A Romanian doctor in town for a medical conference was arrested last night on charges he groped a 15-year-old girl on the Green Line heading inbound from Boylston Street, according to the Suffolk County DA's office:

Transit Police responded to the station last night at about 7:45 to find the victim visibly shaken and crying. She reported that she felt the man's hands on her buttocks as she had her back to him – a statement corroborated by three independent witnesses who also spoke with Transit Police.

Virgil Baloescu, 60, pleaded innocent at his arraignment this morning in Boston Muncipal Court. He was ordered to surrender his passport and was held in lieu of $10,000 cash bail, the DA's office says.

Baloescu is listed as a doctor at the National Institute of Aeronautic and Space Medicine in Bucharest, specializing in neurology and psychiatry. He was apparently here for a meeting of the Aerospace Medical Association at the Back Bay Sheraton.

Gizmodo says it's a good thing we're getting the world's largest Borg cube Apple store, because it will help us with that inferiority thing.

B.G. Lewandowksi looks up on Boylston Street.

They know how to market locally.

The Pour House, which by law you have to either love or hate, is not closing, Vanilla Iced writes.

I was on Boylston Street in Copley Square around noon when a couple of motorcycle cops came through, lights flashing. Then these three runners (you can't tell from the photo, but the guy is holding a lit torch). Then several vehicles with monks and other people calling for human rights in Tibet. And then the regular flow of traffic.

Emerson professor John Craig Freeman is trying to figure out how to let Second Life avatars walk around Boston (via Mark Baard):

Her.Moves lives next door and took some photos.

Four alarms, started before 8 a.m. at the under-construction luxury hotel/condo complex. Anybody get caught in traffic because of it?

Channel 4 reports huge plumes of smoke filling up the sky over downtown Boston.

Boston Business Journal: Fitness center affected; no one injured.

Teddy Kokoros was on Boylston Street by the Theater District yesterday when he spotted a drum group marching on the other side of the street:

Mchgtr videoed the Grand Procession down Boylston Street:

Video of the Common fireworks finale. Video of the fireworks over Boston Harbor.

Video of annoying underage drunks on the Orange Line.

First Night photos.

Celebrating at the Tam.