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More Puritan than Parisian
Bastille Day, which commemorates the dawning of French democracy, is one of those holidays that make you appreciate summer and a good Burgundy.
A last look at an old foe
It is probably safe to assume that Tommy Hussey is the only guy who ever spit in Stevie Flemmi’s face and lived to talk about it.
Old Doggz, old tricks
Gunna Walker was always a slow learner. Three years ago, then-19-year-old James “Gunna’’ Walker and his fellow Lucerne Street Doggz pimp-rolled into Dorchester District Court for a sitdown with a bunch of cops, probation officers, and preachers.
Motley mob’s cheesy end
It used to be when the wiseguys who run the Mafia from Federal Hill in Providence decided to replace personnel at their branch office in the North End of Boston, somebody would end up dead.
Papi's fans go to bat
Liseet Fernandez was walking around her father’s barber shop in Jamaica Plain, dispensing Skittles sparingly, as if they were diamonds. She is 2 years old and weaved through adult legs like she was doing the merengue.
On life's road, lesson taken
Harold Segal started using a walker 11 years ago, when he was 80, and he kept driving because, well, because he could. He figured if he could chase Nazis across North Africa, he could do errands around Framingham.
90 minutes of poetry, pain
Amr Ragy and Ahmed Ayad are engineers, so they are very good with numbers, and the first thing they noticed when they walked into Caffé dello Sport in the North End yesterday is that none of the three TV screens was tuned to the soccer game pitting their native Egypt against their adopted United States.
A refugee of evil Irish past
She lives in a city north of Boston but grew up in Ireland, when it wasn’t green as much as it was black and white.