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By Irma la Douce - 8/11/23 - 7:04 pm

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

https://www.christianscience.com/find-us/visit-the-mother-church/visit-t...

By adamg - 8/11/23 - 1:12 pm

A New Hampshire woman headed for a free-sample table at Eataly at the Pru last fall says she never made it because she slipped on a slice of prosciutto - and now she is suing over the fractured ankle she says she suffered. Read more.

By adamg - 8/10/23 - 9:28 am

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.

By adamg - 8/9/23 - 1:52 pm

City Councilor Erin Murphy (at large) today declared a "public health crisis" being caused by having the same city street sweepers that brush up debris at Mass and Cass also go along the curb in the South End, Chinatown, Bay Village, Beacon Hill and Back Bay - an idea blasted as fearmongering by one of her colleagues. Read more.

By adamg - 8/9/23 - 9:40 am

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.

By adamg - 8/8/23 - 4:09 pm
Flooded St. Thomas More Road

A roving UHub correspondent decided discretion was the better part of driving valor and turned around when he saw how flooded St. Thomas More Road, between the BC lower campus and the Chestnut Hill Reservoir, was after today's torrent. Read more.

By adamg - 7/27/23 - 7:15 am

The Boston Sun reports on Sharon Durkan's victory over Montez Haywood to represent District 8 (Back Bay, Beacon Hill, Mission Hill, Fenway) for the next few months as a replacement for Kenzie Bok. The two will reprise their battle in November for a two-year term.

By adamg - 7/24/23 - 10:01 am

Show of hands: How many of you call the Hancock 200 Clarendon St.?

X marks the, um, something.

By adamg - 7/23/23 - 8:43 pm

Around 7 p.m., the MBTA announced inbound delays of 20 minutes due to "a train with a power problem at Copley," or what Chen Cao described as "wires down" just inbound from Copley - about 40 minutes after similar delays due to a dead trolley at Arlington. Read more.

By adamg - 7/20/23 - 12:23 pm

Correction: The new Cactus Club is not Tex-Mex.

The Boston Licensing Board today approved plans for a new Tex-Mex casual restaurant at 500 Boylston St., better known to TV viewers as the location of Denny Crain's office in "Boston Legal." Read more.

By adamg - 7/20/23 - 10:57 am

The T, which said it was going to fix the long-running, high-squealing slow zone between Tufts Medical Center and Back Bay when it shut the whole line for a month last year, said yesterday it's actually fixed the problems along the tracks, and this time it means it, Streetsblog Massachusetts reports.

By adamg - 7/20/23 - 8:27 am

The Boston Sun recaps the forum with Montez Haywood and Sharon Durkan, running in a July 25 special election to replace Kenzie Bok as city councilor in District 8 (Beacon Hill, Back Bay, Bay Village, Fenway and Mission Hill). They're competing for a term that runs until just Jan. 1, when the winner of the November regular election will take the seat.

By adamg - 7/14/23 - 1:32 pm

Boston Restaurant Talk reports that what's left of the Pour House - one of several Boylston Street bars to close for good at the start of the pandemic - are going up for auction.

By adamg - 7/11/23 - 9:00 am

Boston Restaurant Talk reports that Beard Papa's, which once had outlets in Chinatown, Allston and the Back Bay, is returning to the city to see if we are finally worthy of a chain that sells just cream puffs, albeit customizable cream puffs (you pick your shell, then the filling). It'll be opening up on Newbury Street, next to another import: Shake Shack.

By adamg - 7/11/23 - 8:38 am
Rainbow over the Charles River

Ksenia Dunn got a good view of yesterday's rainbow over (and into!) the Charles River, along with some UFOs (OK, she says they were really just reflections from the office lights on her window).

By adamg - 7/6/23 - 9:15 am

The MBTA reports Orange Line delays are now reaching 25 minutes due to a brand-new train with "a mechanical issue" at Back Bay.

By adamg - 7/5/23 - 11:25 am

A vexed citizen files a 311 complaint about the situation in the Public Garden - and a possible solution: Read more.

By adamg - 7/4/23 - 6:21 pm
Phone message urging people to leave the Esplanade

People with phones set up for emergency messages were warned this afternoon to leave the Esplanade as a line of thunderstorms approached south of Boston. State Police stopped letting people onto the Esplanade to reduce the number of people they might have to move out in a hurry had the heavy rain and lightning reached the Charles, which it didn't. Read more.

By adamg - 6/30/23 - 10:22 pm

A fed-up citizen files a 311 complaint about unleashed curs in the Public Garden: Read more.

By adamg - 6/29/23 - 6:25 pm

A Cambridge man was arraigned on armed-robbery charges yesterday after he and a pal tried fleeing Saks Fifth Avenue on Boylston Street with a number of scarves and two handbags, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.

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