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By adamg - 3/12/24 - 9:55 am

The MBTA is blaming a faulty trolley for Saturday morning's derailment on the outbound B Line, rather than the track and other work that was completed just the day before: Read more.

By adamg - 3/8/24 - 3:37 pm

Boston Restaurant Talk reports the impending end of Pescador, which replaced Island Creek Oyster Bar in the Hotel Commonwealth. No word yet if it will be replaced by a seafood place.

By adamg - 2/24/24 - 10:56 am

Boston Police report arresting the man they say robbed smoke shops in the Fenway and the Back Bay earlier this week. Read more.

By adamg - 2/23/24 - 10:36 am
Wanted for smoke-shop robberies

Surveillance photos of suspect via BPD.

Update: Suspect arrested.

Boston Police report they are looking for a guy who's held up two smoke shops in the Back Bay this week while claiming to have a gun. Read more.

By adamg - 2/22/24 - 10:48 pm

A federal judge today sentenced Matthew Jordan Lindner, 39, of Comfort, Texas, to three months in federal prison for calling a doctor at Fenway Health who focuses on "gender nonconforming youth" to tell her she would "burn" and that a posse was on its way up to kill her on Aug. 31, 2022 - the day after a woman from western Massachusetts locked down Children's Hospital and part of the Longwood Medical Area by calling in a bomb threat. Read more.

By adamg - 2/19/24 - 9:02 pm
Inside a Green Line trolley with no lights on

Michael A. Burstein reports he was on an inbound C Line trolley this afternoon when it dipped into the tunnel between St. Mary's and Kenmore and suddenly the lights went off and all the riders were plunged into a nightmarish world where they had to outgun all the other riders - and a series of underworld wraiths, each worse than the one before. OK, OK, the driver rebooted the train, the regular lights came back on and the rest of the journey proved uneventful.

By adamg - 2/7/24 - 12:36 pm
Car on the E Line tracks at Brigham Circle

RadRebe captured the scene near Brigham Circle shortly before 6:30 a.m., when a driver in a car with Connecticut plates had somehow gotten onto the Green Line tracks. Read more.

By adamg - 1/25/24 - 3:17 pm
Flier calling for various freedoms in China

The flier that outraged Wu, via the FBI.

A jury in federal court in Boston today convicted Xiaolei Wu, 26, on one count of cyberstalking and one count of interstate transmissions of threatening communication for the way he threatened and harassed another Berklee student from China who'd posted a flier posted on Mass. Ave. calling for various freedoms in their dictatorial homeland. Read more.

By adamg - 1/21/24 - 4:11 pm

A woman who got into an argument with her sister after a night on the town punched her to the ground, then ground her footwear into her head, which she then slammed into the pavement several times on Dec. 8, according to the Suffolk County District Attorney's office. Read more.

By adamg - 1/21/24 - 1:13 pm

Police are looking for the driver of a pickup truck they say plowed into two pedestrians on Ipswich and Boylston streets in the Fenway, then just kept on driving down Ipswich, shortly after midnight. Read more.

By adamg - 1/10/24 - 11:28 am
Fire crew on St. Stephen Street in the Fenway

Fire crews on St. Stephens Street, photo by Shamus Moynihan.

Two manholes on St. Stephen Street in the Fenway exploded and began belching smoke around 10 a.m. Read more.

By adamg - 12/28/23 - 2:50 pm

The MBTA alerts us, and more important, Green Line riders:

Following up on the previous announcement from December 21, the MBTA is today reminding riders that Green Line service on the B branch between North Station and Babcock Street, on the E branch between North Station and Heath Street, and on the C and D branches between North Station and Kenmore station will be suspended all day from start to end of service for 10 days from January 3-12 and for 13 days from January 16- 28.

By Sasha Patkin - 12/26/23 - 10:05 am
 'Gluskabe Comes Home' by Richard Steitmatter-Tran

'Gluskabe Comes Home' by Richard Steitmatter-Tran.

Sitting in the middle of a gallery at MassArt Art Museum is a giant beaver. Ripping out of its belly in horror-movie fashion is what seems to be an infant.

The effect is disorientating, strange, and perhaps a little morbidly comical. It's weird, and that may be the point. Read more.

By adamg - 12/17/23 - 12:11 pm
Graffiti on Massachusetts Avenue reading God Bless Our City

A pair of concerned citizens team up to file 311 complaints about spray-painted Boston love on Massachusetts Avenue they only first noticed after that oversized map tower got knocked down yesterday - or maybe somebody only tagged the spot overnight? Read more.

By adamg - 12/16/23 - 9:47 pm
Wrecked kiosk

The remains of the kiosk on the right. See it larger.

Marcos surveyed the damage at Massachusetts and Westland avenues in the Fenway, after somebody slammed into the Boston map kiosk that had long stood there early this morning: Read more.

By adamg - 12/13/23 - 10:07 pm
Lindner

Update: Sentencing rescheduled for Feb. 22.

A Comfort, TX man pleaded guilty today to one count of interstate transmission of threatening communication for death-threat calls he made to a doctor at the National LGBTQIA+ Health Education Center at the Fenway Institute in August, 2022. Read more.

By Sasha Patkin - 12/10/23 - 3:44 pm
Cast of The Band's Visit. Photo by T. Charles Erickson.

Cast of The Band's Visit. Photo by T. Charles Erickson.

“Once, not long ago, a group of musicians came to Israel from Egypt. You probably didn't hear about it. It wasn't very important."

So begins The Band's Visit, with three sentences written in Hebrew, Arabic, and English and projected on a screen over the stage. Read more.

By adamg - 12/10/23 - 2:11 pm
Rendering of proposed 2 Charlesgate and map showing its location

Rendering of proposed building and its location, by Utile.

Scape, now nearing completion on an apartment building on Boylston Street in the Fenway, wants to increase the size of its proposed 2 Charlesgate, near the Bowker Overpass and the turnpike, from 23 to 30 floors - and to eliminate the 75 parking spaces it once planned there. Read more.

By adamg - 11/28/23 - 11:54 am
Traffic heading into Kenmore Square on Commonwealth Avenue and Beacon Street in 1946

Jam and cram in front of the Hotel Buckminster. See it larger.

Richard Merrill photographed traffic heading into Kenmore Square on Commonwealth Avenue and Beacon Street past the Hotel Buckminster in March, 1946.

Roughly the same view via Google Maps in November, 2022: Read more.

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