The khaki bois of Patriot Front parked in Brookline Hills and took the D Line into Copley Square to pretend they really care about the Satanic Temple, holding its annual convention at the Marriott. Read more.
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By adamg - 4/28/23 - 2:05 pm
On one side of the Marriott in Copley Square this afternoon, a street preacher is offering free "holy water" - Poland Spring in plastic bottles, as he promises eternal life and mentions Jesus every 10 seconds or so. Read more.
By adamg - 4/25/23 - 10:32 pm
Boston Police report arresting Nahom Getaneh, 33, on charges he attacked and tried to rape a woman in an alley near Charlesgate in the Back Bay Sunday night. Read more.
By Oliver Blake - 4/25/23 - 8:52 pm
Raising Cane's will open its second Boston outlet on Wednesday at 755 Boylston St., between Fairfield and Exeter streets in Copley Square. Read more.
By adamg - 4/24/23 - 11:26 pm
Update: Suspect arrested.
Boston Police report they are looking for a man they say sexually assaulted somebody in the area of Beacon Street and Public Alley 908 near Charlesgate around 11:45 p.m. on Sunday. Read more.
By adamg - 4/23/23 - 1:25 pm
The MBTA reports the Green Line is currently running 15 minutes slower inbound than it normally runs slow these days due to signal problems at Copley.
By adamg - 4/22/23 - 12:25 pm
Right in front of the Eastern Bank/garage on Dartmouth Street at Stuart Street is this large ad thinge that has two payphones built in. And at least as of yesterday, both generated dial tones when you picked up the receivers.
As always, talking to God - and Bank of America - is free: Read more.
By adamg - 4/17/23 - 4:42 pm
One of the MBTA's newest trolleys suffered some sort of catastrophic failure with that swiveling mechanism in the center of the car near Boylston shortly before 3 p.m., jamming up the line on one of its busiest days of the year - and leaving some passengers on other trolleys trapped for an hour or more as T workers tried to get them and the newly dysfunctional trolley safely out of the tunnels. Read more.
By adamg - 4/15/23 - 12:54 pm
Destroyed sneaker on Boylston Street after the explosions. Photo by Brian D'Amico.
Martin Richard, 8. Krystle Campbell, 29. Lingzi Lu, 23. Sean Collier, 27. Dennis Simmonds, 28. Their names and ages are forever frozen in place by the events the week of April 15, 2013. Scores more will remember April 15, 2013 because of the injuries they suffered. And, of course, the rest of us will not forget, either. Ten years after the Tsarnaev brothers brought death and destruction to a peaceful race on a beautiful spring day, what can we take from that week? A roundup of thoughts and interviews: Read more.
By adamg - 4/13/23 - 10:38 am
The helicopter you might see - and hear.
In what has become an annual tradition, the National Nuclear Security Administration will fly a helicopter low - and loud - along the Boston Marathon route Friday and over the weekend. Read more.
By adamg - 4/11/23 - 5:21 pm
One of the companies that purchased the Sheraton Boston Hotel last year says it will soon file detailed plans to permanently convert the 428-room south tower into a dormitory with room for roughly 854 college students. Read more.
By adamg - 4/10/23 - 9:49 am
Neal noticed an interesting request marked on a wheelchair "bridge plate" at the Amtrak/commuter-rail platform at Back Bay.
By adamg - 4/7/23 - 2:10 pm
A Back Bay consulting company that had sued Twitter for not paying a bill for services rendered last week dismissed the suit after previously telling the judge it and Twitter were working to resolve the case. Read more.
By adamg - 4/5/23 - 4:10 pm
The MBTA reports Green Line service is now back to the new-normal regular delays now that it's done something about the dead trolley that was gumming up the works at Copley.
By adamg - 4/3/23 - 1:33 pm
The Supreme Judicial Court acknowledged today that the state corrections commissioner made a very good case that Martin McCauley, 66, locked up for the way he murdered Carlos Madariaga in an alley off Gloucester Street in the Back Bay in 1981, isn't debilitated enough by serious mobility issues and constant, severe back and nerve pain to warrant medical parole. Read more.
By adamg - 4/3/23 - 9:56 am
Ed. note: Google Maps says it would take 99 minutes to walk from Ashmont to the Pru.
That girl that likes planez chronicled her commute this morning, starting at 7:51 a.m., when, she reported, she was sitting on a Red Line train at Ashmont six minutes after she boarded it: Read more.
By adamg - 3/23/23 - 12:50 pm
The Charles River Conservancy has set June 17 for this year's City Splash and One-Mile Swim, during which you'll be able to jump into the Charles from the Fiedler Dock on the Esplanade. Because the event and race have proven so popular, pre-registration for time slots or to enter the race will be required, although the group has yet to set up online pages to do so.
By adamg - 3/13/23 - 9:33 am
Karen captured the dawn over the Back Bay this morning.
In West Roxbury, Mary Ellen watched the sun rise over the West Roxbury Crushed Stone quarry: Read more.
By adamg - 3/8/23 - 2:04 pm
The Boston Licensing Board today approved plans by Neiman Marcus in Copley Place to start offering beer and wine to its customers, using a license it will buy from a noodle place in Brighton Center. Read more.
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