREMIERE MORE G EAT PLAYS iN 2004-2005. SUBSCRISf TODAY AND SAVE! BURN THIS .CULTURE CLASH PLUS SPECIAL fltt Abr>tg 'TMff~ by Lanford Wilson INAMERICCA ~f l!tlorld's P!'~MafoP? of Directed by OFFERS: Created, written, and THE 1>1.AYBOY Of Tiil Susan Fenichell performed by Culture Nov. I z Dec. I 2, 2004 Clash: Richard Montoya. TRUMBO WESTERK WORLD Boston University Theatre Ric Salinas. and b~ I \I Syntt Herbert Siguenza r"..ir~red by tlleAbi;>ey's Aniol~ Ofuv.:tcr THE RIVALS March 18 May 8, 2005 by Richard Calderwood Pavilion Ben .f >.HJ!!5 Brinsley Sl> .. ridan m i 8,2004 Directed by ~ ttd lll llS':1«frlll"'1 FALSETTOS !.llfr.~ l!r"-ldwi.ty in .Boslol! Nicholas Marlin Music and lyrics tlze ~\7lbu1 11".catre Jan. 7 Feb. 6, 2005 by William Finn al Boston University Theatre Book by William Finn and James Lapine Proud pnnt media SJY.m!. BRUUNOY AT THf VI f S ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• ••••••••••• ••• ••• •••••••• Bleak to the future her memory ofwhy erased, and her few hours with William ex punged from her recollections as well. Violate Code 46 and you may live, but you are un likely to recall what you did or why. What, then, do lovers do in a society that forbids them to love? Flee, of course. The film CiRC(LE~s (UYCLANO (llCl( suggests that ,not only has the 617- S66· 4040 almosphere been so altered that BRAINTREE 10 BURLINGTON 10 OfffOlllSID tl£:Utl• an 111 UIT .311 7111~148· 1070 781 -229-•200 even less of the world is pleas ant to live in than is true now, but also, people have so often been cloned and "created" by in vitro fertilization, the dan gers of genetic mishaps are too great to allow them to mate if, they share even a 25 percent DNA. Guess who, given that rule, can't mate. "Code 46" sharply focuses ·· on these two people reaching : out, without planning. to, for a genuinely loving re l aJi onship~ ' Will am (rim Robbins) and Marla (Samantha Morton) try to figure out the future of their past. without the particular cruelties, of this future overshadowing the human dimension. It ere-' Code 46 (B) vere environmental changes, may greatly ates a context revealing why their implaus i ~ alter the way we live. This future here shows ble, furtive romance develops. Neither actor.. amily entertainment! s there any wrinkle in the fabric offutur without preachments or pontificating communicates that idealized dreaminess that ing this movie my istic dystopian drama not yet explored? voiceover narration that the good life will be seems increasingly required in movies to I Well, \\.e haven't had many - any? - found only in major cities, while the out make audiences care. Robbins has grown a HOT vote!" in " ·hi ch everyone's happy, free of intrusive skirts, called "outside," will be barrer. deserts mite flabby and Morton is more waif-like L onard Ma/tin - Hot Ticket government, and kindly to others. or the impoverished wretchedness than alluring, und the one naked scene, two Too boring, maybe. The moYieland already painfully familiar in today's seconds oflowcr-body frontal nudity, is sure assumption, even before we all be world. ly not Morton herself. And the nudity has no can1e anxiety-ridden by fears of ls A Pinkerton insurance investiga real purpose, us also is the odd presence in larnicist terrorism. is that the future tor, William (Tim Robbins), is sent English of a few words in Spanish or French, \\.ii be grim, usually because gov for 24 hours to Shanghai to figure almost as an nllerthought remembering that ernment will be even more a nui out which employee is making ille multicultural tokenism in movies is apparent:. sance than nm\. All the snazzy com gal passes, called papeles, that per- ly mandated by the unspoken rules that the' put~rized wonders won't save the By David Brudnoy mit people to travel to places they entertainment industry has created in servic~" cinema's future from a gloomy op would otherwise be forbidden to to its ideological obsessions. prc iveness. What hath George Film Critic go. William has been implanted William is a happily married man who~ . Omiell wrought? with a useful virus that gives him adores his little son but is stifled by his soci~''. "Code 46" makes its case without rel iance the ability to know everything about a person ety's limitations and in desperate need ofa re~: , on computer gizmos, certainly none of the after learning any one thing, no matter how juvenating jolt. Maria is inexplicably recep- · stuff that rout nely makes a filmmaker's task minor. He's an intuition savant and quickly tive, though she seems at first to be beset by a · po~ ible without the bother of hiring people figures out that a quiet young woman with chilling dream that comes to her at every "no can \\Tlt , notju~t t)pc. a ~npla}. or -.;hort-croppcd hair. \1aria (Samentha Mor birthda~ a11J .1Ianns her and puzzles us- act rs who can persuade. rather than be m ton). 