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By adamg - 2/28/17 - 12:39 pm

A pair of 18-year-old Suffolk University students with fake Canadian IDs managed to procure a couple of vodka drinks at Bijou on Stuart Street shortly before several Boston police officers walked in for an unscheduled inspection on Nov. 10. Read more.

By adamg - 1/31/17 - 1:47 pm

The Boston Licensing Board decides Thursday whether Bijou, 51 Stuart St., deserves any sort of punishment for the way BPD detectives found "numerous male patrons swigging champagne from 750-ml bottles - glowing 750-ml bottles - as they strolled around the club on New Year's Eve. Read more.

By adamg - 1/20/17 - 3:01 pm

The Boston Licensing Board yesterday ordered Genki Ya, 232 Tremont St., shut for two days because BPD detectives caught three underage BU students with rum drinks - and the realistic-looking but fake out-of-state IDs they'd used to buy them. Read more.

By adamg - 1/14/17 - 6:52 pm

Boston Police report arresting a New Hampshire man on gun charges early this morning at Icon on Warrenton Street. Read more.

By adamg - 1/13/17 - 5:38 pm

The Boston Licensing Board yesterday ordered Icon, 100 Warrenton St., shut indefinitely over a pair of incidents in which detectives found underage drinkers on the premises. Read more.

By adamg - 1/10/17 - 5:01 pm

BRIAN DAWE at CHAMPAGNE WARS 2016 | BOSTON, MA

The Boston Licensing Board decides Thursday whether to punish Venu for a September incident that left people drenched in cheap champagne and two BPD detectives unable to ferret out the underage drinkers they suspected were part of the festive crowd. Read more.

By adamg - 1/10/17 - 12:16 pm

An attorney for New York Pizza, 224 Tremont St., pleaded with the Boston Licensing Board this morning not to punish his client for large crowds early one October morning because of the role the place plays in keeping drunks from behind the wheel. Read more.

By adamg - 12/13/16 - 11:44 am

The Boston Licensing Board decides Thursday what to do about an Oct. 17 incident at Bijou on Stuart Street, in which detectives watched a waitress at a VIP table tip a one-liter bottle of Johnny Walker Black Label into a patron's mouth as he gulped down the amber liquid. Read more.

By adamg - 12/9/16 - 10:02 pm
Hope sign on Emerson's Cutler Majestic Theatre

Jason stopped to admire this sign at the Cutler Majestic Theatre today.

By adamg - 10/18/16 - 11:48 am

A doorman at Cure Lounge, 246 Tremont St., was stabbed in the back, head, shoulder and hand early on Aug. 25 by a man upset he'd been tossed out of the club for being too disruptive, police, club officials and the doorman himself told the Boston Licensing Board this morning. Read more.

By adamg - 10/8/16 - 10:47 am

WBZ reports a man was stabbed around 1:45 a.m. on Stuart Street. Boston Reddit narrows the location to the area in front of the W Hotel.

By adamg - 9/25/16 - 8:30 am

Around 2:15 a.m. on Tremont Street, WBZ reports. One in critical, after the attacks outside the Courtyard by Marriott at 279 Tremont. Read more.

By adamg - 9/21/16 - 4:21 pm

A Suffolk Superior Court jury today found Peter Castillo guilty of first-degree murder for the shooting death of Stephen Perez on Tremont Street in 2012, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.

By adamg - 9/15/16 - 9:32 am
Welcome to Boch Center

New logo unveiled this morning. Photo by Adam Castiglioni.

Vanyaland reports the Citi Performing Arts Center, which runs the Wang and Shubert Theatres, is becoming the Boch Center, thanks to money from the car dealer, stepping up to replace the money from CitiBank, which gave up on supporting the arts in Boston when it gave up on Boston.

By adamg - 8/9/16 - 4:21 pm

Two men who checked into the W Hotel Thursday night left bags full of crystal meth behind after one was transported to a nearby hospital for a suspected overdose and then after he returned both were kicked out, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.

By adamg - 7/10/16 - 1:31 pm

An irate citizen filed a complaint at 2:23 a.m. today about the intersection of Boylston and Tremont streets:

Street is closed - my uber driver just informed me that Boston closes the street every weekend to allow people to leave the bars! Frankly, I can't believe this. As a tax paying resident I think it's entirely inappropriate to deny residents access to their neighborhoods to allow people to leave a bar. Boston needs to come up with a new solution that doesn't inconvenience residents.

By adamg - 6/29/16 - 1:06 pm

A night out on the town for four Tufts freshmen in April ended with one dead on the ground next to a Theater District garage. Now the club that let them reserve a table and share bottles of champagne and vodka has been hit with suspensions lasting more than a year for that and two other incidents involving underage drinkers. Read more.

By adamg - 1/31/16 - 11:05 pm

Tantric India Bistro in the Transportation Building has shut its doors forever, after serving up Indian food for 12 years.

Our heartfelt thanks for your past dining visits over the years, and your many kind and complimentary words and encouragement, and we wish you the very best in your journeys.

H/t Arturo Gossage.

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