(Jay Connor for the Boston Globe) Summer entertaining fans on a 2010 summer night at the Bank of America Pavilion. By Globe Staff Before Donna Summer became Queen of Disco, the Boston native was nurtured by the music program at the Jeremiah E. Burke High School in Dorchester. "When I was at the Jerry, I sang in everything they had and was a permanent member of the glee club. If I couldn't have sung, I wouldn't have gone to school," she told the Globe's Ernie Santosuosso in an interview in 1977, just as the song "Love to Love You, Baby" made an international sensation. She got good grades, but decided to leave the Burke only two months shy of graduation. Summer, born Donna Gaines, grew ... Continue reading →
Oxford to Students: Stop Wearing Pajamas to Breakfast Officials at the University of Oxford's Brasenose College have become alarmed over students wearing pajamas to breakfast in the dining hall, BBC reported. As a result, a memo was sent to all students stating that "this practice evinces a failure to distinguish between public and private spaces in college." The memo added: "I trust that this slovenly practice will cease forthwith." Martha Mackenzie, president of Oxford University Students' Union, said that students wear pajamas to breakfast because "for students, the colleges become their homes over the three years that they're there, so that's why you can begin to see a more informal approach as they become more relaxed." Continue reading →
Baltimore police have for years combated youths descending on downtown and a perception of Baltimore being ravaged by crime. The twin problems have been at odds on recent weekends, particularly on St. Patrick's Day, when police confronted a downtown mob but public reports by police did not fully relate the scope of the events. In Little Italy, Fells Point and other city neighborhoods where restaurants and clubs commingle with houses and apartments, complaints about valet parking companies have grown common. The City Council now is considering new rules for those firms and, for the first time, making them answerable to the Baltimore City Parking Authority. Continue reading →
By Johanna Kaiser, Town Correspondent Back Bay and Beacon Hill are home to the most cheating residents per capita in Boston, according to a website that caters to connecting married couples looking for flings. More than 165,000 Bostonians are members of AshleyMadison.com, the discreet dating web site for married men and women, and the site has broken down those numbers to show which neighborhoods have the most members per capita. Based on the website�s analysis, Back Bay and Beacon Hill top the list of members per capita. Roslindale, South Boston, and Brighton round out the top five, and Charlestown,�Allston, West Roxbury, Hyde Park, and Dorchester make the top 10. �Who you are is strongly related to where you live. Each neighborhood has a personality and ... Continue reading →
BOSTON — The president of the University of Massachusetts system on Monday signaled support for the creation of “at least one” satellite campus elsewhere in the state by 2013. “I would expect that we would have at least one satellite campus operating next year,” Robert Caret said in Springfield, according to the Springfield Republican. The UMass Board of Trustees, the Republican reports, has given Caret permission to open at least one satellite campus, and the president has asked the UMass Donahue Institute, the research arm of his office, to conduct a feasibility study on possible campuses. “I’ve already visited New Bedford. I’ve been speaking with people in Plymouth,” said Caret, who also cited Springfield as “of course” a potential location. A satellite location would reportedly ... Continue reading →