1~ the culpnt But ~mething drrt\' ~her fuch rvn ....1,u n1.1. .. r1n ·Cvdc46"but\\hat scrtcd irto material conccx:red out of pixels to him and he enters mto a sv.. 1ft one mght emerges 1s an 11nprc:-.s1\c oddity: the depic and pitted agamst monsters. It's not likely to stand romance with her. Then he returns tion of a future that is much more unpleasant== be remcmben.'<.i much, ifat all, by year's end, home to his wife and son but is called back to than awe-in~piring, but not wholly preposter~ . but it's actually acted by two first-rate per Shanghai soon because a man for whom ous, unlike so much of futuristic science fie.: formers, shot in real places Shanghai and Maria created an illegal papele has died. tion cinema. ,. Dubai and posited on the plausible idea Here the movie kicks into the full futuristic Written by Frank Cottrell Boyce: directed that inequities in resources. coupled with se- mode, as Maria has been hospitalized, though by Michael Winterbottom. Rated R ...•..•...•. 1········ · ····· ·······~ · ··············· · ··················· ·· ······~· ················~················· · ··············· Wamlnu! Adu s have been llnown to llliOI tllil movie ven more than their llddll Boredom vs. tedium STARTS FIUDAY, AUGUST 20TH See theater directories for showtimes or... www.Benji.com For g.-oup sales call (800) 354-4403 Alien Vs. .. Predator (D) can program a VCR, but I can't ------~------.. figure out everything that goes I or in this hodgepodge cannibal "fUNNY, fUN AND f ABULOUS! ization of the "Alien" (1979) and its ROYA LY (NTERTAININGr' sequels and "Predator" ( 1986) HARK S. AIID, UPN-TV movies Is it time to give up movie re \'iewing and concentrate on moon ULES !" ...... ,,,.--.,,,.--- lighting in IT? Maybe not yet, but MARIA SALAS. NBC-T'I movies like this inspire a sense of on coming dread. It was number one at "THE COMBINED Gto tr UATHAWAY the box office last weekend, and I'd AND ANDREWS 61 'DIARIES Z' bet the mortgage, yours at least, that A SPooNruL Or Su AR AND AHlNT it'll do the same next weekend. Does Of INotANTMoo!" n't that guarantee a sequel? Is there USA R9S[,1Jt[ NIWARKSTAR· GER n-0 decency left? At long last, is there ANDnws left no decency? "fANs Or \.\'hat we know is that a wealthy f oR ATREAT ... IT TURES but serious!} ill fellow (Lance Hen ONE Or.lkR f IRST INGING nksonJ bas discovered, or rather his PERroRMANCES IN s!" computers anJ whizbang speciaii!'ts DAllLYBARGlll, lllUANill C STAR have discovered that there appears to be a massi';e structure a couple of M!ller (Ewen Bremner}, Sebastian {Raoul Bova) and Alexa (Sanaa Lathan) thousand feet below the Antarctic huggerunderthelce. .· bnd rriass. or ice cap, or whatever it's ca3ed. He assembles a team, the usual Hol whereas the Aztec scrawls are thus far in and mnrky,' the better for us not to quite see . {'ANNI HATHAWAY t1woo.l incarnation of the ·cover-all-bases comprehensible. Never mind. The gjst is that what's happening, also the better to avoid 11 Is RAD1ANT! :.-;-ndrome we>ve all come to i!xpect (and this civilization spawned three: uthers. ones what would probably be too much knowl MfGAN LDIHANll, NCW YORK P ST some of us to dread), captained by a tough ,~.:e know .. sorta, and as our boy imagina edge to kl'Cp even a rudimentary interest, "A 'ROYAL' TR£AT "oman. Alexa {Sanaa Lathan l, v.:ho thjnks tively reads the Ur-language he undl!rstands level up for those who are content just with. that there ~.'as once a civilization, from else awful sounds of chewing and grunting and To [ND Tnr-SuMM R!" t~tiole enture 1s a bit nutty - no 1.me i:. • Tl{[BALTIHORC SUN r~l!y prepared sufficiently for ~ub-Amarctic ,,..:here ("Chariots· of the Gods" perhaps?), the awful sight of fluids dripping and sticky. ('J:!Sloration - bur is sufficiently curvaceous thac came here, developed those civilizations, things slobbering about. Sometimes not see.. . ~o \\.'e nec:d her to keep the teenag~ boys' at pcrfonned human sacrifices. somehow used ing well is a mercy. Here it is a necessity. The tention from wandering, as the rich guy humans as seed beds for, well, for ~omething. usual unlistenable "music" of such ventures · needs her to be bossv and know what she's At this point 1 lost not only the movie's train is with us, ofcourse, but not as repulsively as · do mg · of thoug..