If you insist on taking yours into a Chinatown restaurant and then using it as you sit at the bar, don't be surprised if it disappears when you leave it there to visit the restroom. And then be thankful if the alleged thieves are even dumber than you are.

Also click on the link to read about a polite purse snatcher in the South End:

... According to the victim, she was walking along when the suspect came up from behind her, tapped her on the shoulder and stated, "Excuse me .. can I have this?" At this point, the suspect grabbed her purse and took off.

Jeff Hovis, who lives in Chinatown, tells the BRA exactly what he thinks of the office tower it approved for the Dainty Dot site.

To get to the other side of town before police realized he'd set an Audi on fire.

Will Ng wonders why the Boston Arts Academy is refusing to discuss its plans to build a school in Chinatown.

The Herald reports a couple of guys in a brown Japanese sedan were spotted dumping what turned out to be a male body near the Franklin Park Zoo's overflow parking lot last night.

Police are also investigating a Chinatown stabbing last night: They say a man made it to South Station after being stabbed in a bar where he said the bartender kicked him out after he was sliced open.

Left Ahead posts an hour-long interview with Chang-Diaz, making her second run for the 2nd Suffolk Senate seat now held by Dianne Wilkerson.

Sam Yoon warning residents against a lottery scam targeting the neighborhood, specifically: Elderly, non-English-speaking residents.

It was a Tufts decision.

How long before the MBTA changes the name of the T stop?

The back of New England Medical Center, as seen from Albany Street.

Announces bid on Blue Mass Group. She'll be running, again, against 2nd Suffolk incumbent Dianne Wilkerson, who perhaps will pay a bit more attention to filing deadlines this time around.