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Globe to go behind online paywall

Announces two tiers of online access: Stuff produced by Globe reporters at bostonglobe.com, which you'll have to pay to see, and something at the current boston.com that sounds like G online with a bit of breaking daily news that happened too late to get into the paper. Plus more exciting pop-up ads:

BostonGlobe.com, with the goal of creating a "lean-back experience" for readers, will have a simpler, newspaper-like design with less intrusive ads, he said.


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Hurry down to Copley Square for a free bubble bath

Presumably, there's a good reason the Boylston Street fountain was full of bubbles this morning.

Ryan Fox, who took the photo, reports Parks workers were on the scene around 8:30 a.m.:

They're hosing it down now, foam across the lawn and in the trees.


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Happy Text-Free Day

Yes, the ban on driver texting dawned today. But be alert (you know the country needs more): The law also prohibits you from using a mobile phone or laptop to read anything - even while you're at a stop light. Also, kids? You are so hosed if you get caught even talking on a cell phone - the law is tougher on junior operators.

More details.


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No more T motorcycle cops leading funeral processions

Channel 4 reports on an investigation into whether the transit officers, working paid details, got paid on the side by funeral directors.


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Address given for quadruple murder may not prove key to police investigation

UPDATE: WBZ reports police have found the SUV seen fleeing the scene.

The Herald and the Globe report police attention is now focusing on 23 Sutton St. around the corner from 40 Woolson St.

The address is where one of the four victims lived, both papers say. The shift in focus might be good news for a Boston police officer whom the Phoenix reports is listed as a resident at 40 Woolson St.

The Herald profiles the five shooting victims; the three men were known to police but relatives and friends said they were turning their lives around.


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Downtown Crossing not only business district with a large, vacant nothingness at its core

The Phoenix reports on a meeting this week about "the broken brick skeleton" in Dudley Square, otherwise known as the Ferdinand building:

Behind the original five-story structure, on a 33,000-square-foot lot between Washington and Warren streets, is a ditch to rival the universally scorned crater abutting Filene's.

"We hear a lot about the hole in downtown Boston," said City Councilor-At-Large Ayanna Pressley. "But we need to hear more about the hole in downtown Dudley."


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Welcome to the Rose Kenne ... Waterfront District

I'm still not sure Boston magazine isn't running one of those "find the fake article in this month's issue, win $100!" contests but I guess it's for real.

In the October 2010 issue, on newsstands now, there is a short article by Francis Storrs with the title "The Greenway Problem" that breaks the news that the Rose Kennedy Greenway, I'm sorry, let me rephrase that, the three-year-old Rose Kennedy Greenway, is going to be rebranded as the "Waterfront District" in 2011.

It's not the city or state who is doing it but ... wait for it ... a "local real estate firm".

Boston-based branding company Kelley Habib John has been hired to handle the task.

Company founder Greg John won't reveal his client's name (shall I offer some guesses?) and won't "[a]t least until the client has informed city officials, Greenway neighbors, and Kennedy family representatives ..."

(Of course, it's always been known as the "Waterfront District" to residents, so I don't get what this is really trying to achieve.)

* The article has yet to appear in the online edition of this month's issue.


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Murder in Revere tonight

A man in his 20s was gunned down on Reservoir Avenue tonight, according to the Suffolk County District Attorney's office.


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Building a new park on an old one in Jamaica Plain

The JPVoice takes us on a tour of the newly renovated and re-opened South Street Mall.


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