VOL. 117 - NO. 16 BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, APRIL 19, 2013 $.30 A COPY 1st Annual Daffodil Day on the MARATHON MONDAY MADNESS North End Parks Celebrates Spring by Sal Giarratani Someone once said, “Ide- by Matt Conti ologies separate us but dreams and anguish unite us.” I thought of this quote after hearing and then view- ing the horrific devastation left in the aftermath of the mass violence that occurred after two bombs went off near the finish line of the Boston Marathon at 2:50 pm. Three people are reported dead and over 100 injured in the may- hem that overtook the joy of this annual event. At this writing, most are assuming it is an act of ter- rorism while officials have yet to call it such at this time 24 hours later. The Ribbon-Cutting at the 1st Annual Daffodil Day. entire City of Boston is on (Photo by Angela Cornacchio) high alert. The National On Sunday, April 14th, the first annual Daffodil Day was Guard has been mobilized celebrated on the Greenway. The event was hosted by The and stationed at area hospi- Friends of the North End Parks (FOTNEP) in conjunction tals. Mass violence like what with the Rose F. Kennedy Greenway Conservancy and North we all just experienced can End Beautification Committee. The celebration included trigger overwhelming feel- ings of anxiety, anger and music by the Boston String Academy and poetry, as well as (Photo by Andrew Martorano) daffodils. Other activities were face painting, a petting zoo fear. Why did anyone or group and a dog show held by RUFF. do this? Were they sending The daffodils were planted last fall by these 3 organiza- some kind of sick message? even larger crowds down by and punished. Many had for- tions with help from many volunteers, including 27 chil- Many are assuming that the Lenox Hotel and Boston gotten the immediacy of dren from the North End’s Eliot School. They planted over this may have been an act Public Library near Copley mass violence that we felt 13,000 daffodils on the North End Parks and surrounding of domestic terrorism since Square? so strong back on Septem- curb gardens along Cross Street. it not only happened on It is not difficult to imag- ber 11, 2001. The people of Among those in attendance were City Councilor Sal Marathon Monday but Patri- ine the fear and panic Boston are strong and we LaMattina, who led the ribbon cutting; Nathan Swain, presi- ots’ Day too. The world is a as bombs burst killing will survive this but now dent of FOTNEP; vice-president Diane Mustone; Secretary very unsafe place. There are and maiming so many. The know that such violence re- David Kubiak; event organizer Diane Valle and supporters many angry groups out sounds of fear could be heard mains a clear and present Joe McKenna and Deni Ross. there. Can we only imagine on the audio of those scenes danger and that we can if those two bombs and the on our TV sets or computer never let down our guard other reported devices found screens. when it comes to those who went off an hour earlier as The city is rebounding and would hurt us. We will sur- News Briefs the elite runners were those who are responsible for vive. Learn and grow from crossing the finish line with this violence will be caught April 15, 2013. by Sal Giarratani

They Think Gay Marriage Already Won I picked up the April 8th Time Magazine issue, Re-enactment of the Paul Revere Ride the one with the two guys mugging up each other. by Ivanha Paz The liberal Time Magazine thinks gay marriage Every year, on Patriots’ Day, is here to stay. According to the cover story by the third Monday of April, a re- David Von Drehle, the U.S. Supreme Court may enactment of Paul Revere’s not have made up its mind but America has. famous midnight ride takes According to Time, 53 percent of Americans are place. Before the ride, there is a now okay with gays and lesbians marrying. Gay parade featuring the Colonial approval, it says, is now 73 percent among 18-29 Militia and the National year olds and 39 percent among the 65 and older Lancers. The ride starts in demographic. Personally, I’m thinking that is Boston’s North End on Hanover quite inaccurate. Many people out there simply Streeat with stops in Charles- don’t care one way or the other and these folks town, Somerville, Medford and get added with the pro-gay marriage group. I am finally arriving in Lexington. not that sure that yesterday’s impossible is This year it happened on Mon- tomorrow’s inevitable. day, April 15 and the rider as What will the U.S. Supreme Court do is still Paul Revere was Col. Richard unknown. They may probably end DOMA as it isn’t Reale, from the National Lanc- the job of the federal government to decide who ers. State Rep. Aaron Michlewitz can and cannot get married. However, as far as played the role of Dr. Joseph the California case is concerned, they could very Warren as he gave the military well uphold the vote of the people and overturn information to Paul Revere, who (Continued on Page 14) shouted “onward!” as he galloped away on his horse, portraying the part of Brown Beauty. (Photo by Rosario Scabin, Ross Photography)

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Stirpe by Prof. Edmund Res Publica Turiello Nostra by David Trumbull A weekly column highlighting some of the more interesting aspects of our ancestry...our lineage...our roots. The Blow Given to Boston Smote on Every Patriotic Heart “In that day of general affection and brother- Obama say on television: “Boston is a tough hood, the blow given to Boston smote on every and resilient town, so are its people. I am JAMES MONROE patriotic heart from one end of the country to supremely confident that Bostonians will pull the other. Virginia and the Carolinas, as well together, take care of each other and move for- as Connecticut and New Hampshire, felt and ward as one proud city and as they do, the proclaimed the cause to be their own ... Con- American people will be with them every single gress ... expressed its sympathy for the suffer- step of the way.” ing inhabitants of Boston and addresses were As I write, we do not know the who or received from all quarters, assuring them that why of the 2013 Boston Marathon Terror the cause was a common one, and should be Bombing. We know that, as always, the met by common efforts and common sacrifices.” American people will come together. That The lines above, from Daniel Webster’s uncounted multitudes of volunteers will step 1825 address on the occasion of the dedica- forward assist the victims and their fami- tion of the Bunker Hill Monument came to lies. And that the culprits will be found and mind Monday, as I heard President Barack justice will be done.

DATE OF BIRTH: April 28, 1758 HHS Announces New Partnership with Law Enforcement DATE OF DEATH: July 4, 1831 PLACE OF BIRTH: Westmoreland County, VA to Help Prevent Sale of EBT Prohibited Items PLACE OF DEATH: New York City, NY Partnership Gives Local Law Enforcement New Tools; WIFE: Elizabeth PRESIDENT: 1817-1825 Enhances Program Integrity and Data Sharing Another Virginian named James Monroe, Massachusetts Health and visiting potentially prohib- DTA is in the process of Was C.E.O. number five as Presidents go; Human Services Secretary ited establishments, such implementing the blockage His administration was called “The Era of Good Feeling,” John Polanowicz announced as stores that sell liquor. of ATM and Point Of Sale Obtained Florida from Spain without wheeling and dealing. a new partnership with Under the new agreement, transactions for cash assis- Just when people were doubting his leadership skills, statewide law enforcement the Department will share tance clients at prohibited Came the Monroe Doctrine which caused European chills; associations to increase this data with local law establishments and that is For those who would try to occupy slices, data sharing, while giving enforcement so they can expected to be completed by Of this hemisphere like the Cuban missile crisis. local police the tools they investigate and prevent the October 2013. need to ensure that clients sale of prohibited items and DTA began charging cash In foreign affairs he never split hairs, and retailers are abiding by the use of EBT cards at pro- clients a $5 fee for replace- He took what was ours and gave what was theirs; the law. The announcement hibited establishments. ment EBT cards in Decem- An example of his problems and also the stakes, builds on the Department of “The Massachusetts Chiefs ber 2012. In total, more than Was to limit British armament on all the Great Lakes. Transitional Assistance of Police Association are $22,000 has been collected The admission of Missouri as a slave state, (DTA) 100 day Bridge to Sta- pleased to partner with the through the end of March A thorn in his side caused quite a debate; bility action plan announced Department of Transitional 2013 and preliminary re- He signed the act to the public’s surprise, last month and helps protect Assistance to ensure that search shows a reduction of In Congress they called it “The Great Compromise.” benefits for clients who truly clients and retailers are 28 percent in card replace- His wife was Elizabeth, reserved but yet warm, need them. abiding by the law,” said ments during that time. Her attitude precipitated a real social storm; The new partnership in- Chief Wayne Sampson, ex- USDA has also granted She refused to sip tea with the rest of the gals, cludes the Massachusetts ecutive director of the DTA approval to charge Or chew the fat with all former pals. Chiefs of Police Association MCOPA. “Our participation SNAP clients a replacement Her young daughter’s wedding was a private affair, (MCOPA) and the Massachu- will help provide the DTA fee and DTA will be imple- Only relatives and close friends were asked to be there; setts Major City Chiefs with the necessary evidence menting this charge in the During her White House years she had guests without ritual, Association (MMCC). to take action against those coming weeks. Now the policy she started has become quite habitual. “We’re giving local law who intentionally violate the The 100 day plan incorpo- enforcement the data and law.” rates established best prac- information they need to DTA is also working in tices, brings increased over- “THE FLOWER THAT BLOOMS IN ensure that clients and collaboration with MCOPA, sight and training to the ADVERSITY IS THE RAREST retailers are abiding by the MMCC, and other law en- Department, and moves for- law,” said Secretary Polano- forcement in cities and ward with technological en- AND MOST BEAUTIFUL OF ALL.” wicz. “This partnership is an towns throughout Massa- hancements to address is- Walt Disney Company, Mulan (Pictureback) important step forward for chusetts on trainings on sues raised by the offices of DTA, and it will help us the EBT restrictions signed the Inspector General, the protect benefits for those into law by Governor Deval State Auditor and federal who need them as a bridge Patrick last year. The law regulators. The plan also to stability during tough prohibits the use of cash takes proactive steps to WELLSMERE times.” assistance at certain loca- prevent fraud and abuse, Secretary Polanowicz was tions and for certain block EBT card usage at joined by Chelsea Police items. prohibited establishments MONUMENTS Chief and Vice President of The partnership builds off and increase investigation the MMCC, Brian Kyes, DTA’s 100 day action plan, and enforcement of SNAP Everett Police Chief Steven which was launched last trafficking. 3841 WASHINGTON STREET Mazzie, DTA Interim Com- month to enhance program DTA has also launched ROSLINDALE (AT FOREST HILLS MBTA STATION) missioner Stacey Monahan, integrity, restore public trust statewide Bridge to Stability and DTA program integrity in DTA’s critical programs, listening sessions, to gain WWW.WELLSMERE.COM personnel at the State and improve services for public input on strengthen- 617-524-6648 House Steps today for the clients. ing client services. announcement. To date, DTA has notified DTA serves one in eight As part of the 100 day ac- more than 78,000 cash people in the Commonwealth tion plan, DTA has launched clients and approximately and ensures that the emer- bi-weekly monitoring of ATM 22,000 individual retail gency and transitional and point of sale withdraw- establishments through 38 needs of the individuals and als to identify any purchases vendor associations, out- families are met through made at prohibited estab- lining the prohibited items, federal and state-funded VOZZELLA lishments. DTA staff mem- establishments and penal- benefits, such as Supple- bers are monitoring where ties for restricted purchases mental Nutritional Assis- transactions are located and listed under the law. tance and cash assistance.

Emma Ruth Randolph Emma Ruth Randolph was Ruth lived her life believing friends who supported her born on December 3, 1907 that as long as you had a and loved her until the end

and passed away on April 11, kind heart and a helping of her days. She is survived 2013. She was a long time hand that God would bless by her great-grandchildren LATE APPOINTMENTS AND IN HOME VISITS AVAILABLE resident of Boston’s North you and he truly did bless and great-great-grandchil- End and worked as a nurse her by surrounding her dren, she will be missed by at Mass General Hospital. with amazing family and many. POST-GAZETTE, APRIL 19, 2013 Page 3 Boston Marathon Explosions Pamela Donnaruma, Publisher and Editor by Ivanha Paz 5 Prince Street, P.O. Box 130135, Boston, MA 02113 617-227-8929 617-227-8928 FAX 617-227-5307 e-mail: [email protected] Website: www.BostonPostGazette.com Subscriptions in the United States $30.00 yearly Published weekly by Post-Gazette, 5 Prince St., P.O. Box 130135, Boston, MA 02113 USPS 1538 – Second-Class Postage paid at Boston, MA POSTMASTER: Send address changes to the POST-GAZETTE - P.O. Box 130135, Boston, MA 02113

