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March 13, 2008

Flashbacks: The Pope as human shield, the Tarantino touch, and a hermit goes to heaven
By Ian Sands

HOLY PURPOSE
5 years ago
March 14, 2003 | Michael Bronski talked to a peace activist with the idea of sending the Pope to Iraq in order to stop the impending war.
“Renowned peace and anti-nuke activist Helen Caldicott thinks she has a way to stop the all-but-inevitable war with Iraq: convince Pope John Paul II to join the human shields in Baghdad.

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Flashbacks, From the archives, local heroes

July 26, 2007

Mr. Butch Memorial
By Nina MacLaughlin

This past Sunday, hundreds and hundreds of people congregated in Allston to celebrate Mr. Butch. “I’ve never seen anything like it in Boston,” said one photographer. People made signs, left flowers, played music, and paraded down the street. Here’s a slideshow of the memorial.

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July 14, 2007

Ryan Walsh remembers Mr. Butch
By Nina MacLaughlin
On September 11th 2002 I took the 66 bus to work in the morning from Allston to Cambridge. Mr.Butch was on the bus and, like anytime I was in close proximity to him, I'd ask him how he was doing. "How are you doing today Mr.Butch?" "Not so good. It's my birthday." "Oh man, your birthday's September 11th? That sorta sucks.

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July 13, 2007

Ian Donnis remembers Mr. Butch
By Nina MacLaughlin

Mr. Butch had tapped into some secret that most of us didn’t know about.

The Worcester native once told me he left his hometown because the women there were too repressed. He was a mostly happily irreverent guy who delighted in the constancy of beer and cute BU girls in his favored haunt of greater Kenmore Square during the early ’80s.

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July 12, 2007

Updated: Mr. Butch, Allston folk hero, dead in scooter crash
By Nina MacLaughlin

>>VIDEO: Mr. Butch on life and death, in music and words

UPDATED 7 PM: Mr. Butch's death in a scooter accident earlier today has been confirmed by several sources. A memorial service is scheduled for Monday, July 16, at the adjacent Ritual Arts and Regeneration Records on Harvard Avenue in Allston, both favorites of the deceased.

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Boston Phoenix
Flashbacks: The Pope as human shield, the Tarantino touch, and a hermit goes to heaven
Published 3/13/2008 by Ian Sands
HOLY PURPOSE5 years ago March 14, 2003 | Michael Bronski talked to a peace activist with the idea of sending the Pope to Iraq in order...

Boston Phoenix
Mr. Butch Memorial
Published 7/26/2007 by Nina MacLaughlin
This past Sunday, hundreds and hundreds of people congregated in Allston to celebrate Mr. Butch. “I’ve never seen anything like it in Boston,” said one...

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