Tina St. Gelais Kelly asks:

What are your go to’s for healthy-ish meals downtown Boston? Sweet green is 13.86 for the bowl I have been getting and they have priced me out. Any advice?

A San Diego real-estate firm says it wants to transform the floors above the CVS on Summer Street in Downtown Crossing into life-sciences labs and offices. Read more.

Winslow Homer sketched the intersection of Washington Street with Winter and Summer streets in 1857, for Ballou's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion, a Boston-based publication. Read more.

A Cambridge man is being held in lieu of $5,000 bail following his arraignment last month that he went up to an Asian-American woman in Chinatown and punched her in the face last April 2 and then about two hours later punched out another Asian-American woman downtown, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.

Boston Police have released photos and descriptions of five men, three in local sports-team attire, that they say punched and kicked a man at Atlantic Avenue and Congress Street hard enough to send him to the hospital around 5:40 p.m. on Jan. 1. Read more.

Here's some video of the recalcitrant man just standing there, around 5:30 p.m. or so.

The T reports Blue Line delays of up to 20 minutes due to a "power issue near Wood Island," which, like many such power issues on the above-ground part of the Blue Line, probably means the overhead power line got ripped down somehow, or the top of a car began sparking.

To make matters worse, one rider reports: "There is a busker tunelessly crooning Christmas carols at State. God save us."

The Fort Pointer reports that with such nice weather, local hockey fans massed for a City Hall Plaza even in advance of the games at Fenway Park - and stood in a line the wrapped around the Government Center T stop to get in.

At 7:37 a.m., the MBTA reported delays of up to 15 minutes on the Orange Line due to a train that met an early death at State Street. Read more.