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OUR POLICY: To help preserve the ideals and sacred traditions of this our adopted country the United States of America: To revere its laws and inspire others to respect and obey them: To strive unceasingly to quicken the public’s sense of civic duty: In all ways to aid in making this country greater and better than we found it. GUEST EDITORIAL I Love NY (Today)! Crowds gather enjoying the Marathon approximately a half hour before the explotions. (Photo by Rosario Scabin, Ross Photography) by Sal Giarratani On Monday April 15th, Pa- needed disarming, as it was see what could be done, and The NY Yankees paid trib- triots’ Day, two explosions initially thought, and that who needed attention. ute to the victims of the near the finish line of the the only two explosives found As President Obama said, bombings at the Boston Boston Marathon which is were those that exploded. “the American people refuse Marathon that killed three held annually and brings in So far, there is no knowl- to be terrorized. Because and injured 183 others at people from all over the edge of who made the bombs what the world saw yester- Yankee Stadium on April country, took the lives of or the motives, but Boston day (Monday April 15th) in the 16th against the Arizona three people and left more and other major cities such aftermath of the explosions Diamondbacks. They even than 170 injured. as New York and Washing- were stories of heroism and played the Fenway Park fa- The explosions took place ton have been taking extra kindness, and generosity vorite “Sweet Caroline,” af- about 10 seconds and 100 security measures to protect and love … So if you want to ter the third inning. The yards apart from each other, their citizens. Also, count- know who we are, what Neil Diamond hit was at 2:50 pm and they were less videos and photos taken America is, how we respond played over the p.a. system caused by homemade bombs. on smart phones and other to evil — that’s it. Selflessly. and Yankees fans some As reported by CBS, law such devices by those in at- Compassionately. Unafraid.” wearing Red Sox caps and enforcement is thinking tendance are all valuable Humans are good. People jerseys sang loudly. Dia- that the bombs were made evidence that the FBI is stick together and show soli- mond wrote on his Twitter to look like discarded ob- examining. darity. Whoever caused this page, “Thank you NY Yan- jects that could have been By now, everyone knows attack of terrorism, be it a kees for playing “Sweet Caroline” for the people of on the sidewalk or inside the bombs had ball bearings group or one single person is Boston. You scored a home run in my heart. garbage cans. to cause maximum damage. nothing in comparison to A ribbon was shown on the stadium scoreboard dis- Mike Sienkiewizz from It’s all over the news what the mass amount of caring playing the insignias of the Yankees and Red Sox Milton was attending a type of bombs they were, how and goodness that exists in with the caption, “New York stands with Boston … Mercedes Party at stake they were made and specu- the world and especially in Pray for Boston.” house Abe & Louis on lations about where they our city of Boston. In a pre-game acknowledgement of this senseless 793 Boylston Streetwhen he were placed. All of this is In the following days after tragedy, they held a moment of silence and posted heard the explosions. He very important, but I don’t this tragedy Bostonians the message “United We Stand” affixed to the elec- said that he saw mass con- want to write more on that. have shown courage and tronic board atop the entrance to the ballpark. fusion, “shoes, legs, and I want to write about kind- strength. Business is being limbs.” Restaurant staff ush- ness and bravery. conducted as usual; citizens ered people through the In spite of this tragedy, of this great city refuse to let backdoor and they were told there is something to be said fear run their lives. In the Mario F. Alfano to leave through Newbury about the way people re- words of Michael Leiter, and :Street. He was concerned acted. Countless videos and NBC News national security November 2, 1958 – that there might have been photos were taken showing analyst, “you just have to do April 18, 2011 a third explosion. heroic responses to danger. the best you can to keep  During the immediate af- People made tourniquets people safe and maintain re- termath a lot of misinforma- from their own clothes, run- silience,” he said. “It’s im- Always in our Hearts tion started to be reported. ners kept on running to hos- portant we don’t alter our Fear was palpable through- pitals so that they could give lives because that provides Your Loving Family out the city as people blood, those present helped the terrorist - domestic, in- scrambled to call loved ones out any way they could. When ternational, whoever it may & Friends and try to understand what the explosions were heard, be - with a huge victory.” was going on. Now, it has the initial reaction was not It is clear that Boston will been reported that there to run away from them, but not let this terrorist, or ter- were no other bombs that to run towards the chaos and rorists win. Thoughts and Well Wishes from Italy I have learned the news of the tragic event in I hope all are well and that this barbaric ter- Boston with sorrow. It is incredible how the rorist attack did not touch any of your loved human mind can think and organize events so ones. We are living with deep grief and sorrow heinous and destroy not only human life but this unprecedented tragedy striking the city that also the happiness of such a nice and typical hosted us so warmly and gave us friendships Bostonian event. and immeasurable feelings, such as those that I hope and I am sure that in short time the unite us. perpetrators will be dealt with. We are very close and pray that this does I spent some of the best years of my life in not happen again, and Boston, with its won- Boston and so I felt just like if the explosions derful people, will soon subsides the pain for had happened in my backyard and the flag of this heartbreaking wound. my heart is at half-mast. A big hug, with all my heart. Send letter to: Pamela Donnaruma, Editor, Be strong and be sure that America will The Post-Gazette, P.O. Box 130135, Boston, MA 02113 prevail. — Carlo Cipollone, former — Roberto Falaschi, former Educational Director of the The opinions expressed by our columnists and contributors are not Consul General of Italy in Boston Consulate General of Italy necessarily the same as those of The Post-Gazette, its publisher or editor. Photo submissions are accepted by the Post-Gazette provided they are clear, original photos. There is a $5 charge for each photo submitted. Photos can be submitted via e-mail: [email protected]. If you want your photos returned, include a self-addressed, stamped WWW.BOSTONPOSTGAZETTE.COM envelope. Page 4 POST-GAZETTE, APRIL 19, 2013 L’Anno Bello: A Year in Italian Folklore Why I Love Boston by Ally Di Censo THINKING When I first frantically I can see it whenever I pick American Union regiment, OUT LOUD switched on the television to up one of the city’s celebrated departed to Southern battle- by Sal Giarratani view the news about the newspapers and magazines fields with courage rippling tragic attacks at the Boston or tune into Chronicle and through their veins. It is Marathon, my heart imme- constantly become amazed here that university stu- Waiting for D-Day diately jumped to my throat, at the new innovations and dents in the 1960s protested “Things don’t change, we do.” a cold, hard iron ball. I was attractions Boston has to against war and pollution — Henry Thoreau not only saddened by the offer. I feel this character and human injustices. With On Tuesday, April 30 at flirting with pretty women. I accounts of innocent people whenever I hear about how this spirit comes fierce loy- 3:15 pm, when I clock out for still power-walk over at Wol- killed and wounded in the Boston’s hospitals are alty: something has to be the day it will also be my laston Beach, Castle Island bombings, but I also shud- groundbreakers in the field said for a city that never clocking out of my long career and the East Boston Green- dered over how the explo- of medicine and how its uni- failed to support a scrappy, with the State Department of way. Yes, I listen to WJIB on sions shattered a proud, versities educate millions loveable baseball team which Mental Health. My first day on am 740 but the music really feisty city. The true soul from around the world. Most made millions of dreams the job was Monday, Decem- is good. Sunday mornings, it of Boston, however, is not touchingly of all, I see this soar when they won the ber 3, 1972. President Rich- is Sunday Morning Jazz on found in catastrophe but unbridled fortitude in the long-awaited World Champi- ard Nixon was still inside the 106.7. I still read lots of news- rather in the spirits of the everyday Bostonians I meet onships in 2004 and 2007. I White House and Frank Sar- papers and not on-line. I like people who selflessly helped on a regular basis: the con- know that this spirit will gent was in the Governor’s touching the pages and smell- the injured and those who struction workers in hard help us continue to serve as Office at the State House. I ing the newsprint. This sum- stayed strong for the sake of hats gripping iced coffee at an inspiration to people was 24 years old and begin- mer into fall I will be out there their loved ones. These acts Dunkin’ Donuts, the stylish around the world. ning my long journey of work on the campaign trail work- of bravery made me realize university students rushing I love Boston because of its climbing up those 15 steps ing on someone’s campaign. how beautiful and inspiring to catch the T, the Red diversity. The North End at Massachusetts Mental Thanks to my sugar going Boston truly is, a city of Sox fans belting out “Sweet neighborhood long contrib- Health Center into the grand up, my diet has changed. I eat rebellion and dreams and Caroline” against the back- uted to my sense of pride as lobby. Day after day, week af- better and am starting to like hope. As sure as the sunrise drop of the Green Monster, an Italian-American. In this ter week, month after month, my new menu. Donuts no illuminates the blue-gray the hip foodies dishing out neighborhood, I gulped down year after year, decade after longer get to me nor does fried glass of the John Hancock fusion cuisine from the city’s Nutella-flavored gelato on decade. I lived in Somerville, crispy chicken. I like my yo- tower on spring mornings rapidly-expanding array of hot summer nights and Charlestown, Quincy and now gurt, granola and my broiled and as sure as sailboats dot food trucks, the sturdy mari- stepped into rickety little East Boston. I used to ride the fish with lots of lettuce. It was the Charles, I love my City ners unloading their wares shops to buy Christmas old Charlestown El into Park hard to start this new way of panettone of Boston. Moreover, I know at the docks. I know that this with my father. Station on the Green Line. thinking but I did it. that as sure as my fellow resilience will help us get There’s also South Boston, The E-Line Arborway street- What I will do in my retire- Bostonians remain stead- through any sort of future with its Irish pubs and where car got me to Brigham Circle ment I am still sorting out. fast in their love for the city trouble. I spent many brisk days one morning to the next. Until What I won’t be doing is noth- and most importantly in I love Boston because it is walking through the green I bought myself a car. ing. You won’t catch me in their love for its people, no a city with a unique spirit, paths of Castle Island. My For the past 27 plus years, front of the TV set with a bag act of hatred could ever bring unafraid to be lively and father loved eating in au- I have been a licensed spe- of chips growing fat. I will, this city down. rebellious and to stand up for thentic Chinatown restau- cial police officer for the men- however, keep on writing and I love Boston because human dignity. It is here rants when he used to work tal health department. Over thinking and sharing my its citizens are tough and that the stirrings of colonial near that area, sometimes time, I have, not surprisingly, thoughts and opinions with resilient. I can hear this independence began, from bringing home boxes full of aged. My hair turned quite anyone out there who likes hardy character in the ro- the brave minutemen who aromatic rice. I can chat grey but I never lost my great my stuff. bust voices gracing Dropkick stood their ground at Lexing- in Spanish when I visit res- sense of humor. Someone told me upon Murphy tracks like “Tessie” ton to the women who boy- taurants whose first-genera- Back in 1971, I thought hearing of my retirement and “I’m Shipping Up to Bos- cotted imported cloth and tion Latin American owners ton.” I can see it etched in tea. It is here that a hub of serve plates like arepas and my father was an old guy. that I was entering the twi- the faces of characters in abolitionism formed prior to cachapas, both kinds of corn- A few weeks after unknow- light of my life, I told him to the countless films that com- the Civil War, as many men meal cakes popular among ingly starting off this long get lost. Twilight is a movie prise Boston’s cinematic re- and women put their lives at the Venezuelan side of my career of mine, my father and one-half of an old TV se- naissance, many made by risk for the cause of freedom. family. School vacation days turned 60 years old. My God, ries. It remains broad daylight hometown talent like Ben It is from here that the 54th were spent in the marbled wasn’t Sixty-Five quite old, for this character here. Other Affleck and Mark Wahlberg. Massachusetts, the African- corridors of the Museum of eh? Today, I am heading than that, the only other th Fine Arts, glancing at im- toward my 65 birthday five thing I won’t turn into is some peccable art displays from days after retiring. The last fat old security guard. I have around the world — I espe- thing I think of myself is as had more than enough work All the glory that was Rome ..... Pompei cially loved the ancient ar- an old guy. in a security role. I want to tifacts section of the mu- As I wind down, I am mak- face challenges and to con- seum brought both history ing sure all my ducks are in tinu to live life as happily as and a sense of internation- line. No surprises. Smooth I can and for as long as I alism to the city. I know that sailing. I thought I would be can. this diversity will actually nervous over ending this One of my favorite uncles provide us with a reason to career which took me from was my Uncle Neal Harring- band together and celebrate being a young guy to getting ton. He passed away suddenly the divergent ways in which ready to receiving my first at age 71 but right up to his we all express our Bostonian pension check. I’ve already last moment he was forever identity in the days to come. been reading AARP Magazine young. He was someone who Resilience, spirit, loyalty, for years but still think old lived his life to the fullest. He diversity — these are all hall- people are all the other folks never looked back but only marks of our Boston experi- out there not me. Someone ahead. He grew a little more ence. Furthermore, these asked if I was going to sign everyday because not to do so are the traits that will unite up for elderly housing and would only get some dirt us and form a bulwark of my response was to get out of thrown upon you as people support as we face difficult my face. Old people live in eld- cry for you. When he died I Bistro • Beer • Wine times. I know that Boston erly apartments. I don’t really didn’t cry because I remem- will continue to be strong, qualify. ber how he lived and his big because history has proven I still enjoy playing softball smile always present. time and time again that for the West End Softball It is now time for Chapter 2 NEW LOCATION Boston’s residents are a force League. I will be back at first of my life. I can only hope it to be reckoned with. We base in a few months. I still is slightly slower. But just as are Bostonians, and we are like going out dancing and much fun. wicked awesome, no ques- Richard Settipane tion about it. 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Stay tuned for group walks and group outings to For more information, the fenced in park in Charlestown. Free Parking Adjacent to Building call 617-227-8929. POST-GAZETTE, APRIL 19, 2013 Page 5

Friends of the North End Library Present 2013 Honorary Friend Award to Al Natale by Matt Conti For his many years of service to the North End Branch Library, Al Natale was presented with the 2013 Honorary Friend of the North End Library Award at a ceremony on Wednesday, April 10th. A framed plaque was presented to Al Natale by President Emeritus Christine Bergstrom and current President Robin Ardito. Robin spoke at the event about Al’s contributions to the library and com- munity: “Al and his band have been mainstays at the annual Holiday Open House where he has offered his services for free and donated his pay back to the Friends to continue their works. He has also been a loyal patron of the branch. President Emeritus Christine The Friends thank Al for his longstand- Bergstrom presents Al Natale the ing friendship with the North End 2013 Honorary Friend Award. Branch.” In thanking the group, Al noted how important the library and reading in general was to his success and happi- ness. Al turns 90 this August, so the group also celebrated that event with a special cake at a reception following the award ceremony. Happy Birthdays to Danikka and Jacob FROM UNCLE SAL Current Friends President Robin by Sal Giarratani Ardito and Al Natale. The group also celebrated Al’s upcoming 90th birthday. Al speaks at the Library event. (Photos by Matt Conti)