~t l:>ut interest. is commQn, and the dialogue reduces mainly · :'omeho\' cr.:ell'ight a tunnel appears, im Suffice it to say, there are t\vo groups of to amazingly idiotic remarks about ancient J~ ibte ff thought to be the work of a rival uglies down ~low, one that resembles Darth maps showing an ice-free Antarctica and to eXjlloratmn team, but the doofose~ engaged Vader merged with dreadlock-wearing oafs non sequiturs like "save me!" from one who m tru• adventure areo't savvy enough to real - though when their flat metal headgear really means "shoot me!" because he's being. tzf· that somcibing quite amazingly talented comes offthey are beady ofeye and ctrooly of absorbed into some alien sauce. I was hop-. ~ p;obably I rnfic, is behjnd it all. And lo, tooth - and another, the aliens, who are ing that sorne of the classic one-liners from . root• .dler they get d1!\vn there and begin ex more drooly, oozy, slimy and otherwise quite . Laurel and Hardy films might make their ploring the amazing huge: pyramid nasty disgusting. These chaps are at war, and hu way, sneakily, into this mess, but while.hope" thing:; commence. By the by. one of the ex mans, being in the way, must be nastily dealt springs eternal, reality is a harsh mistres8'. ' pl rers (Raoul Bova) realize~ immediately with. One after another, the humans are de and nothing so clever as that probably" :Jtat tne hieroglyph:> on the pyramid's walls voured or at least absorbed, ingested, some crossed what passes for the mind of tht';:, combine elements ofAztec , ancient Egyptian thing most unpleasant, and but one is left and screenwriter, who also directed, which,, SHOW E CINEMAS and Cambodian writing, although, last I one of the competing horrible groups takes a means we can blame him for everything. An-.: ~NVERS DED AM lllH:lY TREE MALL ITE.. 1 1211EXIT1SA looked, only the Mayans. among Mezo shine to that one, or that one to the horrible other compensation worth treasuring. . 1·800.FANDANG0#734 781-3 6 -4955 .,., American peoples, had a writing system creatures, and things eventually end. Written and directed by Paul W. S. Ander- · -BRAINTREE 10 BURL GTON 10 OfffOU15tD~ llt.S11ln lTE.12 - UIT321 scholars have to some extent deciphered, The photography is the customary dark son. 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A The ,.. ~~7 junmyFund www.allstonbrightontab. om Friday, August 20, 2004 Allston-Brighton TAJ(, page 19 PO LI TICA L NO TEBOOK Teacher Licensure . En1r1 the exciting field of Education enables visitors to contact the complement his widespread sup ing city residents. with confidence. Upcoming state Murphy Web site M~ss llJy offers the s p~cia lized programs campaign through a direct e-mail port from both elected officials Murphy lives with his y<)u !Iced to succeed 111 the classroom. primaries in Bo~ I.IP and running link to headquarters. and the people of Suffolk County, lores "Lori" Ford Murphy, 1 de ( ,111 now to learn more about Rlementiµ:y Education and The state primary elec Suffolk County Sheriff candi Tile Web site content outlines Murphy has been conducting a Park. With the Democratic prima Early Childhood Education be held on Tuesday, Sept. date Stephen J. Murphy announces Murphy's commitment to over grassroots campaign to share his ry Tuesday, Sept. 14, Murphy -is Progr,1ms lead to teacher licensure, and will be open from 7 am. the launch of his campaign Web hauling and improving the fiscal vision for the future of the Sher campaigning across the county guJranteed admission (transfer) to · The last day to registe to vote site: www.electste\emurphy.com. management of the department; iff's Department. with his positive message of fiscal MA state colleges or universities. for