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From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)
Subject: Re: Mixed bars - Boston???
Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 01:40:08 GMT

In article <1992Dec18.024743.24640@dvorak.amd.com> tdbear@dvorak.amd.com (Thomas D. Barrett) writes:
>I was in Boston the first week in December with some horney het
>business parnters... one was originally from Boston and he took us
>downtown to thanial (sp?) square.

Fanueil Hall.

>While walking near the square from our car, I noticed a bar or cafe
>called the lavender shamrock (or lavender something)... is that gay?

The Purple Shamrock.  It is not (as far as I know) a gay bar.
It's an Irish bar.

>I think next time I'm going to be out for a week with these guys, I'm
>gonna have to bring my guides and drag them out to at least one gay
>pub or cafe... hey, maybe the cute one might get lucky :)

The next time you're in town, you should warn us first, so you can
be provided with guides.

-- 
Steve Dyer
dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer
From: IO81409@MAINE.MAINE.EDU (Ailsa N.T. Murphy)
Newsgroups: ne.motss
Subject: Re: Mixed bars - Boston???
Date: 11 Dec 92 23:26:00 GMT
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Distribution: ne
Organization: University of Maine System

From: Paco Ojeda <ffoogg@macmailgw.dfci.harvard.edu>

=Well, I've seen a mixed group at Quest on some weekdays, particularly on
=the first floor lounge. I was there on a Wednesday night, which I believe
=is women's night, and it was quite a happening scene. You may want to
=give it a shot.

thanks!  i'll have to check the telephone book for where they are and
go there some night...
=
=>                                      ailsa
=>                                      who is experiencing culture
=>                                      shock on a grand scale
=
=                                       May I ask why?
=
well, i'm used to the gay community in bangor, maine.  boston is
quite a change...

i think this may qualify for understatement of teh year...

                                                -ailsa
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ALL MAIL TO ailsa%ailanth.uucp@wang.com, please...
Newsgroups: ne.motss
From: jontom@HQ.Ileaf.COM (J.T. Kittredge)
Subject: Lesbian & Gay Contra Dancing
Reply-To: jontom@ileaf.com
Organization: Boston Gay & Lesbian Country Dancers
Posting-Front-End: GNU Emacs 18.52.65 of Mon Apr 22 1991 on kontrol (berkeley-unix)
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 14:18:02 GMT


                 BOSTON LESBIAN and GAY
                   COUNTRY DANCE GROUP

    Traditional New England Contra and Square Dances


                   SATURDAYS 8-11 PM
                  (see schedule below)
            ** Beginners' lessons at 7:30 **

   Cost: $5 (all dances smoke-drug-and-alcohol-free)


              First Church of Jamaica Plain
     Corner of Center and Eliot Streets, Jamaica Plain
   T-accessible (Orange Line and #39 bus from Copley Sq.)

 Dances open to all lesbians, gays, bisexuals and their friends
   No experience or partner necessary -- all dances taught
     Discount of $1 per person for groups of 10 or more.

              Please wear soft soled shoes.


            SCHEDULE for WINTER, SPRING 1993

  Jan. 2    caller: Chris Ricciotti

  Jan. 16   callers: Scott Wheeler & Beth Bradburn

  Jan. 30   caller: Chris Ricciotti

  Feb. 13   caller: Scott Wheeler

  March 6   caller: Michael Cicone
            (English Country Dance)

  March 20  2-5 PM: Advanced Contra
            5:30 PM: Potluck Meal
            8:00 PM: Evening dance with NEGAL callers

  April 3   caller: Chris Ricciotti

  April 17  callers: Rick Frank, Beth Bradburn & Scott Wheeler 

  May 1     caller: Chris Ricciotti

  May 15    caller: Michael Cicone
            (English Country Dance)

  June 12   Gay Pride Dance
            Cindy Green


  CONTACTS

  Email:
  JT Kittredge:  jontom@ileaf.com

  Phone:
  Janet: 617-522-2216
  Phil: 617-729-9206
  Scott: 617-625-6732
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 endowment" -- Heny James to his protoge' Henrik Anderson
               (as quoted by Fred Kaplan)
From: limey@hri.com (Craig Hughes)
Newsgroups: ne.motss
Subject: Re: Mixed bars - Boston???
Date: 17 Dec 92 16:15:00 GMT
Reply-To: limey@hri.com
Organization: Horizon Research, Inc.

