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By adamg - 7/18/22 - 6:29 pm
Hal Shurtleff, who sued Boston for the right to fly what he claims is a Christian flag over City Hall - and won in a unanimous decision by the Supreme Court - will get to unfurl his banner over City Hall Plaza for two hours on Aug. 3 under a settlement reached with city attorneys. Read more.
By adamg - 7/17/22 - 7:11 pm
Boston Police report arresting a herd of current and former Northeastern students they say they found inside the Government Center Garage demolition site - the one where one worker died when several levels collapsed - early this morning. Read more.
By adamg - 7/16/22 - 10:38 am
Erica Mattison was among the scores of bicyclists yesterday evening in Copley Square who set off for the first Boston Bike Party in a long time.
The Fort Pointer captured the procession through the Seaport (and, yes, one of the Seaport's Lambo drivers making the rounds): Read more.
By adamg - 7/15/22 - 12:53 pm
Walking through Post Office Square, Adam Castiglioni spotted what has to be the work of crafty New Hampshire marketers, rather than simply a filled in sidewalk hole.
By adamg - 7/12/22 - 6:15 pm
A manhole exploded shortly before 6 p.m. at Cambridge and Bowdoin streets, sending two Eversource workers to Mass. General, one with life-threatening injuries, and creating massive traffic issues in the area. Read more.
By adamg - 7/12/22 - 1:37 pm
The Supreme Judicial Court ruled today that the state's environmental secretary went too far in approving a plan that would let developers replace the Aquarium garage and the James Hook seafood store with skyscrapers - not on the merits but because the legislature didn't give her specific permission to put her stamp on waterfront projects. Read more.
By adamg - 7/8/22 - 11:28 am
Joel Fleming, a partner at Block & Leviton on Franklin Street, got a letter recently banning him from Madison Square Garden and Radio City Music Hall. Reuters reports Fleming is an attorney for a group of Madison Square Garden Entertainment Corp. shareholders suing the company over some corporate thing and part of the company's defense is to send out letters prohibiting shareholder lawyers from attending Knicks games and the like.
By adamg - 7/7/22 - 10:53 am
As Garrett Quinn reminds us, there's always a Massachusetts connection. In 2015, then London Mayor Boris Johnson came to town for some conference at Harvard, and got on the Red Line for the trip across the river. But it was the middle of one of our blizzards that year, so he wound up having a chat with some random chap at Park Street.
By adamg - 7/6/22 - 6:19 pm
A Boston man awaiting trial on charges he stabbed a food-delivery worker at the Pru last year was ordered held without bail at his arraignment yesterday on charges that he repeatedly stabbed another man on Boston Common and then attacked several detectives who were trying to question him at BPD headquarters, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
By adamg - 7/5/22 - 5:01 pm
The city is alerting motorists and pedestrians that Congress Street under the Government Center Garage will be shut from July 11 through Sept. 5 to allow for the deconstruction of the garage.
By adamg - 7/5/22 - 9:25 am
WBUR reports on a possible followup to Saturday's brownpants march along the Freedom Trail. Read more.
By adamg - 7/2/22 - 5:16 pm
Chowderfest returned to Boston this year, after a couple years away because of, well, you know. City Hall Plaza is under reconstruction, so it was held this year along Washington Street in Downtown Crossing: Read more.
By adamg - 7/2/22 - 4:31 pm
Nazis under flags they couldn't tear down in Copley Square. Photo by twonickles.
Update: They even used a U-Haul in Boston, but to haul away their riot shields.
Twonickels sums up the scene in Copley Square this afternoon: Read more.
By adamg - 6/30/22 - 5:37 pm
No more nearly-bare women at Aga's Highland Tap.
The Boston Licensing Board today approved plans for a hamburger joint that celebriBrit Gordon Ramsay wants to open in the new hotel at Haymarket with a liquor license he's buying from the heirs of Aga's Highland Tap in Nubian Square, as well as plans for a Jimmy Buffet's Margaritaville that will replace the old McCormick & Schmick in Faneuil Hall Marketplace with exactly what you'd expect. Read more.
By adamg - 6/29/22 - 4:57 pm
The Globe reports police did not release the names of the four suspects in the attack captured on video by nearby motorists because they are too young to have their names released.
By adamg - 6/28/22 - 6:49 pm
The Emerson Colonial Theatre announced today that "A Beautiful Noise" has been silenced through Sunday because "multiple company members" have tested positive for Covid-19.
By adamg - 6/27/22 - 4:05 pm
A federal judge ruled today that four people at a George Floyd vigil on the Common on May 31, 2020 can try to convince a jury that Boston Police officers violated their First Amendment rights by attacking them with pepper spray, fists and a bicycle afterwards and that the city created a culture where such a thing could happen. Read more.
By adamg - 6/26/22 - 7:49 pm
The MBTA announced this evening it's once again running Orange and Green Line trains downtown, now that what's left of the Government Center Garage has been shored up enough to keep it from collapsing atop Haymarket station. Read more.
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