EARTH DAY 2013 by Ivanha Paz Earth Day is very impor- economical standing, they simultaneously, so bring tant nationwide. It is cel- all had one common goal: to your baby and stay for the ebrated on April 22nd, mark- save the earth from all the after-party with food, drinks, ing the anniversary of what pollution and harm that music and raffles. It will be is considered to be the birth industrialism was causing. held at the Diaper Lab in of the “Modern Environmen- It also led to the creation Cambridge. tal Movement” in 1970. The of the United States’ Envi- On April 22nd there are also founder of this movement ronmental Protection Agency numerous events centered was, at the time the U.S and the passage of three on staying green. There will In this May 1998 photo my brother Dominic gets to hold Senator for Wisconsin, Gay- separate acts: Clean Air, be a Picnic for the Planet at little Jake for the very first time. lord Nelson. His idea was to Clean Water and Endan- the Boston Common from My niece Danikka Moses and my great-nephew Jacob reign in all the energy and gered Species. 11:00 am to 5:00 pm. This Schaefer from Roslindale both celebrated recent birthdays. momentum from the anti- Due to its significant rel- event is also for the Guinness Danikka had her birthday on April 14 and Jake turned 15 a World Records war protests and channel it evance this day tends to be ; help make day later on April 15, Tax Day. Jake was my brother Dominic’s through a concern for the extended into Earth Week it for the largest global pic- grandson, born back in 1998. He seems to be getting older environment. which culminates on Earth nic. Join local vendors and nd and older and taller and taller. Right now he is into lacrosse Nelson announced via Day, Monday, April 22 . This enjoy family friendly activi- and is really good at this sport which is growing popular around national media a “National is a day full of fun and im- ties as well as a nature trea- here. He was born in California, eventually making it home Teach-in on the Environ- portant events for Boston- sure hunt. to Boston’s Roslindale neighborhood to be close to his mother. ment.” The results were ians. Some of the events Another event taking His dad lives in Virginia so Jake gets to travel around a lot amazing. Approximately 20 around the Boston area place on Earth Day is the more than his Uncle Sal. He still misses his “Poppa,” my million Americans made range from: a Charles River Race Against Extinction brother, who passed away just before Jake’s 9th birthday, as st demonstrations for a healthy cleanup on the 21 from starting at Artesani Park in do I and the whole family. My brother would be proud of the environment in streets, 9:00 am to noon to a “Great Brighton. Proceeds from the young man that Jacob is becoming. parks and auditoriums on Cloth Diaper Change” the race will be donated to the April 22nd. same day! The Diaper World Wildlife Fund and the This day brought everyone change event is to help set Nature Conservancy. In ad- together in spite of their a Guinness World Record for dition don’t miss “Gar- political affiliations or socio- the most diapers changed bology” an educational and LUCIA fun session at the Nature Center in Mattapan. Chil- R I S T O R A N T E & B A R dren will be able to enjoy NEAA BASEBALL a scavenger hunt and a Traditional Italian Cuisine craft session as well as ~ Opening Day Sponsors Needed ~ learn how compost is 415 Hanover Street, Boston NEAA baseball will begin on Saturday, April 27th. All broken down and digging it 617.367.2353 8 of our Minor and Major League teams will play a full up themselves. game starting at 10:00 am. The game will be played in honor of Carmine “Tilly” DiMartino. 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Pick one up today at efit The American Cancer Society’s Relay directly to the American Cancer Society. www.bodyessentialsforyou.com and feel the good vibrations! for Life on Thursday, April 25, 2013 begin- For more details or to purchase tickets call — Mary DiZazzo-Trumbull ning at 6:00 pm. 617-308-5408 or [email protected]. Read prior weeks’ “All That Zazz” columns at www.allthatzazz.com. Mary is a third-generation cosmetolo- gist and a Massachusetts distributor of Kosmea brand rose hip oil products. She may be contacted at (978) 470-8183 or Menino’s Latest Set Back, [email protected]. Ayanna Rumblings Re-newing Murphy Talk by Sal Giarratani Mayor Thomas Menino’s sador to the Vatican. If Politics in Boston is a latest medical set back that Murphy runs, he can call bloody sport which will be led to surgery on a broken himself Mayor Murphy on seen as the house cleaning bone at Brigham & Women’s the campaign trail and inside Council Chambers Hospital and yet another stands a good chance of get- that will bring out many new stay at the Parkman House ting elected Boston’s next voices and wannabes eyeing to recuperate once again mayor. all the vacant seats up for has fueled new speculation Few politicians like having grabs. Over in District 8, that Mayor Menino might events control their actions Michael Ross’s desire to run pull another surprise and but in Murphy’s case, this for mayor has developed into announce that he will be looks exactly like his unwel- a heated race for the District leaving Boston City Hall comed development. Does he 8 seat between Greg Timilty, prior to his term’s ending get into the game or remain son of former City Councilor next January. It is all talk a spectator? In a crowded Joseph Timilty and Joshua NORTH END right now and some politi- field holding the title of act- Zakim, son of Leonard cal observers believe ing mayor, he has a good shot Zakim for whom the bridge while it isn’t probable, it is of not just making it out alive is named after. District 4 in possible. in the September prelimi- Dorchester and Mattapan PRINTING Recently, even prior to nary but of winning it all in will be losing Charles his injury, talk had already November. Few politicians Yancey to the mayor’s race. 5 PRINCE STREET • NORTH END • BOSTON, MA 02113 begun over the possibility envy the position that events That district has been of City Councilor Ayanna have placed upon Murphy at Yancey’s since its inception Owned and operated by Pamela Donnaruma, Publisher, Post-Gazette Pressley being urged to join this writing. back 30 years ago. the growing mayor’s race. 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Cigarette The Taste of the North End — one of Boston’s most popu- when hearing Conley is a moderate butts, trash and gum is lar festivals of food, charity and the rich history of the neigh- the tragedy that befell the conserative and that’s what thrown onto sidewalks in the borhood — is turning 20 this year. Guests can sample from most prestigious Boston Boston needs ... How does area everyday giving the more than 35 popular North End eateries showcasing a wide Marathon last Monday. The Steve Winn propose to clean square a slummy appear- array of delectable appetizers, cheeses, entrees and des- two bomb explosions were the land that was home to ance ... Now that the good serts and sip on refreshing libations from around the area not a last minute crime the Monsanto Chemical weather has finally arrived, wine and beer distributors. There will also be a high-end executed by some crazies, Plant in Everett for many expect to see trash pickers silent auction with hotel and restaurant packages, Boston but a well planned crime. years? Winn is proposing to picking through garbage. sporting tickets, memorabilia and more. Gov. Patrick says Boston build a state of the art These people are greatly The Taste of the North End was founded by Donato and people are resilient and casino. Winn’s plans are responsible for contributing Nancy Frattaroli in 1993 as a benefit for Casa Monte going to “get through this”! impressive, but developers to trashy streets and have to Cassino. The Frattaroli’s became aware of Casa Monte Mayor Menino says “we’re would have to prove the land be stopped. Boston needs to Cassino when a family from Italy came into their North going to get through this”, is toxic free???? For many pass a city ordinance mak- End restaurant. The family was staying at the CMC while but neither says “it won’t decades the chemical plant ing it illegal for trash pick- their four daughters received medical attention at Boston’s happen again”! ... Recently operated contaminating the ers to sort through other Children’s Hospital. The Frattaroli’s were touched by their el bandito’s robbed approxi- soil. A large population of people’s trash without a story and inspired by the mission of the Casa; to provide a mately six to seven estab- people in Everett and sur- “Trash Pickers License”. I place to stay for impoverished families from around the lished businesses in East rounding cities were diag- believe that would put an world while their children receive serious medical Boston armed with guns nosed with various cancers. end to it! ... The senior sena- attention in Boston. and masks. It appeared they Many people think it would tor from Massachusetts race All proceeds from the event are split between multiple weren’t ordinary thieves, be a better idea to build a to replace John Kerry is dull! non-profit organizations in the North End including elderly, but well organized. According casino at Suffolk Downs in Ed Markey is the “same old, education and health programs to help better the entire to victims there were two East Boston. ... Since Orient same old” Boys Club Politics. community; last year over $100,000 was raised. This is masked culprits that spoke Heights station is not in While Steve Lynch’s claim to the fourth year that North End Waterfront Health has Spanish. Hopefully they operation, an abundance fame is being brought up in partnered with the Frattaroli family to put on and host the will slip up and be caught! ... of buses are using the the projects “public hous- event. This year’s event co-chairs are event founder Donato District Attorney Dan streets causing a lot of traf- ing.” How about discussing Frattaroli, owner of Lucia Ristorante and James Luisi, CEO Conley has thrown in his fic ... The Lombardo Compa- the real issue. HOW SAFE IS of North End Waterfront Health. The Master of Ceremonies hat to run for Mayor of nies are putting in a new IT TO WALK THE STREETS th for the 16 year is KISS-108 and NECN personality Billy Boston. Mr. Conley is pol- facade at Liberty Plaza. Cen- in your own city???? ... Till Costa. This ceremony will also honor Matt Conti, a local ished, knowledgeable on tral Square should be hand- next time! North End Community Journalist for his charitable work with North End organizations and North End restaurant owner, Barbara Summa of La Summa Restaurant. Participating restaurants include: Al Dente, Antico Forno, THE CULTURE COMMISSION OF THE Aragosta, Artu, Bricco, Cantina Italiana, Carmelina, Ducali, GRAND LODGE SONS OF ITALY TO PRESENT Filippo, Fiore, Gennaro’s 5 North Square, Il Panino, J. Pace, La Summa, Lucca, Lucia Ristorante, Mamma Maria, Massimino, Mercato del Mare, Mike’s Pastry, Modern Pastry, An Evening of Italian Opera Neptune, Pagliuca, Paul W. Marks, Pellino, Perkins, The Culture Commission most accomplished sopranos lutely everything it takes — Piantedosi Baking, Quattro, Taranta, Terramia, Tresca, and of the Grand Lodge Sons of will accompany him in this including her physical Vito’s Tavern. Italy is delighted and hon- program. Mr. Pennington’s beauty … The world needs to The event will take place at DCR Steriti Memorial ored to present an excep- return to Burlington has hear her.” (Boston Wagner Ice Rink, 561 Commercial Street, Boston, MA on Friday, tional evening of Italian Op- been in large part requested. Society) Joanna says, “I have May 10th, from 6:00 pm until 11:00 pm. Tickets can be era. We have had many won- Joanna Porackova, an ear- been called the singing purchased in advance at www.totne.brownpapertickets.com derful speakers, musicians lier student of BBCO, has nurse and I am proud of it.” or by calling 617-643-8105. and writers over the past six celebrated success in two We are privileged to host plus years. On Monday professional fields. While her visit along with Mr. evening April 29th, at the studying, practicing and Pennington. EAST BOSTON SHINES Burlington Public Library teaching nursing, she stud- This program is not to be beginning at 7:00 pm, two ied and achieved an enor- missed. The musical soul of highly accomplished artists mously successful vocal life. every Italian-American in Needs Volunteers will present a program of 19th She has become a world- attendance will rest in con- Please join East Boston Main Streets for Mayor Menino’s century opera, history, com- wide acclaimed opera so- tent that evening. annual neighborhood clean-up: Boston Shines. mentary and vocal rendi- prano, a diva. Her perfor- The Grand Lodge is pleased Volunteers will convene at 9:00 am on April 27th in tions of chosen arias. mances and venues are to offer this program to all Maverick Square. Brooms, gloves and T-shirts will be Bradley Pennington, endless, to include filmdom. filial lodges and to the pub- provided. founder and Artistic Direc- “Ms. Porackova is simply a lic. An hour or two will be spent cleaning up Maverick Square tor of Boston Bel Canto Op- great artist … Her vocal en- Refreshments will follow. and then helpers will walk to Central Square to do the same. era (1995) is the consum- dowment is huge, larger For further information call To sign up or for any additional information you can mate celebrant of opera in than the majority of today’s Pat at 781-272-5375. For e-mail or call Max Gruner at (617) 561-1044 or the Boston area. Having con- leading Wagnerian sopra- more Grand Lodge events [email protected]. You can also sign up on the cluded a quarter century of nos. This singer has abso- visit www.OSIAMA.org. website, www.cityofboston.gov/ONS/BostonShines. university teaching, as head of BBCO he has mentored many singers who have “re- Join Us for Massachusetts ceived lauded recognition in Humane Lobby Day 2013! major venues.” One of his Please join the ASPCA, The Hu- Newly mane Society of the United Specializing in the art of celebration States, the MSPCA and other Remember RenovatedWedding, Anniversary, Quinceañera, Reunion, animal lovers on Thursday, Birthday, Social and Corporate Events. April 25th from 11:00 am to 5:00 Your Convenient location and valet parking makes pm at the State House, 24 Beacon Street, Boston for Massachusetts Loved Ones Spinelli’s East Boston the perfect location. Humane Lobby Day. 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She sat in the overstuffed papers during those days, returned to Boston Univer- comfy chair tethered to a went off to war, I got hired sity and earned an under- nose tube supplying oxygen. on the spot at the Boston graduate degree in three Yet she contentedly and Herald Traveler.” She earned years. Years later, she also slowly shared a defining $28.00 a week and took earned a doctorate in Geron- 2013 YEAR OF ITALIAN CULTURE moment in the life of a 17- courses at night at Boston tology from Brandeis Univer- BOSTON - PROVIDENCE PROGRAM year-old ready to drink in the University. sity. Ruth is author of nine world rumbling within a his- Born in 1924 in Roxbury to books. toric world war while safe in a Jewish family, Ruth was Ruth taught at Clark NOW THROUGH APR 18 | Wolk Gallery, School of a nation united by crisis. the first in her family to University during the Viet- Ruth Harriet Jacobs never attend college. “My maternal nam War. “A lot of men went Architecture and Planning, MIT. “L’Aquila, 2010.” Exhibition met me until Palm Sunday grandparents raised my to college on the G.I. Bill. I of Photographs by Michele Nastasi. During the exhibition on last month as my twin brother and I after my learned from them about March 21 | Conference “Th e Suspended City: Rebuilding brother and I visited our 93- mother died at age 32. I was Post-Traumatic Stress, L’Aquila After the Earthquake of 2009.” CAMBRIDGE year-old friend Armando, 10 and my brother was which was different from whom I introduced to you in three. I gave my grand- the soldiers I met during NOW THROUGH JUL 14 | RISD Museum, Providence. this column three years ago. mother money to help with World War Two,” she re- Exhibition “Th e Festive City.” PROVIDENCE You’ve since learned more costs of raising my brother,” called. “I wrote a feature about the educator and World she explained. story about PTSD with an- SPRING 2013 | University of Rhode Island and Dartmouth War II hero in a previous Her writing interests other reporter.” After leaving column. Ruth resides in the sprang from being co-editor Clark, Ruth taught at Regis College, New Hampshire. “Preeminent Italian Female assisted living facility in of her high school yearbook. College. She also lectured as Authors” featuring Dacia Maraini (RI) and Clara Sereni (NH). Weston where Armando and She then worked for the a senior scholar at Wellesley PROVIDENCE & HANOVER his wife live. newspaper one year. “I wrote Centers for Women at I’ve met many wonderful feature stories and earned Wellesley College. SPRING 2013 | De Chirico Exhibition. PROVIDENCE folks from America’s Great- more money than seasoned At age 60, Ruth became a est Generation since visit- reporters. When I turned Quaker. “I worked with APR 21 - JUN 30 | Museum of Fine Arts. Exhibition ing Armando after he moved eighteen, I began writing people in the Peace Move- “Michelangelo: Sacred and Profane Master Drawings from the from his Newton home two feature articles, which paid ment during the Vietnam years ago to the campy me by the inch. That meant War. I hung out with other Casa Buonarroti.” BOSTON atmosphere of wingback even more money weekly,” people in the anti-war dem- chairs, cozy couches stuffed Ruth fondly remembered. onstrations. Most protesters MAY 7-8 | City Hall. Barrique “Th e Th ird Life for Wood.” with pillows, delicately deco- Ruth interviewed some of were Quaker. My children BOSTON rated plates fill China clos- the giants in 20th century supported my peace activ- ets, fresh flowers adorn large history: Winston Churchill, ism,” she adds. “I never MAY 9 | Dante Alighieri Society of Massachusetts. “On the shiny oak tables as a few Franklin D. Roosevelt and abandoned my Jewish heri- Road with Dante Alighieri.” CAMBRIDGE Grandfather clocks sprinkle Eleanor Roosevelt, Dwight D. tage. You don’t resign from the sprawling common Eisenhower, John F. Ken- the people who went through MAY 20 - JUN 28 | City Hall. “Looking for Hemingway.” rooms of the main floor. nedy; Mass. Gov. Maurice J. the Holocaust.” Exhibition by Franco Azzinari. BOSTON Ruth is one such wonder- Tobin, and longtime Boston She steered the conversa- ful woman Armando eagerly Mayor James Michael Cur- tion towards the present introduced to me. “Meet my ley. She also covered presi- with an educator’s instruc- JUN 4 | “Pinocchio, Storia di un Burattino.” Performed by good friend. He’s a writer, dential conventions and na- tive tone. “I hate the thought Massimiliano Finazzer Flory. PROVIDENCE too.” Ruth smiled, asked me tional elections for the daily that as I near the end of my my name and then gestured newspaper. life there’s these wars (in JUN 11 | Berklee College of Music. Concert by Enrico Rava me to move closer so her “I’d meet the boats arriv- Afghanistan and Iraq). Do and his Quintet. BOSTON large specially made eye- ing in Boston Harbor that what you can to work for glasses could adjust her dim- carried injured and dead peace.” JULY | “La Notte della Taranta.” Part of the “Outside the ming vision. soldiers. It was shocking to Ruth swiftly returned to Box” Festival. BOSTON Her lifelong penchant for see these men in terrible reminiscing about the va- reading books, magazines, situations get carried off on garies of a copy girl working SEP - OCT | Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard newspapers and other pub- stretchers. I also wrote the within a largely male profes- lications scattered atop the obituaries of dead soldiers. sion who, out of necessity, University. “New Italian Cinema,” in cooperation with teakwood tables has Ruth The awful part of my job got assigned to write stories Cinecitta’ and Harvard Film Archive. CAMBRIDGE struggling to read small-print was to go to the homes of about soldiers. She narrows with a magnifying glass deceased soldiers and bring her large blue eyes, leans FALL 2013 | Harvard University. International Conference that she carries in a cloth the families bad news. I forward and impishly re- on “Galileo and Sunspots.” Organized by Museo Galileo, satchel hanging from her hated it,” she said. veals: “I was the most kissed Firenze Istituto Nazionale di Astrofi sica, Harvard University sturdy walker. Shortly after marrying in woman in the world!” Spon- in cooperation with NASA. CAMBRIDGE “I started my career at 17 1949, Ruth left the Boston taneous laughter echoed as a copy girl in 1943 writ- Herald Traveler because of across the quiet large room. ing stories about the boys a problem pregnancy. Her Ruth lay back into her OCT 2013 | PIB Seminar Series: “Italian and American returning to America from doctor advised her to leave comfy chair staring beyond Policies on Biomedical Research.” BOSTON Europe,” she proudly re- the newspaper. She contin- three French doors leading called. “I had just graduated ued freelance writing from to an outdoor deck, heartily OCT 2013 | Center for European Studies, Harvard University. high school and because home and wrote children’s laughing as though she’s “Salvemini Colloquium” on Italian history and culture with men, who were the report- articles. When her two chil- still was that 17-year-old Prof. Massimo Salvadori. CAMBRIDGE ers and editors at news- dren began school, Ruth copy girl. Editor’s Note: Some of Ruth’s comments came from a YouTube video interview before the OCT 2013 | Emmanuel College. “Th e Meaning of Natick Veterans Oral History Project at the Morse Institute Library in 2008. Machiavelli’s Prince.” Lecture by Prof. Maurizo Viroli (Princeton). BOSTON

Dawn Marie D’Onofrio - Lukas NOV 23 | Brown University. International Prize: “Boccaccio December, 1966 - April 24, 2011 Afterlife.” In cooperation with the American Boccaccio Association (ABA) and the Town of Certaldo on the occasion of the 700th anniversary of Giovanni Boccaccio. PROVIDENCE Forever in Our Hearts I close my eyes and visualize your face When you were here ATTENTION ATTORNEYS I feel your warmth around me and Remember through my tears The POST-GAZETTE newspaper is a paper You are locked inside my heart forever of general circulation. We are qualified to accept legal notices and I have you in my prayers from any court in each town that we serve. One day we will be together again in LEGAL NOTICES Heaven up above - but for now My Daughter Dawn For information on placing a Legal Notice in the POST-GAZETTE, please call (617) 227-8929; or mail notice to: POST-GAZETTE, I send you all my love P.O. BOX 135, BOSTON, MA 02113 Mom Attn: Legal Notices POST-GAZETTE, APRIL 19, 2013 Page 9 Socially Scene by Angela Cornacchio

