Gender-bending performance art will bring some feisty New York City fashion to the Revere Hotel this weekend.

“One Night in Bartschland: A Party & Pop-up Concert” with nightlife figure Susanne Bartsch, will happen at 9 p.m. Saturday at the Revere Hotel’s Space 57.

The event will raise money for the Institute of Contemporary Art as well as One Fund Boston, and celebrate the hotel’s one-year anniversary.

Revere Hotel Spokesman Bryan Barbieri describes the pop-up party as “an over-the-top spectacle featuring wild fashions worn by colorful characters and a cast of New York nightlife socialites and performance artists.”

Bartsch has staged over-the-top and avant-garde extravaganzas in cities from New York to Toyko for the past four decades, and currently holds court at Marquee NYC, along with the Soho Grand Hotel and the Standard Hotel.

Tickets are available at bartschland.eventbrite.com.

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To hear Youngblood Hawke’s Sam Martin talk, you might imagine him some kind of environmentalist, rather than the frontman of a swiftly rising indie-pop outfit. “I think it’s important to conserve nature and take care of our earth, because we’re blessed and fortunate to have it,” he says. “I feel like one day we’re going to look, and it’s going to disappear on us, and we’re going to wish that we had lived a little bit differently.”

He’s talking about the inspiration for the music video for the band’s single “We Come Running,” which was filmed entirely underwater and features the band members swimming alongside live sharks. “At the time there were a lot of shark attacks in California and we wanted to shed light on these animals because they were getting slaughtered by the millions,” he says. “We wanted to show people that they weren’t these man eating killers. They attack surfers occasionally because they think they’re fish … but once they know what you are, they’re not evil manhunters. We can’t keep slaughtering these animals at the rate we’re doing it because we’re going to completely wipe them out. And the ocean would die.”

Indeed, Martin says that if he weren’t making music he’d probably be working in the great outdoors, “maybe a tour guide in a national park or something.” Luckily for Martin (if not visitors to Yellowstone) he’s otherwise employed — making infectious, up-tempo electro-rock with one of his best college buds, producer Simon Katz.

Martin and Katz have been collaborating musically ever since the two decided to move from their college town of Boulder, Colo., to L.A. and start their first band, Iglu & Hartly. The band enjoyed moderate success, scoring a Top 5 hit in Europe, before dissolving suddenly — and painfully, says Martin — due to strained relationships with the other band members. “Simon and I felt like we didn’t really have a voice in the project … and it wasn’t a happy environment for us to be in anymore,” he says. “When you’re making music, but it’s not the music you want to make, there’s really no point. We felt like we could no longer express ourselves, and everything just fell apart.”

The two took the considerable angst of that loss and channeled it into the songs that would become Youngblood Hawke’s debut album, “Wake Up.” “We were really in a dark place and I think, looking back, we really wrote these songs to cheer ourselves up,” he reflects. “We were sitting in our living rooms, dead broke, trying to figure out what to do with our lives. We’d invested eight to 10 years of our lives [in Iglu & Hartly] and then one day it was completely gone. I think it was important to lift ourselves up, I think it was a cathartic experience. We were writing to make ourselves feel better. Definitely the songs have kind of an upbeat feel but I think that if you listen to the lyrics it gets really dark at points.”

When asked to describe the band’s sound, Martin hesitates. “I feel like describing music is like trying to describe a color,” he says. “There’s rock, there’s dance, there’s definitely synth, and there’s some pop elements to it, definitely. But I think what separates us is that we have some weirder lyrics that we balance out with the pop choruses.”

Martin might find their genre difficult to define, but he clearly articulates the band’s unofficial mission statement. “We’re all kind of excited about life,” he says. “In a live show we just like to give people a great experience. I feel like, they come to a show and buy a ticket, they should walk away feeling like we gave all of our effort to entertain them. We walk offstage and we have nothing left. We like to leave it all on the stage for the audience.”

When asked if he ever fears the specter of the one-hit wonder, a fate that befalls many young bands who burst onto the scene with that one catchy hit single and just as quickly fade away, he’s quick to dismiss it. “I feel confident in our album and our songwriting abilities. I think we’re just fortunate to be in this position right now, we’re taking it one day at a time,” he says. “Some bands don’t even get a song. We’re going to continue to write and evolve and get better, so I don’t think that’s something that really freaks me out at all.”

Youngblood Hawke stops in Boston and New York on a club tour before hitting the festival circuit this summer.

NEW YORK
May 13, 8 p.m
Santos Party House
96 Lafayette St., New York
$13-$15
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BOSTON
May 14, 9 p.m.
Brighton Music Hall
158 Brighton Ave., Allston
$12
ticketmaster.com

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Katherine Russell, the widow of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, has hired a criminal defense attorney with experience handling terrorism cases.

Amato A. DeLuca, who has been representing Russell since Tsarnaev and his brother, Dzhokhar, were identified as suspects in the marathon attacks, announced Wednesday that Joshua Dratel has joined Russell’s defense team.

Dratel is president of the Wall Street law firm Dratel & Mysliwiec, P.C. In a bio on the firm’s website, Dratel lists his fields of expertise as terrorism, national security and violent crime charges, among others.

DeLuca’s Providence, R.I., law firm, DeLuca & Weizenbaum Ltd., handles mostly medical malpractice and personal injury civil suits.

Federal investigators want to know what Russell knew, if anything, about her husband and his brother’s plans to detonate two homemade bombs at the Boston Marathon finish line.

Three people were killed and 264 others injured in the April 15 explosions, including a more than a dozen who suffered amputations. The Tsarnaevs are also suspected of killing an MIT police officer.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed in a shootout with police April 18, just hours after the FBI released pictures of the suspects. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is recovering from gunshot wounds at a federal medical facility, charged with using a weapon of mass destruction.

DeLuca said Russell, who married Tamerlan Tsarnaev in 2010, had no knowledge of the plot and is assisting with the investigation. The FBI would not confirm to the Associated Press that Russell is cooperating.

“Katie plans to continue to meet with investigators, part of a series of meetings over many hours where she has answered questions,” DeLuca said.

Russell has been staying at her parents’ home in North Kingstown, R.I., since Tsarnaev was killed, along with the couple’s 2-year-old daughter.

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Boston police commissioner Ed Davis will be on Capitol Hill on Thursday to testify before a congressional committee about the Boston Marathon bombings.

Before leaving Boston on Wednesday, Davis spoke to reporters at Logan International Airport.

Davis added, “The FBI, the intelligence agencies – I think everybody in America is looking into what they did before this happened, to make sure it doesn’t happen again. But we have to wait until the facts are on the table.”

Davis planned to tell the U.S. House Homeland Security Committee that additional undercover officers, surveillance cameras and better communication between different law enforcement agencies are needed to increase security at high-profile public events, according to a copy of his planned remarks obtained by the Associated Press.

Footage from cameras near the marathon finish line on Boylston Street helped identify the two suspects, brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. The former was killed in a shootout with police three days after the bombings; Dzhokhar is being held on terrorism charges.

“Images from cameras do not lie. They do not forget,” Davis was expected to testify. “They can be viewed by a jury as evidence of what occurred. These efforts are not intended to chill or stifle free speech, but rather to protect the integrity and freedom of that speech and to protect the rights of victims and suspects alike.”

At the same time, Davis encouraged continued protection of citizens’ privacy rights and civil liberties.

“I do not endorse actions that move Boston and our nation into a police state mentality, with surveillance cameras attached to every light pole in the city,” Davis planned to say. “We do not and cannot live in a protective enclosure because of the actions of extremists who seek to disrupt our way of life.”

As for questions about how much U.S. authorities considered Tamerlan Tsarnaev to be a possible threat, Davis said more analysis is needed.

“The facts and circumstances of who knew what, at what time, are playing themselves out. We don’t have the final report on that,” Davis said Wednesday. “But to date, I am satisfied with what’s happened.

“We are going to learn a lot about this. And I believe there is going to be a lot of criticism as there is always is after an event of this magnitude. Right now, we need to get the facts on the table … and make assessments that are based upon evidence.”

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Worcester’s police chief today publicly pleaded with officials to end a dragged out debate over where to bury accused Boston bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who was killed three weeks ago. 

Chief Gary Gemme told reporters gathered outside the Graham, Putnam and Mahoney Funeral Parlors, where Tsarnaev’s remains are being refrigerated, that he condemns the actions of the accused terrorist, but insisted a decision must be made on where to put his remains.

“I understand the concern that people have over the potential negative attention that providing a burial sight will bring, however, we need a solution,” he said. “We are not barbarians, we bury the dead. So I am publicly appealing to those with authority to provide a burial sight do so and do so quickly.”

The funeral director’s decision to accept the body, Gemme said, has put the local police department “into the unwanted position of having to assist the family with locating a burial sight.”

“Unfortunately we are still without a burial sight, and there (are) no immediate prospects,” he said. “The police department is expending resources that could be used for other needs in our community.”

The city has reportedly spent as much as $30,000 for overtime in police security since the body arrived last week.

Protesters have demanded Tsarnaev’s body be sent to Russia, but Gemme said the suspect’s uncle, Ruslan Tsarni, won’t allow that.

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Boston Mayor Thomas Menino won’t allow marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev to be buried in the city, his spokeswoman said.

