Scott wonders:
Are there still any travel agents left in Boston who plan and book vacation trips for individuals, tickets, hotels, itineraries, etc.?
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By adamg - 7/11/23 - 11:38 am
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By adamg - 7/6/23 - 8:51 pm
Milk Street Cafe, on its eponymous street downtown, next week starts a kosher-food delivery service. KoshBurger will serve up kosher burgers (both original meat and Impossible burgers), fries, various chickeny things and dairy-free shakes, 5 to 9 p.m., Tuesday through Thursday, with delivery by your preferred delivery service to "the Boston area and surrounding towns."
Kippah tip Michael B.
By adamg - 7/6/23 - 3:06 pm
Boston today announced plans to expand its EV charge network beyond municipal parking lots to include streetside chargers that would let even apartment dwellers consider replacing their gas-powered cars with electric models - to meet an ultimate city goal of having chargers within a ten-minute walk of every Boston resident. Read more.
By adamg - 7/5/23 - 5:54 pm
At-large City Councilor Michael Flaherty of South Boston announced today this year will be his last on the council. Read more.
By adamg - 7/1/23 - 11:48 am
The Library of Congress has this map by Oliver Herford, possibly dating to 1919, in its collection.
Of course, it's not the only map showing the Hub of the Universe's proper position. Read more.
By adamg - 6/29/23 - 10:12 am
The folks at the Boston City Archives wonder if you can place this scene. See it larger. Also note what appears to be a cop on a quadcycle: Read more.
By adamg - 6/22/23 - 9:39 am
The Bay State Banner lists the City Council races that could have contested races this fall, including the four at-large seats and Districts 3 (Dorchester), 5 (Hyde Park, Mattapan and Roslindale), 6 (West Roxbury, Jamaica Plain, part of Mission Hill) and 7 (Roxbury).
By adamg - 6/21/23 - 5:04 pm
The East Boston Times-Free Press reports on the BPL's plans for the money left it by Howard Cooper, who died in 2022 in San Francisco but who grew up in Dorchester, went to BPS schools and was a regular visitor to the Copley Square central library as a teenager.
By adamg - 6/21/23 - 10:01 am
Three groups that charge the way the city of Boston hires companies for city business discriminates against minority-owned firms today sued the Department of Justice after, they say, it refused to investigate their complaint. Read more.
By adamg - 6/21/23 - 9:38 am
WFXT reports the woman managed to get herself enrolled at Burke, Brighton and English high schools, using multiple pseudonyms. Motive unknown at this point, but school officials say she didn't appear to harm any students or staff; still BPD is now on the case.
By adamg - 6/18/23 - 5:36 pm
Fox News breaks the news that Suffolk County District Attorney Kevin Hayden has put True-See Allah, his director of community engagement/strategic partnerships, on leave to investigate an anti-Semitic statement he made in a 2016 interview. Read more.
By adamg - 6/17/23 - 9:52 am
Amya asks:
Hairdresser recommendation in Boston / South Shore area for a stylish short haircut and color?
By adamg - 6/15/23 - 4:32 pm
Public-housing advocate Phyllis Corbitt can sue whomever she wants, but the Massachusetts Union of Public Housing Tenants today asked a federal judge to strike its name from her role as a plaintiff in the suit over how the Boston City Council re-set its district boundary lines, because she had no authority to hitch the group's wagon to a lawsuit over the issue. Read more.
By adamg - 6/14/23 - 9:19 pm
Hugmajesty captured some of the lightning over Allston this evening. Read more.
By adamg - 6/9/23 - 12:15 pm
City Hall is looking for people to join a new Nightlife Initiative for a Thriving Economy Committee (yes, NITE) to try to turn our sleepy hamlet into something just a bit world classier, with "a more fun, equitable and family-friendly nightlife economy that benefits all residents across neighborhoods." Read more.
By adamg - 6/7/23 - 2:12 pm
The folks at the Boston City Archives wonder if you can place this scene (a couple of signs that might make it a bit too easy blacked out). See it larger.
By adamg - 6/6/23 - 10:14 am
Photo of this morning's orange sky by Brooks Payne.
The state Department of Environmental Protection has issued an air-quality alert for Massachusetts, which runs through midnight, due to smoke from wildfires in Quebec and Ontario. Read more.
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