RadRebe captured the scene near Brigham Circle shortly before 6:30 a.m., when a driver in a car with Connecticut plates had somehow gotten onto the Green Line tracks. Read more.
Fenway
A jury in federal court in Boston today convicted Xiaolei Wu, 26, on one count of cyberstalking and one count of interstate transmissions of threatening communication for the way he threatened and harassed another Berklee student from China who'd posted a flier posted on Mass. Ave. calling for various freedoms in their dictatorial homeland. Read more.
A woman who got into an argument with her sister after a night on the town punched her to the ground, then ground her footwear into her head, which she then slammed into the pavement several times on Dec. 8, according to the Suffolk County District Attorney's office. Read more.
Police are looking for the driver of a pickup truck they say plowed into two pedestrians on Ipswich and Boylston streets in the Fenway, then just kept on driving down Ipswich, shortly after midnight. Read more.
Two manholes on St. Stephen Street in the Fenway exploded and began belching smoke around 10 a.m. Read more.
The MBTA alerts us, and more important, Green Line riders:
Following up on the previous announcement from December 21, the MBTA is today reminding riders that Green Line service on the B branch between North Station and Babcock Street, on the E branch between North Station and Heath Street, and on the C and D branches between North Station and Kenmore station will be suspended all day from start to end of service for 10 days from January 3-12 and for 13 days from January 16- 28.
Sitting in the middle of a gallery at MassArt Art Museum is a giant beaver. Ripping out of its belly in horror-movie fashion is what seems to be an infant.
The effect is disorientating, strange, and perhaps a little morbidly comical. It's weird, and that may be the point. Read more.
A pair of concerned citizens team up to file 311 complaints about spray-painted Boston love on Massachusetts Avenue they only first noticed after that oversized map tower got knocked down yesterday - or maybe somebody only tagged the spot overnight? Read more.
Marcos surveyed the damage at Massachusetts and Westland avenues in the Fenway, after somebody slammed into the Boston map kiosk that had long stood there early this morning: Read more.
A Boston Lawyer came across this fully engulfed car on Jersey Street near Brookline Avenue shortly before 6 p.m.
Update: Sentencing rescheduled for Feb. 22.
A Comfort, TX man pleaded guilty today to one count of interstate transmission of threatening communication for death-threat calls he made to a doctor at the National LGBTQIA+ Health Education Center at the Fenway Institute in August, 2022. Read more.
“Once, not long ago, a group of musicians came to Israel from Egypt. You probably didn't hear about it. It wasn't very important."
So begins The Band's Visit, with three sentences written in Hebrew, Arabic, and English and projected on a screen over the stage. Read more.
Scape, now nearing completion on an apartment building on Boylston Street in the Fenway, wants to increase the size of its proposed 2 Charlesgate, near the Bowker Overpass and the turnpike, from 23 to 30 floors - and to eliminate the 75 parking spaces it once planned there. Read more.
Richard Merrill photographed traffic heading into Kenmore Square on Commonwealth Avenue and Beacon Street past the Hotel Buckminster in March, 1946.
Roughly the same view via Google Maps in November, 2022: Read more.
Protesters with signs calling for an end to the Israeli invasion following the Hamas massacre of Israelis blocked both sides of the BU Bridge this morning.
Cambridge Police alerted motorists to "please find an alternate route to avoid delays."
Ryan took some awesome photos of this evening's sunset in the Fens.
Mango Matt, meanwhile, got a great shot of the sun going down over the Back Bay, the Common and downtown: Read more.
Boston Restaurant Talk reports YGF Malatang, a West Coast chain of restaurants known for its extra hot Sichuan dishes, plans to open an outlet at 137 Massachusetts Ave. at Boylston Street.
Brighton Center liquor store ordered shut for a day after it's caught selling liquor to minors again
The Boston Licensing Board today ordered a one-day license suspension for Walsh Wine & Spirits, 388 Washington St. in Brighton Center, which police detectives cited on July 19 for selling tequila, rum and other drinks to two guys who were under 21, in the latest such incident at a place that had become popular among Boston College and Boston University students. Read more.