‘Survivor: Worlds Apart’ castoff Joaquin Souberbielle says Rodney will win

An East Coast bromance wasn’t enough to save Joaquin Souberbielle, who became the next victim of a tribal council blindside on Survivor: Worlds Apart this week. The 27-year-old New Yorker had joined forces with Blue Collar Bostonian Rodney Lavoie Jr., and like “Batman and Robin,” the pair were certain they were running the game. Blinded by their egos, however, the duo ignored the warning signs as the Escameca tribe plotted to disintegrate the power couple as quickly as their bond had formed. And when the final vote was read, the White Collar competitor was shocked. “I don’t remember Continue reading >>>

‘Survivor: Worlds Apart’ castoff Joaquin Souberbielle says Rodney will win

An East Coast bromance wasn’t enough to save Joaquin Souberbielle, who became the next victim of a tribal council blindside on Survivor: Worlds Apart this week. The 27-year-old New Yorker had joined forces with Blue Collar Bostonian Rodney Lavoie Jr., and like “Batman and Robin,” the pair were certain they were running the game. Continue reading >>>

Tsarnaev Trial, College Safe Spaces & Greater Bostonian

With the prosecution expected to wrap up its case tomorrow in the Marathon Bombing trial, what has the defense been doing to convince jurors to spare the live of Dzokhar Tsarnaev? WGBH's Emily Rooney and Adam Reilly hash it out. Plus, college safe zones and trigger warnings are meant to protect kids from disturbing things, but do they do more harm than good? Boston Globe editorial writer Marcela Garcia, Harvard Kennedy School ethics lecturer Christopher Robichaud, and New England School of Law adjunct professor Wendy Murphy weigh in. Meet the young inventor who’s changing the lives of wheelchair Continue reading >>>

Rossmoor man to face trial for attempted murder

A 20-year-old man suspected of stabbing a female jogger multiple times is expected to stand trail in a Westminster courtroom Tuesday, an Orange County District Attorney's statement said. On Oct. 23, 2012, James Anthony Rivas, 20, of Rossmoor, is alleged to have approached the 27-year-old as she was jogging through a residential neighborhood in the 3200 block of Bostonian Drive. Rivas is charged with one felony count each of attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon and mayhem, and sentencing enhancements for premeditation and deliberation for attempted murder, bodily injury Continue reading >>>

Red Sox Pablo Sandoval’s Spat Gets Respect From Bostonians

The Boston Red Sox signed Pablo Sandoval, this off-season, for his bat to do the talking. They didn’t expect, nor did Red Sox Nation, that his mouth would show some ‘Kung Fu’ of its own, so early. Trash-talking, whether sports purists like it or not, is a part of the landscape. When you have grown men raised into playing a game for a living, they tend to define themselves by their abilities, and how those skills rank against other men. Between their maturity (or lack thereof) and summoning their inner Muhammad Ali, they try to get a mental edge over their opponents or other players for Continue reading >>>

Review: The Sad Guys of World Gone By

Subscriber content preview. or Sign In Dennis Lehane's hero is a melancholy mobster Popular Among Subscribers Cuba on the Cusp Subscribe The Battle of IndianaThe Cancer Gap 0 A modern master of crime writing, Dennis Lehane is also something of a professional Bostonian, permanently associated with the broad Massachusetts accents in the movie Mystic River, which was based on one of his 12 novels. The story in his new one, World Gone By, started in Boston two books ago: it’s the last in a loose-limbed trilogy that began with The Given Continue reading >>>

Commentary: Put your money where your mouth (heart, brain, liver) is

“When you are really sick where do you go for medical care in Florida?” a friendly Bostonian asked me with a wink when I first moved back to my home state. I looked at him blankly as he delivered the punch line I am now all too familiar with — “The airport!”Florida, with our wacky politics, extreme weather and quirky characters may be fun to joke about, but illness and death are no laughing matter. Palm Beach County is full of very good doctors, but there has been no solid anchor — no academic medical center of excellence. Nearly daily, I insist to patients that if anything were to Continue reading >>>

Boston Got Lots of Excuses All of a Sudden

It wasn't so long ago that Boston, a highway rest stop on the road from New York to Maine, was pining for the world's spotlight and asking to host the Olympic games and generally be the center of attention. My, how things change. Since Boston announced its Olympic bid, the city has gotten approximately 1,647 inches of snow. If you're a reasonable American, you might say to yourself: "If you don't like snow, or racism, get the fuck out of Boston!!!" But try telling this to a Bostonian, and you will be drunkenly assaulted. Some people just don't listen to reason. Anyhow, Continue reading >>>

Soloists Stand Out in Bostonians’ Spring Cafe

Ben Stevens, CSOM ‘17, steps in front of the mic. A regiment of desk lamps rest in the first row and Christmas lights are threaded along the chalkboard. Stevens hits the first, quivering, familiar note of Sam Smith’s “Not the Only One.” He descends into an eerie performance of the Grammy winner’s hit, backed by The Bostonians behind him and the homey mood lighting.This is not the first time the Juice vocalist has been compared to Sam Smith, and it’d be disingenuous, criminal to not acknowledge it. Believe it or not, The Bostonian’s “Not the Only One” was better than the one you’ve Continue reading >>>

Please Let There Be More, One Bostonian’s Plea for Snow

Boston needs more snow. Please let it snow. This isn't a plea, it's an imperative, a must, a necessity, a demand.Sure we're all burnt out by cabin fever, parking anxiety and T shutdown woes, but we've come too far to have nothing to show for it. We're at 100+, just a scant few inches from the all-time Boston snowfall record. To have arrived at such a precipice of double-cutting distinction, we've endured arctic cold 30 degrees below the seasonal average, fought the space saver fight in close quarters, had roofs cave in and lived through it. To Continue reading >>>