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BU computer-science department devises policy for the use of AI in classwork

By adamg - 4/10/23 - 9:20 am

The Daily Free Press reports the Boston University Center for Computing and Data Science's new policy is that students can use AI "if they properly credit the tool and include an appendix showing where and how AI tools were used." It does quote one lecturer, though, who feels AI is sort of like calculators were back in the day: It's OK for advanced students who already have the basics down, but intro students shouldn't use it to get answers instead of learning those basics first.

Boston University swatted with call about 'active shooter'

By adamg - 4/9/23 - 9:05 pm

Boston Police responded in force to 855 Commonwealth Avenue around 7:50 p.m. on a report of a shooter. BU then sent an alert, which prompted students seeing or hearing anything suspicious to call 911. Read more.

Women still trying to get into Boston bars with tiny booze bottles

By adamg - 4/4/23 - 4:12 pm

Update: Board found violation, issued warning.

The manager at a Fenway bar says that before a woman - underaged, it turns out - collapsed on the dance floor and began foaming at the mouth, she tried to get in with "five or six small airplane bottles" of booze in her purse. Read more.

The City that Only Mostly Sleeps: Japanese, Indian food until 2 a.m. approved near Berklee

By adamg - 3/30/23 - 10:53 am

The Boston Licensing Board today approved letting a Japanese restaurant on Boylston Street near Mass. Ave extend its hours to 2 a.m. - and approved a new Indian place a couple doors down that also plans to stay open until 2 a.m. Read more.

Pre-emptive screaming-fighter-jets alert

By adamg - 3/29/23 - 11:17 pm

Boston Flyovers alerts us that four fighter jets will fly low and loud over Fenway Park - which means they'll also fly over other parts of the area - during Thursday's Red Sox opening-day ceremonies. The ceremonies start at 1:30 p.m. and run through just before first pitch, scheduled for 2:10 p.m.

Neighborhood group opposes Japanese food until 2 a.m. near Berklee

By adamg - 3/29/23 - 12:47 pm

Update: 2 a.m. closing time approved - for both this place and an Indian place a couple doors down.

The Boston Licensing Board decides tomorrow whether to let Tori Japan, 1110 Boylston St., where Teriyaki House used to be, stay open until 2 a.m. to serve the ravenous needs of nearby college students who think nothing of staying up until all hours. Read more.

Barry's Corner deli to re-open in Fenway, in Boylston Street space Tasty Burger is vacating

By adamg - 3/24/23 - 10:59 am

Boston Restaurant Talk reports that the owners of Our Fathers deli, which closed on North Harvard Street in Allston last year, plans to move into the space Tasty Burger is leaving on Boylston Street in the Fenway to move around the corner to Van Ness Street.

Wily hawk eludes capture in BU garage

By adamg - 3/23/23 - 11:00 am

The Daily Free Press reports that Monday afternoon, police were called to the third floor of the above-ground Warren Towers garage, 700 Commonwealth Ave., on a report of a hawk. Police eventually called in Boston Animal Control, which was unable to capture the raptor.

On anniversary of heist, Gardner Museum shut doors over possible climate protest

By adamg - 3/18/23 - 10:10 pm

WBZ reports officials at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum shut the museum today, the 33rd anniversary of the infamous painting robbery after learning climate activists planned to use the occasion and the museum to promote their cause - and the fear something could happen to damage the remaining artwork.

BU tells students resistance to the Borg is not futile

By adamg - 3/15/23 - 5:27 pm

Boston University sent e-mail to students today that starts with a limerick about "St. Patty's Day" (note to BU: Check with BC about how to spell that) before getting down to some nuts-and-bolts advice about how to survive Friday intact, including: "Avoid the dreaded BORG. They are dangerous (and sound disgusting, fwiw)." Read more.

Not the way you want to start your week

By adamg - 3/6/23 - 10:22 am

Car fire on Hemenway Street in the Fenway

A car went up in flames around 9:15 a.m. on Hemenway Street in the Fenway, as a UHub correspondent shows.

Some cars on the E Line are really small

By adamg - 3/5/23 - 12:45 pm

PT watched as somebody drove an old Honda Fit right down the inbound E Line tracks last night.

Vegan restaurant that tried to sprout in the Fenway withers away after just eight months

By adamg - 3/2/23 - 3:52 pm

Eater Boston reports that the vegan Plantpub has closed in the Fenway.

If the signal problems on the T don't get you, a fellow rider might

By adamg - 2/28/23 - 9:29 am

Transit Police report arresting a Roslindale man on charges he sprayed a rider at the Fenway Green Line stop with "an unknown liquid" Monday night. Read more.

Allston man sues MBTA over injuries he says he suffered in two-train Green Line crash on Comm. Ave.

By adamg - 2/27/23 - 9:46 pm

An Allston man who says he was on one of the two Green Line trains that crashed outside BU's Agganis Arena on June 30, 2021 today sued the MBTA for the broken ribs, collapsed lung and other injuries he says he suffered. Read more.

Man unaffiliated with BU jumps to death from BU residential tower

By adamg - 2/17/23 - 11:15 am

The Daily Free Press reports a 33-year-old Cambridge man with no connections to Boston University jumped out of a 26th-floor window at a BU dorm on Harry Agganis Way Wednesday night.

Fenway cineplex suddenly ends

By adamg - 2/13/23 - 3:13 pm

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That the Regal Cinemas have closed was not the biggest surprise - we knew it was going to happen - but the way it suddenly shut down this weekend was - some people had pre-bought tickets for the latest Ant-Man and the Wasp movie and everything. Also, you can tell the people who own Regal don't know Boston based on what they consider is in the vicinity of the Fenway.

Wentworth campus to get not one but two life-sciences buildings

By adamg - 2/11/23 - 11:43 am

A trio of developers say they will soon submit plans to replace a Wentworth Institute of Technology sports field at 500 Huntington Ave. with two buildings aimed at "innovative" life-sciences R&D. Read more.

Man who once took hostages at a Hillary Clinton campaign office foiled in bid to make China pay him $100 million for allegedly spreading Covid-19

By adamg - 2/10/23 - 11:44 am

A federal judge in Boston today dismissed a frequently imprisoned man's $100-million lawsuit against the People's Republic of China for the way he says it used commercial airliners to send Covid-19 around the world. Read more.

Guy wanted for beating up somebody in the Fenway badly enough to put him in the hospital

By adamg - 2/8/23 - 3:09 pm

Surveillance photo via BPD.

Boston Police they're looking for a guy they say beat another man up, sending the victim to the hospital with serious injuries around 1:30 a.m. on Sunday, in the area of Game On at Brookline Avenue and Lansdowne Street. Read more.

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