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By adamg - 1/26/24 - 1:47 pm
Blind rat with passersby

A concerned citizen filed a 311 complaint this morning about a rat that is both injured and blind and yet still managing to scare passersby on Commonwealth Avenue near Exeter Street in the Back Bay:

Rat seems to have been in a fight and is blind. Has been wandering in this area all morning scaring people and pets.

By adamg - 1/25/24 - 10:20 pm

Back in the day, people would use 311 to complain about potholes, trash, rats and the like, but of late, it seems to have become a portal for making all sorts of requests to the city - like interview requests from reporters trying to get Mayor Wu to comment on whatever Fox News or Newsmax is blathering about (or about goats).

Today, somebody filed the following: Read more.

By adamg - 1/18/24 - 2:16 pm
Steam rising from manhole

A concerned citizen files a 311 complaint about the copious amounts of steam now rising from a Vicinity (formerly Veolia) manhole at Huntington Avenue and West Newton Street in the Back Bay: Read more.

By adamg - 1/17/24 - 9:16 am
Water gurgling on Exeter Street

Shamus Moynihan spotted Boston's newest water source - or maybe just the result of a burst water main - last night on Exeter Street by the Lenox in the Back Bay.

By adamg - 1/14/24 - 9:40 pm
George Washington through a Public Garden entrance

Matt Frank photographed the statue of George Washington in the Public Garden from several vantage points around sunset today, including through a gate on Arlington Street.

By adamg - 1/13/24 - 11:16 am
Wanted for Back Bay armed robbery

Boston Police report they are looking for a man who tried lifting a couple of bottles from Quality Mart, 21 Massachusetts Ave., got chased out by a clerk and then, before he made his way towards Kenmore Square, flashed what appeared to be a gun at the employee, around 12:30 p.m. on Thursday. Read more.

By adamg - 1/10/24 - 3:42 pm
Dark and stormy on the Charles

It was pretty dark and stormy looking over the Charles as our own Ron Newman made his way over the Longfellow around 1:30 p.m.

Earlier though, roving UHub photographer David Fisher captured a rainbow over Jamaica Plain, then a full up Fort Point Channel (on the South Boston side): Read more.

By adamg - 1/4/24 - 1:13 pm
Rui Higuchi

The Boston Licensing Board today approved a proposal by Food & Life Companies of Osaka to open Sakabayashi Sushi Tavern at 665 Boylston St. in Copley Square, where the b.good used to be.
Read more.

By adamg - 12/31/23 - 10:03 pm
Fireworks over Boston Common

Myron Freeman took in the family fireworks over Boston Common tonight - after first watching some ice skating under the lights at the Frog Pond.

By adamg - 12/28/23 - 2:50 pm

The MBTA alerts us, and more important, Green Line riders:

Following up on the previous announcement from December 21, the MBTA is today reminding riders that Green Line service on the B branch between North Station and Babcock Street, on the E branch between North Station and Heath Street, and on the C and D branches between North Station and Kenmore station will be suspended all day from start to end of service for 10 days from January 3-12 and for 13 days from January 16- 28.

By adamg - 12/26/23 - 4:40 pm

A woman from the Bronx faces armed-robbery charges and her male companion from Lawrence faces gun charges after she robbed a man who'd contacted them via a Web page for some paid sex at the Back Bay Hilton last week, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.

By adamg - 12/26/23 - 10:16 am
Fogg in Wolcott Square

Jan drove through some creepy pea soup in Readville's Wolcott Square last night.

Mike shows us the view out his Back Bay window this morning - and reports the barely visible crane in the center pane is just a block away: Read more.

By adamg - 12/16/23 - 11:47 am

Boston Police report arresting one of the two men they say used a brick to smash their way into Valentino, 47 Newbury St. early Monday and made off with a variety of high-priced Italian women's items. Read more.

By adamg - 12/15/23 - 2:47 pm

The condo association at One Dalton - the Back Bay tower that also includes a Four Seasons Hotel - today sued the owner of a 35th-floor unit they say has disregarded repeated entreaties and even fines to stop screaming, playing loud music and partying at all hours of the night. Read more.

By adamg - 12/11/23 - 3:05 pm
Guys stealing stuff in Valentin

Surveillance images via BPD. See it larger.

Boston Police report two guys broke into Valentino, 47 Newbury St., and took a number of items that do not seem like they would pair well with their own wardrobes. Read more.

By adamg - 12/11/23 - 12:34 pm

Boston Police report arresting a man on charges he stabbed somebody in the hand at 209 Columbus Ave., in the South End around 2:30 a.m. on Saturday. Read more.

By adamg - 12/7/23 - 3:32 pm
Goon makes finger gun motions at performer and parents in Taunton

From the complaint: Goon finger-shooting performer and parent at Taunton drag-queen story hour.

The state Attorney General's office today sued the state's home-grown Nazi group and two of its leaders on civil-rights and conspiracy charges for using violence and intimidation against drag-queen story hours, immigrants and just random people over the past couple of years, including in Jamaica Plain, the Seaport and on a pedestrian bridge over Storrow Drive. Read more.

By adamg - 12/6/23 - 9:21 am

Around 9 a.m., the MBTA reported Green Line delays of about 15 minutes due to a trolley that decided, no, the show must not go on, near Arlington.

By adamg - 11/29/23 - 4:21 pm

An employee of an accounting firm in the Hancock Building today sued Los Amigos Tacos for what she says were the horrifying effects of eating salmonella-contaminated food from its Brighton Center outlet three days before Boston health inspectors ordered the place shut due to a salmonella outbreak. Read more.

By Sasha Patkin - 11/24/23 - 1:58 pm
From Motherhood Undone

"I never expected to be a mother," Jennifer McClure writes in her artist statement. "I was forty-six when she was born, and I spent twenty-one days in the hospital after. When I got home, we had a long process of getting to know each other. She became more of her own person, while I let go of the self I thought I knew." Read more.

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