“It would be disrespectful to our residents to accommodate this individual,” Dot Joyce, Menino’s press secretary, told the Boston Globe on Tuesday.

Tsarnaev, 26, died in a shootout with police on April 18, three days after allegedly detonating two bombs near the Boston Marathon finish line, killing three people and injuring 264 others. His 19-year-old brother, Dzhokhar, was captured the next night after a manhunt that virtually shut down the Boston area.

The brothers are suspected of killing an MIT police officer, Sean Collier, before leading police on a pursuit to Watertown which ended with Tamerlan Tsarnaev dead. The medical examiner found the cause of death to be gunshot wounds and blunt trauma to the head and torso. Authorities said Dzhokhar ran over Tamerlan with a stolen SUV while fleeing.

The older Tsarnaev’s body is being held at a Worcester funeral home, while the search for a burial plot continues. Several cemeteries have declined, according to Peter Stefan, owner of the Graham, Putnam and Mahoney Funeral Parlors.

The city manager of Cambridge, where the Tsarnaevs lived, said the community would be “adversely impacted” if the suspect were buried there.

Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick said Monday finding a gravesite was “the family’s issue,” not the responsibility of the state or federal government.

Tsarnaev’s parents, ethnic Chechens who returned to southern Russia several years ago, have suggested in various interviews and reports that their son should be buried in Cambridge or returned to Russia.

A Worcester resident, William Breault, started a fund to have Tsarnaev’s body sent to Russia, hoping to prevent a burial in Massachusetts.

Worcester police Sgt. Kerry Hazelhurst said the city’s police chief met with the funeral home director Tuesday, and expects to have a resolution soon.

“They’re quite confident that there will be a conclusion to settle this matter within the next couple of days,” Hazelhurst told the Globe. “The chief’s function today was to get the parties involved to meet, discuss, and try to find a solution to the problem. … I think all options are on the table right now.”

“The whole situation is unprecedented,” said David Walkinshaw, a spokesman for the Massachusetts Funeral Directors Association. “The challenge here is that there’s no way to demand a cemetery allow for a burial to take place.”

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One Fund Boston administrator Kenneth Feinberg said the charity hasn’t raised enough money to fully compensate the Boston Marathon bombing victims.

“There’s not enough money here to pay everybody,” Feinberg said at a town hall meeting Tuesday. “When you look at the horror that happened here in Boston — the horror, the number of deaths, the number of horrible physical injuries, the number of people still in the hospital today — I assure you based on everything I’ve done in the past, including 9/11, there isn’t enough money to pay everybody who justifiably expects it or needs it. There’s not enough money.”

So far, the One Fund Boston has collected more than $29 million in cash and pledges. Feinberg, a Brockton native, now faces what he said were “choices that come, I think, right out of the Bible in determining who gets what.”

Drawing on his experience overseeing funds that compensated victims after events such as the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and the theater shooting in Aurora, Col., Feinberg ran public meetings this week that were part therapy session and part wealth-management seminar.

His main goal was getting input on how he should resolve difficult questions such as whether One Fund will pay benefits to victims who require mental healthcare — as the Aurora fund did not — or whether to give rich and poor victims the same benefits. Means-testing could provide more fairness, but could also take more time, Feinberg said.

Standing outside the Boston Public Library afterward, just steps from where the explosions took place, Feinberg said running the other funds taught him to focus on outcomes.

“You have to hold these town hall meetings, you have to tell people what you can do and what you can’t do,” he said. “People want certainty.”

Feinberg has already proposed that payments be prioritized for the families of the dead and the most seriously injured. He plans to distribute all the money in the fund by June 30, a goal set when he was asked by Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick and Boston Mayor Thomas Menino to take the job.

A fund organizer, Karen Kaplan, president of the Hill Holliday advertising firm, said One Fund was set up in part to avoid the compensation confusion that sprang up after the shootings in Newtown, Conn., in December that left 20 students and six teachers dead.

Newtown officials identified more than 60 funds raising money on behalf of victims or projects after the tragedy. Families of some mass-shooting victims worried some funds were holding on to money unnecessarily and suggested creating a national fund for future incidents.

Some of those proponents praised Feinberg’s Boston efforts.

“It’s exactly what should happen,” said Scott Larimer, whose son John died in Aurora. “You’re going to use Ken Feinberg’s formula for distribution. It’s the money donated by the American public for sympathy and compassion, and here’s your money.”

Tuesday’s meeting drew a number of bombing victims, who thanked Feinberg for his work.

One was Wayne Gilchist of Cambridge, who showed his two heavily bandaged wrists and hands at the meeting. One was injured during the bombing and the second in a seizure he said was brought on by psychological distress after the attack.

“It’s putting so much stress on me,” he said. One hand was broken “because of what I saw right outside this door.”

Later he repeated one of Feinberg’s points, that funds should be distributed quickly.

“It’s got to be in a fast manner,” he said. “The families are suffering. I’m suffering.”

Also at the meeting was Bentley Mattier, who said he flew back to Boston from Atlanta to help his family after an aunt lost her leg in the attack. Like Gilchrist, he said sooner is better.

“I’d like for my aunt to be compensated immediately. Those hospital bills are coming in immediately,” he added.

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What do you ask a woman who interviews others for a living? A woman who has forged a lengthy and venerable career out of posing often tough questions to strangers, who have included the likes of Lynne Cheney, Tracy Morgan, Bill O’Reilly and Jay Z, to name just a varied few. Well, to start, you ask her what it feels like to have the tables turned. Does she feel compelled to lead the interview or direct the conversation? “No, no,” says Terry Gross, producer and host of NPR’s “Fresh Air.” “I let the interviewer do the driving.” You’re relieved because, frankly, you were a little worried that you were going to end being the interviewee in this scenario. Tables thusly leveled, you proceed.

(Terry Gross stops in Boston on Friday as part of the Celebrity Series for “Terry Gross: All I Did Was Ask.”)

You’ve been the host of ‘Fresh Air’ for some 30+ years. Does it ever become routine, interviewing people?

Well, you know, although I’ve been doing interviews for a very long time, the people I’m interviewing always change. So it never gets tired, it never gets old for me, in the way that having friends or talking to new people — it’s just like how people never get tired. There are always new people to talk to and the conversation is always changing, the subject matter is always changing. There are always new movies and TV shows and music and books that I’m exited about. There’s always important — and often terrifying — things happening in the news to talk about. It doesn’t get old.

How do you choose your subjects?

Well, we have several producers who work on the show and they spend their days just poring through things, looking for good ideas. They often call people up and talk to them just to see what they would be like as interviewees. We have these super long meetings on Fridays in which we go over all the potential guests we’ve been thinking of and narrow down the list.

Do you do a lot of the research yourself?

I don’t gather the research; the research materials are given to me. So I’m not, like, on the Internet looking for things that I should read, but I’m the one who does the reading. I watch the movies, I listen to the music. I think that if I don’t have a firsthand knowledge of the material myself that I can’t do it. I have to feel some commitment to the subject matter and to the person, and I have to know as much as I can about it.

Can you think of anyone you talked to recently that you were particularly excited about?

Okay, several! I interviewed Matthew Weiner, the creator of “Mad Men.” I love the series so it was a lot of fun to talk with him and talk about why things were happening to Don that are happening to Don. (laughs) I interviewed Matthew McConaughey and he is just really smart and interesting and funny, so that was a lot of fun.

He is? I always had the impression that he was sort of … a surface-level type of guy.

No, no, he’s really very interesting. And very funny. Oh, and I interviewed David Sedaris recently, that was a lot of fun. We had had a drink together a long time ago and then we went out to dinner afterwards. … Actually this is a long story, it’s too long to tell.

How about a bad interview, do you ever have one that’s failing horribly?

Yeah, we kill interviews sometimes. By that I mean we record them and then decide not to run them. Our interviews are prerecorded and edited, but if something is especially confusing, or boring, or we don’t trust the facts in it, we won’t run it. And then sometimes guests walk out on me. I mean Lou Reed, who I’m a big fan of, many years ago just walked out on the interview. I don’t think he really likes being interviewed in the first place, and then I was talking about some early recordings and he said he really hated talking about old music of his. And I think he was in a cranky mood.

Have you ever found yourself at odds with an interviewee or had the whole thing devolve into a fight?

I try not to argue with my guests. I try to let them have their say and ask them challenging questions when I think that’s appropriate. My interview with Gene Simmons is probably a good example of him saying kind of crude things to me and me accusing him of being obnoxious, and then it devolving from there.

How do you handle a bad interview like that?

I don’t take it personally. If someone is being crude, or obnoxious, or insulting to me, I don’t take it personally. Because usually when that happens it’s somebody who doesn’t know who I am, and they don’t know the show, and they’re just working with some stereotype in their heads, some stereotype of what NPR is or who I am. So I just hope that it’s going to sound like good radio. (laughs) Because sometimes when things are going really bad, it’s actually good theater.

Have you ever had to interview somebody whose philosophy or morals were just totally oppositional to your own? I ask because we recently ran an interview with a member of the Westboro Baptist Church, during which our reporter remained very calm and objective, and I’m not sure I, personally, could do that.

