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A dreadlocked street artist’s effort to cash in on last year’s light-board bomb scare has one high-ranking Hub official vowing she’ll reach into the jokester’s pockets to grab a share of any profits for the city. Boston City Council President Maureen Feeney told the Herald last night she “cannot believe” guerrilla marketer Peter Berdovsky is now selling art spliced with scenes of the chaos he cooked up. “He continues to poke a finger in the eye of the people of Boston,” said Feeney. Feeney, who said she’s still offended by the Jan. 31 cartoonish caper that cost $2 million, said...

As reported by CNN, "Assistant Attorney General John Grossman called the light boards "bomb-like" devices and said that if they had been explosive they could have damaged transportation infrastructure in the city." In case you missed that, the Assistant Attorney General said that "IF they had been explosive, THEY COULD HAVE damaged transportation infrastructure in the city." Right. Just like IF they were just lightboards depicting a cartoon character, THEY COULD be completely harmless; or IF I was a millionare, I COULD sit around watching Aqua Teen Hunger Force smoking cigars all day (well, I guess I could do that...

Martians Attack Boston! By J. Neil Schulman It’s a history lesson worth remembering today. On October 30, 1938 on the CBS Radio Network, Orson Welles’ Mercury Theater of the Air presented a dramatic Halloween radio adaptation of H.G. Wells’ classic science-fiction novel, The War of the Worlds. Howard Koch’s audio-play updated Wells’ classic story from Victorian England to contemporary America, and used the medium of radio to best effect by telling the story as if it were a series of radio news broadcasts. It was brilliant radio theater. Unfortunately, late-tuning-in listeners scanning across the radio dial and finding a...