JB Parrett watched a man blowing bubbles on the Esplanade at sunset yesterday.
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By adamg - 8/9/15 - 2:33 pm
Riders supporting @DanaFarber @TheJimmyFund today. @universalhub pic.twitter.com/m7q8sKlGI2
— Anusha Mookherjee (@nooshies) August 9, 2015
The third annual Boston Marathon Motorcycle Ride roared 26 miles along the Marathon route today from Hopkinton to Copley Square: Read more.
By adamg - 8/8/15 - 11:22 pm
Stevil took in the Tanglewood 75th-anniversary simulcast in Copley Square tonight.
By adamg - 8/8/15 - 6:45 pm
Boston Police report she was Anita Kurmann, 38, of Cambridge. Police say the collision remains under investigation.
Kurmann, a Swiss surgeon, was a research fellow at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, in the Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism division. The Globe talks to her colleagues.
By adamg - 8/7/15 - 10:59 am
The Back Bay intersection where a bicyclist was hit and killed this morning was identified in a city report two years ago as the most dangerous in the city for bicyclists. Read more.
By bostonzest - 8/7/15 - 7:26 am
The intersection of Mass Ave and Beacons St. outbound is the scene of a police investigation of a fatal bike accident.
Police Dispatcher said " We got a bicyclist struck, full notes." Read more.
By adamg - 8/6/15 - 8:20 am
Boston Magazine suggests nobody will ever slap an "iconic" label on the insurance company's proposed 26-story building on Stuart Street: Another Boring Glass Building to Rise in Boston.
By adamg - 8/4/15 - 4:49 pm
Think you had a bad bad day? This guy got left at the top of the crane to weather out that crazy storm.@universalhub pic.twitter.com/jloD1c9pra
— Matthew George (@NotMattGeorge) August 4, 2015
By adamg - 8/2/15 - 1:48 pm
A put-upon citizen files a complaint with the city about all the locks on the Mass. Ave. bridge over the turnpike near Boylston not because the weight is warping the bridge or will make the fence fall down but because:
A relationship should not be defined by human bondage and subjugation.
By adamg - 7/30/15 - 1:30 pm
Banker and Tradesman reports the Hancock Tower is now officially just 200 Clarendon St. Seems Hancock objected to having its name remain on the tower once it no longer owned it or rented any space in it.
For a city with residents who still refer to Rte. 128, that's going to be a hard sell, Hancock.
Hancock. Hancock. Hancock. Hancock. Hancock. Hancock. Hancock. Hancock. Hancock. Hancock. Hancock. Hancock. Hancock. Hancock. Hancock. Hancock. Hancock. Hancock. Hancock. Hancock. Hancock. Hancock. Hancock. Hancock. Hancock. Hancock.
By adamg - 7/30/15 - 11:51 am
State Rep. Jay Livingstone reports DCR has turned on its new Alfond Spraydeck on the Esplanade.
By adamg - 7/27/15 - 12:34 am
Our own Ron Newman reported yesterday:
When WGBH's Laura Carlo introduced the Handel and Haydn Society's youth choir at this afternoon's Boston Summer Arts Weekend, did she really have to announce from the stage that "these young people would never set off bombs on the other side of Copley Square?"
That struck me as poor taste, poor judgment, and an unwanted reminder of a tragic event that most of us here in Boston are trying to move beyond.
By adamg - 7/22/15 - 10:30 pm
Kathleen O'Donnell watched the sunset over the Lagoon in the Public Garden this evening.
By adamg - 7/21/15 - 11:33 pm
Brinley Mooney looked out her window to see a car flipped on its side on Mass. Ave. between Beacon Street and the river.
By adamg - 7/17/15 - 12:14 pm
A roving UHub photographer came upon a shut-down intersection of Beacon and Fairfield streets around 11:45 a.m. - and watched bomb-squad members suit up to investigate something suspicious in a car there.
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