Wait, isn't that just a photo of people crossing High Street by the preggo bank building? Yep, the difference is they're getting paid to do so because, as the Fort Pointer notes, they're extras in a Zendaya/Robert Pattinson move being filmed here (ooh, look, here's Sparkly Vampire Boy on Federal Street!), which may or may not be a romance that takes an unexpected turn before a couple’s big day.
Yesterday at the site, where the new jazz club and cafe will go.
The developers now turning a one-story storefront building on Poplar Street in Roslindale Square into a four-story, nine-unit condo building say they are also fitting out the first floor for what would be the neighborhood's first jazz club and a "low-carbohydrate, low-triglyceride" cafe focused on sandwiches made with lettuce wraps instead of bread. Read more.
The owner of a Haitian restaurant on Hyde Park Avenue today described his plans to add jazz and dancing to his offerings should he get one of the three all-alcohol licenses the city has to dole out in 02136 over the next year. Read more.
A judge has declined to order the Holocaust museum under construction on Tremont Street to let the Orpheum Theatre take over complete control of the alley that is the venue's main entrance while the two wrangle in court, because workers on the ground for both sides have arranged a truce that leaves enough of the alley clear for performers' trucks and then patrons to get into shows so far. Read more.
The Boston Licensing Board today approved plans by the Broadway Restaurant Group to create a permanent home for the series of outdoor events they've run over the past couple of years at Core Investment's The Lot space at 383 Dorchester Ave. in South Boston. Read more.
The rain date looks like it could be rainy, too, and it's supposed to make like Francis and lighten up later today, organizers say.
Deep Thoughts Records on South Street in Jamaica Plain announced this morning it's closing up shop on Sept. 29 and moving to the Happy Valley - closer to where its owners live: Read more.
Earlier this month, the operator of the Orpheum Theatre, which opened in 1852, sued the foundation now building a Holocaust museum at the corner of Tremont Street and Hamilton Place - the alley that leads to the Orpheum's main entrance - for the right to continue blocking the ally on performance nights for use by entertainers' equipment trucks and patrons waiting to go inside. Read more.
The Italian Air Force Frecce Tricolori aerobatic team is scheduled to fly over Boston this afternoon. Read more.
Roving UHub photography Molly Lanzarotta took in the Boston Landmarks Orchestra's final show of the season at the Hatch Shell this evening - under clouds that looked ominous but otherwise behaved.
RadioInsight reports that the Beasley Media Group is for some no doubt very important reasons, swapping its current Bloomberg business talk at 1330 AM with its classic-rock WBOS at 92.9 FM, so you'll get the latest market updates in stereo and Metallica sounding like it's coming to you via a Radio Shack Flavoradio.
Adam 12 has to break it all down for you, so you won't have to miss a moment of Dave and Chuck the Freak come the switchover midday on Sept. 3
The Boston Licensing Board yesterday approved plans by a trio of musicpreneurs to buy O'Brien's at 3 Harvard Ave. in Allston as part of their plans to re-open Great Scott next door - with housing on top. Read more.
Vanyaland gets the scoop: The venerable Allston rock spot, which used to be where the Taco Bell is now at Harvard and Commonwealth, is planning to return in new space at Harvard and Cambridge Street that it'll share with O'Brien's Pub, including new room where Stingray Body Art used to be. Read more.
A new show called Orphan Black: Echoes, which is just like "Orphan Black," only sideways, is set in Boston in 2052, as Brad Searles discovered.
And as you can see from this screenshot from one of the trailers downtown and Beacon Hill will look a tad different in 28 years, so get cracking, developers. But the Red Line will always be the Red Line, even if now a bit rusty on top. Read more.
The Fort Pointer came across the channel this morning and strolled around Federal Street as it was getting re-made as a post-apocalyptic New York for the Walking Dead series.
Still, at least we're getting some new subway signs: Read more.
Seems there's only so far you can go to replicate post-apocalyptic Manhattan on the streets of Lowell, so the producers of The Walking Dead were setting up some props for filming in downtown Boston today, like at High and Congress. A roving UHub photographer couldn't help but note that a BTD employee ticketed a zombiemobile.
Mike Feudale reports he's retiring July 1 after 30 years selling and repairing guitars, first at Sandy's and then, after he took over the business, at his Mike's Monster Guitar on Mass. Ave. in Central Square.
Via Biblioquetress, who sighs: "Sad to lose a good independent instrument shop."
Greg Cook, who came up with the idea of a mermaid promenade along Memorial Drive and the Charles like the one in Coney Island, took photos of the walk that kicked off the Cambridge Arts River Festival yesterday.
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