Club Cafe is pretty mixed; they certainly welcome both sexes. It's a
great place to sit down and gab with friends after work, or just to go
out in the evening for a little fun and a drink.

--craig
Newsgroups: ne.motss
From: coren@speed.osf.org (Robert Coren)
Subject: MOW -- Boston-area contingent?
Organization: Open Software Foundation
Distribution: ne
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 16:51:44 GMT

Has anybody done anything, however informal, to "organize" a group of
Boston-area soc.motss/ne.motss attendees to the March on Washington?
Anybody got common travel plans, or plans for a common place to stay,
or any ideas about either of the above?
From: ffoogg@macmailgw.dfci.harvard.edu (Paco Ojeda)
Newsgroups: ne.motss
Subject: TV show on same sex parenthood tonight
Date: 14 Dec 92 15:11:07 GMT
Distribution: ne
Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation
NNTP-Posting-Host: macdrf_43.dfci.harvard.edu
X-UserAgent: Nuntius v1.1.1d11
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X-XXDate: Mon, 14 Dec 92 15:12:54 GMT

For those of you in the Boston area, Channel 5 will be broadcasting a
show (Chronicle) today at 7:30 about same-sex couples and their children.

Paco
Newsgroups: ne.org.bcs
From: mikem@pro-applebcs.UUCP
Subject: The BCS
Organization: Proline [pro-applebcs] Boston Computer Society
Distribution: ne
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 14:40:49 GMT

 ***************************************
 *                                     *
 *     Poll for Active BCS Members     *
 *                                     *
 ***************************************


 Q: What is the one thing that the BCS does not have that you would like to
see ?

 Q: What would you do to make the BCS better as a group ?

 Q: What is your name and internet/UUCP address.


Send replies to " mikem@pro-applebcs.cts.com "   <-- less the quotes.
From: edwardp@ra.cs.umb.edu (Edward P. Piecewicz)
Newsgroups: ne.org.bcs
Subject: BCS Resource Center Open House CORRECTION
Summary: Correcting hours of daily open houses.
Date: 19 Dec 92 13:11:05 GMT
Distribution: ne
Organization: University of Massachusetts at Boston, Dept of Math and CS


 

 The Boston Computer Society Resource Center Open Houses for the week   
 of December 20, 1992:  

 The BCS Resource Center now has open houses DAILY during the daytime from
 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM Monday through Friday (except holidays).  Reservations
 are not required for the daytime open houses.

 Evening open house:

    Tuesday December 22, 1992       6:00 PM to 9:00 PM

 Reservations -are- required for the evening and Saturday open houses.
 
 Contact the BCS at (617) 252-0600 for more information and to register.  The
 BCS is open during normal business hours which are from 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM 
 Monday through Friday.  Guests are welcome to attend and browse.  Only
 members may access the machines.
 
 The Boston Computer Society is located at One Kendall Square, Building 1400,
 Cambridge, Massachusetts.

 Via the (T), take the Red Line to KENDALL, exit at Main Street.  Go through
 the lobby of the Cambridge Marriott to Broadway, turn left.  Continue up
 Broadway, cross the street at the 2nd set of lights (at the Charles Stark
 Draper Labs building).  Bear right on Hampshire Street, the main entrance to
 One Kendall Square is on Hampshire Street.  Follow the courtyard signs to
 Building 1400.

