According to a chilling, though ultimately funny first-person account published this morning in Bostinno, a Green Line train lost its door on the tracks between the Boylston and Park Street stations. More
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Saturday evening around 4pm is always the bleakest: it’s when 6th Street takes on the air of a state fair that’s about to pack up for the season, where the sidewalks are littered with chewed-off and torn wristbands and the barrage of riffs from competing sound checks get to be too much. The adrenaline of South By Southwest has all but expired on that dirty stretch of Austin’s pavement at that point, and it’s like the bands that flooded those few square blocks, the ones that proved, once again, that this is the place where the best up-and-coming talent comes to try their luck with a new audience and succeed, are little more than a faint memory. More
South By Southwest music festival in Austin is underway, but early this morning, tragedy occurred when, according to Talking Points Memo, a driver, fleeing a DUI checkpoint, plowed into a crowd, killing two and injuring 23. More