Home  News and Featured Articles Magic Mountain Sells Out Capital Raise with 333 Shares Sold Email this article to a friend   Printable Version Mar 7, 2012 - 10:51 AM By AlpineZone News -The Magic Partnership Closes-Out Capital Raise with 333 Shares Sold- March 7, 2012, Londonderry, VT-One month after selling its 300th share, the threshold needed to begin the skier-owned Magic Partnership LLC, Magic Mountain finished raising the maximum shares allowed for the investment Continue reading >>>

The annual international showcase of 16mm and Super 8 films by the Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers features the avant-garde, insects, history and a trip down the pipeline. Eden Called the paradise on clouds, the old Matsuo mine in Iwate Hachimantai was once home to 10,000 people. Japanese filmmaker Shinya Isobe, a graduate of Tokyo Zokei University Graduate School, tries to express what it was like to be in that place. 15 minutes, 16mm Imperceptihole Chicago native Lori Felker  and Bostonian Robert Todd exchanged rolls of high-contrast black and white film over the course of Continue reading >>>

"I was just fucking improvising and insulting people, doing what I normally do! I didn’t think it was as good as Boogie Nights or Three Kings," says the straight-talking Bostonian in the pages of Hot Press. "I think they gave me an opportunity to show off a lot more range."Talking to HP's Roe McDermott, Wahlberg says he was prouder of his nomination as producer of The Fighter. "I really was the one pushing that movie along for so long, that I felt more connected to the film as a producer and a driving force behind the film, than I even did through my performance. So whenever I was promoting the Continue reading >>>

Though UFC President Dana White’s core focus may be on Mixed Martial Arts and the organization he runs he has long been an avid fan of boxing, crediting his love of the sport with undoubtedly sparking the passion he currently has for MMA as well. A native Bostonian, one of the nation’s most fight-friendly cities, White has been extremely outspoken on unbeaten champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. in particular both in terms of the boxer’s overwhelming amount of talent and shortcomings as a human being. White was back at it recently when asked about Mayweather’s refusal to fight Continue reading >>>

The Rockets head to The House that McHale Built. It's the Garden. Or, as a Bostonian would say, the Gaaaahhhh-dun! This is the only matchup between the two teams this season, and it's coming right after Rajon Rondo did this silly thing where he went 18/20/17. As Luis would say, "He look ok." Except Bill Simmons to soil Continue reading >>>

Boston ice skating charity event cancelled due to inclement weather Posted on06 March 2012. Tags: Charity Event, Charity Event Boston, Ice Skating Boston, Ice Skating Event, Ice Skating Event Boston, Last Bostonian Skating Due to inclement weather, it was necessary for sponsors Icelandair to cancel the second annual ‘Last Bostonian Skating’ ice skating charity event scheduled to take place at Kendall Square Community Ice Skating Rink in Boston, Massachusetts on Saturday March 3, 2012. Since the purpose of this event is to Continue reading >>>

Wellesley government officials are inviting the retail community to come together for an inclusive workshop to help restore the vibrancy to the downtown square. The Board of Selectmen, Planning Department and Wellesley Chamber of Commerce will host a “Best Retail Practices” workshop March 21 at the library in an effort to brainstorm some ideas to prop up Wellesley Square – a business sector of town beleaguered by closing stores and vacant lots. According to a joint statement: “This workshop -- open to all of the Town’s retail businesses and property owners with retail tenant space -- Continue reading >>>

Town officials and the Chamber of Commerce are co-hosting a best practices workshop on March 21 from 8-10am at Wellesley Free Library designed to help business owners and retailers take a fresh look at their stores in hopes of revitalizing business in downtown Wellesley and across the community. The town has stepped up efforts — including by improving street lighting near stores — in recent months to boost a local retail environment that has suffered more than its fair share of losses. According to the town, such small business improvement programs have been delivered in cities across the Continue reading >>>

Photo by Kerry Brett On March 13th, Boston’s Dropkick Murphys will issue an expanded edition of their latest LP, Going Out of Style. Aptly titled Going Out In Style: Fenway Park Bonus Edition, the set includes an entire disc worth of live cuts from the band’s September 2011 performance at Fenway Park. As a first listen, check out the disc’s live version of ”The Dirty Glass”, originally off Dropkick’s 2003 album Blackout. In a live setting, this raucous, drunken homage to blacked out nights and whiskey-fuled romances utilizes the help of female vocalist and fellow Bostonian Continue reading >>>

'Clover Adams: A Gilded and Heartbreaking Life' by Natalie Dykstra Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 318 pp., $26 When Clover Adams killed herself, she seemed like a woman who had everything — wealth, connections, a brilliant husband and emerging artistic promise. No less a literary light than Henry James dubbed her a "Voltaire in petticoats," an apt label for a woman with a fine mind and the hospitality to attract America's best and the brightest to her parlor in the nation's capital after the Civil War. So what possessed a privileged woman in her prime to commit suicide? And, more to the Continue reading >>>