this election is Wi nesday, The campaign Web site pro Contact the Office of Admissions today estab i hing a community-based Murphy's community support responsibility in the sheriff's office 781-239-2500 Aug.25. vides an interactive experience for approach to corrections; and an is matched by his public safety ex and safety in our neighborhoods. Other related career programs: Residents with ques · ns can visitors to learn more about Mur overall commitment to improving perience. As a member of the Huma n Services call the elections dep ent at phy's comprehen~i\e vision for Criminal Justice public W"ety both inside and out Boston City Council, Murphy (Note: Items appearing in Po Paralegal 617-635-4635. the Sheriff's Department, hi side the walls of department's fa served as chairman of the Public litical Notebook are submitted by Any person interested n work background in public office. and ciltti~. Safety Committee with oversight area politicians and others. The ing the polls as an electi officer view photograph' from the cam Murphy, an at-large member of of a $400 million public safety TAB reserves the right to edit all ~vj ~~~~r llM!lt& H-lenic.. in Boston is encourage to call paign trai l, press release and arti the Bostor Cit} Council for the budget and the addition of more items.) ~I www.mossboy.edu~ 617-635-4491 and ask speak cles from area nc\\< papers about past eight years, has been well re than 500 police officers and 320 with Lynne Onishukford tails. the campaign. The Web ite also ceived on the campaign trail. To firefighters charged with protect- r------, I· I EDUCATION I I I Souza is on pick up their book~ on these two C)(H I or Gell) (Aries) Brown at groups of ix or more on advance evenings. High school books will 508-1>55-1967. The school, Our sales. The public is welcome to I Chancellor's list not be available until the begin Lady of the Presentation Acade join the composers at a pre-con w·coUPON I Valerie M. Souza o Allston ning of school. my in Newton, has been closed cert discussion at 7 p.m. For more I has been named to the hancel The bookstore will be open be for alx>Ut 25 years, and the class's information, visit www.bmv.org. LAUNDRY EMPORIUM I lor 's list at UMass-Dart outh for fore and after school during the la..'>t reunion w~ in 1979. 600 WASHINGTON ST., BRIGHTON I the spring 04 semester. be list opening weeks to as ist those par BC McMullen Museum of (ACROSS FROM YMCA) (617) 782-9900 . I • ed on the chancellor's r t, a stu ents who cannot make these Class of '54 is L------~ dent must carry at least credits events, but supplie. are limited. Art presents landscapes and have a grade point a erage of Call Robert Croteau with any holding a reunion This fall, the McMullen Muse POOLS ... POOLS ... POOLS! 3.8 or higher out of a po ible 4.0. questions at 617-469-8000. The 81ighton High School um of Art at Boston College will Cla-;s of 1954 will be holding its be the exclusive North American THE MARINER Beaver Country Help needed 50th anni\el"'Sal) reunion on Oct. venue for the exhibition "Fernand lnstallat10n Op11onal & Extra 9 at Lombardo's in Randolph. Khnopff: Inner Visions and Land School honors Le Vol unteers are needed from 4 scapes." This major retrospective, to 7 p.m. on Aug. 31 to help new The co t is $65 per pen.on. For Anthony Le of Brig further information, contact Phyl on display from Sept. 19 through kindergarteners and their parents the Founders' Prize Aw during li Rufo at 508-877-1609 or Bar Dec. 5, presents more than 80 Beaver Country Day School's prepare for starting <;ehool at the paintings and works on paper, annual Countdown to Kinder bara Audet at 508-393-1276 or by Final Assembly on une 4. e-m<.JI at audet I [email protected]. many rarely exhibited or pub Founders' Prize Aw are pre- garten celebration. For more in lished, that span the career of this sented to students whose fforts in formation, call Barbara Ham at key figure in the European Sym Boston Partners m Education at Job training all areas of academic ife have bolist movement. It includes been exemplary. Le w recog 617-45 1-6 145, ext. 620. JFYNetWorks, formerly Jobs Khnopff's most important works nized both for his hard w rk in and For Youth, an education and from the Royal Art Museums in out of school and for s under ABCD Head