Well, you know, I’ve interviewed somebody from the Klan and I can’t remember whether I pointed out to them that I was Jewish or not, but they didn’t say anything anti-Semitic to me, to my face. I’ve interviewed people who I totally disagree with, and I’ll ask them totally challenging questions, but again I won’t take it personally. Even if they’re insulting me, I won’t take it personally.

I imagine you’ve had to develop a thick skin over the years. Did it take a long time?

Yes, yes. I think it took, I don’t know … Well, say Lou Reed had walked out on me early in my career? I think I would have just been heartbroken. And so upset.

What about the best interview you’ve ever had?

I kind of prevent myself from thinking that way because if I had a best interview I’d ever done, then I’d listen to it and I’d go, ‘Really? That’s the best interview you’ve ever done?’ So I don’t. Wait, I’m looking up Matthew McConaughey

I’m on IMDB now too. It’s not ‘Tropic Thunder’ is it?

No, no.

‘Killer Joe’?
‘Killer Joe,’ yes! That’s it. It’s a weird movie, kind of not to everybody’s tastes, kind of a perverted movie. (laughs) He plays a very perverted character, let’s put it that way, but he plays it quite well. It’s a side of him I had no idea was there.

Have you ever been really scared or anxious about interviewing somebody?

Yeah. An example I often use is Stephen Sondheim because I admire him so much and he’s very critical of the interviewers, I think. So it’s not a breezy, relaxed conversation. But I just love his work so much. But I always get a little edgy before interviewing him.

So did it end up being as scary as you thought it would be, the first time you interviewed him?

Well, I’ve interviewed him several times and sometimes I’ve thought it went very well and sometimes I’ve thought he’s been very unhappy with it. Or he’s moderately unhappy with it. There have been times he’s been more forthcoming than others.

I think the way interviews go just depends on people’s moods too.

Yeah, yeah. I think it does. And some people are more often in that mood than others.

Who are some people who you really admire, who do what you do?

I really love Jon Stewart’s interviews. I think he does terrific political interviews. And he manages to be kind of gracious and charming and funny and hold people’s feet to the fire at the same time. And he manages to have pretty big disagreements with guests but still do it in a very friendly, respectful way. I think he’s amazing. I think Ira Glass is a terrific interviewer. I mean he does more hosting, but I think when he does do an interview it’s fantastic. I think Scott Simon is a terrific interviewer.

What would you be doing right now, if you weren’t doing this? In a dream world.

If I could do anything else in the world? OK, I like what I’m doing, I feel so lucky to be doing what I’m doing. Because I wanted to fall in love with work. I wanted to find some form of work that I could love. And I was afraid that it wasn’t going to happen. You know how some people are afraid that they’ll never get married? I was afraid, like, I’m never going to find work I really care about, that’s meaningful to me. So when I found it, I developed a pretty monogamous relationship with it. But if I could make a fantasy come true? I’d be able to sing really well.

Do you ever find your work slipping into your social life, interviewing people at parties, that kind of thing?

Well, first of all, I don’t go to parties often. (laughs) Usually if I’m at a party, it’s like a benefit or a station event or something like that. I go to very few parties outside of official events. But when I’m at an event and I’m being introduced to people I’ve never met before, I feel really lucky that I know how to talk to people now, because I’ve talked to so many people and I know how to get a conversation going. Because I used to be really shy and would have been very uncomfortable doing that.

As a formerly shy person, what made you think that this was the career for you?

Well, actually, it’s a good position for a kind of shy or formerly shy person because the spotlight isn’t on you. It’s on somebody else. And, in fact, in radio, there isn’t even a spotlight. No one is seeing you and what you’re doing is asking questions. You’re not holding forth and you’re not the one who’s the storyteller. Mostly you’re listening and asking questions. So, eventually over time, people get to know who you are and people can read things into the questions you ask and intuit things about who you are, and what you may think, and so on. But when I started in radio I was still pretty shy, but it suited me just fine. And I was used to reading a lot and being curious about what I’d read and so on. And I was always interested in movies, books and television, so having a natural curiosity about that and then wanting to learn and read more, that came really easily. And now, I think, I think it would be wrong to describe myself as shy now — I’d say I was self-conscious describes me now. Because I’m used to making speeches and going to meet-and-greets and things like that, I’ve learned how to do all that and I’m comfortable doing all that. But it took me a while to learn. I’m still a very self-conscious person.

What’s one great interview question, if you were only ever allowed one?

There’s no generic one question to me. It would depend who the person is. I think one of the things about interviewing is that you don’t ask the same thing of everyone. The exceptions to that rule are things like the Proust questionnaire in Vanity Fair, which I really enjoy reading. It’s fun to see all the different answers that people you’re really interested in give to those same questions. But that’s different. It would really depend. Is that person a painter? Are they an avant-garde jazz musician? Are they a politician, a priest? Who are they? Do I want to know about life and death, do I want to know about the cure for cancer? Do I want to know about what they believe the afterlife is? It just really depends.

Who’s on your bucket list of dream interviews?

I kind of no longer have that list in my head because we’ve gotten a lot of the big “gets.” When we first became a national show we had our list of, you know, the 10 people we most wanted. And we’ve gotten them. And Lou Reed was one of those people. And he walked out on me. Robert DeNiro was one of those people. And he’s never been on the show, but I don’t think he’s a great interviewee from what I’ve seen. I think he’s hard to get because I don’t think that’s where he really shines. I think he’s a great actor — I don’t think he’s a great guest. So, at this point, a lot of what’s exciting is finding, you know, the actor that’s just emerging and becoming really wonderful. Or somebody who’s a character actor and you’re realizing how great they are. Or, like, Matthew McConaughey. During his romantic comedy period — I tend to not see a lot of those films — I wasn’t paying attention to him, but he’s gotten so interesting lately.

Well, what about if you could interview anybody, alive or dead, what would your dream interview look like then?

If I could bring back people from the dead, and do a series? Yes, the series I would do would be a series of songwriters, mostly people who did the American Popular Songbook. And they’d be at the piano while I interviewed them. So it would be like the Gershwins, Irving Berlin, Harold Irwin, Duke Ellington would be there. You know, Rodgers and Hart, Rodgers and Hammerstein. I would be asking them about their lives and their songs and they’d be performing their songs as I talked to them. Don’t you think that would be fun?

My professor, on the very first day of journalism school, told us all that, well, you know you’re never going to make any money…

Was that the right thing to say? Well, it might be a way of discouraging people who aren’t really serious about it. You know, so many music teachers and acting teachers say that unless you really, really want this, don’t do it. It’s going to be too hard, it’s not going to pay well … unless you’re really super lucky and really super extraordinary.

And sometimes not even then.

Yeah, exactly. Talent is not always recognized.

Well, as you said, I guess you consider yourself lucky if you get to do something you enjoy every day.

Oh, I feel so lucky. So lucky.

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An eyewitness to the Watertown shootout with the Boston Marathon bombing suspects said an MBTA Transit Police officer may have been wounded by friendly fire.

Officer Richard “Dic” Donohue is recovering at Mount Auburn Hospital from a gunshot wound to his upper right thigh. Doctors said Donohue lost so much blood during the April 19 shootout that he nearly died, but he’s now expected to make a full recovery.

At least a dozen officers from four different police agencies engaged in gunfire with the suspects, with about 300 bullets fired in all. The Tsarnaevs also reportedly launched explosives at the police, including at least one bomb similar to the pressure cookers used at the marathon finish line.

Witnesses told the Boston Globe that Donohue appeared to have been wounded near the end of the confrontation, after Tamerlan Tsarnaev was shot and his brother Dzhokhar was driving away.

Jane Dyson lives just 140 feet away from where Donohue went down and provided a statement of what she saw to the Globe.

“A black SUV appeared, and rapid gun fire was focused on the vehicle,” Dyson wrote. “It appeared to me that an individual at the corner [of the street] fell to the ground and had probably been hit in the gunfire.”

“I later learned that the individual who had been shot was Officer Richard Donohue,” Dyson said. Her statement was supported by two other eyewitnesses to the shootout.

State police said the investigation into how Donohue was wounded is still in process, but defended the officers’ actions.

“Considering the chaos on those dark streets, where a pair of homicidal terrorists were firing shots and throwing bombs at police, the fact that friendly-fire incidents may have ­occurred detracts nothing, not one bit, from the valor and heroism of the officers and troopers who caught up to them that night,” state police spokesman David Procopio told the Globe.

An expert on law enforcement tactics agreed.

“It’s arguably a wartime situation,” said Chuck Wexler, executive director of the Police ­Executive Research Forum. “Police agencies are not generally prepared for the kind of wartime situation that these officers encountered.”

The Middlesex District Attorney’s office is investigating two other possible “friendly fire” incidents from that night. In one, another Transit Police officer was grazed by a bullet; in the third, a Boston vehicle was damaged after an officer shot at it, apparently believing it to be the suspects’ SUV.

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Governor Deval Patrick today weighed in on the controversy surrounding burial plans for Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, telling reporters in New Bedford that the responsibility rests not with the state or federal government, but with Tsarnaev’s family.

