Theodore Kokoros wonders: In the early 2000s, at shows at The Paradise, you could buy ‘Instant Live’ CDs of the concert right after the show. Does anyone remember when they stopped doing that?
By adamg - Sun, 03/16/2025 - 8:43pm
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By adamg - Tue, 03/11/2025 - 12:52pm
An Allston man is scheduled for arraignment today in Boston federal court on a charge of distribution and possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, according to court records unsealed today. Read more.
By adamg - Mon, 03/10/2025 - 4:59pm
Dr. Scott Hadland, chief of adolescent medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, posts the relevant part of the memo from Harvard: Read more.
By adamg - Mon, 03/10/2025 - 12:21pm
Naftali Bennett, who spent a year as Israeli prime minister, was at Harvard Business School last week for one of those off-the-record, just-between-us-Masters-of-the-Universe talks that make Harvard Harvard. And he got off such a rip-snorter of a joke that at least six participants couldn't wait to tell the Crimson about it: After the moderator warned that any protesters interrupting Bennett would be ejected, Bennett quipped "I think we’ll just give them a pager."
By adamg - Mon, 03/10/2025 - 9:33am
In a message to "our beloved patrons," the owners of the iconic Twin Donuts, 501 Cambridge St. in Allston, announced yesterday its last day of business is March 23. Read more.
By adamg - Fri, 03/07/2025 - 9:57am
WCVB reports an 18-wheeler somehow wound up on its side on the inbound turnpike in Allston, blocking two lanes around 5 a.m.
By adamg - Fri, 02/28/2025 - 7:43pm
Boston Restaurant Talk reports a Korean barbecue place and two Korean fish places - one with an emphasis on Korean cocktails to go with the fish - and all under the same ownership, hope to open in the Brighton Avenue space where Tavern in the Square, and before it, the Kells, used to be. Read more.
By adamg - Thu, 02/27/2025 - 10:51am
The Boston Licensing Board this morning approved plans by Swissbäkers, 168 Western Ave. in Allston, to stay open until 2 a.m. Thursday through Sunday for takeout and delivery of its pastries, pretzels and sandwiches. Read more.
By adamg - Fri, 02/21/2025 - 10:06am
Live Boston News reports Boston and Cambridge firefighters and State Police responded en masse to the Weeks Footbridge over the Charles yesterday evening on a report of a body on the ice and a huge amount of blood splattered on the bridge and the ice. The body turned out to be a mannequin and the blood was fake, and now somebody will have some questions to answer should State Police detectives find them.
By adamg - Wed, 02/05/2025 - 2:32pm
Greg Hunt spotted this plein-air trolley moseying up the B Line yesterday.
OK, OK, it's really a Green Line power-department catenary-checking vehicle, but still. Imagine if they had summer drink service on that.
By adamg - Sat, 02/01/2025 - 11:15am
GBH reports on yet another dying gasp from the dying Steward Health Care. The chain had promised $100,000 to the Allston Brighton Health Collaborative to provide farmers-market vouchers for poor people, then never paid, then paid after GBH reported on that and now it wants the money back.
By adamg - Wed, 01/29/2025 - 10:03am
A developer and two music impresarios this week filed detailed plans with the Boston Planning Department for a nine-story building at the corner of Harvard Avenue and Cambridge Street in Allston that will feature a return of Great Scott from the other end of Harvard as well as the continued existence of O'Brien's Pub, all topped by 139 apartments. Read more.
By adamg - Tue, 01/28/2025 - 10:20am
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans by City Realty to add four stories and 14 apartments to the building where the Glenville Stops bar used to be at 85-93 Glenville Ave. in Allston. Read more.
By adamg - Wed, 01/22/2025 - 10:18pm
Boston Police report arresting a Queens man on charges he was using two luxury apartments at 55 Brighton Ave. in Allston as brothels. Read more.
By adamg - Wed, 01/22/2025 - 12:52pm
Around 6:40 a.m., an MBTA manhole at the Green Line station at Harvard and Commonwealth Avenues in Allston began to emit smoke, bringing in Boston firefighters and forcing the T to rustle up some buses to provide service between Washington and Babcock streets until its engineers could fix the problem.
49 affordable apartments for seniors and reuse of old church as community center approved in Allston
By adamg - Tue, 01/14/2025 - 11:41am
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans for 49 affordable apartments for senior citizens at 279-283 North Harvard St. in Allston, next to the former Hill Memorial Baptist Church, which will be turned into a " a programmed resident and community space." Read more.
By adamg - Wed, 01/08/2025 - 9:57am
The Daily Free Press reports on the "fowl odor" that has shut the Raising Cane's on Comm. Ave., near Agganis Arena. ISD and the chain can't agree where the smell in the dining area is coming from - the chain blames the city and its aging infrastructure - but the chain is hoping to re-open in time to feed ravenous Terriers their accustomed tendies by next week.
By adamg - Thu, 01/02/2025 - 1:29pm
Two end-of-year sales along Allston's North Beacon Street show how the local real-estate market has flipped: Life sciences is down, apartments are up. Read more.
By adamg - Mon, 12/30/2024 - 6:36pm
Roving UHub photographer stopped to snap a tree reflection on the Charles in Allston near the Harvard athletic buildings, back when there was still ice on the river along with calm water, like, this morning.
By adamg - Thu, 12/12/2024 - 11:50am
The Boston Licensing Board today ordered a ten-day halt to alcohol sales at the Harvard Convenience Store, Brighton Avenue at Harvard Avenue because of a BPD raid in May that found a room with three slots machines and gamblers quaffing beers from the store's stock. Read more.
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