Boston Restaurant Talk reports A Sanctuary Cafe, 80 Charles St., has opened, with two rooms - one a bookstore with tables where you can sip coffee, the other a room full of cats you can sit among and pet, with a picture window between the two so the cat-averse can still watch the kitties while not getting exposed to their dander. Read more.

Boston firefighters responded to the Common shortly after 2:20 p.m. for a flaming hot-dog stand on the main path near the baseball field. Firefighters quickly doused the fire.

No reports of injuries, no tallies of burnt wieners.

In the year since city police and public-works crews cleared out a growing encampment of homeless people and drug users on Atkinson Street, Mass and Cass has seen a significant decrease in crime and quality-of-life problems, officials from Boston's police and public-health departments told city councilors at a hearing by the council's committee on public safety and criminal justice. Read more.

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???

Boston Restaurant Talk reports Barbara Lynch is closing the last two restaurants she hadn't already closed: No. 9 Park on Beacon Hill and B&G Oysters in the South End. Lynch ran into some employee issues last year, which included a lawsuit.

NBC Boston reports a yellow-striped Joro jumping spider, which could grow to the size of a human hand, has been spotted on Mt. Vernon Street on Beacon Hill, near the Common. The station sent out a fearless reporting team, which managed to get out a dispatch: Read more.

Barr Foundation founder Amos Hostetter Jr., who lives in the historic Harrison Gray Otis mansion on Mt. Vernon Street, today sued a couple relatively recently arrived from Cambridge over the roof deck they have proposed for their historic, if smaller, house out back on Pinckney Street. Read more.

Associated Press reports the Secretary of State's office at Ashburton Place was one of 15 elections offices across the country targeted by somebody who sent powder-filled packages to them. The one here was intercepted by postal inspectors; in other states, the powder turned out to be flour.

CommonWealth Beacon covered Saturday's free-the-titties march on the Common. Read more.

Somebody who apparently does not live in a Boston neighborhood in which turkeys normally flock has filed a 311 complaint about the "loose" turkey that's been hanging out on the Common - a couple days after somebody filed a 311 complaint about a turkey in the Public Garden (maybe the same turkey, if it's learned how to cross Charles).