“First of all, this isn’t a state or a federal issue; it’s the family’s issue,” Patrick said. “And the family has some options. I assume they will make a decision soon. I hope they do. I think everybody is feeling upset about what happened. But we showed the world in the immediate aftermath of the attacks what a civilization looks like, and I’m proud of what we showed and I think we continue to do that by stepping back and let the family make their decisions.”

Patrick, who was in New Bedford to break ground on the New Bedford Marine Commerce Terminal, said he was unsure of the legal rights of communities that want to refuse the body, and that he hopes the family will make a decision soon.

While the governor declined to comment on whether he’d oppose Tsarnaev’s burial in Massachusetts, he made it clear he is not worried about Tsarnaev’s grave being a focal point of hate or praise, saying “We are a strong community. We have strong feelings about the people who hurt us, but I think our focus now has to be on prosecuting those involved, and getting to the end of the investigation, which is ongoing, and repairing our communities, so that we can move forward.”

Katherine Russell, Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s 24-year-old widow, has reportedly stopped cooperating with investigators. “I don’t have anything to say to his wife,” Patrick said. “His wife is being questioned, I understand it, as a part of the investigation, and her relationship with the investigation is between her and her council and the investigators.”

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The Olms will perform as part of the Live From Home benefit concert series at the Housing Works Bookstore Cafe, a not-for-profit organization providing healthcare, housing, advocacy and other services to homeless and formerly homeless people with HIV and AIDS, on June 7th.

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Um, as if we needed further evidence that Kevin Spacey — most recently killin’ it as smarmy politico extraordinaire on Netflix’s House of Cards — was a cool dude, he went and did THIS. This young lady was out for a stroll through the Public Garden in Boston on Monday, and had stopped to take this touristy photo in front of the George Washington statue, when homeboy — out for a jog of his own — allegedly yelled “PHOTOBOMB” and jumped into the frame.

And while screaming the B-word around Boston while leaping unannounced into strangers’ personal spaces might not be the most prudent move right about now (as Gawker — and many others — have pointed out) awesome this remains. Reminds us of when Tom Hanks did this. Tom Hanks is also awesome.

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It’s that time again, folks. Come Saturday, a fleet of the best and brightest food truckers culled from Boston and New York City will set up camp on the Greenway and go head-to-head in this spring’s Food Truck Throwdown. Admission is free, and if last October’s star-studded bout was any indication, the chance to chow down en masse should by no means be missed.

“Both cities have some fantastic trucks,” says Mei Mei Street Kitchen co-founder Irene Li. “Not only do we get to eat each others’ food, but we also get a little time to talk, compare notes and learn from one another.”  

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The sibling-run Mei Mei Street Kitchen joins a roster of trucks armed to the teeth with talent — outdoor lunchers can count on appearances by favorites Bon Me, KickAss Cupcakes, Chubby Chickpea, and Roxy’s Grilled Cheese, among others.

“The last Throwdown feels like it happened ages ago,” Li says. “We’ve put dozens of new items on the menu since then, so we really tried to look at all of our dishes and pick the ones that are the most streamline-able and the most delicious.”

“Plus, we started making bacon,” she adds. “Expect lots of bacon.”

Included in a judging panel packed with local culinary luminaries and enthusiasts is Jamie Bissonnette, chef and owner of Toro and Coppa.

“Eighteen trucks… daunting. I am afraid I’ll miss something,” he says of the challenges that arise when faced with a Greenway littered with gourmet fare. “Judging this will be more about the cohesiveness of the foods, styles and overall flavor.”

Roxy’s Grilled Cheese founder James DiSabatino, the winner of last year’s Best Truck Design, is more than ready for the influx of meals on wheels. “The city didn’t allow food trucks three years ago, and now we have trucks from other cities visiting. That’s really cool in my book,” he says. “But, we still plan on kicking their a—es in the Throwdown.”

Last fall’s event fed more than 1,000 hungry city-dwellers, a wave that nearly brought the Roxy’s team to their knees. Not this year, DiSabatino assures. To boot, the grilled cheese experts will be offering a category dedicated to one event sponsor: Maker’s Mark. According to DiSabatino, “it’s going to knock some socks off.”

“It’s a food revolution. It’s changing the way people dine in urban areas,” he continues. “It had to happen.”

2013 Food Truck Throwdown
Saturday, 11 a.m.-9 p.m.
The Greenway (between State and India streets), Boston
Free admission
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Three UMass Dartmouth students were charged Wednesday in connection with the deadly Boston Marathon bombings for allegedly hiding items from Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s UMass Dartmouth dorm room and lying to federal authorities.

Dias Kadyrbayev and Azamat Tazhayakov, both 19 and of New Bedford, were charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice by conspiring to destroy, conceal and cover up tangible objects belonging to Tsarnaev.

Robel Phillipos, 19, of Cambridge, was charged with willfully making materially false statements to federal law enforcement officials during a terrorims investigation.

The men will make an initial appearance in federal court in Boston at 3:30 p.m., according to the US Attorney’s office.

All three men and Tsarnaev started attending UMass Dartmouth at the same time, authorities said in court documents.

Authorities said Kadybayev and Tazhayakov concealed Tsarnaev’s laptop computer and a backpack containing fireworks. They face a maximum sentence of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

The fireworks friends of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev allegedly found and took from his dorm room days after the Boston Marathon bombings.
Credit: FBI

Phillipos faces a maximum sentence of eight years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

Authorities, in a federal criminal complaint released Wednesday, said Kadybayev and Tazhayakov took fireworks, a backpack and a laptop computer from Tsarnaev’s dorm room three days after the bombings. The took the items after seeing pictures of Tsarnaev and his brother on thew news and after Kadybayev received a text message from Tsarnaev that said “I’m about to leave if you need something in my room take it,” authorities wrote in their complaint.

After seeing that Tsarnaev’s older brother was killed and there was a manhunt for the younger suspect in Watertown, the duo threw out the backpack and fireworks. When questioned by authorities, Phillipos, who also went to Tsarnaev’s dorm with the other two suspects, allegedly lied to authorities about taking the items.

At 11:38 a.m., about 30 minutes after making the initial announcement about the arrests, Boston Police tweeted, “Please be advised there is no threat to the public.”

“Please be advised that there is not threat to public safety. Three additional suspects have been taken into custody in connection to the attack on the Boston Marathon. Aside from the aforementioned, there is no additional info to release at this time. Additional details will be provided when they become available,” Boston Police said in a statement.

The 19-year-old Tsarnaev is in fair condition at a federal medical center in Fort Devens. He is charged with use of a weapon of mass destruction. His older brother and fellow suspect, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, was killed during a gunfight with police April 19.

Three people were killed and about 260 others were injured when two bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on April 15.

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There are things that everyone knows about Mike Tyson. The weird stuff. The frightening stuff. The flat-out insane stuff. The stuff of legends. Holyfield’s ear. Years of domestic strife. Bouts of volatility and violence (an occupational hazard, perhaps). That face tattoo.

But there’s also other stuff. Like an inexplicable fondness for pigeons, arguably the most common bird in the aviary hierarchy. You’d have guessed maybe peacocks. Or bald freaking eagles. But no, Iron Mike loves pigeons. He also loves theater. All kinds of theater. He digs Porgy and Bess and cites the little known (among non-theater heads, at least) Cuba and His Teddy Bear – the Reinaldo Povod-written play starring Robert DeNiro that enjoyed a 53-show Broadway run in ‘86 — as one of his favorites. The dude is a little bit enigmatic. He’s also a known hot-head, though not these days, as both recent behavior and self-testimony indicate that Tyson is a changed man, maybe even a bit of a Zen man.

Still, when you’re tasked with calling Mike Tyson up on the phone to interview the champion heavyweight boxer-turned-actor about his one-man play Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth (directed by similarly legendary Spike Lee) — for which he’s currently wrapping up a 19-date tour with a stop at the Kimmel Center in Philly and a penultimate stop at the Wang Theatre in Boston — you’re a little nervous.

This writer was tasked with just that. The following are excerpts from a conversation held over a very bad connection on an iPhone, from the cafe car of a southbound Amtrak. Excerpts because the other thing Iron Mike is known for is that signature lisp. If you’ve ever tried to talk to anybody on a cell phone with a bad connection on an Amtrak cafe car, you’re likely aware that it is….difficult. (A seventh listen to the recorded transcript of this interview revealed that Mike Tyson did not, in fact, tell this writer that he once watched Ben and Jerry perform A Bronx Tale. Though that would have been amazing.)

Mike Tyson on deciding to do a one-man play.
Me and my wife was watching [not Ben and Jerry] do a Bronx Tale onstage and it was just so amazing, you can’t even imagine. Inspiration is an understatement. We was hanging on every word they said and I said ‘Baby, I think I can do this.’ Because, I mean, when I’m in Europe, and in Asia, I’m onstage talking about myself. People ask me questions from the crowd. But when I do it in America, I feel like it’s coming from an artistic point of view. And so we did it for two weeks at the MGM Grand and sold out every night….mostly foreigners. Every night, foreigners! And then Spike Lee called me when I was in Poland and asked me to take it to Broadway. And now we’re on a nationwide tour.

On pre-stage ritual.
I make sure I’m in the best physical and spiritual shape I can possibly be in. I just think of myself as being, like, one of the great stage performers. Like, you know, Nat King Cole, Sammy Davis Jr., Julie Garland, and all those guys. Frank Sinatra. I’m talking about real entertainers, I’m talking about really explosive entertainers. The dancers! That kind of stuff.

