First, Fox in Detox did NOT hit the woman who was just standing with her bicycle at Washington and Beacon in Brookline, blocking an entire line of cars who had the light. But she has a better understanding now of why somebody might have been tempted.

Ken Liss describes how the town coped during the Spanish Flu outbreak of 1918-1919 - including the creation of an open-air hospital on Summit Avenue.

Wicked Local Brookline reports a deer was hit by a car at Beacon and Englewood on Saturday.

It has not been a good month for urban deer.

Wicked Local Brookline proves Brookline is turning feral: The killer turkeys remain on the loose and now even the squirrels are turning into two-bit punks.

Jeff Egnaczyk has taken up running to try to burn off some of the fat that comes after two months of no excercise and lots of food (new fatherhood'll do that). He hates it:

... Why do people do this? Smoking is better for you than running. Anyone who has every run a marathon is not allowed around my child. You people are sick. ...

Turns out Brookline Police have a surveillance camera trained on part of Rte. 9 and it captured a cruiser chasing somebody down the wrong side of the road crashing into a Chinese restaurant near Cypress Street last month. Wicked Local Brookline's posted the video.

Last night's screening of "Away We Go" at the Coolidge Corner Theater included a planned appearance by writer Dave Eggers and surprise visits from local boy John Krasinski and Maya Rudolph. Directed by Sam Mendes, the film is poignant and wickedly funny. As an additional bonus, proceeds from the screening benefited 826 Boston, a local nonprofit writing center founded by Eggers.

The entire street will be shut to cars on Sunday, May 31 for the Brookline Bike Parade, which begins at 12:30 p.m.

And that's why C trolleys weren't getting past Washington Square, where MBTA police caught up with the gentleman, who apparently objected to the way the other guy was talking to the trolley driver, Laurel tweets.

And now it's gone.