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By adamg - 10/17/24 - 8:40 pm
Sunset over Hull

Joe Kidston took in the sunset from Hull this evening.

By adamg - 10/17/24 - 7:48 pm

Rev. Laura Everett has been following and writing about women's sports in Boston for quite awhile. Today, she writes about the disaster that was the formal naming and introduction of the Boston professional women's soccer team, in particular the way the team managed to insult men, transgender people and past and present women's pro teams in Boston. Read more.

By adamg - 10/17/24 - 1:18 pm

The Boston Licensing Board today approved one chef's plans for a new, locally sourced restaurant at 39 Charles St. on Beacon Hill and for a hummus take-out shop right next door. Read more.

By adamg - 10/17/24 - 12:36 pm

The Boston Licensing Board today approved plans by the McDonald's at 500 Geneva Ave. in Dorchester's Fields Corner to extend its current midnight closing time to 3 a.m. - but only for pick ups by third-party delivery services, so burger-mad night owls will have to punch in their orders at home.

Nobody objected to the plan at a hearing yesterday. The franchisee at the location already operates similar wee-hour pickup service in Allston and at TD Garden.

By adamg - 10/17/24 - 12:24 pm

The Boston Licensing Board today approved a plan by the owners of the now defunct Worden Hall, 22-26 West Broadway in South Boston, to sell their liquor license to the owner of an Indian restaurant in Norwood, who plans to open up shop in the space. Read more.

By adamg - 10/17/24 - 11:12 am

Three local newsrooms have won $100,000 grants to bolster local news coverage in the Boston area, from a group called Press Forward, which is trying to reinvigorate really local journalism. Read more.

By adamg - 10/17/24 - 9:46 am

A former MBTA employee who says she was forced to retire in 2022 after the T denied her request for a religious exemption from Covid-19 shots, is suing the agency for lost wages, lost retirement benefits and punitive damages. Read more.

By adamg - 10/16/24 - 7:09 pm

WBZ reports Bos Nation, which is a soccer team, not a concert promoter, has apologized for its "too many balls" campaign, which ended pretty much right after it started.

By adamg - 10/16/24 - 5:36 pm

The driver of an outbound trolley that derailed just past Lechmere at the start of the afternoon rush hour on Oct. 1, sending seven passengers to the hospital with minor injuries, barreled through the equivalent of a red light at more than three times the speed limit and derailed on a switch that was still shifting into place to get the train to a new track, the National Transportation Safety Board says. Read more.

By adamg - 10/16/24 - 3:43 pm

A federal appeals court yesterday upheld a judge's ruling that Boston Public Schools owe nothing to an English High School student left for dead in a snowbank by an angry English High counselor turned gang leader with a gun. Read more.

By adamg - 10/16/24 - 3:07 pm

Carla Gomes, who owns two Italian restaurants in the North End, today made the case why she should get two of the four all-alcohol licenses - worth an instant $600,000 or so to whoever gets them - that the Boston Licensing Board will give out over the next year, although she said she's not greedy and would be happy with just one. Read more.

By adamg - 10/16/24 - 2:03 pm
George Craan

The owner of a Haitian restaurant on Hyde Park Avenue today described his plans to add jazz and dancing to his offerings should he get one of the three all-alcohol licenses the city has to dole out in 02136 over the next year. Read more.

By adamg - 10/16/24 - 12:48 pm

The Boston Licensing Board decides tomorrow whether to let the new owner of the old Green Gardens packie and market on West Milton Street in Hyde Park change the store's name to Stop & Shots Liquors & Deli. Read more.

By adamg - 10/16/24 - 9:38 am

Glenn Inghram died from injuries suffered under the wheels of an MBTA bus turning left onto Washington Street from the lower busway at Forest Hills at Tower Street this past Saturday - just a short walk from his home around the corner on the Arborway. Read more.

By adamg - 10/15/24 - 10:34 pm
Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS)

Ed Grzyb watched Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan–ATLAS in the west over Roslindale around 7:30 tonight.

Comet over Millennium Park.
Tips for seeing it.

By adamg - 10/15/24 - 8:14 pm

Boston Police report arresting a Mattapan man on charges he stabbed a man in the back on Humboldt Avenue at Ruthven Street in Roxbury, around 12:30 p.m. Read more.

By adamg - 10/15/24 - 1:39 pm

Boston Restaurant Talk reports the end of Thornton's Fenway Grille on Peterborough Street.

By adamg - 10/15/24 - 12:48 pm
Too many locks

A weary resident files a 311 complaint to ask that something be done about the excessive short-term rental lockery on Myrtle Street on Beacon Hill:

Can old lock boxes be removed???

By adamg - 10/15/24 - 12:38 pm

An alleged inebriate who got cut off at Durty Nelly's, 108 Blackstone St. downtown, early one July evening, reached across the bar in an attempt to strike the bartender and yelled "Punch me in the face!" So the barkeep obliged and then, as the guy stumbled out of the bar and fell to the ground, followed him outside and kicked him in the face, breaking his jaw, police and one of the bar's owners told the Boston Licensing Board this morning. Read more.