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Tuesday, March 20, 2012

5 Things You Need to Know Today

Five Things: Fog, Food and More

Five things you need to know today, March 20.

1) Mel Torme was the Velvet Fog. This is just regular fog. Expect areas of dense fog in the morning and sunny finish to the day. It’ll be warm again, with highs in the mid-70’s. 2) Party details emerge It looks as though Saturday night’s stabbing was preceded by a party based on a movie. Project X is about a group of teens determined to throw the craziest party they can, leading to disastrous results. Officials at Temple Tifereth said they were duped by the party’s organizer, who posed as a Haitian church member looking to host a small birthday party. 3) Chat with the mayor Mayor Gary Christenson will once again take to the web for an hour-long live chat with Malden Patch. The chat starts at 7 p.m.. 4) Malden Eats Malden Reads comes to …

Monday, March 19, 2012

Temple: Party Organizer Lied about Event That Ended in Stabbing

The applicant said it was a party for a Haitian church.

An official from Temple Tifereth said a party organizer lied to temple members about who he was and the type of party he intended to throw Saturday night. A Malden teenager was stabbed outside the temple at the conclusion of the party. “We believe we were, to a substantial degree, misled,” said Jordan Shapiro, Temple Financial Secretary and former Malden City Solicitor. “We are investigating internally. We’ve called a meeting of the executive board of the temple to discuss what happened and how we can avoid this moving forward.” Shapiro said the applicant said he was from Eglise Philadelphia Church, a Haitian Seventh-Day Adventist church off of Main Street. The church has routinely rented the temple’s hall for occasions. The applicant said…

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DannyBoy

9:41 am on Thursday, May 3, 2012

Mitch, two of the suspects in the stabbing are Malden residents in their twenties (link: http://malden.patch.com/articles/police-arrest-second-suspect-in-temple-stabbing), so parental control is not a factor here.   more ›

'Project X' Party Preceded Saturday Stabbing

Posts on YouTube, social media confirm teenagers were trying to recreate wild movie party Saturday night. A 17-year-old male was stabbed as party-goers exited the venue.

A teenager stabbed Saturday night may have been trying to get into or just leaving a party inspired by a recent movie. Malden teenagers on various social media outlets described the Saturday night gathering as a “Project X” party, referring to a recent film about a wild high school house party. Malden users described the party as a ticketed event that was advertised well in advance. While some expressed excitement for the event, others were quick to mock the idea of a movie-based party. Twitter searches for “Project X Malden, “Malden Stabbed” and “Party Malden” return dozens of references to the Saturday night party. By early Sunday morning, once news spread about the stabbing outside of the party, the mood swung decidedly negative, with …

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Diana

9:27 am on Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Michelle, the stabbing was confirmed by the Malden police department in the original story. This particular story is actually about the advertisement of the party on Twitter and YouTube and as such, Twitter and YouTube ARE reliable sources. Abusing the writer is rather poor form, and the time you spent writing that would have been better spent reading the article more thoroughly in an attempt to …   more ›

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