Somehow, you just know Maleek and Zachary are going to go far in life. Andrew Burton snapped their flier.

Either the state is getting ready to put Rte. 1 back on its proper path along the Arborway/VFW Parkway or somebody has been inhaling too many paint fumes at the Department of Conservation and Recreation sign shop. How else to explain this sign, which recently went up where Centre Street turns into the VFW Parkway in Roslindale - 19 years after the state decided Rte. 1 was going to go south via 128 North?

Thanks to Bob Ward for the tip.

Anybody who drives on Washington Street south of Forest Hills knows the Puritan Ice Cream building - that sad looking brick building with the "Retail Store in Back" sign that never actually looks like it's open.

Rhea Becker reports that not only is it open, but it's 100 years old this year.

But, have any of you ever actually bought any of its three-gallon tubs of ice cream? Maybe that's why they're not better known.

Kathleen Powers quotes my state rep, the normally reclusive Angelo Scaccia:

"Mr. Speaker, we have a chance to tax the well-endowed." ...

He was, allegedly, referring to a proposed tax on private colleges with endowments of more than $1 billion.

The Square Corner Cafe on Washington Street is getting closer to opening - they've posted menus in the window.

And those menus look a lot like the menus at the area's other "cafe" - the Checkmate: Pizzas, subs and pasta, with a few things such as salmon thrown in. No breakfast listed.

Live in Roslindale or Jamaica Plain (or even just in a neighborhood that borders one of them)? Meet your fellow neighborhood bloggers for a beer:

Wednesday, May 14th, starting at 7 p.m. in the back room (yes, the famous back room) at Doyle's Cafe, 3484 Washington St. in JP (map).

Boston Police report that of 20 car break-ins reported in District E-5 (West Roxbury and Roslindale) since April 24, 18 involved cars that were unlocked. Also: Leaving MP3 players, gym bags, GPS systems and wallets (wallets? sheesh) in plain view in your car is really asking for trouble.

On the plus side, police say they arrested a guy yesterday they think was involved in several of the above incidents.

The Transcript reports a Domino's delivery guy was held up on April 21 at Washington and LaGrange streets by "a group of masked men," at least four of whom had knives:

... The robbers reportedly stole $200 cash from deliveries, two pizzas, an order of cinnamon sticks, unknown appetizers and soda. ...

Meanwhile, up Washington Street in Roslindale, the Transcript also informs us, a 15-year-old girl from Dedham learned that if you tell police a bunch of guys threatened to tase you if you didn't hand over your cell phone and then ran into the Washington-Beech project, police are going to want to know your parents' phone number and by then it's too late to decide you don't want to talk to police after all, what with your parents having told you to stay out of Roslindale and all.

Interesting story and video on the impact of the national economy on the businesses of Roslindale Square (the Globe does know where Boston neighborhoods are!). I didn't know how many people had been laid off or that Bob's Pita Bakery no longer makes its own pita.

Art Jam sale and jazz concert on Friday, May 2 to raise money to get a "kinetic sculpture" installed on that weird traffic island at Corinth and Belgrade in Rozzie Square. Starts at 6:15 p.m. at the Roslindale Congregational Church, 25 Cummins Highway.

More on the proposed sculpture by George Greenamyer.