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Council to consider watered-down non-ban on kids at cage fights

By adamg - 8/20/13 - 11:11 pm

The City Council on Wednesday considers an ordinance that would ban children under 16 from any cage-fighting matches that make their way to Boston - unless the kids are accompanied by a parent.

City Council President Steve Murphy had originally proposed an ordinance that would bar everybody under 18 from the matches, with no exceptions. Murphy cites not just spurting blood and violence but the neo-Nazi, homophobic and pro-rape messages he says the fighters often tattoo on their arms or use as banter.

The council's meeting begins at noon in its fifth-floor chambers in City Hall.

Police commissioner reminds fans this isn't Vancouver

By adamg - 6/7/13 - 1:04 pm

Don't be knuckleheads, Ed Davis tells fans getting ready to throng the Garden tonight.

I ask that you celebrate a win or loss with the pride and class that our team and our city deserves.

Davis has a special word for any college students left in town: Act up, and your school will have a word with you.

How they could have raised even more money for the One Fund tonight

By adamg - 5/30/13 - 7:50 pm

Broadcast the concert on pay per view instead of trying to stream it on Web sites that all crashed as soon as the concert started.

Back in the day, Channel 2 broadcast important concerts live.

Twin towers, new entrance proposed for front of Boston Garden

By adamg - 5/17/13 - 8:32 am

WBUR reports on plans to finally hide that ugly blank front wall of the Garden with two mixed-use buildings featuring retail space, offices and, of course, 500 luxury apartments and a 200-room hotel.

The worst a Bruins fan can be: Leafs fan punched out at Garden after Bruins loss

By adamg - 5/6/13 - 2:15 pm

Seems a group of Leafs fans got jumped after Saturday's game at the Garden - and one of them was punched into unconsciousness.

"I had a cat scan done, I got three staples in the back of my head, swollen cheek, cut the inside my mouth, and concussed. I don't remember the end of the game because of it."

Via Stephanie.

And today suburban teens act out on the T

By adamg - 3/11/13 - 8:26 pm

A thronging mass of screaming teens from Braintree raised hell all the way from South Station to North Station on their way to the Garden for a basketball game, commuters report.

Some of the kids, heading to the Braintree High girls' championship game against Central Catholic, smashed a Green Line window at Park Street.

Jessica Infante rode part of the way with them on the Red Line:

Ugly front wall of Garden could finally be obscured

By adamg - 1/17/13 - 8:20 am

The Globe reports the owners of the Boston Garden are finally looking to make good on plans - approved in the 1980s - to put something in front of the arena. Specifically, they're considering two 400-foot towers featuring, naturally, lots of luxury apartments, along with a Target and a Stop & Shop.

Some details emerge on planned 38-story tower next to Boston Garden

By adamg - 11/20/12 - 12:47 pm

The Herald reports on a BRA filing by the developer of the planned Nashua Street Residences.

DA: Woman slashed when impatient Madonna fan gets mad

By adamg - 9/5/12 - 10:00 am

Updated: Authorities now say woman was cut by tap handle, not broken mug handle.

A Medford man is due for arraignment today for an incident at last night's Madonna concert, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.

Eagerly awaiting PriMadonna

By adamg - 9/4/12 - 10:28 pm

Madonna's show at the Garden was supposed to start at 8 p.m. tonight. At 10:16, Gary Waldeck, seated close enough to touch the stage, tweeted she was still a no-show.

Matt Karolian notes this is her new thing.

Bruins fans like their beer more than Celtics fans

By adamg - 7/24/12 - 12:47 pm

Garden officials revealed that fact at a hearing before the Boston Licensing Board today.

"There's significantly more beer drinking at Bruins games than at Celtics games," one Garden official told the board.

Of course, the officials and their high-priced lawyer from Ropes & Gray did not make their way to the eighth floor of City Hall just to discuss relative beer consumption. They were there to answer a citation issued by Boston Police on April 4 of this year for a drunken 16-year-old holding a beer and creating a disturbance during a Celtics/Spurs game.

That James Brown concert not the only one Kevin White arranged to prevent rioting in Boston

By adamg - 7/18/12 - 11:05 am

Today's the 40th anniversary of a Rolling Stones concert at the Garden that almost didn't happen. On their way to the show, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards got into a scuffle with a photographer at TF Green Airport and wound up in jail. As thousands of hopped-up Stones fans waited at the Garden and Stevie Wonder played on and on, Boston Mayor Kevin White desperately worked the phones, finally convincing Rhode Island State Police that if they didn't release the pair, there'd be rioting in Boston.

Something missing at the Garden

By adamg - 3/24/12 - 10:52 am

Empty rafters.

Colin Steele shows us what the Garden looks like without banners, thanks to the NCAA, which both required the Bruins and Celtics banners be taken out for their March Madness games and put their own parquet on the floor, because God forbid college players get the chance to say they've been on the most famous floor in basketball.

Two out of towners charged with selling fake NCAA tickets outside the Garden

By adamg - 3/23/12 - 5:08 pm

Boston Police report arresting the pair yesterday.

Cherie Devotie, 24, of New York, and Equcon Milling, 32, of New Jersey, were arrested after officers on a walking beat:

Observed both suspects in possession of multiple tickets. Officers confiscated the tickets after confirming with Garden officials that the tickets were counterfeit.

Garden bans SLRs, flashes

By adamg - 9/29/11 - 9:12 am

Jeff Tamagini notices a new camera policy at the Garden.

MBTA to run 'near rush-hour' subway service on Saturday

By adamg - 6/16/11 - 4:37 pm

The T says it's beefing up service on Saturday for the Bruins victory parade, which kicks off at 11 a.m. at the Garden.

All four subway lines will run at "near rush hour" schedules during the day. The T says it will also have extra orange-vested workers stationed throughout the system to help riders unfamiliar with how to use CharlieCards or get to the parade route.

The T said commuter rail will run on its normal Saturday schedule, but that it hopes to announce some additional service tomorrow.

No Garden party for Bruins fans, Menino says

By adamg - 6/14/11 - 8:49 pm

We'll have none of that: Fans outside the Garden after Game 6. Photo by Courtney SaccoWe'll have none of that: Fans outside the Garden after Game 6.

You'd think a Boston team is on the verge of winning a championship or something

By adamg - 6/14/11 - 4:34 pm

Boston Police announce the now standard parking bans for Game 7 around the Garden, Faneuil Hall and, of course, Kenmore Square (even though most college students are now home for the summer).

New Yorker charged with trying to sell counterfeit Bruins tickets outside Garden

By adamg - 6/7/11 - 5:32 pm

Boston Police report arresting a Bronx resident on charges he printed up and tried to sell a bunch of fake tickets to last night's Bruins game.

David Lucas, 28, allegedly had 14 tickets for last night's game and four for tomorrow night's game - all counterfeit - police say.

Police say officers looking for people like that, spotted Lucas talking to somebody outside the North Station T stop:

Late at night, no one can hear you scream

By adamg - 2/27/11 - 11:05 am

Orr

Historygradguy captured this 'orrifying visage outside the Garden last night.

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