On a bomb threat that got called in to his New York show.
Yes, there was a bomb threat. But they caught the guy, they caught the guy. But that’s okay. And they’re going to do that to me? Can you imagine me dying on a Broadway stage?! Holy Moley! Well they got the guy…I think it was fake. He wanted to do another, um, Colorado movie theater shooting….online….and that helped the FBI catch him.

On his favorite story to tell onstage.
When I had my street altercation with Mitch Green. I had a street fight with Mitch Green — a boxer – and I’m explaining to the crowd what happened. Oh, amazing. It’s not meant to be, but it gets a lot of laughs.

On the suggestion that that’s good, because isn’t his show meant to be half-comedic and half-serious?
No! I don’t want to be anything comedic. Nothing comedic! But sometimes people laugh.

On his favorite city on the tour.
I’ve been to….man. I’ve been to St. Louis, I’ve been to San Francisco, San Diego, Anaheim, Los Angeles, San Francisco. Where else? San Diego. Where else? San Jose, Atlanta, North Carolina, Mississippi, Miami, Tampa, all over the place.

On his favorite city on the tour to hang out in, though.
Hey, I don’t do no hanging out. But I did like Durham, North Carolina, that was a nice town.

On whether he had to read Fifty Shades of Grey to “research” for a scene in Scary Movie 5.
My wife reads that stuff, I don’t read that stuff. They just told me what to do. I don’t listen to my wife about no Fifty Shades of Grey. Yeah, I don’t want to read that stuff.

On stage versus screen acting.
I love stage acting, I don’t love anything more than stage acting — that’s instant gratification right there. You have people breathing, you have instant gratification.

On his favorite sports movies of all time.
Gentlemen Jim and Raging Bull.

On the best Rocky movie.
Big time Rocky fan. The one with Mr. T in it was the best.

On the one question he never wants to be asked again.
I don’t know…I’m so accustomed to answering any question anybody asks me. I’m not afraid to answer any questions.

On Zach Galifianakis.
He’s a really good guy. I think he’s a good guy. He’s a very normal person. He’s more normal than I am! He’s real normal, a good guy.

On the funniest actor in The Hangover.
Zach was the funniest. Zach. Zach. Zach. Zach. Number one, Zach. Zach was funnier than everybody.

On pets.
I just love animals, you know. They need people to take care of them. It’s a cold world out there. They live longer under the care of human beings than they do in the wild, in the care of the nature. Nature is harder on them.

On pigeons.
That’s just what I do. That’s my culture, that’s where I come from. You do that.

On his favorite pet pigeon.
No favorites, I have a lot of pigeons I like.

Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth        

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May 2 @ 8 pm
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A Boston University student from Brooklyn, N.Y. was killed and two other students were injured when the Allston home they were in erupted in flames Sunday morning, sending at least one person jumping from the roof of a porch to escape the fierce flames.

Binland Lee, 22, was a senior studying marine science and was scheduled to graduate in September, according to BU Today. She graduated from Brooklyn Technical High School in 2009.

In a letter to the school community Sunday night, President Robert Brown called the incident a tragedy.

“Our thoughts and prayers go to the family and friends of the individual who has died and all the victims of the fire,” Brown said in his letter, which was posted on the school’s website.

A fire department spokesman said Lee was found in the attic.

The three-alarm fire broke out at 87 Linden St., at about 6:30 a.m. In total 15 people were injured, including six Boston firefighters. The fire and smoke were so intense and caused so much damage inside that fire crews were pulled out of the building during their effort.

Investigators are still determining the cause of the fire. City inspectors have also been called in because it appeared that 19 people were living in the three-story home. It was not immediately clear how many people were legally allowed to live there. BU officials said at least nine students lived in the home.

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Boston rapper Slaine — who some might know better from his burgeoning Hollywood career (The Town, Killing Them Softly) — spoke out about the connections some are drawing between deceased bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s musical tastes and his violent actions, in an interview with MTV on Friday. “Millions and millions and millions of kids listen to hip-hop and they don’t blow up bombs at public events to kill innocent women and children,” the La Coka Nostra rapper, whose son and son’s mother were at the marathon that day, said. True dat.

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In times of disaster, there are those who run. And then there are those who run directly into the fray. Journalist Chris Faraone is one of the those people. The former reporter for the Boston Phoenix, the now defunct alt-weekly, is an immersive journalist (a Gonzo journalist, really,) the kind who doesn’t mind getting a little dirt on his hands while hunting for the facts other journalists might leave un-dug. The kind who relishes it.

Faraone has camped in the trenches of the Occupy movement — following the movement tirelessly, some might say doggedly — reporting from hotspots in Dewey Square and camps across the country. These months spent exhaustively reporting the grassroots protests for the Phoenix birthed the 34-year-old writer’s first book, the self-published 99 Nights with the 99 Percent.

Now, just two weeks after the bombs went off at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, he’s penned his second book. Heartbreak Hell is an e-book that chronicles Faraone’s experiences reporting the attack on the marathon —both as a journalist and a self-appointed Bostonian — over many sleepless hours fueled, by his own admission, by a lot of drugs and a lot of heart.

Faraone recently won Boston-based online news site BostInno’s Write to Power Books distinction in the media category of their 50 on Fire awards, which honor those “setting the Boston scene on fire,” the wording now imbued with a kind of eerie symmetry, considering the content of Heartbreak Hell. We caught up with Faraone in preview of the e-book’s release — available for free at heartbreakhell.com — before he left town for a much-needed vacation (the reporter’s first real bit of time off in some 10 odd years). “If people read the book, they’ll understand why,” he said.

How the hell did you manage to write an entire book, in the span of two weeks, while juggling all your various freelance assignments?

Some of those assignments — for Dig Boston, for the American Prospect —were incorporated into the book, but they only account for a bit of it. Otherwise, this is a work of gut reaction and reporting. I was just a few blocks away when the bombs went off. From that point on, I was reporting and writing for about 20 hours a day — whether on Twitter, walking the streets filling notepads, or sitting at bars processing it all the best I could.

What was your initial, gut reaction when you first became aware what was going down that day?

First my reaction was that there was no way this was an attack. I thought it must have been some sort of accident. And then, amidst the people who were still going about their business merrily, I saw more and more people crying, and even sobbing uncontrollably, lost. Having been in New York City on 9/11, my thought at that point was that I really can’t believe something like that is happening again. Then I thought to start reporting.

What has this experience these past few weeks been like, as both a Bostonian and a reporter?

As someone who lives in Boston by choice, it’s strange to see so much attention put on the place from outside. I’m from New York, and one thing I love about Boston is that it’s not the focus of attention. It’s a great place, we know it, a lot of tourists love it, the teams win, and that’s good enough for us. It’s been interesting to watch the reaction from outsiders this time around, because from their perspective it’s hard to see that there were different reactions, that not everyone was just holding up “Boston Strong” banners and acting like we won the World Series. As a reporter, I set out to show the different types of impacts that this heinous act of violence had on people and circumstances that we didn’t see much of in most reporting in the immediate aftermath.

Did you pitch this book around at all, or immediately decide to put it on the web?

Maybe one day this — or some version of Heartbreak Hell — will come out as a regular print book. At this point, though, that’s the last thing on my mind. I just want to get the story out there to as many people as possible. Whether it’s cathartic, or just a different take on things, the stories I tell are the kinds that I think people will want to remember down the line. The book is kind of a time capsule.

Why did you decide to package this as a free online book?

I think it just matched the spirit of the whole reaction. The last thing I want to do right now is run around hawking a book about this tragedy. These are just stories that I want to get out there, while they’re fresh. I got help from my friend Clarence Smith Jr. (of Bold Edition) to develop what I can honestly say is one of the most dynamic and beautiful-looking online e-books ever released by anyone. There’s also a version on Amazon for Kindle, and that cost me a little bit to format, so that one is 99 cents. A little secret though — it’s not nearly as cool looking as the free version.

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Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been moved from a Boston hospital to a prison at Fort Devens, the U.S. Marshals Service said on Friday.

“The U.S. Marshals Service confirms that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been transported from the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and is now confined at the Bureau of Prisons facility FMC Devens at Ft. Devens, Mass.,” said U.S. Marshals Service spokesman Drew Wade.

The 19-year-old ethnic Chechen, who was badly wounded before being captured last Friday, had previously been held at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where some of the victims were also being treated.

Tsarnaev’s older brother, 26-year-old Tamerlan, died in a shootout with police in Watertown on the night before.

Federal Medical Center Devens is located at the decommissioned Fort Devens U.S. Army base, about 40 miles west of Boston. The prison there specializes in inmates who need long-term medical or mental health there, according to the Bureau of Prisons website. It currently holds about 1,000 prisoners.

NIGHT OF TERROR

Authorities say the brothers set off a pair of bombs at the marathon on April 15. Three days later, the FBI and police identified the men in photos and videos taken at the scene.

The brothers are also suspected of shooting Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer Sean Collier, 26, on April 18 and then hijacking a man in a car, which they planned to drive to New York City and set off additional explosives in Times Square.

