Now pick out a story you would like me to read:
1 quiet donor, 2 million books; Making Judaism bedtime reading
Try again, will ya'?
So what did you choose this time?
Okay, seeing as it was on the front page:
"Another jewel lost in Greenway crown; Financing trouble ends plans for $80m cultural center" by Geoff Edgers, Globe Staff | March 12, 2010
Four years after showing off plans for a glitzy $80 million building on the Rose Kennedy Greenway, organizers of the New Center for Arts and Culture have decided to abandon those plans, leaving yet another empty space on the sprawling tract created by the Big Dig.
The organizers, who at one point said they had raised more than $20 million, blamed the economy for making it impossible to bring in enough money to build the Daniel Libeskind-designed structure on a site near Rowes Wharf.
The New Center’s mission has been to develop connections among groups historically separated by race, geography, and religion, through lectures, concerts, art exhibitions, and other events. The center’s move is the latest setback for the 27-acre Greenway, which was once slated to include several cultural projects....
The New Center will not die. Instead, it plans to continue to present programming in a range of venues, from Temple Israel to the Boston Public Library and Boston College’s McMullen Museum of Art. The center’s eight-person staff will continue to plan events from its office on Tremont Street....
Developer Edwin Sidman proposed the New Center in 2001 as an institution supported largely by the Jewish community but with a broader cultural reach. In 2003, the center formed a board and hired the renowned Libeskind, an architect whose buildings include the Jewish Museum in Berlin and the Denver Art Museum’s expansion. That same year, the center launched its first program, “Words on Fire,’’ a multimedia festival inspired by the 70th anniversary of book burnings in Nazi Germany.
More recently, the New Center has launched programs for young professionals and families and brought a range of speakers to town, from New Yorker cartoon editor Robert Mankoff to composer Osvaldo Golijov. “The Great God Debate,’’ scheduled for March 23 with writer Christopher Hitchens and Rabbi David Wolpe, has sold so many tickets it has been moved from a 400-seat space at Temple Israel to the 1,000-seat John Hancock Hall, executive director Francine Achbar said....
State officials and Greenway advocates defended the New Center and said they appreciated the organization’s leaders for trying so hard to build....
Honestly, I've had it with the Jewish supremacism passing itself off as news.
Related: To help Greenway, state should move on new Public Market
On the front page no less:
Ray Tye, life-saving philanthropist, dead at 87
And what was his calling, readers?
"Ray Tye made his money in the liquor business....
That's saving lives, huh?
“He learned it’s not easy being a Jew.’’
Sigh.
Try being a Palestinian and see how you like it.
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"Trader faces up to 6 1/2 years in prison" by Bloomberg News | March 12, 2010
NEW YORK — Ezra Levy, a former hedge fund trader and former chief financial officer of Boston Provident Partners LP, pleaded guilty to federal charges he stole about $3 million from the Manhattan-based firm....
Levy is free on bail....
Seems to be a different set of rules for the (rhymes with) you-know-whos.
Another example:
"Teen sentenced for party tied to a suicide
An Andover teenager charged with providing alcohol to minors last year at a party connected to the suicide of a 16-year-old Wellesley girl has been sentenced to probation, according to the Essex district attorney’s office. Zachary Zimmerman, 19, pleaded guilty was sentenced Monday to 18 months’ probation by Judge Anthony Sullivan in Lawrence District Court, said Steve O’Connell, a spokesman for the DA’s office. Elizabeth Mun, a 16-year-old from Wellesley, was a student with Zimmerman at Concord Academy. She committed suicide after a party at Zimmerman’s home last year.
Where is Ray Tye when you really need him?
Oh, right, he was in the liquor business.
So the suicide myth that has become accepted as fact, huh?
Related: Mun Murder Cover-Up Complete
So the little *ew s*** got away with murder, huh?
Okay, time to put the book down, readers.
STUDENTS GET FREE BOOKS -- .... The books were collected by combined Jewish Philanthropies and the Jewish Community Relations Councils Greater Boston Jewish Coalition for Literacy.
Is that why the stories sucked?
Here is one of my favorites and an all time classic:
"'A Christmas Carol' to play revived North Shore Music Theatre" by Geoff Edgers, Globe Staff
The ghosts of "A Christmas Carol" past are in the future of the revived North Shore Music Theatre.
The theater plans to bring back its longtime holiday production of “A Christmas Carol,” an audience favorite sliced out of the schedule just before the organization’s demise last year....
Couldn't be more timely.
The theater – which at its peak drew some 300,000 people a year, making it the largest regional theater in New England – had been saddled with years of deficits.
Its loss left a hole for locals who didn’t want to pay high prices and battle traffic to see polished, Broadway-styled productions in Boston....
I'm left with a hole every time Christmas passes for another year and the 1951 Alistair Sim version has not been broadcast.
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Well, good night now, readers, and I hope you do not have any nightmares after the stories I've read you.
