"And next up, Tony!" called the host of Trident Booksellers's Poetry Open Mic Night.

Instead of one person standing and walking toward the mic to read a poem as had happened all evening, two people got up from a table at the back of the café. One of them ducked to the side, and started filming on her phone as Tony approached the mic. Read more.

DCR announced yesterday it's replacing the dark CARS ONLY signs at ramps to Storrow Drive, Soldiers Field Road and Memorial Drive with glaring yellow in-your-face CARS ONLY signs. Read more.

Boston Restaurant Talk reports Boloco is closing its outlet on Boylston Street near Berklee College at the end of the day and that it plans to close its other Boylston Street location and one on Congress Street downtown by the end of the year.

The Clover Food Lab outlet at 565 Boylston St. closed today, victim, the owner says, of a combination of long Covid-19 effects and a landlord who wouldn't negotiate a rent reduction.

CloverBBY took over the space of the failed Minigrow in December, 2019 - just in time to get whacked by the pandemic. Owner Ayr Muir writes today: Read more.

The Boston Licensing Board today approved the sale of the Pour House's liquor license to Dani’s Queer Bar, 909 Boylston St. in the Back Bay.
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A woman who says she's been eating prosciutto for most of her 80 years calls into GBH to explain what she says is the ridiculousness of somebody claiming to have slipped on the meat product. You want greasy? Try mortadella, she exclaims.

New Hampshire’s Jordan TW Trio is the opening act at tonight’s free concert at the Christian Science Lawn, to be followed by headliner RICANO. Music until 9 pm, there will be another outdoor concert on Sept. 8

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The owners of a dispensary on Boylston Street between Gloucester and Fairfield streets in the Back Bay yesterday sued the operators of a proposed dispensary three blocks down the street - and the Zoning Board of Appeal, which approved both. Read more.

A man who just wanted to play his saxophone outside the Copley Square library on a warm day last summer but was instead beaten by white supremacists yesterday sued the group, its Charlottesville-organizing leader and the masked "John Does" he says beat him. Read more.