The Boston Fire Department ordered the evacuation of the InterContinental Hotel around 2 a.m. after fire broke out in electrical conduits in the hotel basement. Some guests were put up to the ballroom of the Boston Harbor Hotel on Rowes Wharf for the duration, others were brought to a nearby Hilton, the department reports.

Really? Really. The Boston Business Journal reports one Waterfront landlord had to turn to an expensive wireless service for its high-tech tenants. Verizon refused to wire the area, which is what you'd expect, given its never-ending feud with Innovation District backer Tom Menino. Comcast says it will get around to it one of these days.

The owners of the burned out ship and museum wharf off Congress Street go before the Zoning Board of Appeals on July 13 to seek a variance to rebuild - presumably with some sort of fireproofing, given that the place has caught on fire twice in ten years.

The owners need city pemission to rebuild because they want to build something twice as large as the old wharf and add two additional replica ships.

The hearing is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. on the eighth floor of City Hall.

Joselin Mane photographed the large banners at the World Trade Center.

The latest on the search for Gene Losik, last seen leaving the Marriott Long Wharf early on Feb. 20.

Via Wicked Local North Andover.

LosikSearch for Eugene Losik is a page by and for friends of the man last seen in front of the Marriott Long Wharf early Saturday morning. A candlelight vigil was planned for tonight in Christopher Columbus Park, next to the hotel and where Losik was last seen.

Losik is 25, 5'11" and white, with blue eyes, blond hair and a muscular build. He was last seen wearing a black mid-length jacket, a gray t-shirt, blue jeans, and black dress shoes. Anyone who's seen him should contact District A-1 detectives at 617-343-4248.

The Greenway Conservancy, which oversees the land where the Central Artery used to be, yesterday approved a proposal to build a visitor-center "pavilion" for the Boston Harbor Islands national park on what is now a grassy field near Columbus Park.

Matt Conti reports on a decision by the state Department of Environmental Protection to approve the BRA's plan to lease out the shelter at the end of the wharf for use as a restaurant.

Tug, tug, tug

The Theodore Too normally plies the harbor of Halifax, but came down to Boston this weekend to help do, um, something related to the annual delivery of the Christmas tree Nova Scotia gives us as thanks for our help after a disastrous ship explosion in Halifax during World War I.

When we got to the World Trade Center around 3:30, it was kind of odd: Theodore sat there grinning despite the fact there was absolutely nobody in the strange city to keep him company - we'd thought he'd be open for a tour then. Oh, well. The kidlet really wanted to see him and we did - and we got to marvel at the SimCity nature of the South Boston waterfront ("I can see all the blue squares," she said - think she plays enough SimCity?)