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Hamilton Nolan · 05/18/16 04:35PM
What Are the Boston Transit Police Trying to Hide About Mr. Spaghetti?
Andy Cush · 04/29/16 04:17PMLast we checked in with the MBTA Transit Police Department, they were telling a humble, concerned citizen there had been no shady dealings in the Mr. Spaghetti dog-naming debacle. Now, the department’s response to Gawker’s public-records request directly contradicts the reassurance they’d previously given. What are they trying to hide?
Boston Transit Police Are Furiously Spinning the Mr. Spaghetti Dog-Naming Debacle
Andy Cush · 04/18/16 03:28PMToday is Marathon Monday, and by all reports, it is a splendorous day in Boston: the sun shining down, the breeze lilting lightly, the male nipples bleeding, and the Mark Wahlberg dressed as a hardscrabble cop with a heart of gold. But let us not forget a great shame that hangs over the city like the malodorous stench of seafood served at the Top of the Hub. That’s right: I’m talking about Mr. Spaghetti.
No Justice for Mr. Spaghetti, the Fake Boston Dog Who Won a Real Contest
Andy Cush · 04/13/16 03:36PMThe Boston Globe Made a Joke, I Guess
Melissa Cronin · 04/10/16 11:09AMWhat Is the Headline the Boston Globe Hopes to Never Publish?
Andy Cush · 04/08/16 04:48PMHamilton Nolan · 11/13/15 01:40PM
Cop Sparks Huge Manhunt After Allegedly Shooting Up His Car, Calling in False Report
Andy Cush · 09/03/15 04:09PMPolice in Millis, Massachusetts, spent hours on Wednesday searching for a man who shot at a moving police cruiser, causing its driver to crash and the cruiser to catch fire. Today, the Millis Police Department said it believes that the officer who reported the shooting concocted an imaginary story about an attack after shooting at his own car.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's Lawyers Ask for New Trial Outside Boston
Hudson Hongo · 08/17/15 07:30PMPour One Out for Fung Wah Bus, Which May Never Return to the Road
Andy Cush · 07/16/15 03:20PMFor the Fung Wah Bus and its fans, the past two years have been a long and uncomfortable trip with seemingly arbitrary rest stops at a Burger King in New Jersey and maybe someone farting next to you or listening to music in really loud headphones. In December, the cheapo bus line said it was all set to resume NYC-to-Boston trips in early 2015, but now, it looks like it might never come back at all.
Museum Grown-Ups Put Math Kid In His Place: Nice Try, We Were Right
Dayna Evans · 07/08/15 11:50AMJoseph Rosenfeld, a 15-year-old Virginia wise guy who visited the Boston Museum of Science in June only to allegedly find an error in a 34-year-old exhibit on the Golden Ratio there, had his ass handed to him by an MIT professor who says that actually his “correction” was wrong. Ooohhhhhhhhhhhhhh dip.
Infamous Crime Boss Whitey Bulger's Advice to Teens: Go to Law School
Brendan O'Connor · 06/28/15 02:10PMIn February, three Massachusetts high schoolers building a website about James “Whitey” Bulger for a National History Day competition on leadership and legacy wrote a letter to the Boston crime boss, serving two consecutive life sentences in a federal penitentiary in Florida. And guess what! He wrote back.
Hamilton Nolan · 06/10/15 03:18PM
Who Stole $600,000 in Art From the Boston Public Library?
Andy Cush · 05/28/15 12:43PMOn April 8, staffers at the Boston Public Library noticed that Albrecht Dürer’s Adam and Eve—an engraving valued at over $600,000—was missing from its collection. After an internal search, a Rembrandt etching was found missing as well. A month on, no one knows what became of the art—but police believe the apparent heist may have been an inside job.