Dorchester blog posts
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My Dorchester
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Date:
Wed, 03/13/2013 (All day)
Dot Dads is a 13-week program for fathers that starts on March 13. If you are a father or if you know of a father who would like to learn nurturing/parenting...
Universal Hub on Dorchester
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A fed-up citizen grouses that three weeks after the blizzard, this space saver on East Cottage Street in Dorchester needs some D-I-S-R-E-S-P-E-C-T.
My Dorchester
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Date:
Mon, 03/04/2013 (All day)
Brooke Charter Schools are currently accepting applications for the 2013-2014 school year. The Mattapan campus, accepting new K2 and 5th grade students,...
My Dorchester
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Date:
Sat, 03/02/2013 (All day)
Would you like to learn more about Chinese culture or study Mandarin at the beginner level? Starting Saturday, March 2, 2013, the Confucius Institute is...
A DotRat's Guide to the World
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I don’t know about you, but there is no other food on the planet I love more than Italian. Even for an Irish lad, I consider myself pretty versed in Italian/American cuisine. Sh*tty commute aside, when I worked on the North Shore I was able to...
A DotRat's Guide to the World
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You gotta fill your need for Beastie Boys material any way you can. Why not mash it up with the Beatles….
The Beastles
Bob Cronin, known by the moniker dj BC, is a Boston-bred, Atlanta based mash-up DJ. BC’s work has been heard on radio and...
My Dorchester
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Thu, 02/28/2013 - 6:00am
The Real Estate Group is hosting a special art reception for local Dorchester Artists ...
My Dorchester
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Date:
Fri, 02/15/2013 (All day)
"Boston’s emergence as a hub for provocative art continues in February with a new exhibit...
Dottie Hotties
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When the temps drop into the single digits and the snow piles high, our minds turn to comfort food and libations to warm the soul. In the most recent Boston Globe Dining Out section, writer Katie Johnston dished on one of the DottieHotties favorite new...
Universal Hub on Dorchester
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The Massachusetts Appeals Court today overruled a lower-court judge and said prosecutors could use a loaded gun found in a space behind a car dashboard during a Dorchester traffic stop as evidence against the man charged with its illegal possession....
Good and Plenty
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Question: What is the difference between an intern and an entry-level staff person?
Answer: One extracts free or low-stipended work and while building experience and one builds experience and provides pay and benefits.
Looking at job sites as frequently...
My Dorchester
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Date:
Sat, 02/23/2013 - 1:00am
All Dorchester Sports League (ADSL) & UMass-Boston athletics have teamed up to offer FREE youth...
My Dorchester
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Date:
Wed, 02/20/2013 - 6:00am
Film Showing of Friend of Essex & Diasporic Panel Discussion
Wednesday, February 20th, 2013 | 6:...
My Dorchester
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Date:
Fri, 02/22/2013 (All day)
Aaron Larget-Caplan will perform solo and chamber music with fellow Boston Conservatory faculty members Berit Strong and Olav Chris Henriksen (guitar), Sharon...
My Dorchester
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Date:
Thu, 02/21/2013 - 5:00am
Join the GNA Teen Center for the 10th annual Safe Love Dance!
***Thursday, Feb. 21st from 5-9pm***...
A DotRat's Guide to the World
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Want to protect your neighborhood?
Do you care about Dorchester?
Make a career move…and join the Boston Police Department!
A DotRat's Guide to the World
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So I was finally able to get an episode of Dot Rat Radio done. This week Boombalotty stopped by to drop some knowledge on current events.
Dottie Hotties
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… by Bekki
“A Little Snow was Here and There”
by Emily Dickinson
A little Snow was here and there
Disseminated in her Hair –
Since she and I had met and played
Decade had gathered to Decade –
But Time had added not...
Lower Dot
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A new restaurant has opened over the river in Milton to rival the high end cuisine of Dorchester. Steel & Rye is in a California-esque deconstructed space. They offer creative contemporary American cuisine. We started with the delicious picked quail...
A DotRat's Guide to the World
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Show up, drink your face off and welcome Dorchester’s own Mark Doherty back to the stage. The Dead Friends will be tearing it up this Friday at the Middle East in Cambridge. For 10 bucks you get to see 5 bands and blow off some steam….or you...
A DotRat's Guide to the World
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So I’m driving through traffic the other day when all of a sudden I hear this incredible roar that seemed to fill the street. I start to scan the road when I lock on to my rear view mirror. Here comes this massive orange and black Dodge pickup...
Universal Hub on Dorchester
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At least as of 6:30 p.m., no Snow Emergency or Parking Ban has been declared in Boston.
The news is unlikely to please either the East Boston resident who filed a formal complaint asking for action against somebody who "moved our space saver and stole...
Universal Hub on Dorchester
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Two Boston police officers who returned the fire of a man who started shooting at them on a Dorchester street in 2011 did nothing wrong, Suffolk County District Attorney Dan Conley says.
In a letter to Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis on the death of...
Good and Plenty
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Stuff I DidWatched snow fall and fall and fall. Listened to thunder but couldn’t really see the lightning because the many windows of my house covered as they were with snow.
Did 2 presentations for work.
Completed scope of work proposal;...
Universal Hub on Dorchester
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2/15/13 - 10:40 am
UPDATE: Photos of possible suspect released.