StyleFixx Returns .… It’s Stone Soup, the longest-run- that time of year again ning poetry reading in Cam- where we look into our clos- bridge. The slam migrated to ets and pull the items in the the Book Cellar in Porter back to the front, throw a few Square later that year and out and get some color into in January of 1992 expanded our lives. to a twice-weekly schedule Join Boston’s most fash- in order to accommodate ion-forward women for two the burgeoning popularity of nights of dream shopping the event. When the Cantab featuring over 55 cutting- Lounge became one of seven edge designers and brands. hosts for the International Guests enjoy complimentary Poetry Slam, the Wednesday cocktails and wine while show settled into its since- shopping the latest in fash- permanent location on ion, beauty and emerging October 16, 1992, making trends. In addition to great the Cantab home to one of shopping, guests will indulge the three oldest slams in in product-filled swag bags, The “ Swag Bag “ returns to the world and a fixture of Get your Muck on at the Boston Muck Fest on April 27th. product sampling, spa ser- the city, Style Fixx returns the international poetry (Photo courtesy of runamuckfestival.com) vices, delicious cocktails, to Boston on May 1st and scene. appetizers and music. 2nd. The Boston Poetry Slam page for the National Poetry Don’t miss Boston’s big- ran on Wednesdays and Fri- Slam or read a bit more about All muckers receive a bib (Photo courtesy of and timing chip, to be picked gest shopping party of the Style Fixx Productions) days at the Cantab Lounge the show’s history and the year. StyleFixx will be back from 1992 to 1995, when po- history of slam poetry in gen- up on the morning of the in Boston on May 1st and 2nd etry slam began to take a eral at Kurt Heintz’s Incom- MuckFest MS. Registration at the Boston Center for the back seat to the venue’s sig- plete History of Slam. As the also includes lunch (and two Arts. Visit www.StyleFixx.com for nearly a decade, co- nature open mic. Praised as third longest-running poetry beers for adult participants) for more information or to curated the flagship reading “the best open mic in the slam in the world, the Cantab and an official MuckFest MS purchase tickets. As the series of the New York City- English-speaking world,” the slam community has borne t-shirt. event gets closer I will have based louderARTS Project. now Wednesday-only open witness to nearly 20 years of MuckFest MS is the na- more details! She appeared on both the began to shine as a mecca triumph, tragedy, scandal, tion’s best mud and obstacle Nation Poetry Month second and fifth seasons of for touring performance heartbreak and glory, one fun-run. But it’s so much Slams in Boston .… Wednes- HBO’s Def Poetry Jam. She poets and local readers alike. Wednesday at a time. Con- more. Made with mud, sweat day, April 24th join Marty returned to Chicago in 2009 The historic head-to-head sider this your personal in- and cheers, the five-mile McConnell, the night’s to co-found Vox Ferus, an 8×8 series and Champion vite to join in, either to read course features a gauntlet of scheduled feature and also organization dedicated to of Champions slam events or listen in, at the weekly muck-filled mazes, pits and for a poetry lesson. empowering and energizing were moved to the latest por- open mic and poetry slam. craters with over 20 gigan- Marty will be offering a individuals and communi- tion of the evening, which There is always more to tic steel obstacles. The fun generative poetry workshop ties through the written and added yet another qualifica- come and in the future doesn’t stop when you slide called “Stranger than Fic- spoken word. tion for the many talented Socially Scene will be bring- over the finish line. There’s tion.” From the workshop A member of seven Na- poets seeking a prestigious ing you the latest acts to hit beer, great food and music in leader: “In this workshop, tional Poetry Slam teams Cantab slam win: the will- this historic stage. This show the MuckFestival area. The we will discuss how poetry representing New York City ingness to close the bar on in their weekly Wednesday organization operates on “the allows us — and sometimes and Chicago, McConnell is a Wednesday night. series takes place at the more, the muckier” prin- requires us — to be stranger the 2012 National Under- In 2004, Michael Brown Cantab Lounge, 738 Massa- ciple, so friends and family than fiction by examining ground Poetry Individual stepped down from the posi- chusetts Avenue in Cam- are encouraged to join in the and discussing two poems Competition (NUPIC) Cham- tion of SlamMaster, turn- bridge. Doors for the show hilarious spills and thrills. that push boundaries with pion. In 2011, she completed ing the post over to 2001 open at 7:15 pm. The open They even have a specially- purpose, then doing a bit her first European tour and slam team member and mic begins at 8:00 pm and designed mucky play lot for of writing of our own.” The debuted her one-woman then-Champion of Champi- the feature performs at ap- the kids called Lil’ Muckers. doors open at 5:30 pm for show, “Vicebox.” She is a ons Simone Beaubien. The proximately 10:00 pm. For And here’s the best part, workshop participants only: two-time recipient of the weekly Wednesday show con- more details on upcoming 100% of the fundraising the workshop runs from Community Arts Assistance tinues to thrive, acting as a show, tickets or times call dollars go to the National 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm. Your Program grant from the City hub for the New England per- 617-354-2685 or log on to Multiple Sclerosis Society — cover charge to the work- of Chicago’s Office of Tour- formance poetry scene and www.bostonpoetryslam.com. helping to prove that you can shop will also include admis- ism and Culture, and re- consistently drawing high- Muck and Mud in Mass have loads of dirty fun and sion to the evening show. ceived a 2013 grant from the quality featured poets and …. Saturday, April 27th Run feel good about it in the Marty McConnell trans- Illinois Arts Council. up-and-coming slammers. In through the Muck! morning. planted herself from Chi- The Boston Poetry Slam recent news, the Boston Po- Get ready, Boston, for the Deadline for registration is th cago to New York City in kicked off in May of 1991, etry Slam served as the Host best mud and obstacle fun- on April 24 and the event 1999, after completing the imported directly from City Slam for the highly suc- run in the nation! You’ll be to be hold on Saturday, th first of three national tours slam’s birthplace, Chicago, cessful 2011 National Poetry running, swinging and slosh- April 27 . The location for with the Morrigan, an all- by Michael Brown and Slam and will be honored to ing through five miles of this mucky event is Fort female performance poetry Patricia Smith. The slam host again for the 2013 Na- incredible obstacles and the Devens on Antietam Street troupe she co-founded. She first started at T.T. the tional Poetry Slam. muddiest pits, craters and and Sherman Avenue in received her MFA in cre- Bear’s in Central Square in Boston has been repre- trenches you’ve ever seen. Devens, MA. For further ative writing/poetry from Cambridge, MA, as an add- sented in competition at The reason for getting mucky information, registration or Sarah Lawrence College and on to the existing reading every National Poetry Slam is to wipe out MS, 100% of fun photos, please visit since 1991 and every Indi- the fundraising dollars go www.runamuckfestival.com. vidual World Poetry Slam back to the National Multiple since 2004, winning team Sclerosis Society. (Continued on Page 13) championships in 1992 and Mattéo Gallo 1993 and sending a total of six teams and nine individu- als to the Finals stage. For a o Appraisals more detailed championship Sales & Rentals history, try the Wikipedia

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The time has come, the walrus said, TO TALK OF MANY THINGS of shoes and ships and sealing wax of cabbages and kings by Sal Giarratani GOVERNOR, LEGISLATURE ST. ANN’S $10K DINNER means they could all hurt DOCTOR WHO: resulting night of terror BATTLE OVER AT VENEZIA BIG HIT each other splitting up that THE AZTECS/ ended with the murders of TRANSPORTATION TAXES The 30th annual St. Ann’s southwest Boston vote. Mean- THE WILLIAM HARTNELL both Aiden’s mother and Beacon Hill legislators $10,000 Dinner to support while, Rep. Marty Walsh from YEARS 1963-1966 (2-DVD) father. The stalker escaped nixed the governor’s $1.9 bil- scholarships for parish stu- Dorchester could benefit by BBC the scene without his face lion transportation tax bill dents and youth activities that crowded Westie/Hyde The TARDIS materializes being seen, and now a for a lesser one. Governor within St. Ann’s Parish in Park crew in the race. inside an Aztec tomb. Out- murderer; he escapes and Patrick said that if their bill Dorchester was held at the Does Walczak’s entry into side it, the Doctor and his watches Aiden’s every move. arrives on his desk, he will “Venezia on the Waterfront” the race negatively impact companions soon discover To escape this danger Aiden give it a veto. It appears that and was a great success Walsh? This political ob- th that Mexico in the 15 cen- remains offline for the next Senate President Teresa thanks to all the hard work server thinks not that much tury is a bloodthirsty and 13 years, in therapy and Murray and House Speaker done by a great committee to hurt him. Walczak is a big dangerous place. Barbara is secluded anonymity. Whom Bob DeLeo are rounding up of St. Ann volunteers. name in Codman Square, mistaken for a reincarnation should Aiden trust in a web votes to override the veto. It THINKING OF RUNNING but can he raise enough of an ancient high priest of deception, where no one is nothing but gamesman- THIS YEAR? cash to overtake the other called Yetaxa. The history may be who they seem? ship now. Our lame-duck Are you thinking of run- candidates with such good teacher thinks that she can There’s nowhere for Aiden to governor wants to create his ning for city council this name recognition? put an end to the barbaric hide when someone wants legacy but won’t have to year? If you are, you will Will anybody else enter human sacrifices once and to love her to death. worry about angry taxpayers need to gather 1,500 regis- the race besides a few mi- for all. Can she without con- ADVENTURES IN anymore. Meanwhile, his tered voters’ signatures. nor candidates also trying to sequences? ZAMBEZIA (Blu-ray) legacy will be paid for by April 17th was the first day attain ballot status for what- DOCTOR WHO: Sony Pictures Home Ent. House and Senate members candidates could sign up for ever their reasons? We will THE ARK IN SPACE/ When a spirited young fal- who are in no hurry to hand nomination papers and the have to wait until the cam- THE TOM BAKER YEARS con named Kai (Jeremy the governor his legacy at last day to turn ‘em in is paign begins to gel for real. 1974-1981 (2-DVD) Suarez) learns of Zambezia, their expense. In the end, I May 21st. The election is MT. CARMEL SPRING BBC the fabulous city of birds, he see both sides sitting down November 5th and if there FLING GREAT SUCCESS The TARDIS lands on a leaves his remote country after all the posturing and are enough candidates, the Over 60 Mt. Carmel sup- space station orbiting the home against the wishes of will come up with a happy preliminary will be held on porters showed up to party earth in the distant future. his father (Samuel L. Jack- solution for both sides. Wait September 24th. down at the Embassy Suites It’s seems deserted, but the son). But when an evil liz- and see if I am not right. REMEMBER THE BLACK Airport Hotel on Saturday, Doctor, Sarah Jane and ard, which plans to attack WELCOME BACK POLITICAL TASK FORCE April 13th. The food was Harry soon discover that the city, captures his dad, MICHAEL CAGGIANO There is a new political great as was the music. they are not alone. Thou- Kai must learn the impor- Young Mike Caggiano, 25, action committee on the Mt. Carmel survivors don’t sands of humans — the only tance of teamwork if he’s to of Malden just returned horizon in Boston’s African give up easy. The group has survivors of the human race rescue his father, save his state-side after six months American community. It is held together since October — are in cryogenic sleep, and new friends and help keep with the U.S. Air Force in hoping to be the political 12, 2004 when the Archdio- while they’ve slept their Ark Zambezia lizard-free. Also Kuwait. He is the son of voice that the old Black Pol- cese of Boston “reconfigured” has been invaded. A para- providing voices are Abigail Michael Caggiano, Sr., of itical Task Force was back this Italian parish into sitic insect race — the Wirm Breslin, Jeff Goldblum and East Boston and Karen in the ’80s. Back then, as limbo. Until about a year ago, — takes control and threaten Leonard Nimoy. Fun-filled Pastore of Malden … I also a Charlestown activist, I the group met inside every the future of mankind. adventure the whole family found out from talking with worked with members of Sunday at 10:00 am. Then MIDNIGHT STALLION (DVD) will enjoy. Mike Sr., that he once ap- that task force on issues of services were held across Gaiam-Vivendi Ent. HOUSE ARREST (DVD) peared on Boomtown about 50 neighborhood commonality. the street by Padre Pio’s Fifteen-year-old Megan Lionsgate years ago with Rex Trailer, Leonard Lee, a former DPH statue. In the recent cold Shepard and her parents will Chanel (Stacey Dash) is Pablo and Goldrush and liked director sits on this new months, the group has been do anything to save their living the high life until, my recent tribute I wrote on board which calls itself meeting every Sunday down struggling farm. When the out shopping with her boy- Rex right after he passed Communities United P.A.C. at the Embassy Suites. Soon, family discovers a wild stal- friend DeAndre (The Game), away and went straight up to Former BPD Superintendent with warmer weather on the lion in a nearby forest they they are both arrested. his final heavenly frontier. Billy Celester is chairing the horizon, the group will be begin to wonder if this could Chanel finds herself behind BOSTON HERALD group. Recently, the group back outside with Padre Pio be the answer to their bars for a crime she didn’t SHOWED ITALIAN PRIDE endorsed State Rep. Nick once again. prayers. Kris Kristofferson commit as a judge places Kudos to the Boston Herald Collins, D-South Boston to GAS CONTINUES TO DROP and Jodelle Ferland star in her under house arrest. With for running both a story and replace former State Sena- Belated greetings go out to this heartwarming and in- nowhere to go, she is forced photo of the recent Piran- tor Jackie Hart in the up- all my Greek friends on their spiring tale that celebrates to move back in with her dello Lyceum 2013 Honors coming Democratic primary. recent Greek Independence the spirit of family and the mother and daughter, who Award recognizing outstand- WALCZAK ENTERS Day holiday. This commu- amazing courage and deter- live on the ghetto side of ing Italian Americans who MAYORAL RACE nity put on a great parade in mination it takes to defeat town. As she adjusts to her have made great contribu- Recently, former Codman Downtown Boston on Sun- all odds, and race towards new situation, DeAndre tions to their individual Square Health Center CEO day, April 7th … As usual I their dreams. makes her a proposition profession, society and the Bill Walczak, decided to join also love pumping my gas ALICE THROUGH THE from jail that will have her Italian American commu- the growing race for mayor over in Roslindale at the LOOKING GLASS torn between two lifestyles. nity. It was a great night to when he announced his ALFA gas station just outside (2-Blu-ray) HEMINGWAY & be Italian. candidacy. Bill is a longtime the square. I hope everyone BBC GELLHORN (Blu-ray) Dorchester community ac- there had a great Greek The sequel to Lewis HBO Home Ent. tivist and lives in Savin Hill. Independence Day too. As a Carroll’s childhood classic One of the great romances Already in the race are City Sicilian American, I always ‘Alice in Wonderland.’ In an of the last century — the Councilor Rob Consalvo, D.A feel a close relationship with alternate world, just on the passionate love affair and Dan Conley and At-large the Greek community since other side of the mirror’s re- tumultuous marriage of lit- councilor John Connolly. All Sicily was part of ancient flection, Alice finds herself erary master Ernest Hem- of them live either in Hyde Greece for over a thousand in the middle of a life-sized ingway (Clive Owen) and the Park or West Roxbury which years. We are cuginos. chess game, where she beautiful, trailblazing war encounters a variety of sur- correspondent Martha Gell- real scenarios and fantasti- horn (Nicole Kidman), as cal characters. 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Recipes from the Homeland by Vita Orlando Sinopoli

