More specifically, its Jumbotronish display next to the turnpike, which is going dark until cooler weather returns or the station installs a new cooling system to keep the LEDs from overheating.

And Eagle's is the worst of them all, new Cleveland Circle denizen Martin Lierbaman writes:

... Either the B.C. kids have really low standards for good food, or these places just aren't even trying. How I long for the days when I could get off the T on my way home and eat at T. Anthony's, a real pizza place, and a real good one at that.

Michael Pahre reports from a community meeting at which BC officials defended buying up apartment buildings off campus and such:

... Now BC's director of public affairs, Jack Dunn, increased his rhetoric again by saying Tuesday night that the housing on part of their Chestnut Hill campus is so dense that to find denser housing "you would have to go to a prison." ...

For some reason, residents didn't buy that argument; Pahre provides the numbers to show that BU, which nobody has yet compared to a prison, actually has a higher student density than BC.

BehindDarkEyes takes in a Brighton street scene.

This week's Tab Allston/Brighton police roundup is packed to the rafters with stupid crime news, including the case of the prophet instructed by God to punch out a security guard at a Planned Parenthood office, a guy going after a neighbor with lighter fluid and a machete and a report of four "suspicious" guys shooting Roman candles at some guy on Commonwealth Avenue on July 5th:

... [T]his group was believed to have been doing this since the Boston Celtics won the championship, according to witnesses living in the area.

Boston Police report a man who'd just cashed in a $10 winning ticket at Morris and Brooks streets in East Boston shortly after 8:30 p.m. yesterday was jumped by a man and woman:

The victim initially thought it was a friend and attempted to turn around, when he was met with resistance and the female suspect who was wielding a pair of scissors. The male suspect then directed the suspect to give up his wallet. A struggle ensued during which the victim yelled for help and he and the two suspects fell to the ground. A good Samaritan came along and grabbed the male suspect off of the victim, at which time he fled and the victim detained the female suspect.

Steven M. O'Brien, 27, and Jannell Smith, 23, both of East Boston, both arrested.

Meanwhile, around 1 p.m. yesterday, a couple was standing outside the Boylston Street Burger King when:

[T]he suspect approached them and mumbled something inaudible. The suspect then pulled what they though to be a silver knife from his pocket and raised it to one of their necks. The victims, at that time fearing for their lives, and believing that they were being robbed took the money that they had in their pockets and dropped it to the ground. The suspect then took the money and fled from the scene.

Jerry Savory, 53, of Jamaica Plain, arrested and charged.

Meanwhile, around 2:40 this morning, police report arresting a couple of Brighton dudes for disturbing the peace - on Peaceable Street.

Innocent, etc.

Harry Mattison writes that if some New Bedford state senator wants to complain about abuses on the Charles, he should be looking at things like Harvard's $99-a-year lease on a boathouse, not low-interest loans for a boathouse open to the public.

The Massachusetts Appeals Court has upheld the conviction of a Dorchester teen for bringing a loaded gun to Brighton High School, saying his actions in getting into the school were suspicious enough to warrant an immediate search of his clothes without a warrant, the Suffolk County DA's office reports.

Amenhotep Smith had argued an administrator violated his Fourth Amendment and Massachusetts Declaration of Rights protection against unreasonable search and seizure by searching his jacket without a warrant. The administrator found a .380 semiautomatic handgun loaded with four rounds of hollow-point ammunition.

The court, however, agreed with prosecutors that the fact that Smith had been ordered out of school the day before and that he then snuck into school and avoided going through metal detectors at the front entrance gave a school administrator "reasonable" reasons to hold and search him.

Following his trial, Smith was sentenced to a year in jail.

Or in Brighton, as Brad Kayal shows.

Menino tells Banker & Tradesmen that maybe a bit of sophistry is involved when BC says it'll house all its undergrads on campus, then turns around and buys a high-rise apartment building on Comm. Ave. that isn't on campus.

Via Michael Pahre, who notes that BC officials are careful to talk about "university-controlled" housing rather than "on campus."