The Week in Review: City Council Election, Protest and a 30-Year Prison Sentence

This week was another busy one - Tito Jackson was elected to the City Council in a quiet District 7 election, a violent criminal will spend 30 years behind bars for a crime committed in the South End and demolition should begin this week at the former Ivory Bean building on Washington Street. Those stories and more are below (just click the link to see the full story):

Terry Connell is a local South End treasure: inspired body worker/acupuncturist, talented yoga instructor, counselor, teacher, dancer/choreographer and now, author. Terry sat down with Patch at The Buttery one wintery afternoon to discuss his first of three memoirs: Slaves to the Rhythm.

Dozens of protesters gathered outside Bank of America's Saturday morning to demand that the corporation pay its fair share in taxes.

Trevor Watson, one of two men convicted in the 2000 attack on Celtics star Paul Pierce, was sentenced to 30 years in prison last week for the attempted murder of a Drug Enforcement Administration informant in 2010.

Grove Hall native Tito Jackson will represent a portion of the South End on the City Council after scoring a runaway victory in Tuesday’s Special Municipal Election.

The owner of the now-closed Bombay Club restaurant filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Monday afternoon, the Boston Business Journal reported.

A Revere man was ordered held on high bail this week after allegedly grabbing a woman’s laptop bag while she and a friend were walking on Harrison Avenue in the South End.

Two-and-a-half years ago, as then-New England Conservatory conducting students Brian Kaufman and Michael Reichman began work to put together a classical music concert centered around the theme of war-time rights, they were unaware that they were on the verge of embarking on a potentially career-defining experience.

A historic Washington Street building owned by the Church of Scientology is expected to be demolished next week after bricks fell from the structure last month, prompting the city to cordon off the area in the interest of public safety.