A man sitting in a white Mercedes outside 57 Stoughton St. was shot around 10:40 a.m.
A possible suspect is a male in a dark gray hoodie on a red Huffy bicycle, seen...
My Dorchester
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Sun, 02/17/2013 - 2:30pm
On February 17 at 2:30pm, Greater Boston House Concerts presents its February concert with pianist Sarah Takagi. After an electrifying program in May 2012,...
My Dorchester
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Date:
Wed, 02/20/2013 - 10:30am
Black History Month Story Time with City Councilor At-Large Ayanna Pressley.
Date: 2/16/13
Time: 11am to 12pm
Location: 41 Geneva Avenue, Dorchester (Grove Hall...
My Dorchester
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Date:
Thu, 02/28/2013 - 5:30pm
Don't miss the Dorchester Board of Trade Annual Meeting. The meeting will take place on February 28 at 780 Morrissey Blvd. It will start at 5:30pm and it...
State Rep. Linda Dorcena Forry
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This Sunday, Rep. Forry is proud to be MC’ing at the Dorchester Winter Farmers Market’s celebration of seafood, “Fruits of Our Ocean” in Codman Square. Two local chefs will demonstrate cooking methods, activities will be provided for kids, and attendees...
State Rep. Linda Dorcena Forry
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Since first elected, Rep. Linda Dorcena Forry has worked hard with her community partners to help complete the Neponset River Trail and is pleased that this goal is finally within reach as part of the Governor’s 2013 transportation proposal. “Completing...
My Dorchester
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Date:
Fri, 02/15/2013 - 5:30pm
Boston Ballet @ The Strand Theatre
an ArtPlace Collaboration in Upham’s Corner
Support the...
My Dorchester
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Date:
Thu, 02/14/2013 - 7:00pm
NEW ART LOVE app intro at the Howard Art Project, 1486 Dorchester Ave., Fields Corner.
Dorchester...
Good and Plenty
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Thank you to the thousands of people whose labor during blizzards, power-outages, hurricanes and other disasters or big events, keep me comfortable and safe. You do work that often goes unheralded. Even when you don’t get everyone’s...
A DotRat's Guide to the World
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Check out this dude in Andrew Square that mounted a small cam on his front door to keep an eye on things. Some drunk kids decide to hose down his front stairs the other night, so he decides to regulate. I love how he casually walks down the street with...
My Dorchester
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Date:
Sat, 02/16/2013 - 12:00pm
Drop by the Dorchester Arts Collaborative's new art center at 157 Washington Street, Dorchester...
Dotmass
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This Sunday: another great DHS monthly program! The Chocolate Bake-Off: YOUR favorite chocolate treat can win! To enter call or email Earl Taylor 617-293-3052 | ermmwwt@aol.com.
Deliver your entry to the Dorchester Historical Society headquarters, 195...
My Dorchester
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Date:
Sun, 02/17/2013 - 12:00pm
All are invited to Celebrate the Fruits of Our Ocean at the Dorchester Farmers Market on Sunday, Feb...
My Dorchester
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Date:
Sun, 02/17/2013 - 2:00pm
4th Annual Chocolate Bake-off & "Eating and Drinking in Colonial New England" at the...
Universal Hub on Dorchester
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The Globe reports state Rep. Marty Walsh is poised to introduce a bill - at the urging of constituent Joyce Linehan - to give the song by Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers the same status as the black-capped chickadee, cranberry juice and Roxbury...
My Dorchester
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Date:
Fri, 02/22/2013 (All day)
Lucky Strike is an exhibition at Howard Art Project featuring the Master of Fine Arts thesis project of Joe Joe Orangias. The project was initiated by his...
A DotRat's Guide to the World
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It was a cold morning on the top of Popes Hill in our year of The Lord nineteen hundred and eighty two. School was cancelled down at the Murphy, and yours truly was staring down into Hemey Park holding my brand new inflatable sled. The park had just been...
Universal Hub on Dorchester
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Firefighter at Mather Street. Photo by BFD.
The Boston Fire Department reports a fire at 49 Mather St. late last night quickly went to three alarms and sent two residents and two firefighters to the hospital. One resident was rescued from a top floor of...
Universal Hub on Dorchester
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Joe Cabrera photographed his Dorchester street before and after the blizzard.
Universal Hub on Dorchester
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Katia forwards these before and after pics.
A DotRat's Guide to the World
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On a nice snowy day, there is nothing like hitting an indoor basketball court to work up a sweat. The boys down in Shirley Max have come up with their own basketball/hockey/mma hybrid version of the sport…..
Universal Hub on Dorchester
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Tania deLuzuriaga photographed her neighbor's lazy-ass space saving on Savin Hill early in the storm.
Universal Hub on Dorchester
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The Dorchester Reporter has hired an outside editor to keep tabs of its coverage of the 1st Suffolk Senate race of Linda Dorcena Forry, whose husband, Bill, is publisher of the paper and the Boston Haitian Reporter and Mattapan Reporter.
Michael Jonas,...
Dottie Hotties
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(photo courtesy of: http://architalk-tlarson.blogspot.com)
( … but please refrain doing what’s called for in the next line of the song if you’re in public reading this; k? Thanks!)
Following on the heels of last week’s...
