Mike Ball goes to a performance at the Hyde Park library of the 2nd South Carolina String Band, which plays the music Southern soldiers would have listened to, and is surprised to learn that most of the band members are from Massachusetts.

An electrical fire in a utility room at the station means no service on the B, C and D lines, Local 718 reports.

The Boston Fire Department reports a woman seen fleeing the scene of a one-alarm fire on Coleridge Street last night was arrested not long after and charged with setting the blaze.

The fire broke out on the second floor of 165 Coleridge St. Three firefighters were treated at local hospitals for minor injuries, the department says, adding the fire did an estimated $300,000 in damage.

Kevin Edgecomb recently moved from Berkeley to Brookline, to get a master's in divinity at the Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology. He writes about his first impressions of the school and the surrounding area, including nearby Jamaica Plain (the school is close to Jamaica Pond):

[I]ts Berkeleyesque, but the architecture is much more interesting. Old New England houses really look like proper houses to me. It must be a childhood thing (I was born in Manchester, NH, just north of here a bit). One of the neatest things is that the curbstones are granite, not concrete. And there are huge stone walls everywhere. Somebody has done a lot of stonecutting around here! It’s a nice touch, these giant chunks of granite everywhere as curbs.

A roving UHub photographer who used to frequent Victoria's Diner reports:

Reading the weekly specials board on the way in, we decided the new owners don't want much business and certainly aren't getting ours.

kdrc525 took in Occupy Boston yesterday, including a protest outside the Federal Reserve Bank. As they have since the beginning, protesters and police have maintained good relations - police who patrolled a march through the Back Bay blocked off traffic to let the occupods express their views without worrying about getting run down.

Copyrioght kdrc525. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.

Happened around 3 a.m. between Washington and Harrison, Brian D'Amico reports.

Somebody's set up a Spare Change Guy account on Twitter.

The Globe provides the definitive look, including the identity of the cat-loving Icelander who brought him down.

A man wears buttons remembering people who have been murdered, during a peace march through Roxbury this afternoon. Mystery Pill took some photos.

Copyright Mystery Pill. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.

The Boston Fire Department reports an eight-story garage at 40 Beach St. dropped some brick and concrete around 4 p.m., leading city officials to shut and evacuate it and close down Beach and Harrison Avenue.

The department reports one person suffered a minor leg injury. One car was damaged and the window of a neighboring bank was cracked by falling concrete. Cars parked in the garage were trapped as engineers evaluated the building to make sure nothing worse was happening with it.

At least at the West Roxbury Home Depot, 80-degree temperatures on this Columbus Day weekend (and Thanksgiving) be damned.

Sometimes you gotta wonder: Does Joe Fitzgerald do any research before he sticks his foot in his mouth?

Today, the Herald columnist thinks he's tearing the Globe a new one by deploring its decision to run a headline about Bobby Orr's daughter-in-law. You know, Bobby Orr's relative faces OUI charge.

Unconscionable! Outrageous smear on Orr's good name! Anybody who runs a headline like that is "a nitwit!"

You tell 'em, Joe! Only thing is, when you type "Orr's daughter-in-law" into the Boston Herald search engine, the first result is: Bobby Orr's daughter-in-law accused of driving drunk. So who you calling a nitwit, Joe? Joe Sciacca? Pat Purcell? Not a very nice thing to say to the people who pay you.

Pot? Meet Mr. Fitzgerald, who also doesn't seem to realize the only reason the story was noteworthy beyond the borders of Quincy (it was a pretty good smashup; she allegedly rolled her car over after hitting a telephone pole) was not because she's Bobby Orr's daughter-in-law, but because police say she made a point of telling them that and threatening to get the arresting officer fired.

Liz Polay-Wetengel reports:

Our doorbell rang. It was a woman I didn't recognize. She handed me my husband's wallet and said she found it on the MBTA train. I love her.

I was so stunned that I just thanked her over and over. I should have given her a bottle of wine or something!

Seized crack pipes. Photo by BPD.

Boston Police and the mayor's office today announced the seizure of crack kits and other illegal material from 14 convenience stores in Grove Hall and along Dudley Street and lower Blue Hill Avenue:

These paraphernalia "kits" which were being sold in local markets for approximately $2.00 consisted of a singular glass tube, and a cut piece of Chore Boy (copper scrubbers) placed in a paper bag.

But wait, there's more:

Officers located and seized two illegal poker machines being operated out of local store, Villa Sombrero (Dudley Street). Officers also seized a large inventory of individually packaged Viagra pills being illegally sold from numerous targeted stores. Lastly, officers recovered more than 70 EBT cards complete with PIN numbers from the La Borinquena Market (Dudley Street).

Officials say the push is part of the city's overall effort to crack down on problem properties. In a statement, Thomas Menino said:

Today's action was based on work done in collaboration with the Problem Property Task Force and the area’s Neighborhood Response Team efforts to crack down on properties that have been a plague on the neighborhood and keeping the neighborhood a clean, well maintained community that everyone can feel safe and proud to live.

Stores issued summonses out of Roxbury District Court:

• Caribbean Liquors, 527 Dudley St.
• La Borinquena Market, 524 Dudley St.
• Villa Sombrero, 543 Dudley St.
• Brown Food Market, 559 Dudley St.
• La Gran Parada Meat Market, 561 Dudley St.
• Liriano Market, 64 Blue Hill Ave.
• Central Convenience, 218 Blue Hill Ave.
• Stop n Save, 310 Blue Hill Ave.
• Estrella Market, 342 Blue Hill Ave.
• Millenium Market, 496A Blue Hill Ave.
• Buck N Up, 5 Washington St.
• Dudley Convenience, 2359 Washington St.
• New Family Supermarket, 205 Humbolt Ave.
• Warren Food Mart, 394 Warren St.

Editor Matthew Gannon announces the mothership is shutting the site down:

There's no clever way to say it: This is the last word from Bostonist. Last week, Gothamist informed me that Bostonist will be going on hiatus and the blog will be shut down. At least we outlasted the 2011 Red Sox.

A Dunkin' Donuts franchisee goes before the Zoning Board of Appeals on Wednesday, Oct. 19, for permission to open an outlet in the station's food court. Currently, commuters have to walk all the way across Atlantic Avenue or struggle to make their way to Federal Street to get their fix.

Prince Charles Eweka, a Canton real-estate broker, yesterday admitted he used straw buyers to defraud lenders out of $548,000 for condos in two buildings he owned, the US Attorney's office in Boston reports.

Eweka will be sentenced on Jan. 20. He faces up to 20 years in prison and fines of $250,000 for each violation.

Prosecutors say Eweka recruited a series of straw buyers who would submit falsified loan documents to out-of-state mortgage lenders for units allegedly selling at higher prices than they were worth. Eweka allegedly put up the money for their down payments, paid them for their trouble, then pocketed the difference between the loan amount and the actual value of the units. The straw buyers would then default on their loans, leaving the lenders hanging, the feds charge.

The units were in buildings at 50 Bradshaw St. and 79 Topliff St.

Over the past couple of years, a number of brokers and lawyers have been indicted and convicted for similar straw-buying activities in Dorchester and surrounding areas.

• Indictment against Eweka