Yoga store it1 Allston faces c osing threat PAGE4 - Community Newspaper Company www.allstonbrightontab.com FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 200 Vol. 10, No. 24 44 Pages 3 Sections 75¢ Comm. Ave. not blinded by li.ght By Audlti Guha light at the Allston Street traffic to not :>e 'Well lit. STAFF WRITER signal. Gobby calls the hotline "every hree weeks or more. "I <lon't know if the} have a once in a wlule," be it for broken That's how long it takes system when lights are out or if lights or snow removal, but the city to respond to re­ they have to wait for people to wish~. the system work better T and fa;ter. quests on the Mayor's Hotline. report it," Gobby \\-Ondered. Sometimes, no one comes at all. "But this is particularly a proO­ "I get very little response on Brighton resident Gene lem for pedestrians as it's getting the mayor's hotline," he said Gobby had been c~ng the city dark early now and there is a lot though he does recall they re­ for three weeks about some of traffic here." sponded quickly to a couple of streetlights out on Common­ Gobby is one of many area his earlier calls. wealth Avenue. residents who use the T or walk Neighbor concerned While the one at the comer of to the comer store every day. It's Walbridge Street was fixed last an area where foot traffic is With the Allston walk signs week, the ones on the median heavy and a comer where cars still not working despite calling strip are still out, the resident tend to speed, he said, pointing the ci 01 weeks ago, Gobby is said, as is a walk/don't walk out how unsafe it is for the area LIGHTS, page 14 CRIME Murder still l. I seems unreal By Audltl Guha "It w~ scary but I still feel my STAFF WRITER neighborhood is safe to walk All's quiet in the~ston neigh­ around it as it was a freak inci­ borhood that saw a double homi­ dent," s~e said. cide last week and life ooes on. Whik 11QJ.ice have witnes~es At about 9·30 pm. Mosday, they have announced no suspects residents returned from vacation yet. or did their laundry or just chilled Capt. William Evans from Dis­ at home on Kelton Street. trict 14 tells residents not to be Corey Dague, a student who alarmed and that investigation is has been living there for three in full swing. years, said she was shocked to Haitian immigrant Julio Ceus, find her street in the news last 33 and Natalie Sumner, 18, of week, when a man and a woman Franklin, N.H., were .fatally shot were fatally shot at 244 Kelton St. MURDER, page 14 s Well isn't that special? Brighton HS SpEd one the best STAFF Grey German, left, of MamboSlaves Dance Company gives salsa instructJ011 to Kim Caisse, of Marlborough, last week By Amanda Patterson lie schools. CORRESPONDENT The superintendent of schools Brighton High School's special took notice of the special educa­ education program is truly spe­ tion at Brighton High two years Slaves to passion, slaves to ma cial and has received recognition ago. Evaluators saw that the gap for its innovation and MCAS im­ in MCAS performance between provement by the school brass. regular and special education stu­ Mambo Slaves brings dance toA-B, U.S., thew rld Their recipe for success was dents at Brighton was smaller outlined in Focus Newsletter, an than at other schools. By Kristin Erekson CORRESPONDENT in-house publication by Boston "A lot of [their success] is in Plan for Excellence and the pub- Grey German and Juna Simon sexily SPECIAL, page 15 swiveled their hips while shouting, "One, two, three, five, six, seven," to their four R BAR classmates, eager to master the moves of Cuban dance. The novices mimicked German's and Simon's mambo steps the best they could Coming soon: as salsa music reverberated off the mirrors of the small studio inside the Mass Motion Dance Academy in Brighton. happy hookah "Arms up," said German to the newest student in the class, 31-year-old Kim By Audlti Guha Brendan Bencharit of California. Caisse of Marlborough. "Try not to bend STAFFWRITER "It's wpular in the West Coast, your knees so much. It's going to become a Two Johns Hopkins graduates and we'd like to mimic it in bad habit if you don't start doing these want to set up what i1fe called Boston." things from the beginning." hookah bars in Allston. Calllng it a cigar bar, they Caisse responded by wiggling her hips Their presentation was re- stressed they would not sell alco­ and raising her arms closer to her chest, ceived with much curiosity by ho! and would not allow people making sure to move them from side to residents at the Allston Civic As- to bring in their own cigarettes to side. Juna Simon, left, of MamboSlaves gives salsa tips to Dana Sarvey of sociation meeting at the library smoke. They do plan to serve "Now that's m'uch better," crooned Ger­ Kamin of Cambridge. Wednesday. snacks and maybe sell cigarettes. man, 22, of Revere. "It's an alternative place for They hope to rent space at 70 On the other side of the studio, Simon body and running her fingers through her the other because it 1 thick, curly black hair. Simon, 23, of Revere, young adults and students to hang Brighton Ave. and figure they showed three other students a different out in, especially people who will accommodate 60 people dance move that required undulating her "You want to place one foot in front of aren't able to drink yet," said HOOKAH, page 15 The Finest Call For a Free INSIDE l\1AEL . Market Analysis! Community Notes 24 CHIROPHACTH ~ m Mori age Loans covered by Crime 6 SwissWatch Repair loca knowledge. MBJICARE Sports Authoriztd Sales & Service Experi ced answers. Al Sizes • Widths BEST OF BOSTON Shawmut~21 Properties. 0 4 Auto Many Styles 134 Tremont Street • Brighton Work lt1juries ~al ALPHA OMEGA ~W'l·-les a COiors DIA~IONDS SINCE 1976 Your Neigl1borl1ood Realtor® ~ ~.,.,a,~ 'ftlddt l:.fAiamonil Jpttia!ilU M.l AMERICAN HOME AID, INC. Mectical Supplies 556 Cambridge St •• Brighton Natd< Mal souss--0700 Tel. 617-787-2121 Budin~ton Mal 781-272-4016 • 151 Sutherland Rd. • Brighton Pruden;al CIJ. 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This elaborate address of 13~138 Brighton Av • was long Identified with Its Including the handsome Princeton Hotel on Commonwealth tapestry brick structure with granite trim dates from the 1913-14 principal tenant, the Market Tr Co., which occupied the central Avenue. These were the architects Tripp most frequently retained. , period and was bullt by Important real estate developer W Stanley third of the premises. Other ten nts, according to the 1930 Boston The Market Trust Company Building Is currently occupied by the Tripp for hotel owner E. Willard Frost. In 1913, Tripp purcllased the City Directory, included a bea shop, a phannacy, as well as popular Sunset Grill. j, LANDMARK SCHOC>L The Allston· we· want your news! Key contacts: Leading the way in the rducationofstUA~nts Editor .. • • • • . • . .••..•.... Nick Katz (781) 433-'.836S with language-based karning disabilities Brighton TAB Weloome ID the Allsloo-Brigbloo • -- COii\ TAB! 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