It was pretty dark and stormy looking over the Charles as our own Ron Newman made his way over the Longfellow around 1:30 p.m.
Earlier though, roving UHub photographer David Fisher captured a rainbow over Jamaica Plain, then a full up Fort Point Channel (on the South Boston side): Read more.
The Boston Business Journal reports that Barbara Lynch has abruptly closed her Menton, Sportello and Drink outlets in Fort Point, blaming her landlord. Her other restaurants, all outside Fort Point, remain open.
Update: Approved.
The Boston Licensing Board decides tomorrow whether to let the owner of the Quiet Few in East Boston's Jeffries Point open a similar establishment, to be called Small Victories, at 400 Dorchester St. in South Boston's Andrew Square, where Backyard Betty's was meant to go. Read more.
Boston Police report arresting two men they say broke into the former St. Vincent Church on E Street last night in search of copper wiring and a man who broke into St. Monica Church on Old Colony Avenue early this morning. Read more.
Live Boston has video of one of the two sheep that went on the lam in South Boston today, captured following "a short pursuit involving Boston Police officers and a 3-legged dog" on Preble Street.
Earlier:
Chicken on the grass, alas in Dorchester.
After protesters dumped the tea into the harbor 250 years ago, they tossed the chests it had been in into the harbor as well. J.L. Bell posts a copy of an account by Rev. Dr. John Prince of Salem, who watched the Tea Party and then returned to the wharf the next morning: Read more.
Did you notice it briefly got lighter for a bit a little after 1? Alisa Bokulich looked out from her office at BU and captured the rainbow that sprang up over Cambridge before it got dark and stormy again.
David Fisher spotted it, too, from his aerie in the Seaport: Read more.
Rendering by CBT.
The BPDA board yesterday approved the first phase of a long-term re-do of Mary Ellen McCormack in South Boston, under which a developer working with the BHA will replace 529 antiquated BHA apartments and add 781 new apartments split between affordable and market rate. Read more.
A sea of blue at West 1st and F. Photo by Kate Roberts.
State Police troopers chased a suspect in a Roxbury shooting last week and a possible South Shore incident tonight up Day Boulevard to Castle Island, then down East 1st Street, where the driver of the SUV he was in rammed a parked Boston Police cruiser in the area of O Street around 10:25 p.m. Read more.
Around 3:10 p.m., a man fell on the inbound Red Line tracks at Broadway. A rider reports two men jumped down on the track to try to get him off, but he wasn't moving. T workers and police were able to get him off the tracks and service resumed.
A Framingham man was arraigned today on charges related to a Nov. 16 stickup of two hearing-impaired people outside the Burger King at 280 West Broadway in South Boston - which the Suffolk County District Attorney's office says resulted in one of the victims suffering a stroke. Read more.
A New York woman who sued America's Test Kitchen over Facebook-based "tracking" code on its Web site has agreed to settle the case without damages after the concern agreed to remove the code from its Web pages. Read more.
From the complaint: Goon finger-shooting performer and parent at Taunton drag-queen story hour.
The state Attorney General's office today sued the state's home-grown Nazi group and two of its leaders on civil-rights and conspiracy charges for using violence and intimidation against drag-queen story hours, immigrants and just random people over the past couple of years, including in Jamaica Plain, the Seaport and on a pedestrian bridge over Storrow Drive. Read more.
Boston Police report arresting a teen they say went to class at Up Academy, 215 Dorchester St. in South Boston with a loaded gun in his backpack today. Read more.
Boston Restaurant Talk reports that chef Jason Santos is looking to turn the old Oak + Rowan space on A Street into another outlet of his Citrus & Salt, "which features Baja-inspired dishes found along the coast of Southern California and Mexico."
Bird-infused rendering by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.
The owner of numerous industrial facilities and warehouses in South Boston and a Toronto developer have filed plans for an eight-building development on parcels along Pappas Way and West 1st Street in South Boston that would include 205 residential units, life-sciences lab space, a supermarket and a rebuilt one-acre park along the Reserved Channel. Read more.
The MBTA announced this morning it's eliminated nine speed restrictions between JFK/UMass and Downtown Crossing that had limited trains to as slow as 10 m.p.h. at some points, after replacing 2,000 feet of rail and 115 ties in overnight and weekend repair work. Read more.
Boston Restaurant Talk reports the new Alamo Drafthouse Cinema will open Nov. 17 where the ShowPlace Icon Theatre used to be on Seaport Boulevard. As the name implies, beer will be on offer, along with harder drinks and food.
We're not the only ones who prowl 311 complaints on the regular.
At 7:09 this morning, an irate citizen filed a 311 complaint about the parking situation along Summer Street in the area of East 1st Street in South Boston: Read more.
A judge set bail at $5,000 for a South Boston man accused of being drunk when he slammed into a woman in a crosswalk at O and East 4th streets, sending her to the hospital with fractured ribs, a concussion, internal bleeding and numerous gouges to her face around 1:20 a.m. on Sunday, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
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