What’s new? A California creationist is of- inducted into COPYRIGHT, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED fering $10,000 to anyone who can prove in the Basket- LENTIL SOUP court that God did not create the world 6,000 ball Hall of 2 cups lentils 1 clove garlic (optional)* years ago. Joseph Mastropaolo, a former pro- Fame in the 4 cups of water 2 tablespoons canola oil or fessor who believes Genesis’s creation story year 2000. 1 medium onion chopped olive oil is literally true, says evolutionists “are not Yes! I was re- 1 1/2 cups chopped carrots 1 cup small shells or elbow stupid people,” and “they are bright enough sponsible for recruiting Johnny Most to (optional) macaroni to know there is no scientific evidence they announce via WCOP Radio the Celtic’s 1 1/2 cups diced celery can give.” games. At that time I was the Public Rela- (optional) Moron! Councilman Steve Adams of Coeur tions Director of WCOP Radio. d’ Alene, Idaho, called 911 to demand that Reminder! Assisting others can safeguard Wash lentils. Combine first five ingredients in a large police arrest a city attorney who had called your health and make you live longer, reveals saucepan. Add chopped carrots and diced celery (optional). him a “moron.” Adams also took his complaint a study published by the American Journal of Bring to a boil. Cover and reduce heat to prevent boiling to Mayor Sandi Bloem, who, he said, “raised Public Health. The year-long research shows over. Stir frequently. Add more liquid as needed. Salt to her fist and said she had half a mind to punch those who lent a helping hand to others were taste. Oil is added just before lentils are fully cooked. my nose off my face.” less likely to die than those who hadn’t. “Our Cooking time about 40 minutes. Our great Boston police found a scribbled conclusion was, helping others reduced *For a different flavor, add one clove of chopped garlic to checklist on suspected burglar Evan Dorsey mortality specifically by buffering the asso- lentils while cooking. that included such goals; as “find crystal ciation between stress and mortality,” says Follow directions on package to cook pasta of choice. Add meth,” “sell drugs,” “rob a dealer” and “do one study spearhead Dr. Michael J. Poulin, of the lentils to cooked pasta and serve. altruistic thing for a stranger.” University of Buffalo. Good advice! Lentil soup freezes well. Wow! An Ohio prosecutor sought the death In a promising advance, scientists have Serves two. penalty for Punxsutawney Phil, saying the discovered a potential benefit of a molecule NOTE: My love for Lentil Soup came early in life. Whether famous groundhog misled millions of people in green tea that can prevent changes in the Mama added carrots and onions or not, I waited for the Ditalini by predicting an early spring. “Punxsutawney brain associated with Alzheimer’s disease. pasta to be served with the lentils. Sometimes, Mama preferred Phil has let us down,” said Michael Gmoser. The onset of Alzheimer’s is linked to the for- to serve the small elbow pasta with this soup. At times she “I awoke this morning to a snowstorm, low mation of protein-based amyloid plaques in served us the lentils with thin spaghetti that she cut up into temperatures and howling wind.” Gmoser the brain. But a study conducted by Univer- one-inch pieces before cooking. Now I find myself also varying dropped the suit after Phil’s handlers took sity of Michigan researchers found that the the pasta for this meal. responsibility for the error. green tea molecule called EGCG, not only Tying up loose ends, after Pope Francis prevented formation of this plaque, it also phoned the owner of a Buenos Aires news- broke down existing ones. “A lot of people are paper kiosk to cancel his daily paper. “Seri- very excited about this molecule,” says UM Vita can be reached at [email protected] ously, it’s Jorge Bergoglio,” the pope said. “I’m expert Mi Hee Lim. These initial lab findings calling you from Rome.” are encouraging and have paved the way for Speaking of popes, Pope Paul IV, who was further research. elected on May 23, 1555, was so outraged Must admit, we are drinkers of decaf- when he saw the naked bodies on the ceil- feinated green tea. Ah, nothing like a “spot 1st Generation ing of the Sistine Chapel that he ordered of tea!” Ironically, during WWII, when we were Michelangelo to paint clothes on them stationed in England, preparing for the inva- Italian-American Carlo Scostumato thinks Pope Francis sion of Normandy, we were often served tea! Vita Orlando Sinopoli should subscribe to the Post-Gazette. “He would We couldn’t stomach tea! We were coffee enjoy reading Ray Barron’s columns.” drinkers! Enough said. Time for a spot of tea. Shares with us Ouch! A Canadian man was scratching his More healthy advice! Warning! Ordinary a delightful recollection back when he noticed a pointy protrusion. It table salt could be a key factor behind an turned out to be a 3-inch knife blade that increase in autoimmune diseases, includ- of her memories as a child was buried in his flesh 3 years earlier. Billy ing multiple sclerosis. Western diets all have growing up in McNeely, 32, said he’d often complained to high salt content and that has led to an doctors about chronic back pain after he was increase in hypertension and perhaps Boston’s “Little Italy” stabbed in a 2010 brawl, but physicians told autoimmune disease as well, notes Dr. David and a collection of him it was just nerve damage. “I’m kind of Hafler, chairman of Yale’s neurology depart- upset,” said McNeely, who had the blade dug ment. So cut down on using salt! Italian family recipes out. “They should’ve X-rayed right from the Wait! More good advice! Exercise and you’ll from the homeland. beginning.” sleep better! Vigorous exercisers are almost Hot stuff! A Texas woman ended up burn- twice as likely as non-exercisers to enjoy a ing down her home in a heated battle with a good night’s sleep almost every night, accord- Great as Gifts snake. 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No wonder Time Maga- of a small-town girl, Millie Dillmount, temporary art and modern technol- zine wrote that he is “the most popu- FREE EVENTS MUSIC who comes to New York City to marry ogy. Wry commentary and bemusing lar comedian in the United States” for money instead of love. Millie antics are matched only by the inge- and Forbes named him to its Celeb- HATCH SHELL, samples the “thoroughly modern” flap- TD GARDEN nious ways in which music and sound rity 100 list of most powerful enter- Esplanade, Charles River, Boston per life, makes friends and finds un- 100 Legends Way, Boston, MA are created. The show has recently tainers three years running. Dunham EARTHFEST — Saturday, May 18, expected romance. With rousing 617-624-1050 been updated. has, of course, plenty of help on-stage: 2013. Sponsored by Radio 92.9 and dance numbers and toe-tapping mu- www.TDGarden.com SHEAR MADNESS – Ongoing. This his entourage of signature characters Whole Foods Market. EarthFest con- sic, Thoroughly Modern Millie is a thor- BEYONCÉ — The Mrs. Carter Show hilarious Boston-set whodunit, where who are there to challenge and chas- cert is a free music festival that is oughly enjoyable night of theatre. World Tour starring Beyoncé will the clues change every night and tise his every sentence. There’s Walter, hosted yearly on the Esplanade. The Everyone should have the opportu- stop at TD Garden on July 23. The the laughs come fast and furious, the grumpy retiree; the beer-swilling, concert was created to demonstrate nity to experience live theatre. In an Mrs. Carter Show World Tour prom- is a worldwide phenomenon filled NASCAR-loving and resolutely red how everyday individuals can reduce effort to bring the excitement of live ises to be the entertainer’s most am- with up-to-the-minute spontaneous neck Bubba J; the furry and manic their environmental impact. The theatre to more of the community, the bitious undertaking to date. It is ex- humor and quicksilver improvisation Peanut; José Jalapeo, the spicy pep- concert is supported by a variety of theatre offers “Pay What You Can.” pected to be bigger in scope than any where the audience becomes part of per from South of the border; the sponsors such as Whole Foods Mar- One hour prior to the first Thursday of her previous shows. Beyoncé is one the action and gets to solve the crime. bumbling skeletal Achmed the Dead ket, Subaru, MetroPCS, and Boston performance of each Mainstage pro- of the most widely recognized and Terrorist; the almost as dead long-lost Globe. These sponsors, along with duction, tickets to that performance highly respected women in pop cul- AMERICAN REPERTORY THEATER son of Achmed, AJ; and Peanut’s own the other sponsors, set up booths will be sold on a “Pay What You Can” ture. A solo recording artist, actress, Oberon, 2 Arrow St., Harvard Sq., ventriloquist dummy: Little Jeff. They and offer free items to promote their basis. 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Billboard Oberon, 2 Arrow St., Harvard Sq., mirror balls, feathered divas, roller Shawn Mullins. In 2012, Earthfest named her the Top Female Artist and Cambridge, MA skaters and hustle queens tell the audience was estimated to be over Top Radio Songs Artist of the 2000s 617-547-8300 MUSEUMS story of A Midsummer Night’s Dream 200,000 people. decade. The Recording Industry As- www.AmericanRepertoryTheater.org through great ’70s anthems you know BOSTON POPS FIREWORKS sociation of America also recognized BEOWULF: A THOUSAND YEARS Beyoncé as the Top Certified Artist of by heart. MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON SPECTACULAR — Celebrate OF BAGGAGE — April 16th through the 2000s. 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston America’s birthday on July 3rd and May 5th. 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Catlett. 925 Commonwealth Ave., Boston band including: Dominic Miller (gui- PIRATES OF PENZANCE — 617-358-7000 tar), David Sancious (keyboards), May 10th through June 2nd. The www.BU.EDU/Agannis/ Vinnie Colaiuta (drums), Peter Tickell Hypocrites’ bring their award- TNA WRESTLING SLAM- (electric fiddle), and Jo Lawry (vocals)! winning and audience favorite pro- MIVERSARY — Sunday, June 2, Don’t miss the opportunity to see ITALIAN EVENTS & PROGRAMS duction from their native Chicago. An 2013. “Slammiversary XI is our biggest Sting at a smaller venue setting on eighty-minute exotic excursion fea- show of the summer and we’re so ex- South Boston’s waterfront. turing bathing beauties, philosophiz- cited to bring it to Boston for the very Sons of Italy Walk-a-thon Sunday, April 18. The proceeds from the ing pirates and grown men in remark- first time,” said TNA Entertainment walk-a-thon directly benefit the organization’s annual scholarship ably short shorts! Warning: If you President Dixie Carter. “The North- program. DCR’s Breakheart Reservation, Saugus, MA THEATER want boring, stay away; this experi- east has such a great connection to “The Worst Comedy Show Ever” Saturday, April 26. Italian-American ence will cause immense joy and the the world of professional wrestling comedian, Craig Gass, brings his comedy show, notable for its spot on compulsion to spontaneously sing and we can’t wait to showcase the voice impressions, to Boston. Wilbur Theater, Boston. THE LYRIC STAGE COMPANY along. Come ashore with the Very Impact Wrestling Superstars to this Screening of Caesar Must Die by Taviani Brothers April 26 and 28. OF BOSTON Model of A Modern Major General, the audience.” Impact Wrestling stars in- Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge, MA. 140 Clarendon St., Boston, MA Pirate King, and a banjo-picking cluding “The Immortal” Hulk Hogan, 617-585-5678 Mabel. The show features beach balls, “The Icon” Sting, current TNA World Gallery Talk: “Paragone: Rivalry of the Arts in the Italian Renais- www.LyricStage.com sunshine (the artificial kind) and tons Heavyweight Champion Bully Ray, sance” Saturday, June 8. Gallery talk is led by graduate student, gallery BY THE WAY, MEET VERA of fun music. Olympic Gold Medalist Kurt Angle, talk lecturer, Caitlin Henningsen. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. STARK — Now through April 27th. In “The Charismatic Enigma” Jeff Hardy, “La Risonanza, Handel: From England to Italy” Wednesday, June a new screwball comedy, Pulitzer REAGLE MUSIC THEATRE X Division standouts such as current 12. Concert directed by Fabio Bonizzoni. New England’s Conservatory: Prize-winning playwright Lynn 617 Lexington St., Waltham, MA X Division champion Kenny King and Jordan Hall, Boston. 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This “killer” Tony and Oscar- FENWAY PARK “The Sicilian Corner” 10:00 am to 12 Noon every Friday with host Tom and her tangled relationship with her winning musical follows the merry 4 Yawkey Way, Boston, MA Zappala and Mike Lomazzo and “The Italian Show” with Nunzio DiMarca boss, a white Hollywood star desper- murderesses Roxie Hart, Velma www.RedSox.com every Sunday from 10:00 am-1:00 pm. Go to www.1110wccmam.com. ately grasping to hold on to her Kelly and their slick lawyer Billy RUN TO HOME BASE — On “Italia Oggi” Sundays 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm with host Andrea Urdi career. When circumstances collide Flynn through 1920s Chicago with Saturday, May 4th, several thou- 1460 AM www.1460WXBR.com. and both women land roles in the the fabulous choreography in the sand runners and walkers will “Dolce Vita Radio” DJ Rocco Mesiti 11:00 am-1:00 pm Sundays 90.7 FM same Southern epic, the story be- style of Bob Fosse and iconic Kander have the thrill of crossing home plate or online www.djrocco.com. hind the cameras leaves Vera with a and Ebb tunes: “All that Jazz,” at Fenway Park while supporting “The Nick Franciosa Show” Sundays from 12 Noon to 3:00 pm on WLYN surprising and controversial legacy “Razzle Dazzle,” “We Both Reached wounded veterans and their families. 1360 AM and WAZN 1470 AM. scholars will debate for years to come. for the gun” and more! The 2013 Run-Walk to Home Base presented by New Balance is a “Guido Oliva Italian Hour” 8:00 am–9:00 am Sundays on WSRO 650 AM STONEHAM THEATRE CUTLER MAJESTIC THEATRE 9K (5.6 mile) run and a 3-mile walk and online at www.wsro.com. 395 Main Street, Stoneham, MA 219 Tremont Street, Boston, MA to benefit the Red Sox Foundation “Radio Italia Unita” - Thursdays 2:00 pm–3:00 pm on www.zumix.org/ 781-279-2200 617-824-8400 and Massachusetts General Hospi- radio or itunes, college radio click on Zumix. For more information, log onto www.StonehamTheatre.org www.ArtsEmerson.org tal Home Base Program. Participants www.italiaunita.org. THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE ALMIRA — June 9th through June will help provide much needed clini- “Tony’s Place” on MusicAmerica WPLM FM 99.1 - Sundays 9:00 pm– — April 18th through May 12, 2013. 16th. Written when Handel was only cal care for veterans returning from 10:00 pm on MusicAmerica. Host Ron Della Chiesa presents Tony's Place. Winner of six Tony Awards, in 2002, 19, Almira tells a story of intrigue and Iraq and Afghanistan with combat Visit www.MusicNotNoise.com. Thoroughly Modern Millie tells the story romance at the Court of Castile. The stress or traumatic brain injury. The POST-GAZETTE, APRIL 19, 2013 Page 13