Start worUorce de\elopment training Brussels as well as many from pri standing that education s an en Centers accepting center. accepts applications for vate collections in Belgium, free GED, MCAS and job-train • Filter&. pu,... · deck deavor worthy of a sustai eel com Switzerland, Germany, France • fcncc&1u1n. mitment. The son of B Le and applications ing clac;st"s. For more informa and the United States. • pool t.dd« Thuy Bui, he is entering is senior Parents with a preschool child, tiort, call 617-338-0815 or visit 'The McMullen Museum is year at Beaver Cou Day ages 3 to 5, who \\-Ould benefit the Web at, www.jfyboston.org. pleased to bring this highly ac School, which is a c cational from an early childhood develop claimed retrospective off.he finest independent school for grades 6 ment program in their neighbor Bo!.1on Musica Viva: work ofone of Europe's key Sym/ through 12 in Chestnut ill. hoods are invitt:d to appl) to Peaceable Kingdoms bolists to North America, where ABCD Head Stan. the artist is less well-known thrur' Children's Muse ABCD Head Start offer.-. edu Bo ton Musica Viva presents his historical importance and ex cation, health, .,ocial and nutri Peaceable Kingdom'>, the first traordinary talent merit," said Mc hosts Countdow tional services, part or full-day con1.en o · its 36th <.eason, Sun Mullen Museum Director and to Kindergarten comprehensive sen ice!'> for 2,400 da), Oct. 3, at 8 p.m. at the Tsai Professor of Art History Nancy ~h1ldren Pert· lrmance Center at Boston All new Boston Publ c School income-eligible at 27 Netzer. "Khnopff's paintings open Uni\el"'iit). Threecomposef'> offer kindergarten student<; d their neighborhood-b.1'-t."'\.I program a window for visitors to explore premieres of vocal mu-.ic \\-hich families are invited to th fifth an throughout Bo~ton. It abo sen.e. way in which the Symbolist 200 in ~ir \po nual Countdown to Ki fants and toddler-; at Earl) pre nt ca-.e!'I for mu.,1c ITIQ~nt extended the evocative '-"=~Huead-Start Center'> in Dorche.,ter Tuesday, Aug. 31, from litical (or apolit1c ) purpose. All power of images to capture expe East Boston and the South End. at Boston Children's three a..,p1re to peace. riences and states of mind beyond At Head Start qualtfied profe~ 300 Congress St. Cost: Ci)mpo..er Eitan Steinberg and common awareness." Join Countdown to Kinder sionals provide t.hildren with ed \OCctlbt Etty Ben-Zaken return The public is invited to attend ucation, health, 'pecial education, garten in celebrating t s impor from hracl for the U.S. premiere an opening event, from 7 to 9 dental, mental health, 'ocial and tant milestone in your c ild's li fe. ol their semi-,taged work, 'The p.m., at the McMullen Museum nutritional service~. The full-da) Participant<; will enjoy fi access Sultlll Is Pregnant:' This one on Monday, Sept. 20. It will in full-year program., meet th to museum exhibits, get their last \\OMan miniature opera ponrays clude a dessert reception, exhibi needs of working parent.,. minute school quest ons an a tyrannical sultan who mirncu tion viewing and music by Parents are panners at Head swered, sign up for lib cards, lously bi..-com~ pregnant and BCbOp!, a popular campus jazz Start. The program empha'>ile!'> climb on a real school us, enjoy gn-es birth to a on. Their relation band, and an opening ceremony at the involvement of parents m free snacks and g es, meet ship forces the sultan to reevaluate 8 p.m. To arrange attendance, call their children's earl) learning ex Boston Mayor Thom Menino ho" he treat<; his subjects. 617-552-8587 or e-mail art l •.. 125or68 perience. Head Start believes that and School Supe · ntendent Boston composer Brian Robi [email protected]. parents are the primary educator.. Thoma<; Payzant and m re. son joins BMV for the world pre A number of educational pro of their children Parents actJvel) miere of 'The bonfire of the civil grams - including lectures, a 100% Boston Children's M seum ex participate in the da)-to-da) op ist-; to help children derstand libertie.,." Narrator Steve Aveson film series, concerts and readings erations of the centers and play a describes the decay of civil liber - will accompany the exhibition. and enjoy the world in hich they significant role m policy-making Saturday 18 September 2004 live. It is a