-- 
Internet:  edwardp@cs.umb.edu                                  - guest user -
Boston Computer Society Activist

volunteer  n.  The BCS definition of the word "activist."
From: costello@stx.UUCP (Michael E. Costello)
Newsgroups: ne.org.bcs
Subject: BCS*Mac January Meeting--Bill Gates
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 09:06:21 GMT
Organization: BCS*Mac
Reply-To: stx!costello@world.std.com
X-Mailer: uAccess - Macintosh Release: 1.6v1

BCS*Mac Main Meeting

January 13, 1993
6:30 PM (Special Time)

New England Life Hall (Special Place)


Bill Gates, founder and chairman of Microsoft, will discuss Microsoft,
Macintosh, and the future. Short presentation followed by Q&A. A demonstration
of Powerpoint 3.0 will follow Mr. Gates.


         ...................................................... 
         Michael E. Costello             costello@world.std.com
From: edwardp@ra.cs.umb.edu (Edward P. Piecewicz)
Newsgroups: ne.org.bcs
Subject: Resource Center Open Houses, Week of December 20, 1992.
Date: 17 Dec 92 23:40:28 GMT
Distribution: ne
Organization: University of Massachusetts at Boston, Dept of Math and CS


 

 The Boston Computer Society Resource Center Open Houses for the week   
 of December 20, 1992:  

 The BCS Resource Center now has open houses DAILY during the daytime from
 10:00 AM to 5:30 PM Monday through Friday (except holidays).  Reservations
 are not required for the daytime open houses.

 Evening open house:

    Tuesday December 22, 1992       6:00 PM to 9:00 PM

 Reservations -are- required for the evening and Saturday open houses.
 
 Contact the BCS at (617) 252-0600 for more information and to register.  The
 BCS is open during normal business hours which are from 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM 
 Monday through Friday.  Guests are welcome to attend and browse.  Only
 members may access the machines.
 
 The Boston Computer Society is located at One Kendall Square, Building 1400,
 Cambridge, Massachusetts.

 Via the (T), take the Red Line to KENDALL, exit at Main Street.  Go through
 the lobby of the Cambridge Marriott to Broadway, turn left.  Continue up
 Broadway, cross the street at the 2nd set of lights (at the Charles Stark
 Draper Labs building).  Bear right on Hampshire Street, the main entrance to
 One Kendall Square is on Hampshire Street.  Follow the courtyard signs to
 Building 1400.

-- 
Internet:  edwardp@cs.umb.edu                                  - guest user -
Boston Computer Society Activist

volunteer  n.  The BCS definition of the word "activist."
Newsgroups: ne.general
From: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
Subject: Re: Drinking and the MBTA was Re: Sunday Liquor Sales
Organization: The World
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 23:06:22 GMT


>Well, I don't usually ride the T, but I generally do not hear about people
>getting robbed on it, unlike the New York subways... 

Based on your story below sounds like you still haven't heard otherwise...

>When I was on an Amtrak
>train that stopped at Penn Station in NYC we(all the passengers) were told to
>hold on to our purses and such, and not to leave them unattended, as they might
>get stolen.  And this on a train  that has conductors all over it!!
>
>Jessica

Hey, did you know that New Englanders all go Ayup and won't tell ya
directions if you ask?!

-- 
        -Barry Shein

Software Tool & Die    | bzs@world.std.com          | uunet!world!bzs
Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 617-739-0202        | Login: 617-739-WRLD
Newsgroups: ne.general
From: bill@unixland.natick.ma.us (Bill Heiser)
Subject: Re: Sunday Liquor Sales
Organization: Unixland Public Access Unix  (508) 655-3848
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 02:11:37 GMT

bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein) writes:
>Oh, the choice of Sunday may have been for PURELY religious reasons
>originally, but that doesn't negate the fact that it may still be a
>valid idea, religion or no.

There may be, but I've yet to hear one.

