Alex Jones captured the noontime scene on Storrow Drive outbound, notes that at least the driver was alert enough to avoid getting storrowed by an overpass.
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By adamg - 3/18/14 - 8:34 pm
JB Parrett walked along the Charles around 7 p.m.:
Nearly spring in Boston. Light at 7pm and a nearly ice-free Charles.
By adamg - 3/13/14 - 9:32 am
Boston's Mobile Food Truck Committee (yes, of course the city has a Mobile Food Truck Committee) has approved a pilot project in which food trucks can keep serving food until midnight in designated areas in Copley Square and at Boston University East and Northeastern on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays.
Mayor Walsh says that if the pilot proves successful, he'd want to look at expanding it to other areas.
By adamg - 3/12/14 - 9:59 pm
Boston Police report arresting Tyler Butler, 20, of Brockton, for the double stabbing on Hereford Street last Friday.
Butler faces charges of assault with intent to murder, assault and battery and assault with a dangerous weapon.
Naomi Charles of Dorchester was arrested yesterday.
By adamg - 3/12/14 - 12:11 am
Boston Police report arresting Naomi Charles, 26, of Dorchester on a charge of assault with intent to murder for last week's double stabbing on Hereford Street.
By adamg - 3/9/14 - 6:16 pm
Poster advertising Nick Varano's new steak place in the Park Plaza. Guess he's not too concerned about how many women patrons he'll get - or about his spelling.
The photo of the poster is by Charles Draghi, who knows something about the restaurant business himself and who has some choice comments about the poster in the comments under the photo.
UPDATE, Monday morning: The poster is gone, replaced by one showing a woman balancing on one high heel on an uncooked steak .
By adamg - 3/9/14 - 6:03 pm
John McLachlan walked along the Charles yesterday, noted the puddling caused by warming temperatures, but also the unusual ice floes pushed up onto shore. The river today.
Brad Kelly, meanwhile, noted a possible sign of spring: Whiskey Priest poking its head up above one of the snow piles along the South Boston waterfront.
By adamg - 3/7/14 - 3:21 pm
Hereford crime scene. Photo by Flea.
Two people were stabbed around 2:30 p.m. at 66 Hereford St. Both were taken to local hospitals.
Police are looking for three suspects, all black, all young, all thin: A woman, 5'7" with blue-dyed hair, in a black coat; another woman, about 5'6" in a pink and gray knit hat and a long beige coat; and a man, 5'11" to 6' in a black puffy coat.
By adamg - 3/7/14 - 9:10 am
The Globe reports MassDOT and State Police will be experimenting with lane closures in the Pru tunnel this weekend as they get ready for a series of lane closures later this month and next month so workers can remove the tunnel's ceiling.
By adamg - 3/6/14 - 4:18 pm
Greg Hum looked out his window this afternoon to see two people walking across the Charles.
By adamg - 3/4/14 - 3:49 pm
Several city councilors say they're not opposed to medical marijuana but that Southampton Street is just the wrong place for one of the two dispensaries provisionally approved by the state because it's already in the middle of an area with large methadone clinics, a jail, trash-transfer facilities and the BU biolab.
And at a hearing today, councilors expressed major disappointment in state officials, none of whom showed up.
By adamg - 3/4/14 - 1:37 pm
The Boston Licensing Board today warned the lawyer for the fancy home-furnishing chain that if it doesn't start serving the wine and beer for which it won a license at its Back Bay store last year, it could have that license taken away.
Restoration Hardware lawyer Howard Wayne told the board it's been unable to win ISD approval for the kitchen, restrooms and other facilities it needs to open a wine bar in its historic new location between Boylston and Newbury streets.
Wayne said the store wants to eventually open a wine bar, but if it can't, it would sell the license.
By adamg - 2/28/14 - 5:31 pm
Todd Glaskin asks:
Need a recommendation for a good dinner place tomorrow within walking distance to Berklee Performance Center.
By adamg - 2/27/14 - 8:47 pm
Brian D'Amico watched the steam venting from a manhole on West Newton at Huntington Avenue this afternoon. Police closed West Newton while workers tried to beat back the steam.
Copyright Brian D'Amico. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.
By adamg - 2/27/14 - 6:18 pm
Hynes is being evacuated due to a smoking train.
This comes an hour or so after an inbound Red Line train breathed its last at Broadway, creating what the T acknowledged were "severe" delays.
By adamg - 2/27/14 - 4:16 pm
The Boston Licensing Board today gave Trident Booksellers and Cafe, 338 Newbury St., permission to stay open until midnight.
Michael Lemanski, general manager of one of Boston's dwindling number of bookstores, said customers had been asking for an extra hour of time in which to enjoy the literary alternative to a traditional bar or pub.
He told the board at a hearing Wednesday the revenue from the extra hour will also help Trident, open since 1984, stay in business. He cited health care as an example of a cost it has been struggling with.
By adamg - 2/24/14 - 3:59 pm
The Citizens Bank branch, on Boylston at Arlington, was robbed around 3:50 p.m., by a white man, about 5'6" and wearing a multicolored scarf in which blue and gray predominated. He also wore a greenish-gray jacket. He showed a black handgun.
By adamg - 2/22/14 - 4:51 pm
Brian D'Amico watched protesters call for human rights in Venezuela on the steps of the State House this afternoon, after a march from Copley Square.
By adamg - 2/20/14 - 4:34 pm
On the outbound side. Police have put up some cones to try to warn off motorists until the DPW can fill those holes.
Meanwhile, the Burlington Mall is shut down due to a car-eating sinkhole.
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