Konteki Kitchen isn't the only new establishment that's opened in recent days in Cleary Square. A couple doors down, the Lala Market is busy with its grand opening - right across the street from the Tedeschi and right around the corner from Isamary and Star Food Market (and not all that far away from the other Tedeschi).

There was an older guy standing outside the Tedeschi on River Street this afternoon wearing yellow sandwich boards. In English and Spanish, they read:

I am a shoplifter!
I am a thief!
I steal!

That's not the kind of thing you see too often, so I asked him if he really was a shoplifter. He said he was and that part of his sentence was an unusual form of community service: Stand outside the Tedeschi with the signs after school for 90 days, as a warning to the kids from the nearby Hyde Park High School who frequent the store.

Beats the stocks, I guess.

The Herald reports nobody was injured when suspected drug dealers fired at officers who had just pulled them over at Gordon and River streets around 8:30 p.m. Channel 4 reports four people were arrrested and that an officer got off one round before they were subdued.

UPDATE: Suspect John Mentor no stranger to the law.

Roving reporter Mike Ball noticed that the best-named pizza place in all of Boston - yes, the Piece of Pizza in Cleary Square - is closed for some kind of work.

Will they still have "free" delivery when they re-open?

Channel 4 reports police are looking for four guys who walked into the Cleary Square Papa Gino's just after 11 p.m. on Saturday and held the place up - right around the corner from the Hyde Park police station. All wore white ski masks; two carried sawed-off shotguns:

Store employees, who were all in their teens, and a manager, were ordered to lay face down on the ground, police said. Workers told police one of the employees was pistol whipped