private, non fit, edu tie~ in a critique that's directed at Admission is free. The museum for the program, including ap our own . tate of affairs. is handicapped accessible, open to cational institution reco ized in proving staff and budgets. ternationally as a re h and de Music Director Richard the public and located in Devlin The federally funded Head Pittman and BMV are recognized Hall on the Chestnut Hill campus velopment center and acesetter Start program began in 1964 with for children's exhibitio s, educa for their 35 years as a leading con of Boston College, at 140 Com the mission of prO\ iding children temporar;, music ensemble in monwealth Ave. From Sept. Qlot--•w'"IL• ••,. ht._.. tional programs and c iculum. from low-income home \\ith th<' The Children's Museu focuses Bo~ton . With rare exception, through May, hours are as fol educational and ~ial senice BMV c mmi ions and pre lows: Monday through Friday, 11 on three key areas of expertise: supports to enter elementary visitor programs, t her re mieres a new work each concert. am. to 4 p.m.; Saturday and Sun school on equal footing "- ith their All three piece, on this concert are day from noon to 5 p.m. Closed www.harbortothebay.org sources and early child ood edu more affluent pccrl.. premieres. on Oct. 11 , and on Nov. 25 and 26. For lnCln lnfomletion .,..... ID to our webslr. or ~7-27 cation. More informa on about Call 617-348 6272 to find out the museum can be found at General admi sion ticket to Limited parking on the followi ng how to apply to a local center. Peaceable Kingdoms are avail Saturdays: Oct. 2, Nov. 6 and Nov. http://www.bostonkids. rg. ABCD has Head Start Centers Hours and Admissi n: Open able through the BMV office at 27. Gallery tours will be given by serving income~ligible fam1lie~ 617-354-6910 or through The museum docents on Fridays at daily from I 0 am. to p.m., Fri in every neighborhood of Bo ton. days to 9 p.m. Childre from 2 to Tsai Perfonnance Center box of 12:30 p.m. Group tours may be 15 and senior citizens, $7; other fice on the day of the concert, 685 arranged upon request, by calling adult<> $9; one-year ol , $2; Fri Brighton High School Commonwealth Ave., Boston. 617-552-8587. For directions, days 5 to 9 p.m., all visi rs $1. In Class of '70 reunion Seats ar.e $22; seniors/WGBH parking and information, visit the fant<; and museum bers ad member!I $I8; children/ tudento; Web site www.hc.edu/artmuseum The Brighton High School $1 2 Dis:ounts are available for or call 617-552-8100. mitted free. SpeciaJ rat avai lable Class of 1970 will be ho ting its for school and comm ty groups; 35th anniversary reunion in 2005. reservations required, call 617- Class member.. teachers and 426-8433. school personnel, visit www. FULLER ESTATE aliow) 111 accort1ance with Probate Rule 16' WflllTEN APPEARANCE IN SAID bhs70.org for further information. Commonwealth of Massachusetts Patricia A. Malone. Director COURT AT BOSTON ON OR BEFORE CM Bookstore The Trial Court WITNESS, HON. JOHN M. SMOOT. Mc1yor's Office of Consumer TEN O'CLOCK IN THE FORENOON Probate :md Family Court Department ESOUIAE, First Justice of Sciid Court at Affairs and L1cens1ng (10 00 AM) ON October 14, 2004. hosting summer sale Brighton High School SUFFOLk Division BOSTON this day, August 13, '.!004. Room #817, Boston City Hall. Docket No. 04P1334EP1 Boston, MA 02201 WITNESS, HON. JOHN M. SMOOT, TI1e Catholic Mem 'al Book Class of '59 reunion Richard lannetla Telephone 617-635-4165 ESQUIRE, First Justice of said Court at In the Eat2te of BERNICE M. FULLER Register of Probate Fax 617-635-4174 BOSTON this day, August 10, 2004. store will host a varie of events The Brighton High School to help parents purch uniforms Class of 1959 will be ho ting its Late of AUSTON A&596636 AD#596629 Richard lannella In the County of Sl.lffOLK Alls1on-Brigl"tton Tab 8/20/04 Aiiston·Bngh!0rt Plan 8120/04 Register of Probate and other CM attire fore the 45th anniversary reuruon on Oct. Dal?. <>1 Dlath May 28, 2004 opening of school in ptember. UCi396 MARKET STREET MARTIN GUARDIANSn!P 5 at the Stockyard Re~taurant in I' OTlCE OF PETITION LEGAi. NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE These sales will fi "Newly Brighton. For additional informa FOP. 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