Their plan was foiled when the car, a Mercedes sport-utility vehicle, ran low on fuel and they stopped for gas, giving the man a chance to escape.

Their carjacking victim was a 26-year-old man of Chinese origin who goes by the American nickname “Danny,” the Boston Globe reported on Friday. The newspaper did not publish his Chinese name at his request.

“I don’t want to die,” the man recalled thinking as the brothers drove him around for some 90 minutes, making banal small talk, according to an interview with the Globe. “I have a lot of dreams that haven’t come true yet.”

Danny, who is trained as an engineer, kept the brothers calm by playing up his outsider status, although at first they were puzzled by his Chinese accent, the Globe said. After determining that the victim was Chinese, Tamerlan Tsarnaev identified himself as a Muslim, the newspaper reported.

“Chinese are very friendly to Muslims!” Danny said, according to the interview. “We are so friendly to Muslims.”

One of the three people who died in the bombing was also Chinese, 23-year-old graduate student Lingzi Lu. An 8-year-old boy, Martin Richard, and 29-year-old restaurant manager Krystle Campbell were also killed in the attack.

The brothers’ parents, father Anzor Tsarnaev and mother Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, told reporters on Thursday in Makhachkala, the capital of Russia’s Dagestan region, that they believed their son was innocent.

The father said he planned to travel to Boston to bury Tamerlan.

This week, lawmakers demanded answers about what the U.S. government knew about the suspects before the bombing. In 2011, Russia had asked the FBI to question Tamerlan because of concerns that he may have been a radical Islamist.

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Mayor Michael Bloomberg and NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly confirmed today that Dzhokhar Tsarvaev told investigators last night that he and his brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, planned to drive to New York and detonate bombs in Times Square.

This plan apparently came out of a spur-of-the-moment decision after the brothers hijacked a Mercedes SUV Thursday night.

The driver of the SUV had previously told investigators that the brothers spoke a foreign language to one another while in the car, but that he had been able to make out the word “Manhattan.”

They had with them in the SUV six bombs, including a pressure cooker bomb similar to the two that were detonated at the Boston Marathon ten days ago.

The other five bombs were pipe bombs, Bloomberg said.

While he maintained that the decision to hit New York was spontaneous, Bloomberg said he did not know where the brothers had planned to take the bombs prior to setting their sights on Times Square.

Some details are apparently still unknown to Bloomberg and Kelly, though Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne did confirm that there is more information out there.

The investigation into the younger Tsarnaev brother has reportedly turned up photos of him in Times Square with friends last year, “on or before April 18,” Kelly said.

Tsarnaev was reportedly in the city again in November of last year.

Kelly said authorities “don’t know if the visits were related in any way” to the reportedly “spontaneous” decision to target Times Square.

The NYPD Intelligence Division is investigating Tsarnaev’s “movements” in the city and who he may have been with or interacted with while here. Some people in the Times Square photo have already been identified, Kelly reported.

Kelly had previously said, as recently as Wednesday, that the brothers had planned to come to New York to “party,” information which apparently came from the initial questioning by investigators.

Today Kelly said that authorities are inclined to believe last night’s confession over the previous statement because Tsarnaev was reportedly “more lucid” during the second questioning.

While they said there is no way to know if the NYPD would have been able to stop the Tsarnaev brothers if they had made it to Times Square, Bloomberg noted that there would have been numerous officers visible all around Times Square, as well as “an extensive network of cameras” that the brothers would not have seen.

Bloomberg and Kelly pointed to the large role surveillance camera footage played in the investigation into the Boston Marathon bombings, asserting that shows how crucial surveillance is to New Yorkers’ security.

The NYPD already uses a vehicle that takes 360-degree photos along the route of major events, like marathons, but Kelly said they want to expand the numbers of cameras around the city generally.

In particular, he said, they would like to increase the number of “smart cameras” they use, which use video analytics to conduct real-time facial recognition.

Bloomberg agreed that cameras are an integral part of the city’s security measures, noting that they work as a deterrent because “you’re never going to know where all our cameras are.”

Kelly and Bloomberg both assured the public there is “no evidence to suggest that New York City is currently a target.”

“Do I feel safe going out tonight?” Bloomberg asked. “Yes. Do I feel safe that every area of the city is protected? Yes, I do.”

The mayor said “it’s a dangerous world, but you’re probably safer here than you are anywhere else.”

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Thousands of people and law enforcement officers are attending today’s memorial service to honor MIT Officer Sean Collier. 

The 26-year-old was fatally shot late Thursday allegedly by Marathon bombing suspects Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

Musician James Taylor will perform during today’s service and Vice President Joe Biden will speak.

A live webcast of the service can be viewed here.

Collier’s funeral was private and was held Tuesday.

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Officials at Mt. Auburn Hospital in Cambridge gave an update today on the condition of MBTA Transit Police Officer Richard Donohue, 33, who was severely wounded early Friday during a Watertown shootout with the Boston Marathon bombing suspects.

Donohue, a Woburn resident, sustained a gunshot wound to his right thigh and suffered major blood loss, according to Mt. Auburn Critical Care Doctor David Miller, who also said CPR was started in the field by first responders and he required a prolonged resuscitation – 45 minutes – that took place on the scene and at the emergency room. Miller said nearly his entire blood volume was lost. When he was stabilized, a surgical team stopped the bleeding.

Today he opened his eyes, squeezed his wife’s hand on command, and wiggled his toes, however he is on a mechanical ventilator, and continues to need a high level of sedation. Doctors described his condition as stable but still in critical condition.

Transit Police officer Richard Donohue poses with fallen MIT Campus Police Officer Sean Collier, 26, who was shot and killed by the Boston Marathon bombing suspects Thursday night.

“It’s early to say what his status is going to be like over next few days, but we remain cautiously optimistic,” Miller said.

Doctors said they expect Donohue will be able to walk again.

Donohue, who has been a Transit Police officer for three years, was one of two officers to be shot at during a 24-hour manhunt. MIT Campus Police Officer Sean Collier, 26, was shot and killed in his cruiser. Transit Police Officer Paul MacMillan said today that Donohue took shots at the suspects, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19. Tamerlan was killed due to gunfire.

“He did fire his weapon…  He engaged the terrorist,” MacMillan said.

His younger brother Ed Donohue, also a police officer, said that as officers they have a duty to help people. “He’s a great cop. He loves being a cop…. We couldn’t be more proud. I’m sure that in his heart he did the right thing. He went in there and engaged people that were shooting his fellow officers.”

Despite the circumstances, Donohue seemed to be keeping spirits up.

“I’m the better looking one, obviously. He may be a little bit smarter,” Donohue said, drawing laughter from media, hospital and MBTA staff. “He’s devoted to his baby,” he said of his brother’s 6-month-old son, Richie.

“We joke back in forth… I always used to tell him, ‘You’re not going to see any action because you’re on the subway. But there he is, jumping into the midst of a gunfight in Watertown and making our family very proud and our entire state and country very proud.”

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Friday began with a series of bangs for Watertown residents as a violent car chase ended with a shootout in a residential neighborhood, leading to a fruitless search for the surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect, and ultimately his capture shortly after a request that residents remain indoors was lifted.

One of the warmest days of the year had already cooled and turned misty with thick clouds churning overhead as authorities told residents they must go on with their lives even though a violent murderer had so-far eluded police, escaping on foot after abandoning a vehicle early in the morning. The at-large suspect’s older brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, was killed during the gun fight.

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Then within an hour after announcing there had been no arrest, 19-year-old Dzhokar Tsarnaev was discovered hiding in a boat in a Watertown driveway and quickly surrounded. Neighbors heard loud gun shots and the massive police presence already in town swiftly converged on Franklin Street.

“When the gunfire went off we took cover and hit the ground, but besides that we were pretty anxious to see what was going on,” said 20-year-old Matt McNamara.

McNamara’s house is across the street from the driveway with the boat, and he said he and his family attempted to leave when they saw the street filling up with law enforcement, but they were ordered to stay inside. McNamara said police started arriving as dusk fell at about 6:30 p.m. or 6:45 p.m., and he was finally able to join the crowd behind a police perimeter sometime before 9 p.m. Police keeping watch on the crowd along Mount Auburn Street spread the word of Tsarnaev’s capture around 8:45 p.m. by clapping as one officer said, “Got ‘em.”

President Barack Obama, who rallied the region’s spirits in a speech at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Boston on Thursday morning, addressed the public – many of whom had little sleep since waking up Thursday morning.

“Boston police and state police and local police across the Commonwealth of Massachusetts responded with professionalism and bravery over five long days, and tonight because of their determined efforts we’ve closed an important chapter in this tragedy,” Obama said from the White House Friday night.

“Obviously tonight there are still many unanswered questions. Among them: Why did young men who grew up and studied here as part of our communities and our country resort to such violence? How did they plan and carry out these attacks and did they receive any help? The families of those killed so senselessly deserve answers,” Obama said. He directed federal authorities to “continue to deploy all the necessary resources to support the investigation, to collect intelligence and to protect our citizens.”

Noting that there is a “temptation” to “jump to conclusions,” Obama said, “That’s why we have courts, and that’s why we take care not to rush to judgment, not about the motivations of these individuals, certainly not about entire groups of people.”

