Boston Biker posts photos of two Brighton bike racks blocked by planters from a nearby ice-cream shop. He reports he's moved the planters when the need arose, but they then get moved back in front of the racks.

The Outraged Liberal details his problems with Verizon getting his busted landline fixed:

It's now been about 24 hours since Verizon called my out-of-service landline to tell me the problem we reported had been fixed the previous afternoon.

Of course, I only found out by calling my voice mail, since the phone didn't ring because the line was still dead. And there was a Verizon tech, the third in three days, in my basement trying to solve the problem two of his colleagues had failed to fix.

Even though they reported that they had. ...

Oh, wait, it's just Stuff magazine. Does anybody actually read that? In any case, they did a photo feature on One Night in Boston. It's actually a cool idea: Send photographers out to chronicle a night in the life of the city. Too bad they apparently decided Dorchester, Roxbury, Mattapan, Roslindale, Hyde Park and West Roxbury were too dangerous for their photogs to venture into alone (maybe they were going to, but they had to have that helicopter seen below ready to rescue them, only it turned out the copter needed repairs that night so they aborted the mission). But who knew Boston had grown so much north of the Charles?

Stuff's revised map of Boston:

Via Third Decade:

... If Stuff can come up with a "pictorial journey through the bloodstream of Boston" that considers this to be "Boston," maybe I need to rethink my relationship to the city (or its media).

Just wanted to know,how many other people have almost been killed by one of these casino bus
company's. When you call the casinos they have nothing can do, just pass the problem off
Even if there name is all over the bus. Mohegan Sun you suck...

Just wanted to know, how many other people have almost been killed by one of these casino bus companys. all i know if you call the casinos they say there is nothing they can do,the bus company has nothing to do with the casinos even when there name is all over the bus.Mohegan Sun you suck....

Lindsay Crudele reports she stopped by a new Theater District taqueria (name not given), asked the owner what he'd recommend:

... The owner answered, "Well, for the girls, they like ..." and "For the boys..." explaining that the latter prefer bulky burritos while the former dine on delicate quesadillas. ...

She reports her heteronormative, feminine quesadilla tasted vaguely of paper and cheap pico de gallo sauce.

So Doug Bennett is at it again and this time instead of stickers on street lights it's holding up signs at city council meetings.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFl1etwox4s

Doug really needs to get a steady cameraman or at least invest in a tripod.

Steve Urban, chief transportation officer for MBCR, lives in Attleboro, and commutes on the trains he helps run-- glory be.

He engaged in a little Q and A by e-mail with the Attleboro Sun Chronicle. Not surprisingly, he's a bit of a rail booster. But one wishes he had gone further (or, perhaps, the editors had trimmed less) in some of his answers, such as when he says:

Lifestyle Lift, a New York company that does facelifts across the country, including in Waltham, today agreed to pay New York State $300,000 in penalties and to stop posting fake, glowing reviews of its services on message boards.