-- Just learned that Senator Kerry cannot make it tonight...

Senator John Kerry is speaking at the Boston Ward 5 Democrat Committee meeting tonight at 7 p.m. at LIR in Boston. The public is invited to attend.

Considering that Senator Kerry is up for re-election this November, I hope we see him more at events like this.

Mike Mennonno shows off his lilacs.

Evan recounts an interesting discussion at his Fenway laundromat last night - involving some old timers who allowed as how the neighborhood used to be a hellhole but became safer as it gentrified, but:

... Despite the negative attitudes these long-timers have for the earlier days of this neighborhood, they still bemoan the ongoing development projects in the immediate area. "It's just gotten too modern," says the proprietor of my laundromat.

Bendo1 gazes upon the remains of Avalon on Lansdowne Street.

By forcibly removing any bicycles not attached to a rack on Comm. Ave.

Lorianne DiSabato looks at Endlessly Repeating Twentieth Century Modernism at the MFA.

Jennifer Douglas, 28, is charged with making a false bomb threat by walking into BU's Mugar Library with two boxes and telling an employee she had a bomb yesterday evening.

The library was evacuated as the Boston Fire Department and the police bomb squad investigated. They eventually concluded the library was safe to re-open. The Daily Free Press reports the boxes contained a cuckoo clock, a framed picture and newspapers (it also published a picture of the boxes).

The Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports Douglas was arraigned this morning in Brighton District Court and was sent to the Eric Lindemann Center in Boston for 20 days to determine her competence.

Douglas could get between 2 1/2 and 20 years in jail, depending on the nature of the charges brought against her.

When not getting dissed by surly help at Somerville creperies, Mike Mennonno tends to his garden in the Fenway Victory Gardens. He reports on a green war between members of the Fenway Garden Society over the height of some people's plants:

... For those who protested, the President of the FGS ominously reminded gardeners that back in the day they used to plow the whole thing under every year. He warned that if allies in the Parks Department weren't properly placated, Fenway gardeners could lose their unique privileges. No other community garden has individual plots the size of ours, each with its own fence and gate. He even went so far as to say that there were those who would love to see the gardens themselves, which they consider an eyesore, disappear. ...

Evan takes the pictures.

The Herald tells us, but basically: Lots.