Update: Might have been brush fires in Burlington.
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By Oliver Blake - 5/16/23 - 10:48 pm
The Boston Cannabis Board today approved closing-hour extensions at marijuana dispensaries in Back Bay, Roxbury, Dorchester and Roslindale. Read more.
By adamg - 5/4/23 - 11:04 am
The Boston Licensing Board this morning approved plans for a 16,500-square-foot Trader Joe's at 500 Boylston St., with enough room for liquor sales, but the chain says it will also keep its current, world's-smallest Trader Joes's, just four blocks away at 889 Boylston St.
"We have no plans to close our existing Back Bay store," chain spokesperson Nakia Rohde said this morning.
By adamg - 5/3/23 - 9:55 pm
A Los Angeles man who took in a Patriots game at Gillette Stadium on Sept. 26, 2021 today sued the MBTA and the Kone escalator company for the injuries he says he suffered when the escalator he was riding up from the train at Back Bay after the game suddenly went into reverse, throwing him to the bottom of the escalator, where he became pinned as other people fell on top of him. Read more.
By adamg - 5/3/23 - 1:25 pm
Update: Approved, with a 9 p.m. closing time.
The Boston Licensing Board could vote tomorrow whether to grant a liquor-store license to Trader Joe's so it can open a larger new store in the Denny Crane building, 500 Boylston St., just four blocks from its current small store. Read more.
By adamg - 5/2/23 - 9:48 pm
Adam Smith watched the golden stripes on Boston buildings at sunset today.
By adamg - 5/2/23 - 1:49 pm
Some street chess during last year's JP Open Streets.
Mayor Wu today announced an expanded "Open Streets" program in which Newbury Street in the Back Bay will be closed to motor vehicles every Sunday between July 2 and Oct. 15 and five streets in other neighborhoods will be shut to cars and trucks for one-day celebrations. Read more.
By adamg - 5/2/23 - 1:25 pm
A woman told she couldn't bring a bottle of beer with her at closing time at Barney's Grill, 299 Havre St. in East Boston, reacted by hurling the bottle at the bartender, hitting her in the chest, the bartender and police told the Boston Licensing Board today. Read more.
By adamg - 4/29/23 - 2:25 pm
The khaki bois of Patriot Front parked in Brookline Hills and took the D Line into Copley Square to pretend they really care about the Satanic Temple, holding its annual convention at the Marriott. Read more.
By adamg - 4/28/23 - 2:05 pm
On one side of the Marriott in Copley Square this afternoon, a street preacher is offering free "holy water" - Poland Spring in plastic bottles, as he promises eternal life and mentions Jesus every 10 seconds or so. Read more.
By adamg - 4/25/23 - 10:32 pm
Boston Police report arresting Nahom Getaneh, 33, on charges he attacked and tried to rape a woman in an alley near Charlesgate in the Back Bay Sunday night. Read more.
By Oliver Blake - 4/25/23 - 8:52 pm
Raising Cane's will open its second Boston outlet on Wednesday at 755 Boylston St., between Fairfield and Exeter streets in Copley Square. Read more.
By adamg - 4/24/23 - 11:26 pm
Update: Suspect arrested.
Boston Police report they are looking for a man they say sexually assaulted somebody in the area of Beacon Street and Public Alley 908 near Charlesgate around 11:45 p.m. on Sunday. Read more.
By adamg - 4/23/23 - 1:25 pm
The MBTA reports the Green Line is currently running 15 minutes slower inbound than it normally runs slow these days due to signal problems at Copley.
By adamg - 4/22/23 - 12:25 pm
Right in front of the Eastern Bank/garage on Dartmouth Street at Stuart Street is this large ad thinge that has two payphones built in. And at least as of yesterday, both generated dial tones when you picked up the receivers.
As always, talking to God - and Bank of America - is free: Read more.
By adamg - 4/17/23 - 4:42 pm
One of the MBTA's newest trolleys suffered some sort of catastrophic failure with that swiveling mechanism in the center of the car near Boylston shortly before 3 p.m., jamming up the line on one of its busiest days of the year - and leaving some passengers on other trolleys trapped for an hour or more as T workers tried to get them and the newly dysfunctional trolley safely out of the tunnels. Read more.
By adamg - 4/15/23 - 12:54 pm
Destroyed sneaker on Boylston Street after the explosions. Photo by Brian D'Amico.
Martin Richard, 8. Krystle Campbell, 29. Lingzi Lu, 23. Sean Collier, 27. Dennis Simmonds, 28. Their names and ages are forever frozen in place by the events the week of April 15, 2013. Scores more will remember April 15, 2013 because of the injuries they suffered. And, of course, the rest of us will not forget, either. Ten years after the Tsarnaev brothers brought death and destruction to a peaceful race on a beautiful spring day, what can we take from that week? A roundup of thoughts and interviews: Read more.
By adamg - 4/13/23 - 10:38 am
The helicopter you might see - and hear.
In what has become an annual tradition, the National Nuclear Security Administration will fly a helicopter low - and loud - along the Boston Marathon route Friday and over the weekend. Read more.
By adamg - 4/11/23 - 5:21 pm
One of the companies that purchased the Sheraton Boston Hotel last year says it will soon file detailed plans to permanently convert the 428-room south tower into a dormitory with room for roughly 854 college students. Read more.
By adamg - 4/10/23 - 9:49 am
Neal noticed an interesting request marked on a wheelchair "bridge plate" at the Amtrak/commuter-rail platform at Back Bay.
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