Brian McGrory reports owner David Ray decided to go out with his head held high rather than compromise his standards any further than making jackets optional.

Boston Luxe Real Estate posts about Steven DiRoberto:

Every person I have spoken too sounds hollow; it is unquestionable, in our mind, that Steve is one of those rare individuals whose impact on the world was all encompassing. To lose that force, to have it snuffed out so young, is a tragedy that can't be expressed in words. There are few individuals that make the world a better place every day just by the nature of their very existence. The pain of losing such an amazing and gifted person person like DiRo is simply indescribable. Our remorse will be endless.

Police say his death from head trauma in an incident early Saturday at Broad and Franklin streets is still under investigation.

The Boston City Archives forwards this photo (click for a larger version). Can you figure out where and when it was taken?

A man who allegedly fled to Texas after gunning a man down in the South End last year and a man convicted of torturing a cat and then tossing its flaming carcass into an East Boston apartment building have hearings today on requests to overturn their separate drug convictions because of possible evidence tampering by ex-state chemist Annie Dookhan.

The Suffolk County District Attorneys' office reports that Anthony Thames, charged with the August, 2011 South End murder of Raymond Lemar, will not be going anywhere even if a judge does agree to set aside his five-year conviction for possession of cocaine with intent to distribute, because he is being held without bail pending his trial for Lemar's murder.

Also up for a Dookhan hearing is Luigi Epifania of East Boston, currently serving a five-year term for his 2011 conviction for possession of 150 OxyContin pills in his car. His arrest came not long after he got out of prison on unrelated convictions for beating a man with a frying pan in another drug deal and for killing a former friend's cat and putting it in a bag that he set on fire before throwing it in the other man's window.

The DA's office reports a Suffolk Superior Court judge heard more than 100 Dookhan requests - and that prosecutors agreed with defense lawyers to stay sentences pending more in-depth hearings.

Innocent, etc.