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Incident on Federal Street: Fed-up photographer vs. a bank security guard

Rich Beaubien (whose work I've featured here), reports on an incident outside the Bank of America building at 100 Federal St. the other day, involving a security guard who demanded he stop taking photos of the building: ... Now I know I should have just walked away but instead I headed straight…

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Orienting yourself at the Downtown Crossing T stop

In case you forget which way you're headed, the T provides this handy little sign at the front end of the Alewife-bound side of the Red Line.

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Remains of a vigil

Flowers and candles mark the last spot, outside the Marriott Long Wharf where Eugene Losik was last seen - and where friends held a vigil last night.

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Beth Israel Deaconess worker charged with embezzling more than $1 million

An assistant in Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center's Ear, Nose and Throat department will plead guilty to diverting $1.05 million to his own account over three years, the US Attorney's office announced today. Federal prosecutors allege Richard Webb, 42, supplemented his salary by: [S]tealing…

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Has the price of copper gone up again?

Somebody's stealing copper downspouts at Harvard.

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Fat chance for Bostonians on this reality show

Jody reports The Biggest Loser, is having a casting call in Boston next month, because really, what's a reality show without somebody to drop their Rs along with their pounds?

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Once again, a national disconnect over Scott Brown

True confession: I grew up in your basic liberal New York Democratic household (I can hear you going: Noooo!). So when I went down to New York for a funeral a couple weeks back, family members kept asking me, basically, what the hell happened in Massachusetts (well, to be clear, not at the…

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The Heights - No Commercial Potential for WZBC

News story about campus radio station in the Boston College campus newspaper

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Welcome to Sally O'Brien's!

Monday nights - be there by 7:15 PM to get a slot

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Boston Blotter: Carjacker Nabbed Downtown

Blotter siren -- Boston cops arrested a man who had allegedly carjacked a woman at gunpoint in a parking garage near Faneuil Hall after he allegedly drove the car he had allegedly stolen into a tree. [BPDNews] -- Watertown cops say they nabbed a pair of robbers who had stolen the cell phone…

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Did Roger Ebert Kill Film Criticism? Globe Says Thumbs Up, We Say Thumbs Down

Chris Jones' new profile of Roger Ebert in Esquire is excellent and often touching. And very few film websites are better than Ebert's blog, home to some of the most impressive and incisive reviews on the web. So we don't understand why the Globe's "MovieNation" is using the profile as a…

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Powerful Lyons Group could lose liquor license

The Boston Licensing Board could vote Thursday to strip the Lyons Group, one of the city's largest nightclub and restaurant operators, of a valuable liquor license because it hasn't actually used it since 2007. read more

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Bite Size News, February 23: Scott Brown: No Nukes Edition

Image by M@tty1378 from photos tagged "Bostonist" on Flickr. Scott Brown is against a so-called “nuclear option” to pass a healthcare reform bill. [Boston Herald]That controversial LNG shipment from Yemen finally reached Boston Harbor today. [WBZ]The Chelsea Creek Action Group…

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The Boston Globe

One of the better official sources of news for Beantown

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