>The state just wants to get rid of Sunday blue laws so they can enable
>all the parking meters and other traffic laws on Sundays and up the
>ticket revenues.
>Who, me cynical?

Well, that wouldn't surprise me (that the State would look for another
revenue enhancement tactic)...  
-- 
heiser@world.std.com
Newsgroups: ne.general
From: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
Subject: Re: Sunday Liquor Sales
Organization: The World
	<li73v1INN50e@news.bbn.com> <BZS.92Dec14224630@world.std.com>
	<1992Dec16.044847.22547@unixland.natick.ma.us>
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 22:54:13 GMT


From: bill@unixland.natick.ma.us (Bill Heiser)
>>And how about a city which lets you drink later than it runs its
>>public transit (mostly shut down by 12-12:30AM) and then wrings its
>>collective hands about drinking and driving?
>
>I agree completely on this.  However the flip side:  Would you *really*
>dare ride the subway at 3am?  How about other cities?  How late does the
>subway run in Manhatten?  Woudl you dare ride it at 3am?

Oh, it's been a few years since you might have bumped into me snoozing
on a bench in the West 4th St station Greenwich Village waiting for a
train at 4AM, but don't believe everything you see in Charles Bronson
movies.

Actually, a not so intuitive fact is that most places in Manhattan
(within reason) are quite safe at 4AM, the crooks go home to sleep
also you know. Most crimes like muggings happen during the early
evening hours, rush hour happens to be the spike of events, nothing
like a crowd to slip into. Ask any NYC cop.

More likely at 4AM in a subway station is running into a crazy drunk
with no particular plan in mind, I guess that makes a lot of people
kind of terrified, but you're mostly in danger of getting your shoes,
um, messed up. I suppose it sounds like war stories in Peoria.

-- 
        -Barry Shein

Software Tool & Die    | bzs@world.std.com          | uunet!world!bzs
Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 617-739-0202        | Login: 617-739-WRLD
Newsgroups: ne.general
From: vsh@etnibsd.uucp (Steve Harris)
Subject: Re: Logan Airport Parking Garage
Organization: Eaton Corp, Semiconductor Equipment Div., Beverly, MA
Distribution: ne
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 19:29:26 GMT

In article <1992Dec15.084457.4431@proponent.com> Monty Solomon <roscom!monty@think.com> writes:
>
>You can also take the Logan Express bus to Framingham or Braintree.

I understand there is now a Logan bus from Woburn also.

-- 
... Steve Harris - Eaton Corp. - Beverly, MA - vsh%etnibsd@uunet.uu.net
From: phil@miracle.com (Phil Hill)
Newsgroups: ne.general
Subject: Re: Sunday Liquor Sales
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 04:18:02 EDT
Organization: Miracle Computer Consultants

bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein) writes:
>[A long attempt at a line-by-line flame of me, I'd give it a C+]

Barry,

If you have been reading the posts in this newsgroup, you'd see that most (not
all) of the people here feel that the "blue laws" are out of date, and no
longer needed.  Your opinion is in the minority.  You have the right to your
opinion, and so do I.  I feel lucky that the majority seem to share my opinion
of the "blue laws."  Perhaps we can convince our elected officials to change
these laws.

This thread has wondered a long way from the original "Sunday Liquor Sales"
topic.  We have discussed religion, labor law, big business vs. small,
freedom of speech, separation of church & state and more.  I like to think
that this is the same process that the goverment goes through when a
new law is proposed.  It has been a good debate with a lot of differing opinions
and many real-life examples of how the laws effect the average person.

When you resort to a public attack by flaming me, all it shows is your closed
mindedness towards the subject.  I am glad to debate this subject with you,
but when you resort name calling and insults, the debate is over.
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| Miracle Computer Consultants  |   I will wake up your empty shells.   |
|                               |  Peak time viewing blown in a flash,  |
|                               |   as I burn into your memory cells.   |
| Email: phil@miracle.com       |  'cause I'm alive." - Peter Gabriel   |
From: limey@hri.com (Craig Hughes)
Newsgroups: ne.general
Subject: Re: DS9 in boston area?
Date: 14 Dec 92 17:18:47 GMT
Reply-To: limey@hri.com
Organization: Horizon Research, Inc.