The tip that led to Dzhokar Tsarnaev’s capture came in from a Franklin Street man who had abided by the governor’s request to stay indoors, a directive aimed at assisting in the manhunt, and then noticed something odd when he stepped outside after the request was listed.

“He walked outside and he saw blood on a boat in the backyard. He then opened the tarp on the top of the boat, and he looked in and he saw a man covered in blood. He retreated and called us,” Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis told reporters. “We set up a perimeter around that boat, and over the course of the next hour or so we exchanged gunfire with the suspect who was inside the boat, and ultimately the hostage-rescue team or the FBI made an entry into the boat and removed the suspect who was still alive in the boat.”

Davis said the hostage-rescue team tried to “talk him out” but the suspect “was not communicative.” Speaking to CNN, Davis said Dzhokar Tsarnaev was “severely injured” likely from the shootout after the car chase and perhaps also from the gun battle with police around the boat.

Davis said the Franklin Street yard where the suspect was eventually located was “just slightly outside” the 20-street area of Watertown where Alben said law enforcement had been going door-to-door and “conducting limited searches of those homes to render them safe.”

A lifetime neighborhood resident who was walking her dog when she hear the gun fire Friday night, Mary Sullivan said Franklin Street is easily accessible from the area where the car chase ended at Dexter and Laurel streets.

“There’s not a lot of dead-ends and if you know the town you can make your way down to Watertown Square without ever going on Mount Auburn Street,” Sullivan told the News Service.

After the arrest, U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz said “there is a public safety exemption” in terrorism cases to the Miranda requirement that a suspect be read his rights after an arrest.

As smiling SWAT officers emerged from Franklin Street they were greeted with applause from the crowd of neighbors that lined the sidewalks. Law enforcement vehicles making their way from the crime scene down Mount Auburn cruised past a throng of people cheering in the street and thumping the hoods of the cars.

The festive mood was a departure from the rest of the day in which public transit was shut down, and people were advised to stay home behind locked doors in Boston, Cambridge, Newton, Waltham, Belmont and Watertown.

“Remember there is still a very, very dangerous individual at large, but we feel confident based on what we know about the status of the investigation right now that to that extent we can return to living our lives,” Gov. Deval Patrick said at the press conference before the wounded Dzhokar Tsarnaev was discovered, advising people to “remain vigilant” as he lifted his request that they remain indoors.

“I don’t have any direct knowledge that he’s here in the Boston area, but we don’t think he’d get much further. His ties seem to be here,” State Police Superintendent Timothy Alben said at the time.

At the press conference held little after 6 p.m., Patrick said that the request to remain indoors was lifted and the MBTA would resume service.

“Thank you to the business community for working with us over the last several hours, closed their businesses,” Boston Mayor Tom Menino said. “Big economic loss for them. Together we’re going to get through this.”

The press conference was held across the street from the old Watertown Arsenal – now a mall – which produced gun parts and firearms from around the time of the Civil War through World War II, according to the Library of Congress. Immediately after the afternoon press conference, helicopters buzzed overhead and a line of Humvees rumbled through the parking lot.

The investigation

Two bombs in the crowd of the Boston Marathon finish line exploded Monday afternoon killing three and injuring more than 180 people, according to the FBI’s latest tally. The attack, which marred a cherished holiday for many, launched a massive investigatory operation, as federal and state law enforcement processed evidence from a multi-block crime scene around Copley Square and followed up on tips.

Early Thursday evening, the FBI appealed to the public for help in its investigation, releasing photos and video taken at the marathon of what officials believed to be the two suspects. About five hours later, the suspects revealed themselves to be startlingly close to the attack when they allegedly assassinated MIT police officer Sean Collier in his cruiser at Vassar and Main streets in Cambridge, right across the Charles River from the marathon crime scene. The two brothers allegedly committed a car-jacking, letting the driver out unharmed at a Memorial Drive gas station and then led police into Watertown, dropping explosives out of the car.

“I think this developed rather quickly last night, and I would wager that most of the activity that was printed in the media yesterday forced them to make decisions or take actions that ultimately revealed who they were,” said Alben.

Although on Thursday the FBI said the grainy images it released were the “only ones that the public should use to assist us,” in the minutes and hours that followed the release of the photos, new higher-resolution images began to circulate online.

People from various municipalities said they could hear the sound of the violent car chase, as police pursued the Tsarnaev brothers to Watertown.

“There were explosives that they had with them last night. They threw those at the police officers that were pursuing them,” Alben said. Alben said Dzhokar Tsarnaev abandoned a car and fled on foot.

MBTA Police officer Richard Donohue was injured in the gunfight. At 3 p.m. Sunday, MBTA Police Chief Paul MacMillan and General Manager Beverly Scott will join Donohue’s brother, also a police officer, at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge for a media availability. T officials on Sunday also released a photo of Richard Donohue with Collier, taken the day they graduated together from the Municipal Police Officers’ Academy in 2010.

Both Tsarneov brothers are ethnic Chechens who were born in Kyrgyzstan, according to their uncle. According to the FBI, Tamerlan Tsarnaev was a legal permanent resident and Dzhokar Tsarnaev is a naturalized U.S. citizen.

In 2011, according to the FBI, a foreign government sought information about Tamerlan Tsarnaev “based on information that he was a follower of radical Islam and a strong believer, and that he had changed drastically since 2010 as he prepared to leave the United States for travel to the country’s region to join unspecified underground groups.” The FBI interviewed Tamerlan Tsarnaev and his family members and reported back that it had been unable to find evidence of terrorism activity, according to the FBI.

State Police spokesman David Procopio told reporters that police found a pressure cooker bomb that detonated during the chase, as well as several pipe bombs, some of which had been detonated. The FBI has said one or more of the marathon bombs may have been housed in a pressure cooker.

Procopio said recent police activity in New Bedford is “part of a lead we’re following up.”

Alben said the Tsarnaev brothers were at a 7-11 in Cambridge at a time that was “somewhat coincidental” to an armed robbery of the convenience store, but they did not rob the store. A Honda CR-V is being processed and its “relevance to the case is still not known,” Alben said.

Long day

Residents spent Friday inside glued to news coverage while daffodils bloomed outside, a police boat patrolled the Charles River and police sought out a 19-year-old who reportedly attended Cambridge Rindge and Latin School.

Temperatures reached a high of 75 degrees in Boston, the highest of the year so-far, according to the National Weather Service.

Harvard Square, which would ordinarily be pulsing with life on a beautiful Friday afternoon, was a ghost town, with a few scatterings of pedestrians, people sitting at tables and panhandlers.

Meanwhile the expansive Watertown Mall parking lot, which served as a briefing area for the media, was filled with news trucks and reporters, many of whom had been following the story since the murder of the MIT officer Thursday night.

“I know you’re all tired. We certainly are as well,” Alben said, greeting reporters Friday afternoon.

“Today, the city of Boston, the city of Cambridge, and the city of Watertown—and many other communities—can breathe a sigh of relief knowing that two perpetrators who caused so much pain and anguish are no longer a threat to our personal safety and our communities,” said Boston FBI Special Agent in Charge Rick DesLauriers after the capture. He said it felt like “many months” not five days since the bombing. At the press conference held before the suspect’s capture, DesLauriers stood silent and staring ahead.

Among the neighbors who gathered outside the police perimeter Friday night were former Attorney General Tom Reilly, who declined to comment during the police activity beyond saying “We live here,” and Rep. Jonathan Hecht who arrived with his wife and daughter after the suspect was in custody.

“People were staying in their homes, because that’s what they were asked to do. Everyone recognized how serious it was,” Hecht said. He said there had been a lot of communication online throughout the day. Asked what the town would need in the future, Hecht said, “I think we’ll be fine,” and said it is a diverse and welcoming community.

“We sort of got caught up in this international story the exact details of which we don’t know,” Hecht said, noting the speculation that has accompanied the emergence of facts about the suspects’ backgrounds. He said, “Thank God in this country and in this state and in this town despite all our differences, we pitch in together.”

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After a violent, grueling week, investigators have yet to charge 19-year-old terror suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev following his arrest Friday for allegedly carrying out last week’s deadly Boston Marathon bombings.

Investigators said today Dzhokhar and his brother Tamarlen Tsarnaev, 26, who was killed in a shootout Thursday night, were likely planning to launch more violent attacks following Monday’s attack, as investigators discovered an arsenal of deadly weaponry in their possession.

However evidence suggests that the brothers acted alone, and that the city is safe.

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Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis said at a press event today that he’s “satisfied there are no explosive devices in the area of Boylston Street,” but said Tsarnaev, who is suspected of killing three and injuring more than 180 people last Monday, was in no condition to be interrogated.

Davis said earlier police discovered at least four unexploded devices including one similar to the two pressure cooker bombs packed with nails and ball bearing used in the twin blasts Monday.

Tsarnaev was arrested Friday night following a 24-hour manhunt and lock down. He was ultimately found hiding in a boat in a Watertown driveway after suffering multiple gunshot wounds. Tamerlan died the night before during a shootout with police that left behind roughly 250 spent shells.

Davis said Tsarnaev is in “critical but stable condition,” at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where a number of bombing victims have also been treated.