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Babbononno’s taste in mu- From my late teen years Central Music on Benning- sic ranged from classical to on, Babbononno and I would ton Street and pick up songs opera. For years, every Sat- have differing opinions like Rock Around the Clock by urday, Babbononno would sit on the great Italian tenors. Bill Haley and the Comets, by the radio in his bedroom He, of course, was a fan of Tutti Frutti by Little Richard, and listen to Deems Taylor Caruso. I loved the voice of Sha-Boom by the Chords broadcasting from the Met- Lanza. Babbononno used to and everything that Chuck ropolitan Opera in New York. call him a sellout for go- Berry sang. Sculler Jazz Club welcomes Rudresh Mahanthappa in My grandfather loved Italian ing to Hollywood instead Not only did Babbononno April. (Photo courtsey of emusic.com) opera. To him Italian was the of staying with opera. His hate the music, but I had my Jazz in the City .… acts to come through only language opera should voice would send shivers up go rounds with Dad also. I Guggenheim fellow and Boston’s jazz scene but you be written in. When asked and down my spine espe- reminded my father about 2012 Downbeat Interna- don’t want to miss Rudresh about opera he would com- cially when I would listen to how his father felt about the tional Critics Poll Alto Saxo- Mahanthappa on Wednes- ment that German, Spanish, his rendition of Ave Maria. Dixieland and swing music phonist of the Year, Rudresh day, April 24th at 8:00 pm or French and English didn’t Maybe Babbononno felt the that he played, but my father Mahanthappa is one of the Hiroshima on Thursday, lend themselves to this art same way about Caruso. would say that it was a dif- most innovative composers April 25th at 8:00 pm and form. Then he would add, Even though he played ferent story and it was real and performers in jazz today, 10:00 pm. Scullers Jazz Club “Even Mozart had the good with a band that specialized music not the junk the rock fusing the musical culture at the Doubletree Suites by sense to write his operas in in Neapolitan pop music, and rollers were playing. of his Indian ancestry and Hilton Hotel Boston is lo- Italian.” he would always condemn I think that this was the jazz with myriad other influ- cated at 400 Soldiers Field When Nanna and Babbo- American pop music, espe- only time in my life that I ences to create a ground- Road, Boston. For more de- nonno sold the big house cially the music of the swing was defiant. I loved the new breaking artistic vision. tails on show and dinner on Eutaw Street in East bands. He was proud of the music and learned to dance Mahanthappa leads/co- tickets call 617-562-4111 or Boston, they moved into fact that one of his sons to it rather well. My friends leads several groups includ- visit www.ScullersJazz.com. an apartment on Princeton (Uncle Nick) and his son-in- and I would go to record hops ing the electro-acoustic A Tasty Treat to Compli- Street, a ten minute walk law (Dad) played with some almost every Friday night. quartet Samdhi featuring ment Your Time in the City away. There was an alcove famous big band leaders, but I didn’t work on Friday nights guitarist David Gilmore and .… It’s time to get out and off the living room that my he claimed the music was and we headed to whatever the Indo-Pak Coalition with down to Boston’s waterfront. grandfather made into a den. junk. He would leave out the location featured a band or Rez Abassi on guitar and Del Frisco’s Double Eagle Against a wall centered be- music of Glenn Miller when someone spinning records. tabla master Dan Weiss. Pre- Steak House planted its tween a couch and a TV, he would condemn the swing After I turned 16 and got vious ensembles include the roots in Dallas more than 20 stood the family’s old Victrola. style, because the arranger my driver’s license, I would critically-acclaimed Kins- years ago. They embody the It was the type that was new for much of Miller’s music borrow Dad’s car, get a date men featuring Carnatic sax- rich tradition of fine Ameri- in the 1920s with a crank and a few of the composi- and find whatever station ophone legend Kadri Gol- can steak houses, amazing handle that wound up tions were penned by Jerry was playing the Platters and palnath and Apex, which guests through their impec- an internal spring which Gray, an East Bostonian hope the music would turn showcased the highly influ- cable chef-driven cuisine, allowed the records to whose real last name was on the girl sitting next to ential alto-sax master Bunky extensive award-winning spin around. It was probably Graziano. Once, when I was me. Whenever I see the TV Green. wine list and unparalleled bought when my mother and a kid, I came home from re-runs of American Graffitti, Hiroshima is an Ameri- hospitality. uncles were young and school early and found Babbo- I reminisce about those teen can jazz fusion/smooth jazz The cornerstone of the Del left abandoned when record nonno and Nanna sitting in years spent listening and band formed in 1974 by Frisco’s Double Eagle Steak players became electric. At the den listening to a big dancing to rock and roll, the Sansei Japanese American House menu is aged USDA times, when Babbononno band playing Jersey Bounce, girls with the poodle skirts Dan Kuramoto, Peter Hata, prime beef. They serve only wasn’t busy, he would play a pop tune back during and Arnie Woo Woo Ginsberg June Kuramoto, Johnny the best hand-cut steaks, the 12 inch (not the 10 inch) WWII. When I peeked in the playing the music we loved. Mori, Dave Iwataki and chops and freshest seafood, 78 rpm speed records he had den, Babbononno’s foot was For me, the music of the Danny Yamamoto. including Australian cold purchased decades earlier tapping the floor in time day lasted just a few years. The band integrates tra- water lobster tails. They use … all of them were either with the rhythm. When my Once I became a musician, ditional Japanese instru- the freshest ingredients to classical or opera. His favor- grandfather saw me he be- I concentrated on classi- ments into their musical create mouthwatering appe- ites were the operas from came flustered and told me cal and jazz, but to make blend and has generally been tizers, flavorful side dishes the pens of the greatest that the only reason he was money, worked with bands both commercial and cre- and irresistible desserts. of Italian composers, Verde, listening was that Uncle Nick that catered to weddings, par- ative within its genre. Their sommeliers are on Puccini, Leoncavallo, Monte- was playing clarinet with the ties, Christenings and Bar Since 1989, the legendary hand to guide you through verdi, Scarlatti, Rossini, band. I found out later that Mitzvahs. My rock and roll Scullers Jazz Club has pre- their extensive wine list and Donizetti and Mascagni. the band was that of Andre changed when the Beetles sented the biggest names in the bartenders will lift your Many of his old records fea- Kostelanetz and it was the invaded America. I didn’t straight ahead, Latin and spirits with hand-shaken tured the voices of Caruso or U.S. Navy Band stationed in care for their musician- Contemporary Jazz, as well martinis and crafted cock- Gigli and were recorded in Newport, RI during WWII. ship but did like what they as Blues, Soul, R&B, Caba- tails. They offer guests an Italy. By this point in time, Uncle Nick was a Petty Of- wrote. But, by the time they ret and World Music. Scullers unforgettable experience in the records were old and ficer First Class and in the arrived, I was playing mostly Jazz Club has hosted some a stunning, energetic atmo- scratchy but Babbononno reed section of the band. jazz or leading a band for the of the very best musical art- sphere perfect for special didn’t care. He listened to When the mid 1950s came Bob Blasser Show locally or ists in the business includ- occasions, business affairs them with love and dedica- along, I was in my teens and on TV in Providence. ing; Harry Connick Jr., Chris or a grand night on the tion whenever he could. going from junior high school My mother, during my for- Botti, Jamie Cullam, David town. As a child, I watched to high school. There was a mative years was still buy- Sanborn, Michael Buble, Del Frisco’s Double Eagle my grandfather operate his new type of music that had ing records. She loved the Arturo Sandoval, Tony Ben- Steak House is owned record player and when grown out of rhythm and swing bands and the singers nett, Wynton Marsalis and and operated by Del Frisco’s he wasn’t around, I played blues and it was called rock that recorded with them. So, Dave Koz to name a few. Led Restaurant Group Inc., his records. My favorite was and roll. I loved it and would during WWII, I listened to by Jazz impresario Fred Tay- which also owns contempo- the music from William Tell listen to the DJs that played Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra lor, Scullers Jazz Club has rary, high-end, complemen- by Rossini, especially the it, especially Symphony Sid (and for many years after), become a true Boston land- tary restaurant concepts: overture. Once Babbononno (remember him???) and Bill Ella Fitzgerald, the Andrew mark. Offering spectacular Sullivan’s Steakhouse and caught me playing this com- Marlowe who I would become Sisters and Helen O’Connell views of the Boston skyline Del Frisco’s Grille. Del position on his record player friendly with years later. I and Bob Eberly when they and the Charles River, Frisco’s is located at 250 and thought I was watching bought a record machine that were with the Dorseys. There Scullers serves as the per- Northern Avenue, Boston, the Lone Ranger on TV, as played 45 rpm records and were many others too fect backdrop for world-class MA. For reservation or fur- both the radio and TV series went crazy every Friday when numerous to mention and entertainment you won’t see ther information, please used this as the background I got paid from the Seville Babbononno hated every one anywhere else in Boston. call (617) 951-1368 or visit music. Theater. I would stop by of them or so he said. 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• News Briefs (Continued from Page 1) the U.S. Court of Appeals His mother in police reports or Newtown, mental health NEWS BRIEFS decision to throw out the said “his behavior is not nor- issues are often a major (FROM ITALIAN election results where a mal … he kind of like, talked component of these hor- NEWSPAPERS AND voter majority banned gay to himself.” rible acts of violence, which marriage in that state. According to the news seemingly never get ad- OTHER PUBLICATIONS) Rather than pretend to story, his parents tried talk- dressed either until after Compiled by Orazio Z. Buttafuoco know the future, I will await ing to him the morning of the shooting stops, or until the Supreme Court’s deci- the shootings because they after the severity of each sion and accept it as we live were worried about him. He perpetrator’s potential dan- EINSTEIN’S THEORY OF RELATIVITY (E=MC^2): WAS IT in a democratic republic. ran out the door on them. gerousness to self or others AN ITALIAN IDEA? The mathematical equation that ush- Government, remember, is Too often people with men- is apparent. Mental health ered in the Atomic Age was a discovery by an Italian dilet- our business. It will be as tal illness fall through the care in our nation must tante mathematician and made public years before Albert bad as we allow it. It is up to cracks and parents find improve or this violence Einstein used it in a developing theory of relativity. Olindo all of us to make it work. themselves helpless to do will continue. It is one thing (Olinto) De Pretto, an industrialist from Vicenza published We are the government and anything. Usually as is the to focus on the accessibility the equation (E=MC^2) in a scientific magazine, ATTE in the choices we make are case, help only seems to of firearms but we must 1903, as related by the Italian mathematical historian important. When things go come after a tragedy and also look at treatment op- Umberto Bartocci. Einstein used De Pretto’s insight in a wrong, we either accept it what happened is too often tions available to those in major paper published in 1905, but De Pretto was never or attempt to rectify things commonplace. need or their families who by electing better voices in In most of the recent ter- struggle to hold everything acclaimed, said Professor Bartocci of the University of government. rible shootings like Aurora together as long as they can. Perugia. De Pretto had stumbled on the equation, not the As Yogi Berra once said, “It theory of relativity while speculating about ether in the ain’t over until it’s over.” life of the universe, stated Professor Bartocci. It was repub- LEGAL NOTICE Annette Funicello, R.I.P. REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS lished in 1904 by the Veneto’s Royal Science Institute, but I was quite sad to hear the equation‘s significance was not understood. The MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY (Authority) is soliciting consulting services for MPA that Annette Funicello had CONTRACT NO. L1102-D6, FY14 TERM AIRFIELD DESIGN, MASSPORT AVIATION FACILITIES. “A Swiss-Italian named Michele Besso alerted Einstein passed away at 70 years of The Authority is seeking qualifi ed multidiscipline consulting fi rm or team, with proven experience to the equation and in 1905 Einstein published his own age. When I was a kid, I to provide professional services including planning, design, and construction related services for work, said Professor Bartocci. It took years for the break airfi eld related projects. These services are expected to be provided at Boston-Logan International loved to watch the Mickey Airport, L.G. Hanscom Field, and Worcester Regional Airport. The Consultant must be able to work through to be grasped. When the ‘penny’ finally dropped, Mouse Club show and always closely with the Authority and other interested parties in order to provide such services in a timely De Pretto’s contribution was never acknowledged, while wanted to be a Mouseketeer. and effective manner. Einstein went on to become the century’s most famous sci- I first saw her on the show Services may involve the planning and/or design of new facilities or the upgrade/rehabilitation entist. De Pretto was never recognized. He died in 1921. of existing facilities including, but not limited to, the following airport systems: runways, taxiways when it started back in and apron pavements; drainage; airfi eld lighting, signing and marking; electrical power and De Pretto didn’t discover relativity but there is no doubt 1955. I was 7 years old and communications; computer control/monitoring of airfi eld lighting and navigation aids. The Consultant that he was the first to use the equation that is hugely she was 12. I had a crush on may also be responsible for performing special studies investigating pavements, lighting, airspace significant. I also believe, though it is impossible to prove, penetrations, safety area improvements, taxiway/runway aircraft clearance areas, obstacles in her by the time I was 12 approach surfaces, and de-icing as well as providing technical reports quantifying environmental that Einstein used, and benefited, from De Pretto’s myself. Later she ended up impacts to support environmental permitting, if necessary. The Consultant shall have an extensive research,” stated Professor Bartocci who has written a book in all those beach movies working knowledge of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) rules and regulations. on the subject. Einstein’s theory held that time and motion with Frankie Avalon after The scope of work shall include, but not be limited to the following: feasibility studies, operational are relative to the observer; if the speed of light is constant the Mickey Mouse Club ended evaluations, recommendation reports (including subsurface/geotechnical reports), cost estimates and analyses, investigations, value engineering, energy audits and design, bid and construction and if all natural laws are the same. A footnote established and the older she got, the phase services, including resident inspection services. the equivalence of mass and energy, according to which hotter she looked. Once The Authority expects to select one consultant. However, the Authority reserves the right to select a the energy (E) of a quantity of the matter (M) is equal to the again another part of my different number if it is deemed in its best interest to do so. Each consultant shall be issued a contract product of the mass and the square of the velocity of light younger years has passed in an amount not to exceed $1,500,000. The services shall be authorized on a work order basis. from the scene. This baby Each submission shall include a Statement of Qualifi cations that provides detailed information in (C), now known as E=MC^2. response to the evaluation criteria set forth below and include Architect/Engineer & Related Services A mathematics professor at the St. Andrew’s University boomer laments her passing. questionnaires SF 330 (www.gsa.gov/portal/forms/download/116486) with the appropriate number (UK), Edmund Robertson, has stated: “An awful lot of math- She was part of a great gen- of Part IIs. DBE Certifi cation of the prime and subconsultants shall be current at the time of submittal ematics was done by people who have never been credited. eration born during or right and the Consultant shall provide a copy of the DBE certifi cation letter from the Supplier Diversity after World War II. Offi ce, formerly known as State Offi ce of Minority and Women Business Assistance (SOMWBA) The Arabs, in the Middle Ages, for example. Einstein may within its submittal. The Consultant shall also provide an original and nine copies of litigation and have gotten the idea from someone else, but ideas come Ready to Burst legal proceedings information, signed under the pains and penalties of perjury, in a separate sealed from all sorts of places.” De Pretto, however, deserves a the Bubble Again? envelope entitled “Litigation and Legal Proceedings”. See www.massport.com/doing-business/ A few weeks ago, Presi- Pages/CapitalProgramsResourceCenter.aspx for more details on litigation and legal proceedings credit if his contribution can be proven. Even so, it should history submittal requirements. not detract from Einstein.” dent Obama announced he wanted to see the lending The submission shall be evaluated on basis of: (1) current level of experience and knowledge of the team for similar projects, particularly standards lowered for low the Project Manager, LEGAL NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE income people because it (2) geographic location and availability of the Project Manager, resident inspectors and would reportedly help hous- other key personnel to be assigned to the project, Commonwealth of Massachusetts Commonwealth of Massachusetts ing sales and the economy. (3) experience and expertise of subconsultants, The Trial Court The Trial Court (4) demonstrated ability to perform work with minimal disruption to facility operations, Middlesex Probate and Family Court Probate and Family Court Isn’t that how the bubble (5) familiarity with Massachusetts public bid laws, 208 Cambridge Street Middlesex Division burst back in 2008 and why (6) cost management and scheduling capabilities, Cambridge, MA 02141 208 Cambridge Street we have been struggling (7) DBE and affi rmative action efforts, please indicate the proposed % of DBE participation 617-768-5800 East Cambridge, MA 02141 (8) current level of work with the Authority, (617) 768-5800 with a recession over the Docket No. MI13D1385DR (9) past performance for the Authority, if any, Docket No. MI13P0802EA past 5 years? The more (10) experience with sustainable design concepts, and DIVORCE SUMMONS BY Estate of things change, the more (11) project understanding and technical approach to this project. PUBLICATION AND MAILING ALBERICO VOLANTE they stay the same, huh? The selection shall involve a two-step process including the shortlisting of a minimum of three fi rms CARMEN D. DeLEON Date of Death October 31, 2012 Bad Quote to Note based on an evaluation of the Statements of Qualifi cations received in response to this solicitation, VS followed immediately by a fi nal selection of the consultant(s) by the Authority. INFORMAL PROBATE “The First Amendment, FACUNDO L. DeLEON PUBLICATION NOTICE By responding to this solicitation, consultants agree to accept the terms and conditions of Massport’s like other constitutional standard work order agreement, a copy of the Authority’s standard agreement can be found on the To the Defendant: To all persons interested in the above Authority’s web page at www.massport.com. The exception to this standard agreement is the The Plaintiff has filed a Complaint for Divorce captioned estate, by Petition of Petitioner rights, is not an unfettered requesting that the Court grant a divorce for Carolyn Tennant of Attleboro, MA right.” insurance requirement of $10,000,000 of commercial general liability coverage. The Consultant shall specify in its cover letter that it has the ability to obtain requisite insurance coverage. Irretrievable Breakdown of the Marriage 1B. A Will has been admitted to informal probate. — Philadelphia Mayor The Complaint is on file at the Court. Carolyn Tennant, 57 Hope Street, Submissions shall be printed on both sides of the sheet (8 1/2” x 11”), no acetate covers. Ten (10) An Automatic Restraining Order has been Attleboro, MA. you have been informally ap- Michael Nutter copies of a bound document and one PDF version on a disc each limited to: entered in this matter preventing you from pointed as the Personal Representative of the Obviously, the mayor of 1) an SF 330 including the appropriate number of Part IIs, taking any action which would negatively estate to serve without surety on the bond. 2) resumes of key individuals only each limited to one (1) page under SF 330, Section E, impact the current financial status of either this historic town never The estate is being administered under 3) no more than ten (10) projects each limited to one (1) page under SF 330, Section F, party. SEE Supplemental Probate Court Rule saw the crackled Liberty Bell informal procedure by the Personal Represen- 4) no more than 3 sheets (6 pages) of information contained under SF 330 Section H 411. tative under the Massachusetts Uniform Pro- or the Independence Hall You are hereby summoned and required addressing the evaluation items (except for the litigation and legal proceedings history), bate Code without supervision by the Court. because if he understood and to serve upon Carmen D. DeLeon, 74 Rose Inventory and accounts are not required to be Hill Way, Waltham, MA 02453 your answer, what they represented, he 5) no more than 2 sheets (4 pages) of other relevant material not including a 2 page (max.) filed with the Court, but interested parties are cover letter, SDO certifi cation letters, covers, dividers, and other required information. if any, on or before May 22, 2013. If you fail to entitled to notice regarding the administration would never say what he This submission, including the litigation and legal proceedings history in a separate sealed envelope do so, the court will proceed to the hearing from the Personal Representative and can said about our unalienable as required shall be addressed to Houssam H. Sleiman, PE, CCM, Director of Capital Programs and adjudication of this action. You are also petition the Court in any matter relating to the rights, would he? required to file a copy of your answer, if any, estate, including distribution of assets and and Environmental Affairs and received no later than 12:00 Noon on Thursday, May 16, 2013 at in the office of the Register of this Court. expenses of administration. Interested parties Loughner’s Parents the Massachusetts Port Authority, Logan Offi ce Center, One Harborside Drive, Suite 209S, Logan WITNESS, HON. PETER C. DiGANGI, are entitled to petition the Court to institute Saw Mental Decline International Airport, East Boston, MA 02128-2909. Any submission which is not received in a First Justice of this Court. formal proceedings and to obtain orders A recent news story in the timely manner shall be rejected by the Authority as non-responsive. Any information provided to Date: April 10, 2013 terminating or restricting the powers of Per- the Authority in any Proposal or other written or oral communication between the Proposer and the Wall Street Journal told of Authority will not be, or deemed to have been, proprietary or confi dential, although the Authority Tara E. DeCristofaro, Register of Probate sonal Representatives appointed under infor- mal procedure. A copy of the Petition and Will, what the parents of Jared will use reasonable efforts not to disclose such information to persons who are not employees or consultants retained by the Authority except as may be required by M.G.L. c.66. Run date: 4/19/13 if any, can be obtained from the Petitioner. Loughner went through as Run date: 4/19/13 his behavior grew stranger The procurement process for these services will proceed according to the following anticipated schedule: and stranger before he shot 19 people outside a super- EVENT DATE/TIME market in Tucson, Arizona. Solicitation: Release Date April 24, 2013 They told police they took Deadline for submission of written questions May 2, 2013 / 5:00 pm away his shotgun and This could save your life. banned him from using Offi cial answers published (Estimated) May 10, 2013 the family car at night. The Solicitation: Close Date / Submission Deadline May 16, 2013 / 12:00 pm diabetes.org/FindOut 2011 shooting left 6 dead Times are Eastern Standard Time (US). and 13 injured including a Questions may be sent via email to [email protected] subject to the deadline for congresswoman. Loughner receipt stated in the timetable above. In the subject lines of your email, please reference the MPA was reportedly diagnosed as Project Name and Number. Questions and their responses will be posted on Capital Bid Opportunities webpage of Massport http://www.massport.com/doing-business/_layouts/CapitalPrograms/ a schizophrenic and was default.aspx as an attachment to the original Legal Notice and on Comm-PASS (www.comm-pass. kicked out of college over com) in the listings for this project. troubling behavior. His par- diabetes.org/FindOut MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY ents were urged to keep THOMAS P. GLYNN 1-800-DIABETES (342-2383) weapons out of his hands. CEO AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Run date: 04/19/13 BOSTON POST-GAZETTE, APRIL 19, 2013 Page 15

