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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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???