Holidays

A Charlie Brown Christmas in Franklin Park

By adamg - 12/25/24 - 10:54 pm

Small pine tree in Franklin Park decorated with a single ornament

The Boston LOL spotted this small tree decorated with a single ornament in Franklin Park.

Finally, a white Christmas, but when we had one last is a touchy subject, it seems

By adamg - 12/24/24 - 8:55 pm

Pete Bouchard explains.

Alleged South Boston Grinch captured with packages if not bows this morning, police say

By adamg - 12/24/24 - 5:37 pm

Boston Police report a keen-eyed cadet working with C-6 officers "spreading holiday cheer" by delivering toys to deserving South Boston kids this morning spotted somebody who seemed to be a bit weighted down with packages - specifically, a woman who already had "notoriety among concerned locals" as a package thief. Read more.

Police hunt the grinch who stole a purse during a Christmas toy drive

By adamg - 12/18/24 - 3:57 pm

Update: Suspect arrested.

Boston Police report they are looking for a woman they say rummaged through people's belongings at a toy drive at a Brighton restaurant Sunday evening until she found a purse and then made off with it. Read more.

Boston Billy takes in his race

By adamg - 12/16/24 - 11:33 am

Bill Rodgers at annual Somerville Jingle Bell 5K run

Rodgers at the race.

Michael Halle was at the starting line for yesterday's Bill Rodgers Somerville Jingle Bell Run and Walk, along with Bill Rodgers himself. Read more.

The reindeer had the weekend off, so the Orange Line would have to do

By adamg - 12/9/24 - 11:06 pm

Santa crossing Washington Street to the Forest Hills T station

Roving UHub photographer Joyce Falk Onyango had to stop when the Santa-crossing lights came on on Washington Street at the Forest Hills T stop yesterday.

Boston's biggest bow back

By adamg - 11/30/24 - 9:58 am

Handmaid snapped both ends of the city's largest Christmas bow, on the Flour and Grain Exchange building on Milk Street downtown.

What to get the kid who already has enough Hess trucks

By adamg - 11/30/24 - 9:45 am

Cynthia Donovan walked into her local Stop & Shop yesterday and saw all these plushie Marties for sale. No batteries needed, but they also don't stand there flashing yellow in impotent rage because they have no hands to pick up that stray lettuce leaf that is blocking their path.

Newbury Street to be open to just pedestrians on two Sundays in December

By adamg - 11/1/24 - 12:16 pm

The city today announced the expansion of the Open Newbury street closing to two Sundays during the holiday season next month.

The street will be shut to motor vehicles on Dec. 1 and Dec. 8 in what had previously been just a summertime program to let pedestrians have free reign, if even just for part of a day, between Berkeley Street and Massachusetts Avenue, and between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m.

One Roslindale family dunks on Halloween

By adamg - 10/31/24 - 5:08 pm

The DeMasi-Marx family on Tyndale Street with Home Depot giant skeletons dressed as DeathKings

Thomas and Joe DeMasi, Teresa Marx and Sam DeMasi pose in front of their annual Halloween creations. See larger.

The DeMasi-Marx family gathered around their 12-foot Home Depot skeletons this afternoon, before the start of the annual Tyndale Street Halloween fest in Roslindale. Read more.

The spookiest street in Cambridge

By adamg - 10/31/24 - 9:49 am

Skeletons and other Halloween creatures on Appleton Street in Cambridge

Roving UHub photographer John McMahon managed to survive a trip down Appleton Street in Cambridge. Read more.

Boston offering grants for spooky neighborhood block parties

By adamg - 9/5/24 - 9:44 am

The city Office of Civic Organizing is offering $250 grants to neighborhoods that want to really go all out for Halloween this year. Read more.

How do you compile a list of movies to watch on Labor Day without a single one involving labor unions?

By adamg - 8/31/24 - 11:08 am

Miles Grant notes the odd exclusion in a Globe list of "10 movies about work to stream this Labor Day weekend" - they have "Monsters, Inc.," but not anything like, oh, "Norma Rae" or "On the Waterfront." Fortunately, people of a more labor-ish bent on Labor Day have Deadline's list of "15 Movies About Labor Unions And Strikes."