Jeff Cutler reports on the phenomenon of new mothers leashing their dogs to their baby's strollers, at least as observed on Newbury Street:

... I'm pretty certain if a life-size Chuck Wagon truck or a wild deer dashed through downtown, these dogs would be galloping across busy streets dragging mothers, infants and strollers through traffic to certain doom.

And if not doom, definitely destruction.

Where did common sense go off the rails? The likelihood of the Chuck Wagon or the deer showing up on Newbury Street in Boston is a fantasy. But a pickup truck with dogs in the back could happen. And the reality of nearly identical mommy/stroller/puppy combos on the other side of the street is common. ...

Tom Menino wants to limit building heights along the Greenway.

Ablarc discusses (with photos) appropriate scale of buildings along Newbury and Boylston streets.

Vanshnookenraggen calls for a new role for the BRA:

... The BRA used to work along the top-down approach. They were the educated elite and their new plans for the city would fix all its problems. As time has proved over and over this is the wrong way to do things. We need a bottom up approach. But can a massive bureaucracy work bottom-up? I think it can and it has to if we are going to seriously start fixing the problems of the city. ...

Fox in Detox reports on a Malkovich-looking drunk at Joe's American on Newbury who skipped out on his tab - and the bartender who chased him onto the street.

Shortly before noon at Arlington Street.

Jenny naively believed the schedule that said a number 1 bus would depart Mass. Ave. and Newbury Street for Harvard Square every 14 minutes.

Naturally, she wound up waiting 42 minutes - and then two of them showed up at once.

Newbury Street icon Louis seeks someplace trendier.

No, smartass, it's not moving to New York. But is it time for a Newbury Main Streets program to revitalize the area?

Boston Police report on trouble on Newbury Street:

At about 12:15am, on Monday, October 29, 2007, officers assigned to the Fenway area for the Red Sox World Series game, received a radio call for a large group vandalizing cars along Newbury Street. On arrival, officers observed and counted 16 cars that had been vandalized. Most of the damage consisted of broken or ripped off side view mirrors, broken windows and damaged windshield wipers.

Boston Police report arresting a total of 22 people - mostly under 24; State Police arrested another 15.

Boston Police also report on an incident on Huntington Avenue around 2:20 a.m.:

According to the victim, he was driving along Huntington Avenue when a large crowd gathered in front of his motor vehicle. Victim further states that when his car came to a stop, an unidentified white male ran jumped onto the hood of his car and, then, ran over the car from front to back. According to the victim, the suspect shattered his rear window.

Our Dumb Criminals make their triumphant return: The Globe reports a Southie dude was arrested on Newbury Street today: He's charged with possession of a Mercedes stolen in Stoneham, which he allegedly used to take a friend of the female persuasion for a cruise down Newbury Street, unaware that police would be following the LoJack alarm and arrest him as he stepped out of the Nike store - in front of which he'd double-parked while picking up some new footwear, phew.

According to well placed sources, The Women is using Newbury Street as a stand-in for New York in at least one scene. Spies on the set reported seeing period New York City cabs on the street.

Ed. note: OK, I don't have a future in celebrity journalism.

Doppiavu photographs some guy who set up an easel to paint a Newbury Street building - right in the middle of a crosswalk.