The Herald reports the keeper of special collections at the BPL in Copley Square has been put on leave as police and now the FBI investigate the disappearance of two valuable prints from the library.
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By adamg - 5/20/15 - 9:42 am
Crews from "Chasing Life," an ABC Family series about "April, an ambitious young journalist" newly diagnosed with cancer, are in the Back Bay today doing filming type stuff. They'll be shooting some shots in the Copley T stop, too.
By adamg - 5/20/15 - 6:11 am
The Herald reports on the disappearance of a Rembrandt etching and a Durer engraving.
By adamg - 5/19/15 - 2:21 pm
The Boston Licensing Board recently granted the owner of an Ontario sushi restaurant permission to move into the space occupied by a homegrown sushi place on Newbury Street.
Wabora Sushi can operate under a temporary Boston license until it receives final approval from the state Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission to serve beer and wine at 254 Newbury St., where it will use the license it's buying from Ikura Sushi at the same location.
By adamg - 5/14/15 - 6:32 pm
Rendering by architect Elkus Manfredi.
The BRA board today approved new plans for a $500-million, 52-story tower atop Copley Place after the mall's owner agreed to add an extra five affordable apartments - an increase housing activists, such as former state Rep. Mel King, said was far from enough. Read more.
By adamg - 5/13/15 - 11:11 pm
Lucky.
This guy even bounced a couple times to see what would happen. Luckily for both him and the tree, the branch held.
By adamg - 5/12/15 - 12:52 pm
You wouldn't think it would need to be said, but apparently it does:
Motorists driving trucks, including box and rental trucks, are urged to check the height restrictions along their planned route and make route adjustments as necessary. Specifically, truck drivers on Storrow Drive, Soldiers Field Road, and Memorial Drive are urged to pay attention to all relevant signs regarding bridge height.
By adamg - 5/9/15 - 5:20 pm
Benjamin CL reports on the fog layer that made half the Hancock and most of the downtown skyline disappear, at least as seen from Wollaston Beach late this afternoon.
By adamg - 5/9/15 - 10:38 am
JB Parrett watched as a goose captured some dock sitters on the Esplanade last evening.
By adamg - 5/7/15 - 1:53 pm
Transit Police report educating a Jamaica Plain man on the finer points of subway law in the Commonwealth, specifically that there is a crime called riding upon a train other than as a fare paying passenger. Read more.
By adamg - 5/6/15 - 11:10 am
Transit Police report arresting three teens - two 15 and one 16 - on charges they wrenched a man's iPhone 5s out of his hand after he got off an inbound Orange Line train at Back Bay around 12:40 p.m. yesterday.
Police say the victim got on at Roxbury Crossing, where four teens were already sitting: Read more.
By adamg - 5/6/15 - 10:43 am
Art is everywhere, Leslee shows us on a recent visit to the Public Garden.
Posted under this Creative Commons license and in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.
By adamg - 5/6/15 - 10:32 am
The Boston Licensing Board decides tomorrow whether to let Lir, 903 Boylston St. stay open until 2 a.m., an hour later than at present.
Lir is the only one of the four bars on that stretch of Boylston that currently has to close at 1 a.m. Read more.
By adamg - 5/5/15 - 5:55 pm
Transit Police report they are looking for David Perez, 22, on charges he held up the Dartmouth Street flower stand at Back Bay station twice and took the tip jar from the Cha Cha Taqueria food cart inside the station.
If you know where Perez is, detectives would love to hear from you at 617-222-1050. You can also send an anonymous text tip to 873873.
By roadman - 5/5/15 - 4:33 pm
for some common sense at 7-11. Went in there earlier for my daily chocolate fix, and saw notices by every register that they are now only accepting cash for scratch ticket purchases (no more debit cards).
Now,I typically stay far away from buying scratch tickets, but I'm still curious. Is this is a 7-11 policy or a Mass Lottery one? If it is a Lottery policy, perhaps the state could go one better and eliminate 90% of the current games - especially the ones that are so old the odds of winning any prize, especially the one remaining big prize, are almost next to nil.
By adamg - 5/4/15 - 4:52 pm
Tamra Carhart shows us what happens when a truck that doesn't belong on Storrow Drive gets up to ramming speed before tearing itself apart at one of those quaint little overpasses leading up to the Fenway and Kenmore Square.
Rory Nolan gives us another view.
Wonder what that "Clearance" sign in the photo by P. Cheung reads:
By adamg - 5/4/15 - 11:53 am
The three museums on Columbia Point are offering a free trolley bus ride from the Back Bay to Columbia Point on Saturdays and Sundays through Nov. 1.
Copley Square times: 9 a.m., 10 a.m., 11 a.m., 12 p.m., 2 p.m., 3 p.m.
Columbia Point times: 9:30 a.m., 10:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 1:30 p.m., 2:30 p.m., 3:30 p.m., 4:30 p.m.
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