Boston Restaurant Talk reports that what's left of the Pour House - one of several Boylston Street bars to close for good at the start of the pandemic - are going up for auction.
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By adamg - 7/11/23 - 9:00 am
Boston Restaurant Talk reports that Beard Papa's, which once had outlets in Chinatown, Allston and the Back Bay, is returning to the city to see if we are finally worthy of a chain that sells just cream puffs, albeit customizable cream puffs (you pick your shell, then the filling). It'll be opening up on Newbury Street, next to another import: Shake Shack.
By adamg - 7/11/23 - 8:38 am
Ksenia Dunn got a good view of yesterday's rainbow over (and into!) the Charles River, along with some UFOs (OK, she says they were really just reflections from the office lights on her window).
By adamg - 7/6/23 - 9:15 am
The MBTA reports Orange Line delays are now reaching 25 minutes due to a brand-new train with "a mechanical issue" at Back Bay.
By adamg - 7/5/23 - 11:25 am
A vexed citizen files a 311 complaint about the situation in the Public Garden - and a possible solution: Read more.
By adamg - 7/4/23 - 6:21 pm
People with phones set up for emergency messages were warned this afternoon to leave the Esplanade as a line of thunderstorms approached south of Boston. State Police stopped letting people onto the Esplanade to reduce the number of people they might have to move out in a hurry had the heavy rain and lightning reached the Charles, which it didn't. Read more.
By adamg - 6/30/23 - 10:22 pm
A fed-up citizen files a 311 complaint about unleashed curs in the Public Garden: Read more.
By adamg - 6/29/23 - 6:25 pm
A Cambridge man was arraigned on armed-robbery charges yesterday after he and a pal tried fleeing Saks Fifth Avenue on Boylston Street with a number of scarves and two handbags, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
By adamg - 6/18/23 - 6:47 pm
A dead trolley at Hynes means outbound Green Line service is facing at least 20 minute delays, just as people are relying on the Green Line to get to Kenmore for the Sox/Yankees game. Or as Michelle Greenberg reports:
Stuck on green line trying to get to Fenway. Train lost power all green line shut down
By adamg - 6/16/23 - 3:01 pm
The Charles River Conservancy has announced its canceled tomorrow's City Splash swim event at the Esplanade due to forecast "heavy rain and potential thunderstorms" that would make swimming unsafe.
The group had set Sunday as its rain date, but it's been forced to cancel that as well, because all the rain Saturday could mean unsafe levels of potentially harmful microorganisms via pipes that still drain into the river.
By adamg - 6/15/23 - 10:23 pm
Boston Restaurant Talk reports Warner Bros. Themed Entertainment plans to open a coffeehouse called Central Perk, as in the place where the Friends used to hang out, on Newbury Street. Maybe the cardboard cutouts of Chandler and Phoebe we assume they'll have could throw down with the cardboard cutouts of Norm and Cliff from Cheers in a battle of sitcom dominance.
By adamg - 6/15/23 - 4:07 pm
The Boston Sun reports Old South Church in Copley Square formally honored the Boston chapter of Drag Queen Story Hour for its "exceptional contributions to our communities and the profound impact of storytelling" during a service this past Sunday.
By adamg - 6/10/23 - 10:34 pm
Kaitlin snapped this guy outbound on the turnpike at Clarendon Street this evening.
Earlier:
Pike bike in Allston.
By adamg - 6/5/23 - 3:07 pm
Live Boston reports investigators are trying to figure out how the man fell from the top of One Dalton today.
By adamg - 5/30/23 - 11:02 am
Boston Restaurant Talk reports the demise of Georgetown Cupcake - named for the DC neighborhood - on Newbury Street.
By adamg - 5/23/23 - 8:26 am
Transit Police report arresting a convicted sex offender with a golf club at Hynes on the Green Line after he used the club to threaten a couple who declined to give him money around 11:45 p.m. on Monday.
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