While we're on the subject of new sci-fi shows...I saw a 1/2 hour show
on the "E!" channel on Boston cable about the making of the Babylon 5 
pilot. Does anyone know when/where this will be shown in this area ?

--craig

================================================================================
| Horizon Research, Inc.		E-MAIL:   limey@hri.com
| 1432 Main Street			PHONE:	  (617) 466-8300
| Waltham, MA 02154			FAX:	  (617) 466-8323
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Newsgroups: ne.general
From: bill@unixland.natick.ma.us (Bill Heiser)
Subject: Re: Sunday Liquor Sales
Organization: Unixland Public Access Unix  (508) 655-3848
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 04:38:55 GMT

phil@miracle.com (Phil Hill) writes:
>When you resort to a public attack by flaming me, all it shows is your closed
>mindedness towards the subject.  I am glad to debate this subject with you,
>but when you resort name calling and insults, the debate is over.

I never thought of Barry as being the close-minded type!











-- 
heiser@world.std.com
Newsgroups: ne.general
From: stoodt@cis.umassd.edu (Michael Stoodt)
Subject: Babylon 5 in boston area (was DS9...)
Organization: University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 19:37:40 GMT

In <7523@bigbird.hri.com.hri.com> limey@hri.com (Craig Hughes) writes:

>While we're on the subject of new sci-fi shows...I saw a 1/2 hour show
>on the "E!" channel on Boston cable about the making of the Babylon 5 
>pilot. Does anyone know when/where this will be shown in this area ?

WSBK, channel 38, is on the list of stations that will be showing
Babylon 5.  The two-hour pilot is scheduled for the end of February.
-- 
Michael A Stoodt  [MaS]      |        mumble mumble disclaimer mumble...
stoodt@cis.umassd.edu        | "Will the last person to leave the planet
Comp&InfoSci, UMassDartmouth |  please turn off the sun?" - Mike Resnick
Newsgroups: ne.general
From: tonyk@ccs.northeastern.edu (Antoun Kanawati)
Subject: Cats for adoption
Reply-To: 71107.1620@compuserve.com
Cc: 71107.1620@compuserve.com, tonyk@ontos.com
Organization: College of CS, Northeastern U
Distribution: ne
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 22:11:51 GMT

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	Domestic Short Haired
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	3-5 years old
	different colors
	very good disposition

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Newsgroups: ne.general
From: allyn@netcom.com (allyn)
Subject: Logan Airport Parking Garage
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Distribution: ne
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 00:28:46 GMT

I have heard some horror stories about the Logan Airport Parking Garage
lately and I would like to try to find out if they are true before I 
have my parents come to meet me when I arrive next Saturday (Dec 19th). 
(I am posting this from Seattle, Wa.)

I have heard stories about nasties such as the parking fee clerks, those 
whom you pay on your way out, will just up and leave when their shifts
are up with no regard that there may be a lot of cars waiting to 
pay and get out.

I have also heard that they sometimes deliberately slow down at the top
and bottom of each hour to force those still in line to pay for an 
additional half hour of parking since the time you are charged is
the time you actually get to the head of the line and hand your
ticket and money to the clerk.

I would like to hear what experiences you all have had with this. If
there are problems, I will tell my parents to pick me up somewhere
in town and take the bus or the cross harbor boat from the airport 
itself.

Thanks for your insight on this!!

Mark Allyn
Seattle, Wash.

