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By adamg - 10/9/14 - 12:45 pm
The Budweiser Clydesdales are on City Hall Plaza today through Sunday as a Budweiser video crew shoots one of its "responsible drinking" ads at a couple of local bars over the weekend.
By adamg - 9/9/14 - 4:12 pm
A Boston Calling attendee charged with punching a police officer who was trying to clear the steps to City Hall Plaza in advance of a second thunderstorm on Saturday was ordered to stay away from the plaza while her case is pending, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.
By adamg - 9/6/14 - 6:29 pm
As increasingly dark clouds rapidly closed in on downtown late this afternoon, organizers called off the Boston Calling concerts for tonight. Jeremy Stanley photographed the scene.
Will reports:
They told us to shelter in a parking garage. I guess they dont want thousands of sweaty hipsters inside city hall.
By adamg - 8/7/14 - 4:08 pm
The Dig reports on how IBM and the city teamed up on a pilot surveillance program to record every single person who attended the two Boston Calling events at City Hall Plaza last year.
City officials did not extend the program to this year's concerts in part because they couldn't figure out a good public-safety need to do so. Also, the Dig reports, the city hasn't come up with any privacy policies for all those photos.
By adamg - 8/4/14 - 3:37 pm
Boston Police report arresting a 16-year-old yesterday after they say officers found his backpack was full of beer and a gun loaded with five rounds.
Police say officers' attention was drawn to three teens drinking what appeared to be beer in Big Gulp cups around 3:40 p.m. at City Hall Plaza:
By adamg - 7/16/14 - 9:47 am
The city Office of Arts and Culture is throwing a Donna Summer roller-skating bash on City Hall Plaza Friday evening.
The Donna Summer Memorial Roller Disco Tribute Party, which pays tribute to the Dorchester disco diva, starts at 6 p.m. Skateless? Don't worry - there'll be a dance floor set up to bust a move on.
By adamg - 7/1/14 - 6:54 pm
A packed crowd on a sweltering City Hall Plaza watched Belgium eliminate the US 2-1 in the World Cup. Although the vast majority of people were, of course, rooting for USA, there were a few Belgian fans scattered about, including these two right up at the front, shown during an anxious (for them) moment early on in the match.
This guy, however, was rooting for the red, white and blue:
By adamg - 6/27/14 - 2:06 pm
The city and the New England Revolution will put the USA/Belgium match on a giant screen at City Hall Plaza on Tuesday, starting at 3:30 p.m.
By adamg - 6/26/14 - 1:27 pm
Julie C. got a panoramic view of the fans watching the US/Germany match at City Hall Plaza today.
By adamg - 6/24/14 - 1:24 pm
Mayor Walsh announced today the city and the New England Revolution will host a World Cup viewing on City Hall Plaza on Thursday.
The party starts at 11:30 a.m., the match itself at noon.
By adamg - 6/3/14 - 3:50 pm
The City Hall Plaza waterfall in 1973. From the National Archives.
The Herald reports on the secret effort in the days before last weekend's Boston Calling to shore up the large corner of City Hall Plaza by the JFK building that once contained a sunken mini-plaza and waterfall - after an engineer warned the whole area was on the verge of collapse and could not have any weight at all put on it.
Bonus: The crusading DPW official who engineered the rapid effort never told the mayor. who is not pleased.
By adamg - 4/3/14 - 9:50 am
Limeduck gives a thumbs up to the pulled pork sandwich and baked beans he got the other day at Lillian's Smokin Rack at City Hall.
By adamg - 4/1/14 - 7:39 am
A group of parents will protest cuts at Boston public schools next week by holding an old-fashioned bake sale outside City Hall.
"Gosh darn it, let's give the Mayor, City and State a hand!" reads the flyer for the bake sale, 4-6 p.m. on Tuesday.
By adamg - 3/28/14 - 1:37 pm
Jonmicol photographed the face of bravery at a City Hall ceremony this afternoon at which the flag of the Boston Fire Department was raised and a moment of silence observed for Lt. Edward Walsh and Firefighter Michael Kennedy.
Paul Weiskel photographed a woman with a simple message:
By adamg - 11/1/13 - 11:44 pm
Jeannette Andre photographed Bill Russell at the unveiling of his statue outside City Hall today.
This wasn't Russell's first viewing of the statue, though. On Wednesday, he and President Obama took a look:
By adamg - 5/26/13 - 11:57 pm
There's another Boston Calling festival coming up on Sept. 7 and 8 on City Hall Plaza, this time featuring Berklee's own Passion Pit, among others.
By adamg - 5/26/13 - 12:57 pm
Megan Johnson captured some smooth Boston EMTs at Boston Calling on City Hall Plaza yesterday.
Via Boston Reddit.
By adamg - 5/19/13 - 5:06 pm
Kristie Helms took in the Japan Festival at City Hall Plaza today.
Patrick Rosso photographed the Haitian American Unity parade on Blue Hill Avenue.
Thomas Linger enjoyed Porchfest in Somerville yesterday.
Joe Maxwell went to the Assembled Market in Somerville yesterday:
By adamg - 10/18/12 - 6:27 am
The Herald offers a penetrating look at efforts by City Hall to stop what the city's top property-management official called Trojan's "inappropriate and irresponsible" plan to give sex toys away on the family-friendly bricks outside City Hall.
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