Cone stands vigil over its fallen comrades in the Fenway
By adamg - Sat, 03/15/2025 - 9:49am

Over the past couple of weeks, somebody has been going around the Back Bay, South End and Fenway and filing 311 complaints about all the "random cones" scattered everywhere. Read more.

By adamg - Fri, 03/14/2025 - 12:45pm

A Suffolk Superior Court judge today sentenced Damien Knighton, 41, of East Boston, to 9 to 12 years in state prison following his conviction earlier this month for sexually attacking four men at the MGH Back Bay Health Center, 388 Commonwealth Ave., in 2023, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.

By adamg - Tue, 03/11/2025 - 1:42pm

A distraught person filed a 311 complaint this afternoon seeking help with a trash container outside the Four Seasons Hotel: Read more.

People protesting Musk outside the Prudential Center Tesla showroom
By adamg - Sun, 03/09/2025 - 4:24pm

What started as a small group of people protesting the acting president outside his Prudential Center vehicle showroom last month has grown into an increasingly large and vocal protest along Boylston Street. Brian H. videoed today's demonstration. Read more.

Plummeting scaffolding at Beacon and Exeter
By adamg - Fri, 03/07/2025 - 12:16pm

The Boston Fire Department reports firefighters responded to the corner of Beacon and Exeter streets in the Back Bay after four stories of scaffolding suddenly became one large pile of car-slamming detritus in the wind around 11 a.m. No injuries. Read more.

By adamg - Mon, 03/03/2025 - 5:16pm

A Suffolk Superior Court jury today convicted a medical assistant at the MGH Back Bay Health Center, 388 Commonwealth Ave. in the Back Bay, of six counts of indecent assault and battery for the way he went after patients in 2022 and 2023, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.

By adamg - Sat, 03/01/2025 - 7:41pm

Live Boston News reports that a man who chased two other people from the Chipotle on Boylston Street into the Chick-fil-A a couple doors down and was about to stab them refused a demand from an off-duty officer who happened to be there to drop the knife, so the officer pulled out his service revolver and shot him, around 5:30 p.m. Read more.

Protesters outside the Prudential Tesla showroom, including one holding a sign against Nazi cars
By adamg - Sat, 03/01/2025 - 4:31pm

Ron Newman took in what has now become a regular Saturday-morning protest outside the Tesla showroom on the Boylston Street side of the Pru: Read more.

By adamg - Mon, 02/24/2025 - 11:59am

A disgusted resident files a 311 complaint about something you wouldn't think you'd see inside the Prudential Center, and yet, there it was this morning: Read more.

By adamg - Sat, 02/22/2025 - 12:01am

WFXT posts video of the falling ceiling on the outbound side; reports no injuries.

By adamg - Wed, 02/19/2025 - 10:26pm

Both Boston and Cambridge firefighters responded to the banks of the Charles River around 4:45 p.m. on reports of people walking on the river, roughly in the area of Fairfield Street in the Back Bay. Read more.

By adamg - Thu, 02/13/2025 - 6:18pm

Isabel Ravenna posts some video of people protesting the acting president's Tesla car and truck lines outside his showroom in the Prudential Center on Boylston Street today. Small group, but next time they should try more publicity in advance.

By Anonymous - Wed, 02/12/2025 - 6:14pm

They’re drinking right from the spout.

By adamg - Wed, 02/12/2025 - 3:37pm

Boston University has filed plans for an 12-story building to house the Pardee School, home to all of its international-studies programs. Read more.

By adamg - Mon, 02/10/2025 - 9:02am

The Crimson reports Boston firefighters recovered the body of somebody who apparently jumped into the river from the Cambridge side of the Massachusetts Avenue Bridge around 2 a.m. on Sunday.

By adamg - Sun, 01/26/2025 - 1:26pm

Somebody went ice fishing on the Charles yesterday.

By adamg - Fri, 01/24/2025 - 11:51am

The Boston Business Journal reports Apple has bought its glass-front store on Boylston Street in the Back Bay (where the Copy Cop used to be) for $88 million.

By adamg - Sun, 01/19/2025 - 12:37pm

Trout House Comics snapped the bouquet somebody put in ol' Edgar's hand in honor of his birthday today. We were going to ask if the flowers were a bit too cheery, but it turns out Poe loved flowers.

By adamg - Fri, 01/17/2025 - 5:02pm

Ari Ofsevit was running along the Charles in Cambridge yesterday when he noticed an eagle walking on the ice and nd asked a guy with a camera if he'd taken a photo.

By adamg - Mon, 01/13/2025 - 12:37pm

A federal judge today awarded street musician and teacher Charles Murrell III $2.76 million in actual and punitive damages against the Nazi group Patriot Front and its leader Thomas Rousseau for the way they pinned him against a light pole, beat him and forced him into a busy street on July 2, 2022 as he was making his way to play his saxophone outside the BPL and they were stomping through the Back Bay in a display of their alleged racial superiority. Read more.