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By adamg - 4/22/24 - 2:32 pm
Keytar Bear in front of Faneuil Hall

Roving UHub photographer Ray Ausrotas spotted Boston's musical bear outside Faneuil Hall yesterday. Sam Adams, as usual, was unimpressed.

By adamg - 4/11/24 - 6:31 pm
Ticket stubs for two Pearl Jam shows, one at the Garden, one at the Orpheum

KTC won't forget where he was 30 years ago tonight - or 30 years ago tomorrow:

I spent my last evening at the old Boston Garden with Pearl Jam Cobain died a few days before and no one knew what to expect. The show started in pitch black, the 1st song Release. Epic. Saw them next night at Orpheum.

By adamg - 4/2/24 - 12:57 pm

A bouncer at Game On in the Fenway lost his job after smacking one alleged jerk of a customer in the forehead with his flashlight, while a bouncer at Candibar in the Theater District was suspended for a week after punching a customer who made a particularly crude remark about his 11-year-old daughter. Read more.

By adamg - 3/26/24 - 3:39 pm

Mayor Wu today announced six Open Streets events in Boston, adding Hyde Park to the list of streets that will be shut for several hours as a sort of neighborhood-wide block party. Read more.

By adamg - 3/26/24 - 9:02 am

The Crimson reports there were witnesses to the foiled fiddle filching at the Burren in Somerville. Plus, the bow fell out of one of the two students' coats as they were getting into an Uber. One of the two is a Crimson editor, but declined to comment when contacted by a Crimson reporter.

By adamg - 3/22/24 - 3:37 pm

Entertainment Application Hearing 03-21-24

The entire hearing. See below for Collins's statement.

Update: Collins offers conditional support.

State Sen. Nick Collins (D-1st Suffolk) unleashed a barrage of invective yesterday against plans by the owner of the Quiet Few tavern in East Boston's Jeffries Point to open a similar tavern at 400 Dorchester St. in South Boston's Andrew Square, calling it a potential hellhole catering to the very sort of losers the neighborhood doesn't need - despite testimony from people in Andrew Square they can't wait for it to open. Read more.

By adamg - 3/8/24 - 1:38 pm

A casting company is looking for extras to play zombies in "The Walking Dead: Dead City Season 2," set for filming in Boston between April and July. Read more.

By adamg - 2/20/24 - 3:22 pm
46 Winchester St. in Bay Village in 1954

In 1954, 46 Winchester St. in Bay Village was home to the Latin Quarter nightclub.

Until very recently, it was an unassuming parking lot that doesn't look at all like the sort of spot that would play a role in transgender history and Boston's mid-20th-century reputation as a center of puritanical small-mindedness (and now it's nine-unit luxury townhouse): Read more.

By adamg - 2/4/24 - 12:58 pm

WBUR reports the role Futura Productions in Roslindale Square (at the top of the building where Distraction Brewing is) played in the production of A Gentleman of Istanbul, which is up for a Grammy tonight for best engineered classical album. Read more.

By adamg - 1/25/24 - 10:20 pm

Back in the day, people would use 311 to complain about potholes, trash, rats and the like, but of late, it seems to have become a portal for making all sorts of requests to the city - like interview requests from reporters trying to get Mayor Wu to comment on whatever Fox News or Newsmax is blathering about (or about goats).

Today, somebody filed the following: Read more.

By adamg - 1/23/24 - 4:44 pm

RadioInsight reports the estate of Bob Bittner, who died last May has sold WJIB in Cambridge to longtime Boston-area broadcaster and DJ John Garabedian. Read more.

By adamg - 1/20/24 - 1:26 pm
New York-style Essex Street sign in Chinatown

Way back in 2015, parts of Chinatown and downtown were turned into Manhattan simulacra for a remake of Ghostbusters. When they were done, the filmmakers took down all the New York signs and even a fake MTA subway entrance, but forgot to remove a New York City street sign for Essex Street at Harrison Avenue, which remains to this day as Robert Alvarez discovered.

By adamg - 1/19/24 - 1:53 pm
Hardy, Rosenberg and McCarthy

Hardy, McCarthy and Rosenberg.

For more than a year now, Stephen Rosenberg, Lukas McCarthy and Jhayson Hardy have been building a novel kind of Boston club: A place that would play hi-fidelity music, but at low enough volumes where you could still have a conversation, through hand-built and vintage sound components in a venue that would be a "safe space" for everybody from members of the LGBTQ+ community to people with mobility issues to just people who want a place to hang out or even do school work during the day. Read more.

By adamg - 1/19/24 - 1:41 pm

Fields West on Glenville Avenue in Allston announced today it's closing down, possibly only temporarily. Read more.

By adamg - 1/9/24 - 9:32 am
What are the two state capitals closest to each other?

Adam Castiglioni took a snap of a contestant thinking hard during Final Jeopardy.

By adamg - 1/8/24 - 11:36 pm

“Don’t Take Me Off The Rocket, Please!” - Ayo Edebiri On The Success Of Her Show, “The Bear”

GBH interviews a couple of Ayo Edebiri's teachers at Boston Latin School on her award for her role in "The Bear."

By adamg - 12/27/23 - 9:42 pm
Jimmy Flynn

Jen Deaderick says farewell to Jimmy Flynn, a presence in Central Square and the Boston hardcore scene who died Christmas night, just 40. She recalls the bad and the good times, including how he introduced her to the scene when she was at a low point of her own: Read more.

By adamg - 12/14/23 - 12:12 pm

The Boston Licensing Board today approved a liquor license for the proposed F1 Arcade at 87 Pier 4 Blvd., which will feature 69 F1 race-car simulators and, of course, a full-service bar. Read more.

By adamg - 12/13/23 - 12:44 pm
Turahn Dorsey

Update: Approved.

The Boston Licensing Board decides tomorrow whether to grant a liquor license to the operators of the proposed Jazz Urbane Cafe in the Bolling Building in Nubian Square. Read more.

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