Playhouse to reopen as theater for foreign films Sep 18, 2009
The Playhouse, at the Radisson Hotel Boston at the corner of Charles Street South and Stuart Street, has in recent years been hosting live theater and other performances. But many moviegoers remember it as the Sack Cinema 57, which opened in the early 1970s and showed mainstream movies until 1996, when it was converted to a live venue. (Boston Globe)
Flaherty blasts Boston police policy on rape alerts May 15, 2009
Flaherty's comments followed yesterday's story in the Globe about two sexual assaults that occurred last month in the parking garage of the Radisson Hotel Boston. The Globe reported that police did not alert the public about the first assault on April 19, during which a woman was beaten and raped. (Boston Globe)
Police to review policy on rape alert May 14, 2009
In the Boston case, the first attack occurred April 19 in the garage of the Radisson Hotel Boston, which is located downtown. At about 5:30 in the morning, a woman was on the fifth floor of the garage, heading to work, when a man asked her for directions. (Boston Globe)
Boston rape suspect caught at hospital near victim May 2, 2009
On Thursday afternoon, a woman Rivera allegedly raped inside the Radisson Hotel Boston parking garage on April 19 picked him out of a police photo lineup. "Oh my God, this is the guy on the elevator who attacked me," the alleged victim told police at about 4:30 p.m. Thursday, according to the police report filed in Boston Municipal Court. (Boston Globe)