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by Sal Giarratani

Yes Larry, I Do Remember Aparicio stealing bases in Ted Williams whacked home sale at www.livenation.com Detroit Tigers in an awful Ted Williams! Chicago, Sandy Koufax win- run number 521. or www.redsox.com. 1952 season and who re- Recently, one of my “Extra ning games in Los Angeles, As usual, there were prob- Before A-Rod there was mains the last visiting Innings” fans named Larry Dick Radatz saving games in ably less than eight thou- Albert Belle pitcher to toss a complete from East Boston took note Boston and Mickey Mantle sand fans in the stands on Back on April 2, 1997 for game no hitter at Yankee that in a recent column of a switch-hitting home run that historic afternoon. Usu- the first time ever, the sal- Stadium is dead at 95 years mine, I forgot to list Ted Wil- slugger in Yankee Stadium. ally, back then you paid 60 ary of one ballplayer Albert old. The 2-time All-Star died liams among other notable However, I always re- cents for the bleachers and Belle exceeded the payroll of March 23rd in Alabama. He players I remember seeing spected Ted Williams’ ca- tried to work your way over an entire team, the Pitts- pitched in the majors from at Fenway in my youth. I reer and the fact that in his to the third base line by burgh Pirates. Belle earned 1941-58 and helped the Ti- agreed with Larry that he prime he left baseball for five sneaking by the ushers $10 million that season gers beat the Cubs in the was among the all-time years to fight for his country guarding kids from doing while the Pirates team 1945 World Series. Trucks greatest ballplayers in the in both World War II and the that. There were always payroll was $9 million plus. was one of five pitchers to history of the game. How- Korean War as a Marine more of us than of them. Leo Monahan, R.I.P. throw two no-hitters in a ever, Ted Williams was not fighter pilot. He was a Hall Larry, Ted Williams was Legendary Boston sports season. He did it the years among my favorite players of Famer. He won two AL the best ever Red Sox player columnist and hockey expert the Tigers lost 104 games. like Willie Mays or Mickey MVP awards, six batting and one of the greatest play- Daniel Leo Monahan has Virgil went 5-19 with a 3.97 Mantle. Once I mentioned titles and two Triple Crowns. ers of all time. I didn’t have passed away at 86 years old. ERA. Mantle, I felt like I was be- The year 1942 was among to like him and his attitude He wrote for the Record Trucks pitched a dozen ing accused of being a Ted’s best seasons in base- with the fans to respect his American, the Herald Ameri- seasons and was also with Yankees fan. ball. He finished that year baseball skills which were can for 38 years. He also the St. Louis Cardinals and You got to remember that winning the Triple Crown. unbelievable to friend or foe. wrote for Sports Illustrated Browns teams, the White back in the late ’50s until The previous year, 1941, he However, I still liked Mantle and did a column for the Sox, KC Athletics and finally 1966, the Red Sox stunk to hit .406, the first player in better. Sporting News. He covered in 1958 with the dreaded high heaven. In 1961 while 11 years to do so and the last Coming Up to the Plate is the Big Bad Bruins from 1948 Yankees themselves. Mantle and Maris were player ever to top the .400 Paul McCartney to 1990. In 1986, he was in- His best season was 1949 fighting to best Babe Ruth in mark. He was among the Live Nation has an- ducted into the NHL Hockey when he went 19-11 with a single season homers, the greatest to play baseball and nounced that Sir Paul Hall of Fame. 2.81 ERA. He went 20-10 in Red Sox finished 33 games when he retired, he finished McCartney will be perform- Boston Baseball Camp 1953, splitting between the behind the Yankees. Every with 521 home runs, 1,839 ing at Fenway Park on Boston Baseball Camp at Browns and White Sox. He year back then was like the RBIs and a career .344 bat- July 9 as part of his “Out West Roxbury High School, a was 19-12 for the White Sox year before and the year af- ting average. There” tour. Paul turns 71 unique city non-profit camp in 1954 with a 2.79 ERA. ter. I was only 12 years old In 1966 at his induction in June. Tickets are now on program for Boston young- An Afternoon with the during Ted’s final season. I into Cooperstown, he advo- sters now in its 24th sea- Champ remember liking to drink cated for the inclusion of son, is accepting applica- There will be a book sign- Ted’s Root Beer by the bottle retired Negro League play- LEGAL NOTICE tions for the weekly summer ing appearance by the and eating Cain’s Potato ers into the Hall of Fame. A program. For further infor- undisputed Welterweight Chips with Jimmy Piersall’s few years later, they were Commonwealth of Massachusetts mation, please log on to Champion Tony DeMarco on The Trial Court www.bostonbaseballcamp.org th face on each bag, but my added as Williams had de- Middlesex Probate and Family Court Saturday, April 20 from baseball heroes included a sired to see. I also had the 208 Cambridge Street or call 617-680-1781. 1:00 pm until 4:00 pm at young Frank Robinson in pleasure of being at Fenway Cambridge, MA 02141 The “Fire” has Died Caffe Vittoria on Hanover Cincinnati, Brooks Robinson Park in September 1960 617-768-5800 Virgil “Fire” Trucks, who Street in Boston’s North at third in Baltimore, Luis when at his last time at-bat, Docket No. MI13D1258DR threw two no-hitters for the End. DIVORCE SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION AND MAILING LEGAL NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE SANDRA MUSIIMENTA VS MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY MICHAEL K PATTERSON NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS To the Defendant: NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS Sealed General Bids for MPA Contract No. MPA CONTRACT NO. AP1320-C1, FY14 AVIATION The Plaintiff has filed a Complaint for Divorce Sealed General Bids for MPA Contract No. MPA CONTRACT NO. MP1301-C1, FY14 MARITIME TERM MISCELLANEOUS IRON REPAIRS, BOSTON, BEDFORD AND WORCESTER, TERM MISCELLANEOUS IRON REPAIRS BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, will be received by the requesting that the Court grant a divorce for Irretrievable Breakdown of the Marriage 1B. MASSACHUSETTS, will be received by the Massachusetts Port Authority at the Capital Massachusetts Port Authority at the Capital Programs Department Offi ce, Suite 209S, Logan Offi ce The Complaint is on file at the Court. Programs Department Offi ce, Suite 209S, Logan Offi ce Center, One Harborside Drive, East Center, One Harborside Drive, East Boston, Massachusetts 02128-2909, until 11:00 A.M. local time An Automatic Restraining Order has been Boston, Massachusetts 02128-2909, until 11:00 A.M. local time on WEDNESDAY, MAY 29, 2013, on WEDNESDAY, MAY 29, 2013, immediately after which, in a designated room, the bids will be entered in this matter preventing you from immediately after which, in a designated room, the bids will be opened and read publicly. opened and read publicly. taking any action which would negatively NOTE: PRE BID CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD AT THE CAPITAL PROGRAMS NOTE: PRE BID CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD AT THE CAPITAL PROGRAMS impact the current financial status of either party. DEPARTMENT (ABOVE ADDRESS) AT 10:00 A.M. LOCAL TIME ON TUESDAY, DEPARTMENT (ABOVE ADDRESS) AT 11:00 A.M. LOCAL TIME ON TUESDAY, SEE Supplemental Probate Court Rule 411. MAY 14, 2013. MAY 14, 2013. You are hereby summoned and required The work includes PROVISION OF ALL EQUIPMENT, MATERIALS, LABOR AND SUPERVISION The work includes PROVISION OF ALL EQUIPMENT, MATERIALS, LABOR AND SUPERVISION to serve upon Kenneth C. Onyema, Esq., NECESSARY TO MAKE STRUCTURAL STEEL AND ARCHITECTURAL IRON REPAIRS; NECESSARY TO MAKE STRUCTURAL STEEL AND ARCHITECTURAL IRON REPAIRS; Cambridge Lawyers Group LLC, 340 Main FABRICATION OF MISCELLANEOUS METAL ITEMS INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO: RAILS, FABRICATION OF MISCELLANEOUS METAL ITEMS INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO: Street, Suite 712, Worcester MA 01608, your LADDERS, FRAMES AND SUPPORTS AT LOGAN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, WORCESTER RAILS, LADDERS, FRAMES AND SUPPORTS AT ALL MASSPORT MARITIME FACILITIES ON answer, if any, on or before May 16, 2013. If REGIONAL AIRPORT AND HANSCOM CIVIL AIRFIELD ON AN AS NEEDED BASIS OVER A AN AS NEEDED BASIS OVER A ONE (1) YEAR PERIOD. you fail to do so, the court will proceed to the ONE (1) YEAR PERIOD. hearing and adjudication of this action. You Bid documents will be made available beginning THURSDAY, MAY 2, 2013. are also required to file a copy of your answer, Bid documents will be made available beginning THURSDAY, MAY 2, 2013. Bid Documents in electronic format may be obtained free of charge at the Authority’s Capital if any, in the office of the Register of this Court. Bid Documents in electronic format may be obtained free of charge at the Authority’s Capital Programs Department Offi ce, together with any addenda or amendments, which the Authority may Programs Department Offi ce, together with any addenda or amendments, which the Authority may WITNESS, HON. PETER C. DiGANGI, issue and a printed copy of the Proposal form. issue and a printed copy of the Proposal form. First Justice of this Court. The estimated contract cost is NINETY THOUSAND DOLLARS ($90,000.00). Date: April 4, 2013 The estimated contract cost is NINETY THOUSAND DOLLARS ($90,000). Bidding procedures and award of the contract and sub-contracts shall be in accordance with Tara E. DeCristofaro, Register of Probate Bidding procedures and award of the contract and sub-contracts shall be in accordance with the provisions of Sections 44A through 44J inclusive, Chapter 149 of the General Laws of the the provisions of Sections 44A through 44J inclusive, Chapter 149 of the General Laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Run date: 4/19/13 Commonwealth of Massachusetts. A proposal guaranty shall be submitted with each General Bid consisting of a bid deposit for fi ve (5) A proposal guaranty shall be submitted with each General Bid consisting of a bid deposit for fi ve (5) percent of the value of the bid; when sub-bids are required, each must be accompanied by a deposit percent of the value of the bid; when sub-bids are required, each must be accompanied by a deposit equal to fi ve (5) percent of the sub-bid amount, in the form of a bid bond, or cash, or a certifi ed check, LEGAL NOTICE equal to fi ve (5) percent of the sub-bid amount, in the form of a bid bond, or cash, or a certifi ed check, or a treasurer’s or a cashier’s check issued by a responsible bank or trust company, payable to the or a treasurer’s or a cashier’s check issued by a responsible bank or trust company, payable to the Massachusetts Port Authority in the name of which the Contract for the work is to be executed. The NOTICE OF PRIVATE SALE Massachusetts Port Authority in the name of which the Contract for the work is to be executed. The bid deposit shall be (a) in a form satisfactory to the Authority, (b) with a surety company qualifi ed to do Notice is hereby given by TODISCO bid deposit shall be (a) in a form satisfactory to the Authority, (b) with a surety company qualifi ed to do business in the Commonwealth and satisfactory to the Authority, and (c) conditioned upon the faithful TOWING OF 94 CONDOR STREET, business in the Commonwealth and satisfactory to the Authority, and (c) conditioned upon the faithful performance by the principal of the agreements contained in the bid. EAST BOSTON, MA pursuant to the performance by the principal of the agreements contained in the bid. The successful Bidder will be required to furnish a performance bond and a labor and materials provisions of Mass G.L. c 255, Section The successful Bidder will be required to furnish a performance bond and a labor and materials payment bond, each in an amount equal to 100% of the Contract price. The surety shall be a surety 39A that they will sell the following payment bond, each in an amount equal to 100% of the Contract price. The surety shall be a surety company or securities satisfactory to the Authority. Attention is called to the minimum rate of wages vehicles by private sale on April 29, company or securities satisfactory to the Authority. Attention is called to the minimum rate of wages to be paid on the work as determined under the provisions of Chapter 149, Massachusetts General 2013 at 10:00 a.m. to be paid on the work as determined under the provisions of Chapter 149, Massachusetts General Laws, Section 26 to 27G, inclusive, as amended. The Contractor will be required to pay minimum Vehicles are being sold to satisfy their Laws, Section 26 to 27G, inclusive, as amended. The Contractor will be required to pay minimum wages in accordance with the schedules listed in Division II, Special garage keeper’s lien for towing, stor- wages in accordance with the schedules listed in Division II, Special Provisions of the Specifi cations, age and notices of sale: Provisions of the Specifi cations, which wage rates have been predetermined by the U. S. Secretary which wage rates have been predetermined by the U. S. Secretary of Labor and /or the Commissioner of Labor and /or the Commissioner of Labor and Industries of Massachusetts, whichever is greater. 2001 HONDA CIVIC of Labor and Industries of Massachusetts, whichever is greater. 2HGES25751H500820 The successful Bidder will be required to purchase and maintain Bodily Injury Liability Insurance and The successful Bidder will be required to purchase and maintain Bodily Injury Liability Insurance Property Damage Liability Insurance for a combined single limit of ONE MILLION ($1,000,000.00). 2005 SCION TC and Property Damage Liability Insurance for a combined single limit of TEN MILLION DOLLARS Said policy shall be on an occurrence basis and the Authority shall be included as an Additional JTKDE177150023394 ($10,000,000.00). Said policy shall be on an occurrence basis and the Authority shall be included as an Additional Insured. See the insurance sections of Division I, General Requirements and Division Insured. See the insurance sections of Division I, General Requirements and Division II, Special 1994 TOYOTA COROLLA II, Special Provisions for complete details. Provisions for complete details. 2T1AE04B2RC056140 No fi led sub-bids will be required for this contract. No fi led sub-bids will be required for this contract. 2001 DODGE RAM This Contract is also subject to Affi rmative Action requirements of the Massachusetts Port Authority This Contract is also subject to Affi rmative Action requirements of the Massachusetts Port Authority 1B7HC16Y51S152861 contained in the Non-Discrimination and Affi rmative Action article of Division I, General Requirements contained in the Non-Discrimination and Affi rmative Action article of Division I, General Requirements 2000 OLDSMOBILE ALERO and Covenants, and to the Secretary of Labor’s Requirement for Affi rmative Action to Ensure Equal and Covenants, and to the Secretary of Labor’s Requirement for Affi rmative Action to Ensure Equal Opportunity and the Standard Federal Equal Opportunity Construction Contract Specifi cations 1G3NF52E5YC307331 Opportunity and the Standard Federal Equal Opportunity Construction Contract Specifi cations (Executive Order 11246). 2000 VOLVO S80 (Executive Order 11246). The General Contractor is required to submit a Certifi cation of Non-Segregated Facilities prior YV1TS94D7Y1069468 The General Contractor is required to submit a Certifi cation of Non-Segregated Facilities prior to award of the Contract, and to notify prospective subcontractors of the requirement for such 2001 SAAB 9-5 to award of the Contract, and to notify prospective subcontractors of the requirement for such certifi cation where the subcontract exceeds $10,000. YS3ED45E113044488 certifi cation where the subcontract exceeds $10,000. Complete information and authorization to view the site may be obtained from the Capital Programs Complete information and authorization to view the site may be obtained from the Capital Programs 2000 PLYMOUTH VOYAGER Department Offi ce at the Massachusetts Port Authority. The right is reserved to waive any informality Department Offi ce at the Massachusetts Port Authority. The right is reserved to waive any informality 2C4GJ25RXYR886263 in or reject any or all proposals. in or reject any or all proposals. The auction can be viewed at MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY TOWLOT.COM MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY THOMAS P. GLYNN and is open to everyone. THOMAS P. GLYNN CEO AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Run date: 04/19/13 Run dates: 4/5, 4/12, 4/19, 2013 CEO AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Run date: 04/19/13 Page 16 BOSTON POST-GAZETTE, APRIL 19, 2013

