You’ve probably seen them before, but you may not remember them. They popped up all over the MBTA after the Boston Marathon bombings two years ago. In stations, on trains, and all over the news feeds across the city. Yet the highest concentrations existed in Copley Station and on the Green Line trains that pass through it. More
During a typical Monday lunch hour in March, Miles Doornbos tweeted a blurry photo of a pretzel thin. He’d found the discarded food item in one of his Chicago office building’s stairwells. So what? Instagrammed food pics, people named “Miles,” and the conjugation of made-up words like “Instagram” are commonplace these days. What makes Doornbos’s tweet so special? More
For nearly 20 years, families, friends and first dates have flocked to Boston Common in the summer for an evening of William Shakespeare’s finest. There’s still a few months left before then, but that’s alright. Why? Because a company of Shakespearean actors from the United Kingdom is coming, to paraphrase the Bard himself, to “drink themselves out of their five senses” on a nightly basis here in Boston. More
When fundraising for the Boston Marathon, many runners host barbecues and pancake dinners, while others auction off door prizes. Kurt Nelson likes to play games. More
Every Tuesday night, Colin Riggs breaks out his cleanest flannel shirt, some crisp blue jeans, and a pair of cowboy boots. The boots can’t keep his feet warm and dry, but he isn’t too worried. Riggs will spend most of the night on the dance floor at Loretta’s Last Call, the country western bar and restaurant across the street from Fenway Park. More
Like a kid enduring his bar mitzvah, Bostonians ritually subject themselves to judgment at one of a number of MassDOT Registry of Motor Vehicles branches. This is especially true of the old flagship location atop the Chinatown Orange line station. However, with the new Haymarket RMV branch’s opening last September, things are looking up. More
Midway through this February’s unprecedented winter onslaught, a curious thing popped up on Facebook’s news feed. James “Jimbo” Encalada, a longtime resident of Somerville, made an announcement. It seemed he was planning a big move from his small little hovel outside of Boston to somewhere a bit more exotic. More
Grumpy Cat memed her way into her own Christmas movie. New York City’s Marnie the Dog regularly receives invitations from celebrities. Here in Boston, an 11-year-old Samoyed and his owner can’t walk the streets of Back Bay without being stopped by onlookers for petting and pictures. His full title is Champion Skilo Bear’s Ivy League C.G.C. Samoyed Sir Harvard, but owner Dana Sullivan calls him Harvard Dangerfield for short. More
Along the Malden and Mystic Rivers sits the Wellington Greenway, a hiking and biking path that leads users from Boston’s inner harbor into Medford. It’s quite popular with commuters at the Wellington Station T stop on the Orange line. However, snow removal efforts by the MBTA blocked the path with a gigantic mountain of snow, rendering it all but accessible. That is, until a few local cyclists took matters into their own hands. More
“I’m driving in your kind of weather right now,” Robert Earl Keen told BDCwire back in January. “It’s about 33 and just raining like crazy.” More
