Jill Rosati shows how she and some helpers turned a couple of decaying walls along the tennis and basketball courts at Ringer Park in Allston into a new mural.
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By adamg - 10/15/22 - 4:42 pm
Nancy shows us the 100 or so men who started marching down Comm. Ave. at the Allston Planned Parenthood to mansplain about a medical procedure none of them will ever need. The Million Thousand Hundred Mansplainer march against abortion was supposed to end up at the State House, but would anybody be surprised if most of them exhausted themselves mansplaining long before they got there?
By adamg - 10/3/22 - 11:05 am
The Crimson reports on reaction at a meeting last week to a BPDA proposal to upzone Western Avenue from Barry's Corner to Leo Birmingham Parkway to allow bigger buildings.
By adamg - 9/24/22 - 10:49 pm
The Crimson reports the university at some point will ask the BPDA for permission to build a new home for the theater - and new housing for grad students - at 175 North Harvard St in Allston, next to Harvard Stadium.
By adamg - 9/18/22 - 10:33 pm
A disgusted citizen files a 311 complaint about the dystopian darkness along North Harvard and Empire streets in Allston: Read more.
By adamg - 9/13/22 - 9:28 pm
Brighton Avenue fire scene. Photo by Chris in 02134.
Boston firefighters responded to 184 Brighton Ave., for a fire reported around 9:20 p.m. that quickly went to three alarms. Read more.
By adamg - 9/13/22 - 12:50 pm
The city will file a formal challenge to the federal government's conclusion that Boston had a population of 675,647 in 2020 - less than city estimates had put it previously and possibly due in part to local colleges emptying out temporarily due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Read more.
By adamg - 9/1/22 - 12:16 pm
WCVB provides the eye-in-the-sky coverage of a storrowing this morning on Soldiers Field Road. Judges award it a 9.5 out of 10 - perfect roof-peeling form, instant traffic backup, plenty of exposed cartons. Bonus half point awarded for attempting to sail down the road while towing an SUV. Point deducted for failing to scatter contents across the roadway.
By adamg - 8/30/22 - 9:18 pm
Firefighters at scene. Photo by BFD.
The Boston Fire Department reports firefighters responded to 10-12 Glenville Ave. around 8 p.m. for what turned into a two-alarm fire.
The fire started in the basement and spread to the first floor before firefighters knocked it down, the department reports.
By adamg - 8/29/22 - 12:44 pm
Surveillance photo via Brookline PD.
A Dorchester man already behind bars awaiting trial for a Harvard Square bank robbery now faces up to 20 years in federal prison for that and bank robberies in Boston and Brookline. Read more.
By adamg - 8/25/22 - 12:22 pm
The Boston Licensing Board today rejected a proposal by Derek Brady, who owns six restaurants and bars in Boston, to buy the closed White Horse Tavern on Brighton Avenue in Allston, because his application included a statement he had no criminal record when, in fact, he does. Read more.
By adamg - 8/24/22 - 1:41 pm
The Boston Licensing Board decides tomorrow whether to let a Chicago hotpot restaurant open up on Cambridge Street in Allston using the beer and wine license it hopes to buy from a defunct pizza place in East Boston. Read more.
By adamg - 8/17/22 - 7:35 pm
Last Thursday night, somebody walked in through an unlocked front door at one of those student houses on Ashford Street in the GAP and made off with five MacBook Pro laptops - and $400 in cash - Sgt. Edward McMahon told the Allston Civic Association this evening. Read more.
By adamg - 8/11/22 - 10:28 am
Brandon Bowser was walking down Brighton Avenue yesterday, looked up and went "RIP the Sunset Grill mural."
Sunset Grill closed in 2017, but its mural hung around a few more years. Compare to a similarly large mural painted over on Newbury Street.
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