Newsgroups: ne.general
From: bill@unixland.natick.ma.us (Bill Heiser)
Subject: Re: Sunday Liquor Sales
Organization: Unixland Public Access Unix  (508) 655-3848
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 17:19:45 GMT

borden@head-cfa.harvard.edu (Dave Borden) writes:

>Well, we do have this forty-hour law, which applies to all wage-employees,
>low or high wage.  It doesn't apply to salaried workers and contract workers,
>but those are generally well paid people who are capable of sticking up for
>their rights.  Some people would be glad to work at 3AM, rather than be

:-)   what I'd like to know is what constitutes "well paid" :-)

-- 
heiser@world.std.com
From: rnewman@bbn.com (Ron Newman)
Newsgroups: ne.general
Subject: Re: Drinking and the MBTA was Re: Sunday Liquor Sales
Date: 16 Dec 1992 00:40:47 GMT
Organization: Bolt, Beranek & Newman, Inc.
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: spcsun25.bbn.com

In article <1glr2uINN7q@early-bird.think.com>, sean@think.com (Sean Colbath) writes:
|> hrose> I dunno where "The Paradise" is, but last trains leave Park St at
|> hrose> 12:45am. (red and green lines). Any MBTA person can tell you this (call
|> hrose> 722-3200 if you don't believe me). They leave at 12:45 *on the nose*.
|> 
|> I'm not sure that's true.  I recently started green-line commuting, and was
|> suprised to find out that the last D train left Park Street at 12:05 or
|> some such nonsense.  I think the last one from the *other end* (riverside)
|> started heading inbound at around 12:30 or so.  It depends on the line.
|> Which means, of course, that if I'm working late I have to leave by
|> 11:30-11:40ish to make a connection.

No.  The last D train FROM RIVERSIDE probably leaves around 12:05.
The last train FROM PARK STREET leaves around 12:45.   The shutdown
is designed so that all trains come from outlying areas and arrive
downtown around 12:30-12:40.  Once all the trains have come in,
the all leave together around 12:45.  

The last bus from a T station (usually marked "1:00" on schedules)
waits until the last outbound train has reached that station.
If that train is delayed, the bus will be too.

-- 
Ron Newman		rnewman@bbn.com

Newsgroups: ne.general
Subject: Re: looking for ski alias
Organization: I.E.C.C.
Date: 15 Dec 92 00:15:31 EST (Tue)
From: johnl@iecc.cambridge.ma.us (John R. Levine)

New England powder?  No such thing.  There are three main components to
New England skiing: ice, rocks, and grass.  I went skiing at Alta one
time and there was all this white fluffy stuff on the ground, couldn't
ski in it at all.

Slightly more seriously, if you want ski reports, there are plenty of them
in the papers and on the radio.  Remember the usual key:

"excellent" means "fair"
"good"		"poor"
"fair"		"forget it"
"packed powder"	"ice"
"loose granular" "ice"
"frozen granular" "glacial ice"
"spring conditions" "summer conditions"

I've pretty much given up on New England skiing, too crowded, too
expensive, not worth the hassle (and I started skiing in Vermont in about
1961, not like I'm new to this.)

Consider the Eastern Townships in Quebec, easy to get to by taking I93 to
the end, then I91 just over the border.  Less crowded, better snow, better
food, cheaper, much nicer people.  Helps if you speak French, though.

Regards,
John Levine, johnl@iecc.cambridge.ma.us, {spdcc|ima|world}!iecc!johnl
Newsgroups: ne.general
From: spike@world.std.com (Joe Ilacqua)
Subject: Re: Logan Airport Parking Garage
Organization: Software Tool & Die
	<1992Dec14.223718.29567@athena.mit.edu>
Distribution: ne
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 23:32:40 GMT

In the referenced article mondol@mtl.mit.edu (mark k. mondol) writes:
<My personal aggrivation with the parking garage (when I cannot find
>a spot at the meters) is the damn video camera they have at the exit

	Hmm, I guess I better stop dumping bodies in the garage.  Can
anyone suggest an alterative location.


->Spike
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