HOOPS and HOCKEY in the HUB

CORNER TALK by Reinaldo Oliveira, Jr. by Richard Preiss Fight Family Members in Recent Days Ring 4 Hall of Fame Banquet Honors Members So it will be a showdown chise that dates back to the between the two most his- 1940s. Spadafora, Alvarado, Golovkin, Rodriquez, McCreedy All Win toric franchises in the NBA. That’s another way of say- On April 7th and 9th, two separate events Born, John Diaz, James R. Flanagan, Ken The only two teams in the ing that the Knicks have by the Fight Family were presented at Flora, Brendan and Bobby Delaney, Colin league that are still playing been hot this year. And yes, Florian Hall in Dorchester. On Sunday, Moore, Derek Shea, Matt Phinney, Aaron in their original cities since the Celtics have been vic- April 7th the Ring 4 Hall of Fame Induction MacKinnon, Brian Swartz, Chris DaVeiga, they began more than half a tims of that. The Knicks won Ceremony was presented and directed by Ryan White, Tremaine Perry, Beverly century ago. the season series against Ring 4 President Mickey Finn of Dorchester, Johnson, Ted Sares, Matthew McCall, They are the Boston Boston, 3-1, the first time officers and members. This tribute to Ring Richard Cuoco, Jamie Rodgers, Ralph Celtics and the New York since 2003-2004 that New 4 and its members and guests, commenced Bretta, Jay and Corinne Delaney, Jack Knicks, a pair of dissimilar York won a regular season at 2:00 pm with a tribute to America. Awards Morrell, Leo Gerstel, Michael Silver, teams this year in that series against the Celtics. presentations to Eddie Fitzgerald installed Patrick J. Leonard, Jr., Norma Leonard, one (Boston) has struggled In the last two of those wins as Lifetime Honorary Member of Ring 4, Doug Michael Baker, Robert Baker, Andrew during the regular season the New Yorkers won by an Keefe received the Brother in Boxing Award. Orfhwos and Trish Foley Orfhwos, Stephen while the other (New York) average of 17 points. Members inducted into the Ring 4 Hall of Curran, Patrick J. Welch, James Foley, has battled its way to New York is definitely Fame were: Ted Sares presented by Charlie Mrs. David Foley, David Foley, Bobby near the top of the Eastern a threat from the outside. Dwyer, Dave Foley presented by Mike Mullen and Marie Hanney. Conference. With one regular season Mullen, Dan Cuoco presented by Bobby Thirty-seven year old IBF Lightweight But while the routes taken game remaining, the Knicks Franklin and Peter Welch presented by Champion Paul Spadafora 48-0-1, 19 kayos may have been very differ- had recorded 868 three President Mickey Finn. A salute to Ring 4 defeats Robert Frankel 32-13-1, 6 kayos to ent, both have the same goal pointers, putting them first President and Parliamentarian Mickey claim the NABF Junior Welterweight title as they enter the NBA’s Sec- in the league in three point- Finn, Officers Recording Secretary John at the Mountaineer Casino in West Virginia. ond Season — make it out ers made. The 868 three- O’Brien, Board of Directors Chairman In Las Vegas Mike Alvarado 34-1, 23 kayos of the first round and con- pointers made set an NBA Bobby Bower, John Ford, Bobby Franklin, won a 12-round unanimous decision over tinue on deeper into the single season record. In ad- Charlie Dwyer, Banquet Chairman Mike unbeaten, now beaten former WBA Light- playoffs, hopefully to the dition, the 10.9 triples made Mullen, Ad Hoc Committee Chairman Paul weight Champion Brandon Rios 31-1-1, Conference Finals where per game also led the league. Doyle and Sgt. At Arms, Don Green. Others 22 kayos for the WBO Interim Junior nearly everyone feels that That’s amazing, when you in attendance were Mickey Finn accompa- Welterweight title before 5,418 fans at the Miami Heat will be the think about it. That means nied by Mary Nelson, along with many the Mandalay Bay Event Center 115-113, team to beat. that the Knicks averaged other honored distinguished members and 115-113, 114-113. Tough WBA/IBO Middle- But who really knows. The nearly 33 points per game guests. weight Champion Gennady Golovkin Celtics finished seventh in just on three-point shooting. On Tuesday, April 9th another event took 26-0, 23 KO’s remained undefeated via the league standings with a Any discussion of Knicks place directed by Pug Ring Leader Tom Mar- KO in 3 over Nobuhro Ishida 24-9-2, 9 KO’s slightly over .500 record personnel must start with tini. Many members attended this Pug’s Lun- in Monte Carlo by way of a very effective while the Knicks finished Carmelo Anthony, the lead- cheon as well as many notable amateur and right hand “Pow!” On this card Super- second at around .650, but ing scorer in the NBA this professional champions. Many Fight Fam- Middleweight Edwin Rodriquez 23-0, 15 over 10 games behind first year at 28.7 points per game. ily members who are major contributors to kayo’s defeated 19-1, 13 KO’s Osvaldo place Miami. At one span during the the Fight Family world also attended. In Maderna by way of a 10-round unanimous And, on paper at least, the season he had a streak of 31 addition to individuals already named in decision. Edwin Rodriquez scored a knock Knicks are definitely favored games in which he scored at attendance to these great functions were: down over Maderna at the end of the ninth to move on past the Celtics least 20 tallies per contest, Ring 4 President Mickey Finn, Jack Hurley, round. Congratulations again to 14-6-2, to the second round — at the longest such streak in Steve O’Connell, Michael Flemming, Mark 2 kayos, Irish Joey McCreedy, on your St. least for those who choose to franchise history. By mid- Culpo, Jimbo Curran, Ed and Peg Bernard, Patrick’s Day decision victory over Michael dwell on the results of the April he had scored over 20 Thomas Connors, John O’Brien, John “Flash” Walchuk. Joey McCreedy wins regular season. points in 60 games this Buddy Ford, Christine Lewis, Bobby Bower, vacant U.S. Northeast Light-Heavyweight For instance, when the season and had been the Ed Fitzgerald, Don Green, Calvin T. Brown, title. “Ding!” Knicks clinched second place team’s leading scorer for the Bob and Cheryl Benoit, Tommy Connors, Let’s celebrate the recent birthdays and with a 90-80 win over 54th time. Rich Cappiello, Charlie Dwyer, Joe Feeney, those to come: April 2nd Art Boyson, 5th Kenny the Indiana Pacers, it was The Knicks also have a Mike Little Rock Cappiello, Jerry Forte, Butler, Jr., 8th Bob Hayden and Joe the first time that New York strong bench, ranking sec- Tim Marcos, Dave Marcos, Jay DeLaney, Possidento, 9th Calvin T. Brown, 10th Bob had finished that high ond in the NBA in point pro- Ralph Bretta, Shirley Adams, Ed Casey, Benoit, 12th Billy Skinner, 13th Tim Flamos, since the 1993-1994 season duction off the bench at 41.1 Dianne Casey, Dave Marcos, Jerry Huston, 16th Mickey Flynn, 17th Rick Glaser, 21st —when the Knicks also fin- tallies per game. Over a 10 Art Boyson, Ed Bernard, Toni and Doug Fred Valenti, 23rd Jimmy Melvin, 26th Ron ished second. game stretch in April, J.R. Keefe, Bobby Franklin, Tommy Dargin, Borges, 30th Bernie McNally, May 3rd Tony Then there is the matter Smith led the way with an Ann T. Murphy, Paul Hoban, Richie Bislardes, 4th Don Green, Kevin Rooney, of New York’s victory total, 18.1 point average over that LaMontagne, Rick Rudolph, Danny Long, Reinaldo Oliveira, Jr., 5th Edwin Rodriquez, a least 53 with one regular span. Liam Patrick Long, Jimmy Connors, Peter 6th Jerry Huston, Jr., 8th Jimbo Amato, 10th season game remaining The bench even outscored Welch, Ed Fitzgerald, Rick Rudolph, Jim Kevin McBride, 15th Neil Gisherman, 16th as this was being written. the entire Sacramento team Gagan, William Walsh, Joe Marques, Veronica Hagler, 17th Ed Connolly, 19th That’s the most wins by in a February 2nd victory at Nancy Macoruso, Pamela Doyle, Paul Norman Stone, 20th Joe Devlin, 21st Gary the Knicks since the New Madison Square Garden by Doyle, Jimmy Cappiello, Vinny Marino, “Tiger” Balletto, 23rd Marvelous Marvin Yorkers strung together 57 pouring in 82 points in a Robert Cappucci, Robert Dillon, Stephen Hagler, 27th Lenny Corrente. victories during the 1996- 120-81 victory, the first time 1997 campaign. It’s enabled in team history that the coach Mike Woodson to com- team’s bench had outscored pile the best record in New its opponents total points for Carl “The Truth” Williams Passes York franchise history for a the game. coach over his first 100 Going into the final game undisputed heavyweight championship games. Woodson was an en- of the regular season, the in Atlantic City. A picture perfect left viable 68-32 (a .680 winning Knicks cited injuries to a hook from Tyson toppled Williams in th percentage) over that span. number of players including Round 1, giving Tyson his 37 straight Woodson was also the fast- Anthony, Tyson Chandler, victory. Williams won two consecutive est New York head coach to Marcus Camby, Rasheed Daily News Golden Gloves champion- accumulate 50 wins, taking Wallace, Kenyon Martin and ships from 1980-81. He turned profes- only 72 games to compile a A’mare Stoudemire. sional in 1982, winning 16 straight fights 50-22 mark. If Anthony is truly injured, before a controversial loss to Larry In addition, there were a sore left shoulder was Holmes in a IBF Heavyweight Title. In significant stretches during cited, rather than just be- 1987, “The Truth” won the USBA Heavy- the year when the Knicks ing rested, it will change weight Title and followed with three title were red hot. They went the entire series. The goal defenses, including a unanimous deci- 12-6 in the month of March, of every team is to have sion over Trevor Berbick. Williams the most wins in that the maximum number of retired in 1997 with a career record of month since 1993-1994 players in top condition to 32-10 (KO 21). “I’m just going to remem- when they went undefeated start the playoffs. This often ber the man I knew,” former world cham- at 14-0. means resting players for pion Iran Barkley said. “Carl was cool. The 12 victories in March the final few games of the He was a good guy who was always funny were part of a 13–game season. So we’ll see. Heavyweight boxer Carl “The Truth” and always laughing.” “He was a good winning streak that lasted In any case, it should be Williams, an exceptional boxing talent in friend of mine as well as a lot of other from March 18th to April 11th, a highly charged, emotional the 1980s and ’90s and native of Jamaica, fighters out there,” four-time Golden when the Knicks were series, especially between Queens, passed away at Westchester Gloves champion Dennis Milton said. “He beaten by the Chicago Kevin Garnett and Anthony. Medical Center on Sunday, April 14, due wasn’t hype. He was a guy that always Bulls 118-111 out in the Look for some entertaining to complications from throat cancer. He strived to get better.” Windy City. The 13-game basketball next week at was 53. Williams’ most notable fight was Williams is survived by his daughter streak was the third long- the Garden. 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