Boston loses an artist; Ten Tables closing in JP
Boston loses an artist, Napoleon Jones-Henderson
December 7
Greg Cook reports the death of Napoleon Jones-Henderson, who helped start the AfriCOBRA artists collective in the 1960s in Chicago before moving to Boston, where he taught art and worked in a variety of media to chronicle and portray the Black and African...
Three sought for knifepoint holdup of market on Marcella Street in Roxbury
December 7
Boston Police report they are looking for three guys, possibly from the Heath Street area, who held up the Marcella Market, 80 Marcella St. in Roxbury at knifepoint around 4:40 p.m. on Friday.
Reach out and touch someone
December 7
There's been this empty payphone stand at the Roslindale Village train station for years. For awhile, somebody filled the forlorn assemblage with bouquets of fake flowers. More recently, somebody mounted a wall-mounted push-button phone. The intrepid UHub Mobile Action News Unit picked up the handset this afternoon, but didn't get a dial tone...
Wu turns to Reddit to explain property-tax proposal
December 7
Mayor Wu is in the middle of an Ask Me Anything session on Boston Reddit - she explained the Boston's request to the legislature to let it temporarily change a higher than otherwise allowed tax rate on large commercial properties to help homeowners, people asked questions, she says she'll post answers on Monday.
Ten Tables in Jamaica Plain to close at the end of the month; owner planning something new for the space
December 7
Krista Kranyak Chalfin, who opened the pioneering farm-to-table Ten Tables on Centre Street 25 years ago, writes today that "it's time to turn the page" and that restaurant's last service will be Dec. 31 - but that then she'll be getting the space ready for a new dining concept:...
Riders brace for Green Line bustitution
December 7
Allstonia sums up the two weeks of Green Line disruption that start tomorrow for no doubt much needed repairs that just couldn't wait until after the Christmas shopping season.
311 complaint of the day: Does owning a BMW make you an entitled jerk or are entitled jerks just drawn to that brand?
December 6
A disgusted resident files a 311 complaint about an out-of-state luxury car parked in a resident-only space on Joy Street at Myrtle Street on Beacon Hill on Saturday afternoon:
Lack of Red/Blue connector didn't stop man from perving out on both lines in less than an hour, police say
December 6
Transit Police report they are looking for a guy they say undid his pants and did what you'd expect on both the Red and the Blue lines over a 45-minute period on Monday.
If State Police want a way to make money, they should sell tickets for when they open the Backup of Shame ramp at the Callahan entrance
December 6
Jpshipley was among the people caught in a traffic jam caused by the driver of an 18-wheeler who realized in time early this afternoon that his rig was not going to fit in the Callahan Tunnel....
It probably wasn't Flight 33 buzzing parts of Boston and Brookline early this morning
December 6
Between midnight and 1 a.m., people in Roslindale, Jamaica Plain, West Roxbury and South Brookline couldn't get to sleep - or were jolted out of their sleep - because of a low-flying plane that just kept circling, circling, circling....
Some people scheduled for citizenship pulled out of line at Faneuil Hall ceremony by regime agents because Dear Leader finds their home countries offensive
December 5
GBH reports on what happened at Faneuil Hall on Thursday.
She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a...
Another investor sues South Boston developer over unpaid loan
December 5
A real-estate investor yesterday sued Andrew Collins, who owns a series of commercial parcels along Dorchester Avenue in the area of D Street, over the more than $6 million he says Collins and two of his LLCs now owe on a promissory note in default since the spring....
Family of man murdered at Mattapan Square party sues party giver, landlord
December 5
The family of a man shot to death at a Mattapan Square New Year's party on Jan. 1, 2023 today filed a wrongful-death suit against both the woman they say gave the party in a Blue Hill Avenue commercial space and the landlord she rented the space from.
Massachusetts to Bobby Brainworm: Screw you, we're going to keep recommending all newborns get a life-saving vaccination
December 5
Gov. Healey and Dr. Robbie Goldstein, state commissioner of public health, wasted no time blasting a vote by a panel handpicked by the nation's most prominent anti-vaxxer today to...
ICE grabs Harvard Law professor over his rat-shooting expedition outside a Brookline synagogue
December 5
The regime announced yesterday it nabbed that visiting Harvard Law professor who decided to hunt rats on Beacon Street in Brookline with a BB gun but instead blasted out a car window near Temple Beth Zion as Yom Kippur was starting.
