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This Is a Robbery, on Netflix, revisits the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum art theft

‘This Is a Robbery,’ on Netflix, revisits the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum art theft The film might not solve the three-decade old case, but does transform it into a frustrating and irresistible mystery By Peter Keough Globe correspondent,Updated April 7, 2021, 2 hours ago Email to a Friend The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, as seen in This Is a Robbery: The World s Biggest Art Heist. Courtesy of Netflix When shot at night, at the right angles, with spooky music on the soundtrack, the genteel elegance of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum makes for an ideal film noir setting. Such recurring images of the Venetian-style palazzo with its eerie low-lit galleries, its ornate central courtyard spectral in the night, its shadowy tunnels and passageways highlighted by cobwebs, set the mood for Colin Barnicle’s four-part, 3½-hour “This Is a Robbery: The World’s Biggest Art Heist,” on Netflix.

Milton s Myles Connor appears in Netflix doc on Gardner museum heist

A photo in the new Netflix documentary “This Is a Robbery” shows convicted art thief, rock ’n’ roll singer and Milton native Myles Connor Jr. holding a baby leopard in his lap while a parrot perches on his fingers.  In voiceover, Connor’s lawyer, Martin Leppo, of Stoughton, recalls first meeting Connor in Mattapan Square, where his client had a “baby cougar or mountain lion on a leash.”  “Myles was the man,” Leppo says. That’s one anecdote director Colin Barnicle uses to illustrate Connor’s larger-than-life persona in the four-part documentary that chronicles the infamous – and still unsolved – March 18, 1990, heist at Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.

This week s TV: Hemingway arrives, Shameless leaves, and Game of Thrones heads to the stage

This week s TV: Hemingway arrives, Shameless leaves, and Game of Thrones heads to the stage
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PANDEMIC dents Baker s POPULARITY — Advocates say legalize MAGIC MUSHROOMS — YO-YO MA gives CONCERT at VAX CLINIC

Presented by Uber Driver Stories GOOD MORNING, MASSACHUSETTS. Happy Monday! BAKER S POPULARITY SAGS It looks like Gov. Charlie Baker s approval rating took a hit during the coronavirus pandemic. The rollout of the Covid-19 vaccine at the beginning of the year, in particular, hurt the governor s standing among residents. An online survey from three universities Harvard, Northeastern and Rutgers showed Baker s approval rating for how he handled the pandemic dropped by 21 percentage points. Baker s approval rating was at about 80 percent in April of last year, and by this February had gradually declined to 59 percent. That tracks with a UMass Amherst poll

Surging Interest in African American Genealogy

Surging Interest in African American Genealogy Surging Interest in African American Genealogy Here Are Resources in Kansas City to Get Started Share this story Published February 18th, 2021 at 6:00 AM Above image credit: The Midwest Afro-American Genealogical Interest Coalition holds monthly meetings and members go on yearly road trips of historical significance. Here is the group at the Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site in Topeka. (Contributed | Midwest Afro-American Genealogical Interest Coalition) A family reunion in 2008 first sparked Wayne Reed’s interest in genealogy. But it was a move in 2013 to Kansas City that gave Reed the resources that fired his resolve to learn more. Reed’s efforts since have produced a family tree with one branch reaching back to 1824.

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