By Dan Murphy With the problem reportedly costing Boston-area consumers $90 million a year as utilities companies routinely bill them for the expense, a group of 350 concerned mothers, grandmothers and other children’s caretakers statewide are now working to bring…
Month: October 2016
Urban Paintings Show A Colorful, Gritty Side of Boston
By Seth Daniel There are few out-of-the-way corners in the city that Jim Connelly hasn’t been. There are even fewer of those places that he hasn’t painted. The colorful, urban landscape painter has lived in the Fenway for the past…
Left with ‘Candy Girl,’ Returns with a Lot of Hoop-La:Bivins, City Celebrate Naming of Court and Refurbishment of Ramsey Park
By Seth Daniel Before Michael Bivins was the ‘Biv’ in Bell Biv Devoe or the smooth voice of ‘Mike’ in the teen sensation New Edition, he was a heavy duty baller on the courts of Ramsey Park – shooting from…
Police Briefs 10-27-2016
BACK BAY KENMORE/FENWAY SOUTH END POLICE LOG Oct. 17 497 Commonwealth Ave. – Robbery – Street 46 Claremont St. – Robbery – Street 15 Lansdowne St. – Disorderly Conduct 450 Shawmut Ave. – Assault Simple – Battery 800 Boylston St.…
Toss the Kale, Shelve the Sushi: the Real Boston can be found in a Pot of Beans
By Phineas J. Stone The chill of fall always makes me think of beans. Boston is the so-called ‘Beantown,’ even if the old moniker no longer sticks to a new, sleek City made of reflective glass – not brick and…
Why I Am Yes on 2
If all you know about Question 2, the ballot question that would lift the cap on public charter schools, is what you’ve seen on TV – chances are good you’re confused about how to vote. As the author of the…
Have A Safe and Happy Halloween
Halloween will be observed this Monday, and that means that scores of children and others will be roaming our streets during the early-evening hours as they go about their ritual of trick-or-treating in our neighborhoods. It is up to each…
Michael Phelps at Forbes Under 30 Summit
Twenty-three time Olympic Gold Medalist Michael Phelps waved hello to everyone upon his arrival to the Esplanade on Tuesday morning, Oct. 18, where he was introduced to a crowd of several thousand people by Mayor Martin Walsh. Phelps went on…
Charlie Puth at Josiah Quincy
Indianis Gomez, 17, and Dara Sostk, 17, talk with pop star Charlie Puth at his visit to the Josiah Quincy Upper School in Bay Village this past Wednesday, Oct. 19, where he, Ernie Boch Jr. and VH1 Save the Music…
Anne Brooke, Former FOPG Chair, Succumbs to Illness
Anne Brooke, 84, who was the Chair of the Board of the Friends of the Public Garden for the past four years up until June 2016 has passed away after a long battle with heart disease on October 13. She…