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...after 11 p.m., essentially limiting the club scene to the over-21 crowd.A CIVIC RESPONSESafety concerns may have triggered City Hall’s restrictions, particularly one event three months ago at the Avalon, a nightclub on Lansdowne Street next to Fenway Park. On Nov. 26, 2006, bouncer Craig Vierra was stabbed by a 20-year-old man and later died in the hospital.“You know they did all this [the new restrictions] because a friend of mine got stabbed,” says Erich J. Lamb, who spends many nights a week standing in the area...
...Code" era of 1930-34 is getting its due in two excellent books and a film retrospective. Mark A. Vierra's Sin in Soft Focus: Pre-Code Hollywood (Abrams; 240 pages; $39.95) mixes gorgeous photos with tart memos and anecdotes from the period. Thomas Doherty's Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema 1930-1934 (Columbia University Press; 430 pages; $19.50) cogently examines the pictures and their political impact. Those in New York City can see the fabulous evidence firsthand. Film Forum, the town's invaluable rep house, is mounting a series of 44 key films, unspooling...
...Butler) his rights and the rapper sourly answering, "Oh, like I ever had rights." But unlike cop-hating gangsta rappers, Digable Planets has a constructive rebelliousness. "There are messages in our music for people who are oppressed in America to recognize their oppression," says trio member Ladybug (Mary Ann Vierra). "So this is one little way to help...
...televangelists are also suffering where it hurts the most -- among viewers. Arbitron, which measures the size of local- and cable-television audiences, says most TV ministries have suffered a significant fall in viewership. Concurs Fred Vierra, president of United Cable, the nation's eighth largest operator: "We do not see their audiences growing. They're staying relatively flat." One evangelist cracks, "I was in West Irian on the island of New Guinea, and even some of the Stone Age people are familiar with the PTL scandal. That's how far it has gone...
Perhaps the Crimson need not worry about the absence of Elliott Rivera, Scott Vierra, Jay McNamara and Mickey Maspons, last year's seniors who accounted for half of the squad's home run total. With the three round-trippers off Friar pitching yesterday, Harvard has raised its home run total to five after only four games...