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By adamg - 10/15/24 - 1:39 pm

Boston Restaurant Talk reports the end of Thornton's Fenway Grille on Peterborough Street.

By adamg - 10/15/24 - 12:48 pm
Too many locks

A weary resident files a 311 complaint to ask that something be done about the excessive short-term rental lockery on Myrtle Street on Beacon Hill:

Can old lock boxes be removed???

By adamg - 10/15/24 - 12:38 pm

An alleged inebriate who got cut off at Durty Nelly's, 108 Blackstone St. downtown, early one July evening, reached across the bar in an attempt to strike the bartender and yelled "Punch me in the face!" So the barkeep obliged and then, as the guy stumbled out of the bar and fell to the ground, followed him outside and kicked him in the face, breaking his jaw, police and one of the bar's owners told the Boston Licensing Board this morning. Read more.

By adamg - 10/15/24 - 11:40 am

The local National Women's Soccer League team, the one that could play in a rebuilt White Stadium, will call itself Bos Nation FC, which is supposed to resonate with people who live in a city:

Where sarcasm is the native language. A three dollar and 48 cent cup of coffee is the food of choice. Where a legion of professional sports teams connects us as one. And no one, no one, rests until championship banners are raised.

H/t Shoshana, who had some other suggestions.

By adamg - 10/15/24 - 11:04 am

Boston Police report arresting a man they say stabbed somebody repeatedly near the Brewer Fountain on Boston Common earlier this month. Read more.

By adamg - 10/15/24 - 9:42 am

MIT News reports researchers have figured out how to 3D print "semiconductor-free logic gates" that can be assembled into something that could do computations - work they began in the pandemic days, when semiconductors suddenly became scarce. Current polymer-based 3D printers will never be able to reproduce state-of-the-art chips (with circuits close enough to spark concern about quantum effects), but then, not everything needs that kind of CPU, they say.

By adamg - 10/15/24 - 9:31 am
Trees along the Charles

Mary Ellen took a morning walk along the Charles in Millennium Park.

By adamg - 10/14/24 - 10:29 pm

Boston Police report arresting a Malden man on charges he fired a gun repeatedly inside a Theater District garage early this morning. Read more.

By adamg - 10/14/24 - 1:27 pm

MIT News reports two MIT economists and a University of Chicago colleague have been awarded this year's Nobel Prize in economics.

Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson and James Robinson in Chicago shared the award for showing that "democracies, which hold to the rule of law and provide individual rights, have spurred greater economic activity over the last 500 years."

By adamg - 10/14/24 - 11:40 am

Residents of Redlands Road off Centre Street in West Roxbury are mostly reacting cautiously to a developer's plans to replace the closed Stonehedge nursing home with a 30-unit apartment building. Traffic and parking, of course, are their main concerns. Read more.

By adamg - 10/14/24 - 9:59 am

A concerned resident files a 311 complaint about the owner of a Nissan Versa apparently permanently parked on Weld Hill Street in Jamaica Plain: Read more.

By adamg - 10/13/24 - 10:06 pm

So there's this annual event called New York Bagelfest and they always pick a "best of the fest" bagel and this year, the award went to Bagelsaurus, which New Yorkers will have to take Acela and then the Red Line to try in the wild.

By adamg - 10/13/24 - 9:53 pm

Boston Police and Boston EMS responded to River and Arlington streets in Hyde Park after a crash shortly before 7:20 p.m. between a scooter and an SUV. The scooter driver was transported to a Boston trauma center with life-threatening injuries. Read more.

By adamg - 10/13/24 - 5:29 pm

Trumpies in Coolidge Corner

A correspondent forwards this video of some Trump supporters in Brookline's Coolidge Corner today, waving, among other things, the flag Iran used until the Shah was overthrown in 1979, as the Orange One blares about how he'll ban vaccinations in schools and suppress transgender athletes, in one of the places least likely to vote for him - in 2020, Biden defeated tfg 87-11 in Brookline.

By adamg - 10/13/24 - 5:04 pm
Ads from the MBTA about National Disability Awareness Month at one T stop people in wheelchairs can't use

Michael Burstein notes the irony in MBTA ads showing a person in a wheelchair during National Disability Employment Awareness Month at Boylston station, which is inaccessible to people who actually use wheelchairs.

By adamg - 10/13/24 - 12:57 pm

Kith and Kin in Hudson posted this morning it regrets an incident last night involving a "group of living historians" who'd just come from an annual World War 2 re-enactment in town, two of whom were still dressed as SS officers.

One patron who was waiting for a table reports he walked out when he saw the Nazis walking in and being seated....

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By adamg - 10/12/24 - 7:32 pm

On Friday, some guy began using a spotlight to show the Trump logo on the town water tower. The town responds it's not putting up with nonsense like that so now town DPW workers have wheeled in a bright white spotlight of their own to try to blank out the Trump message - and the town attorney is getting ready to dun the guy $100 a day until he quits.

Town Administrator Lisa Green says the town is looking at buying a more powerful spotlight: Read more.

By adamg - 10/12/24 - 3:39 pm

An MBTA bus turning left out of the lower busway at Forest Hills hit a pedestrian shortly before 11:55 a.m. Read more.