Bostonian Hospitality Group is negotiating with the owners of Church - which recently shut the concert part of its Kilmarnock Street location - to buy the place and operate it as a restaurant. Read more.
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Artblog.net covers the latest controversy around that kimono thing at the MFA: The people who organized the original "yellowface" protests organized a panel discussion for this Saturday at MassArt - from which they initially planned to exclude whites, and prevent blacks and Latinos from making any comments - although they would be given note cards on which to jot down questions. Read more.
UPDATE, Wednesday morning: WCVB reports a friend of the store-owner was experimenting with making fish-oil supplements.
Kilmarnock Street and Park Drive were shut and two apartment buildings and several restaurants evacuated tonight when an ISD inspector found a large quantity of suspicious fluids in the basement of the Fenway Market, 76 Kilmarnock Street. Read more.
MassArt student Maj-Britt Pedersen writes about having her non-textile dress rejected from a MassArt showing at Copley Place because it's made out of cigarette packs:
In today's world of Donald Trump and heroin overdoses, how could a dress constructed of cigarette packs be deemed too controversial? Cigarettes are not illegal. Nowhere on the dress does it tell anyone they should smoke. In fact, the bust is made up of the warnings.
Jeremy shows us the scene at Brookline Avenue and Yawkey Way around 2 a.m., where gunfire sent two to the hospital and shattered windows at the Red Sox ticket office and Boston Beer Works.
Vanyaland reports the owners of the Fenway music venue have shut it for good.
Meg reports:
Ain't no party like a party at former Burger King site w/no guests but a lovey table setup.
Julio Salado looked out his Kenmore Square window as students moved in today.
Meanwhile, JGD reports:
When Zakim bridge tunnel flashes "all rental trucks do not use Storrow Drive" we know parents are on campus!
DCR, MassDOT and State Police say that since 2007, there have been 25 recorded storrowings on Storrow and Memorial drives and Soldiers Field Road on weekends during which students flow into and out of the city. Read more.
Police have shut off traffic on Mass. Ave. between Huntington and Columbus due to a suspicious package at St. Botolph St. Fire crews and EMS on the way, just in case.
UPDATE, 5:45 p.m. Roads being reopened. Patty reports it appeared to be a pink and blue suitcase.
Amanda reports:
7:18 AM and summer is officially over. On a train with 40 BU Freshmen all wearing lime green orientation tshirts
Star Market is hoping customers will buy foods to eat on patios outside its Dorchester, Fenway and Allston stores.
The chain goes before the Boston Licensing Board on Wednesday for permission to add patios at the three locations, similar to what the Whole Foods in the South End offers - with 24-hour patio seating at the Fenway store. Read more.
He flew down Ipswich when the cops arrived, but was unable to evade their tag. No word what he measured on a radar gun.
Tim Lawrence photographed an entrance to the inbound side of Symphony station that had been buried in the 1970s, but which re-emerged in 2012 and again this week as part of an ongoing construction project.
Another view: Read more.
JunctionSouthie enjoyed both the sunset and the James Taylor concert at Fenway Park tonight.
Boston Police report they are looking for a man they say attacked two women and kicked a man in Kenmore Square on July 4.
Police said the man made "anti-gay comments" as he attacked the two women.
He's about 6' in his 20s and has a buzz cut. he was wearing a black shirt, a black jacket and bluejeans at the time, and carried a black backpack.