Boylston Street

What a difference a year makes

adamg — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:27:45 -0400

Dirty Water reports from the Pour House:

...When Tampa took the lead Wednesday night suddenly the entire bar was chanting TAMPA SUCKS.

Wondering how long before the website and t-shirts appear as we have to face facts. ...

Alleged lunkheads arrested during victory parade, too

adamg — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 21:04:27 -0400

Boston Police post the honor roll: 22 people arrested - 13 from out of town. West Roxbury represented, though - four local lads got a close-up look at BPD prisoner processing procedures.

Offenses ranged from getting into fights to attempting to beat up a cop to being in possession of pot while resisting arrest for getting into a fight. Most were under 24 (the youngest a 15-year-old tyke from Dedham), although a 50-year-old guy from Dorchester was arrested on a pickpocketing charge.

Chalking one up

adamg — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 08:04:50 -0400

Beantown Chalk Monsters exists to encourage people to make public art on the sidewalk in chalk.

The streets of Boston and its environs are in desperate need of decoration. When people become isolated and don't notice their surroundings, they miss out on a lot of beauty and joy in the world.

Jiffywoob, who helped start the thing, was appropriately impressed by the chalk drawings in front of the Boylston T stop last night.

Globe columnist discovers capitalism

adamg — Sun, 18 May 2008 12:25:46 -0400

Yvonne Abraham breaks the news that Apple opened a store on Boylston Street last week and expresses her discomfort on learning that Apple is a for-profit concern and her amazement that, despite that, some people really like its products.

Humble suggestion: This is the sort of thing that would make a more worthy metro column.

The Apple store is melting in the dark

adamg — Sat, 17 May 2008 23:04:12 -0400

Mike the Mad Biologist discovers first hand that that cool, cool minimalism of the new Apple store on Boylston street kinda sucks when it's raining:

... Then there's the elegantly designed minimalist interior which has no carpeting. That means that everyone's umbrella piddles on the floor and leaves puddles everywhere.

So the Apple Store devised a solution: at the door, you have to enclose your umbrella in a plastic bag to prevent umbrella piddling. Of course, this is described as "ensuring your safety." And it's environmentally friendly to boot. So now you're in the store, into which people are tracking dirt and mud--there's no rug to wipe your feet. Minimalist interiors with light gray floors don't look so good with mud (and umbrella piddle). ...

And all that's before you even get to the plastic staircase.

T police: Green Line groper grabbed

adamg — Thu, 15 May 2008 17:12:13 -0400

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.

You feel inferiority-complex ravaged today?

adamg — Tue, 06 May 2008 09:21:50 -0400

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.

Things are looking up

adamg — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:26:54 -0400

B.G. Lewandowksi looks up on Boylston Street.

Give Apple credit

adamg — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:16:18 -0400

They know how to market locally.

Pour, pour pitiful me

adamg — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 21:36:05 -0400

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