A senior law enforcement official confirmed to NBC that Tsarnaev is suffering from a wound to his throat that has left him unable to talk, and Gov. Deval Patrick on Saturday backed up that claim, saying Tsarnaev was “unable to communicate.”

A source close to the investigation told Reuters he had tongue damage.

There is a special interrogation team from the FBI that is standing by to talk to him, Davis said, but as of deadline tday that hadn’t happened.

Federal prosecutors prepared criminal charges yesterday, which could be brought forth today.

The ethnic Chechens came to the United States 10 years ago. Their parents, who moved back to southern Russia, have said their sons were framed.

A man who calls himself the suspects’ father, Anzor Tsarnaev, said Friday that Dzhokhar is “a true angel,” and told the Associated Press, “They were set up, they were set up… I saw it on television; they killed my older son Tamerlan.” He also said he wanted the judicial system to “investigate everything, who’s right and who’s guilty.”

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On Friday April 19 2013, Boston law enforcement officials captured Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, the second suspect of the Boston Marathon bombing.

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After a brief exchange of gunfire, the suspect was found laying inside a boat that was parked in the backyard of a home in Watertown, Boston.

Shortly after the suspect was taken into custody, the people of Watertown and other areas of Boston poured into the streets to thank police officers and celebrate the end of an intense manhunt.

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Events throughout the Boston area were postponed or cancelled as law enforcement officers searched for a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings.

“Tonight’s Boston Red Sox game at Fenway Park has been postponed to support the efforts of law enforcement officers,” a team statement said Friday afternoon. The Red Sox were scheduled to begin at three-game series with the Kansas City Royals Friday night. A new date wasn’t immediately announced.

The Boston Bruins and Pittsburgh Penguins tentatively rescheduled their Friday night game to 12:30 p.m. Saturday, a Bruins statement said. A final decision will be made Saturday morning by the Bruins, Penguins, and NHL.

“Tickets for the originally scheduled game between the Bruins and Penguins will be honored for [the] rescheduled game,” the Bruins said.

The Big Apple Circus, performing at Boston’s City Hall Plaza, cancelled its shows Friday afternoon and evening. Ticketholders were told they could request exchanges or refunds on the circus’s website. No decision had been made about Saturday’s performances.

The organizers of Boston Comic Con, scheduled for this weekend at Hynes Convention Center, was also being postponed.

“Please, we ask for your patience, understanding, and cooperation,” a press statement from the event’s organizers said. “Unfortunately, this situation is beyond our control. We stand with all Bostonians and hope that current events are resolved quickly and a degree of normalcy can be returned to our city.”

All MBTA service was suspended until further notice Friday. All taxi service was suspended for a time, but that order was later lifted.

Logan Airport was open Friday, with heightened security. Amtrak trains in and out of Boston were cancelled.

Most local colleges, universities, and other schools cancelled all classes and events Friday.

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Law enforcement officials are going door-to-door Watertown, Mass., in a manhunt for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, the second suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings. His brother and alleged co-conspirator, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, was killed overnight in a shootout with police.

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Police have taken Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev into custody alive after a tense couple of hours on Franklin Street in Watertown.

As the State Police left the scene and an ambulance carrying Tsarnaev passed by, onlookers applauded and yelled “thank you” to police.

The incident unfolded mere minutes after the Boston police lifted the “stay in place” order in Boston, when reports of  “rapid” gunfire were reported from Watertown.

Hundreds of police, as well as SWAT teams, were deployed to a backyard on 67 Franklin St., in Watertown where Tsarnaev, 19, one of two brothers allegedly responsible for the Boston Marathon bombings, was found in the back of a boat being stored in a back yard.  Eye witnesses report hearing what sounded like multiple gunshots. Police moved in slowly in fear of explosives.

WHDH-TV 7News Boston (video clip of the gunshots)

The other suspect, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26,  died in a shootout with police Thursday night, after a dramatic chase. A graphic photo of the man’s corpse was leaked online. (Warning: the photo is very graphic.)

During the pursuit, the suspects fired on police and threw explosives from their vehicle. Authorities recovered more than 200 bullet casings.

“We do not have an apprehension of our suspect this afternoon,” said Mass. state police Col. Timothy Alben. “But we will have one. We’re committed to that.”

Alben said Watertown residents would see greater police presence over the weekend, and should be reassured by that.

Mass. Gov. Deval Patrick lifted a lock down order on Boston and several other communities, including Brookline, Newton, Arlington, Cambridge and Somerville, just after 6 p.m.

Patrick thanked residents for their cooperation, but urged everyone to remain alert, and to call 911 or the FBI if they saw Tsarnaev

“I want to reemphasize the point that people have got to be vigilant. This is a dangerous person who we believe has killed people,” said Alben. He told the suspect to give himself up “to stop any further violence towards anyone.”

Alben said there was no direct evidence that the suspect at large remains in Boston, although he is believed to still be in Massachusetts.

MBTA service resumed Friday evening, after being suspended most of the day.

Authorities had planned to carry out a “controlled explosion” at the suspects’ home on Norfolk Street in Cambridge, but that was later cancelled. State police said no explosives were found at that location.

A map of last night’s events in the Boston manhunt. Credit: Reuters

“We believe this to be a terrorist,” said Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev early Friday. “We believe this to be a man who has come here to kill people. We need to get him in custody.”

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Fifteen police officers were being treated at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital for injuries sustained during the chase, according to ABC News. For a timeline of events overnight, click here.

The brothers had been in the United States for several years, Reuters said. National security and law enforcement officials were leaning toward the theory that the Marathon bombings were motivated by Islamist extremism, in part because of Internet postings and comments the brothers allegedly made.

A Twitter account reported to belong to Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, was active after the marathon blasts, including a reply to a post about the bombings that read “fake story.”

The suspects father gave an interview from his home in Makhachkala, saying his sons were set up. The suspects’ uncle, Ruslan Tsarni, spoke to reporters outside his Maryland home Friday, telling Dzhokhar, “If you’re alive, turn yourself in and ask for forgiveness.”

“[I] never ever imagined that somehow the children of my brother would be associated with [the marathon bombing],” Tsarni said. “It is an atrocity. We are devastated. We’re shocked.”

An aunt, Maret Tsarnaeva, denied the brothers were involved.

“I know these two nephews — smart boys, good boys — they have no motive for that,” Tsarnaeva told reporters at her home in Toronto. “They have no ideas to be going to this kind of act. It’s just not the case, it cannot be true.”

Metro spoke with Somerville mechanic Gilberto Junior, who said he regularly worked on the vehicles of the two Boston Marathon bombing suspects. Junior said fugitive suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev came into his shop Tuesday.

“He was very nervous and said, ‘I need the car right now,’ and took the car,” said Junior, adding that “he was biting his fingernails.”

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev received a scholarship from the City of Cambridge in 2011 as a senior at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, according to the Boston Globe. He kept a profile on a Russian social media site.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev was an amateur boxer. He told a photographer during a 2010 interview, “I don’t have a single American friend, I don’t understand them.” A Massachusetts driver’s license recovered from his body showed he lived in Cambridge, Mass., according to NBC News.

WCVB-TV in Boston was one of the many stations providing a live feed of its television coverage Friday online. Reuters was aggregating its coverage from Twitter and its news wires.

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Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick warned people in Boston, Watertown, Cambridge and other nearby communities to stay inside with their doors and windows locked as police searched for one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects. The other is dead after a police shootout.

The man the FBI labeled “Suspect 1,” reported as Tamerlan Tsarneav, 26, was killed by law enforcement officers. 

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The Associated Press has identified “Suspect 2″ as 19-year-old Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev. The two suspects were reportedly brothers from Chechnya. The FBI released new photos of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev early Friday morning.

State police say a door-to-door search in Watertown could take hours.

All MBTA service was shut down until further notice. Colleges and public schools are also closed.

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Communities around Boston were put on lockdown Friday morning as authorities searched for one of the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings. 

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Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, the man the FBI labeled “Suspect 1″ in the investigation, was killed by law enforcement officers during a shootout overnight, according Reuters.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, designated as “Suspect 2,” is still on the run and remains a serious threat. The two suspects were reportedly brothers from Chechnya.

Reuters was providing a live Twitter feed of developments in the case, as was Metro Boston.

Around 10:20 Thursday night, an MIT police officer was shot and killed on campus, the Middlesex County District Attorney said in a statement. An MBTA officer was critically hurt.

A short time later, police received reports of a carjacking by two men who kept their victim inside the car for about half an hour, the statement said.

Police pursued that car to Watertown, where explosives were thrown from the car at police and gunfire was exchanged, the statement said.

“During the exchange of the gunfire, we believe that one of the suspects was struck and ultimately taken into custody. A second suspect was able to flee from that car and there is an active search going on at this point in time,” Col. Timothy Alben, superintendent of the Massachusetts State Police, told a news conference.

The first suspect died at Beth Israel Hospital. Doctors said he had gunshot wounds and “blast injuries.”

Officials urged people who live in Watertown, Newton, Waltham, Belmont, Cambridge and the Alston/Brighton neighborhoods of Boston to stay inside.

In Watertown, SWAT teams were conducting a door-to-door search. No vehicles were being allowed in or out of the community.

All MBTA service was shut down until further notice. Boston Public Schools and colleges were also closed for the day.

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