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Days after three local men were charged with murdering a 22-year-old “Pit kid,” the regulars who congregate near the Harvard Square T-station mourned the woman they knew as “Rook” and complained that increased gang activity in the Square led to her death...
Police haven’t released the identity of the woman, whose body was found floating in the Charles River more than a week ago. But a Pit kid who identified himself as “Leppy,” and said he was her boyfriend said her name was Io Nachtwey...
...Fellow Pit dwellers said she was originally from Hawaii, but lived in Maine before moving to Cambridge this summer with “Leppy,” whose nickname is short for Leprechaun. Friends said she was homeless, and often slept in cemeteries. Authorities have had trouble finding her family, Leppy said, because they have no permanent home and move frequently from place to place...
...album’s track to their live performance. Their lyrical activism was matched at one point by a personal act of activism by Malakin on behalf of women’s rights. Before their final song, Malakin addressed a large male fan in the front of the mosh pit (who was being escorted out of the area for punching a girl in view of security) saying, “I wish you weren’t so fat…I bet you wish you weren’t so fat, too. Maybe then you wouldn?...
Their hour-long set of crowd-chanting, mosh-pitting anthems was punctuated by three notable moments. The first was a series of solos—initially, DJ Sid “#0” (who wears a gas-mask), a turntable master, scratched and spun in an ever-quickening crescendo as strobe lights flickered; the second spotlighted the drummer—the kabuki-masked musician drummed at a hellish pace while his drum set floated upside down and rotated above the stage. Slipknot’s second highlight was their final track, “Surfacing...