WBZ reports Bos Nation, which is a soccer team, not a concert promoter, has apologized for its "too many balls" campaign, which ended pretty much right after it started.
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10/16/24 - 5:36 pm
The driver of an outbound trolley that derailed just past Lechmere at the start of the afternoon rush hour on Oct. 1, sending seven passengers to the hospital with minor injuries, barreled through the equivalent of a red light at more than three times the speed limit and derailed on a switch that was still shifting into place to get the train to a new track, the National Transportation Safety Board says. Read more.
By adamg -
10/16/24 - 3:43 pm
A federal appeals court yesterday upheld a judge's ruling that Boston Public Schools owe nothing to an English High School student left for dead in a snowbank by an angry English High counselor turned gang leader with a gun. Read more.
By adamg -
10/16/24 - 3:07 pm
Carla Gomes, who owns two Italian restaurants in the North End, today made the case why she should get two of the four all-alcohol licenses - worth an instant $600,000 or so to whoever gets them - that the Boston Licensing Board will give out over the next year, although she said she's not greedy and would be happy with just one. Read more.
By adamg -
10/16/24 - 2:03 pm
The owner of a Haitian restaurant on Hyde Park Avenue today described his plans to add jazz and dancing to his offerings should he get one of the three all-alcohol licenses the city has to dole out in 02136 over the next year. Read more.
By adamg -
10/16/24 - 12:48 pm
The Boston Licensing Board decides tomorrow whether to let the new owner of the old Green Gardens packie and market on West Milton Street in Hyde Park change the store's name to Stop & Shots Liquors & Deli. Read more.
By adamg -
10/16/24 - 9:38 am
Glenn Inghram died from injuries suffered under the wheels of an MBTA bus turning left onto Washington Street from the lower busway at Forest Hills at Tower Street this past Saturday - just a short walk from his home around the corner on the Arborway. Read more.
By adamg -
10/15/24 - 10:34 pm
Ed Grzyb watched Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan–ATLAS in the west over Roslindale around 7:30 tonight.
By adamg -
10/15/24 - 8:14 pm
Boston Police report arresting a Mattapan man on charges he stabbed a man in the back on Humboldt Avenue at Ruthven Street in Roxbury, around 12:30 p.m. Read more.
By adamg -
10/15/24 - 1:39 pm
Boston Restaurant Talk reports the end of Thornton's Fenway Grille on Peterborough Street.
By adamg -
10/15/24 - 12:48 pm
A weary resident files a 311 complaint to ask that something be done about the excessive short-term rental lockery on Myrtle Street on Beacon Hill:
Can old lock boxes be removed???
By adamg -
10/15/24 - 12:38 pm
An alleged inebriate who got cut off at Durty Nelly's, 108 Blackstone St. downtown, early one July evening, reached across the bar in an attempt to strike the bartender and yelled "Punch me in the face!" So the barkeep obliged and then, as the guy stumbled out of the bar and fell to the ground, followed him outside and kicked him in the face, breaking his jaw, police and one of the bar's owners told the Boston Licensing Board this morning. Read more.
By adamg -
10/15/24 - 11:40 am
The local National Women's Soccer League team, the one that could play in a rebuilt White Stadium, will call itself Bos Nation FC, which is supposed to resonate with people who live in a city:
Where sarcasm is the native language. A three dollar and 48 cent cup of coffee is the food of choice. Where a legion of professional sports teams connects us as one. And no one, no one, rests until championship banners are raised.
H/t Shoshana, who had some other suggestions.
By adamg -
10/15/24 - 9:42 am
MIT News reports researchers have figured out how to 3D print "semiconductor-free logic gates" that can be assembled into something that could do computations - work they began in the pandemic days, when semiconductors suddenly became scarce. Current polymer-based 3D printers will never be able to reproduce state-of-the-art chips (with circuits close enough to spark concern about quantum effects), but then, not everything needs that kind of CPU, they say.
By adamg -
10/14/24 - 1:27 pm
MIT News reports two MIT economists and a University of Chicago colleague have been awarded this year's Nobel Prize in economics.
Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson and James Robinson in Chicago shared the award for showing that "democracies, which hold to the rule of law and provide individual rights, have spurred greater economic activity over the last 500 years."
By adamg -
10/14/24 - 11:40 am
Residents of Redlands Road off Centre Street in West Roxbury are mostly reacting cautiously to a developer's plans to replace the closed Stonehedge nursing home with a 30-unit apartment building. Traffic and parking, of course, are their main concerns. Read more.
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