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By adamg - 6/8/23 - 9:34 am
As part of Pride month, the Downtown Boston Business Improvement District and Men of Melanin Magic are hosting a free drag, dance and music show with local queer performers, on Summer Street at Washington Street, between 5 and 8 p.m. on Friday. Read more.
By adamg - 6/7/23 - 1:05 pm
Surveillance photos of suspect via BPD.
Boston Police have released surveillance photos of a man they say has broken into guest rooms at two local hotels. Read more.
By adamg - 6/6/23 - 9:42 am
Rendering by Schwartz/Silver Architects.
The Holocaust Legacy Foundation yesterday filed detailed plans with the BPDA for the six-story Holocaust Museum and Educational Center she hopes to build at 125 Tremont St., across from the Park Street Church downtown. Read more.
By adamg - 6/5/23 - 5:32 pm
Brenda looked towards Boston from Fisherman's Beach in Swampscott about 5:20 p.m.
By adamg - 6/5/23 - 4:15 pm
Today's the first Monday in June and that means it was once again time for the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, founded in 1638, to hold its annual march through downtown to commemorate its changing of the guard. Read more.
By adamg - 6/3/23 - 12:45 pm
Glub: A man who never moved from the Custom House would need air tanks in a storm by 2070, report says.
By adamg - 6/2/23 - 10:44 am
Surveillance photos via BPD.
Boston Police report they are looking for two men they say used a machete to attack a third man at Tremont Street and Temple Place downtown shortly before 9 a.m. on May 23. Read more.
By adamg - 6/1/23 - 2:05 pm
Walk up School Street from the Downtown Crossing Walgreens and look up at the back of the building at the corner of Province Street, and you'll see these two ox skulls staring back at you. Read more.
By adamg - 5/25/23 - 2:41 pm
The Boston Licensing Board today approved a request by Black Seed to extend its closing time from 2:30 a.m. to 3 a.m. in its new location one door down from its old one on Tremont Street in Downtown Crossing. Read more.
By adamg - 5/25/23 - 11:05 am
The Boston Licensing Board today unanimously approved plans to replace the closed Tavitas Mexican restaurant inside South Station with a liquor store. Read more.
By adamg - 5/24/23 - 11:42 am
The Boston Licensing Board decides tomorrow whether to let Black Seed extend its closing time from 2:30 a.m. to 3 a.m. at its location on Tremont Street downtown. Read more.
By adamg - 5/19/23 - 5:26 pm
Correction: The 11 p.m. closing time originally listed here was for the restaurant space Black Seed is moving into. Its current location, next door, lists a 2 a.m. closing time.
Black Seed, 140 Tremont St., goes before the Boston Licensing Board next week to seek permission to extend its closing time from the current 2 a.m. to 3 a.m. Read more.
By adamg - 5/18/23 - 9:58 am
The Beacon Hill Times reports on initial proposals for a "West End Green Corridor" to connect the Rose Kennedy Greenway with the Esplanade. One proposal: A sort of mini-High Line path 15 feet up.
By adamg - 5/10/23 - 10:52 am
Not much of a skyline along the highway in 1971.
On May 17, 1971, photographer Gene Dixon snapped some shots of traffic on the Central Artery downtown. Read more.
By adamg - 5/9/23 - 3:17 pm
More than a decade after a developer first proposed a hotel at 188 High St., another developer is set to actually begin construction of a seven-story, 24-room hotel this summer, its attorney told the Zoning Board of Appeal. Read more.
By adamg - 5/8/23 - 11:16 am
Horseless Age chronicled one man's successful effort to retrieve his be-stickered skateboard out of the briny shallow off Christopher Columbus Park the other day - after getting down to his skivvies and slipping a time or two on the seaweed.
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