Richard Auffrey considers the fact that 85% of the South End restaurant's patrons are women. Basically, most men don't like sharing their food.

The Boston Business Journal reports the 40-unit Urbanica 691 proposal on Mass. Ave. near Harrison Avenue next goes to the Zoning Board of Appeals in December.

Jay Fitzgerald reminds us that just because a Trader Joe's is moving into that old power plant/trolley barn off Harrison Avenue doesn't mean you can now call that area SoWa.

Matthew Anderson snapped this shot of how quickly the brand-new Columbus Avenue bike lanes (installed just this past August) can disappear, thanks to some BWSC work.

John Keith reports the Upton Street agreement means the Inn will only turn two of the three buildings it owns there into housing for previously homeless people and sell of the third building at market rates.

Some residents objected to the plan as too large, even though it would have meant fewer residents in the buildings than under the previous non-profit that owned the buildings.

The South End News reports on a couple and their three children, routed from their 36 Claremont Park basement apartment by five feet of water from a burst BWSC pipe "thrashing almost everything in its path" and leaving them homeless - and, they say, with no help from the city.

Boston Police tweet a "gypsy cab driver" was pistol whipped and his Lincoln stolen at the intersection of Columbus and Mass. avenues last night. Massachusetts plates: Livery 50862.

WBUR declares Chuck Turner kind of a cult leader, says that helps explain why the Innocent Until Proven Guilty Councilor will win tomorrow.

Two men charged with first taunting and then attacking a man they thought was gay will go on trial on assault and battery and civil-rights charges on Dec. 10, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office says.

Darren Morgan, 46, and Howard Rice, 50, were initially charged with assault and battery after the June 15 incident, but an investigation resulted in the civil-rights charge. According to prosecutors, the two, standing near Myers and Chang, 1145 Washington St., hurled homophobic insults at two men who walked by them, and then escalated their attack:

Even as the men tried to avoid the defendants, Rice allegedly placed one victim in a headlock. When he broke free and the victims entered a nearby restaurant, both assailants followed them in and continued to assault them before Boston Police responded and took them into custody.

Innocent, etc.

Life imitated TV this afternoon when a man was stabbed inside the Boston Medical Center emergency room, leaving him in critical condition, Channel 5 reports.