Michael Halle was at the starting line for yesterday's Bill Rodgers Somerville Jingle Bell Run and Walk, along with Bill Rodgers himself. Read more.
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By adamg - 12/9/24 - 11:06 pm
Roving UHub photographer Joyce Falk Onyango had to stop when the Santa-crossing lights came on on Washington Street at the Forest Hills T stop yesterday.
By adamg - 11/30/24 - 9:58 am
Handmaid snapped both ends of the city's largest Christmas bow, on the Flour and Grain Exchange building on Milk Street downtown.
By adamg - 11/30/24 - 9:45 am
Cynthia Donovan walked into her local Stop & Shop yesterday and saw all these plushie Marties for sale. No batteries needed, but they also don't stand there flashing yellow in impotent rage because they have no hands to pick up that stray lettuce leaf that is blocking their path.
By adamg - 11/1/24 - 12:16 pm
The city today announced the expansion of the Open Newbury street closing to two Sundays during the holiday season next month.
The street will be shut to motor vehicles on Dec. 1 and Dec. 8 in what had previously been just a summertime program to let pedestrians have free reign, if even just for part of a day, between Berkeley Street and Massachusetts Avenue, and between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m.
By adamg - 10/31/24 - 5:08 pm
Thomas and Joe DeMasi, Teresa Marx and Sam DeMasi pose in front of their annual Halloween creations. See larger.
The DeMasi-Marx family gathered around their 12-foot Home Depot skeletons this afternoon, before the start of the annual Tyndale Street Halloween fest in Roslindale. Read more.
By adamg - 10/31/24 - 9:49 am
Roving UHub photographer John McMahon managed to survive a trip down Appleton Street in Cambridge. Read more.
By adamg - 9/5/24 - 9:44 am
The city Office of Civic Organizing is offering $250 grants to neighborhoods that want to really go all out for Halloween this year. Read more.
By adamg - 8/31/24 - 11:08 am
Miles Grant notes the odd exclusion in a Globe list of "10 movies about work to stream this Labor Day weekend" - they have "Monsters, Inc.," but not anything like, oh, "Norma Rae" or "On the Waterfront." Fortunately, people of a more labor-ish bent on Labor Day have Deadline's list of "15 Movies About Labor Unions And Strikes."
By adamg - 7/20/24 - 10:09 am
Is it Halloween season already? As Gary C. found out, the Dedham Lowe's thinks so.
By adamg - 7/4/24 - 10:09 pm
Matt Frank went down to Castle Island today to watch Old Ironsides on its trip around Boston Harbor and got a good view of both it and Codzilla.
By adamg - 4/11/24 - 2:18 pm
Ari Ofsevit, who reports he missed qualifying for the Boston Marathon this year by 24 seconds, provides details of what he calls the MBTA's "somewhat impressive" service additions for Monday.
By adamg - 4/8/24 - 1:03 pm
Handmaid captured some workers today erecting the viewing stands at the Boston Marathon finish line on Boylston Street for next week's annual race.
By adamg - 3/30/24 - 6:20 pm
Tim West reports kids at the athletic fields at the old West Roxbury High School had 20,000 Easter eggs to choose from at today's annual Parkway In Motion Easter-egg hunt.
By adamg - 12/31/23 - 10:03 pm
Myron Freeman took in the family fireworks over Boston Common tonight - after first watching some ice skating under the lights at the Frog Pond.
By adamg - 12/25/23 - 7:25 pm
Amanda the roving UHub photographer spotted Santa Squirrel outside the Dudley Street firehouse in Nubian Square today.
By adamg - 12/24/23 - 12:25 pm
TheBostonLOL forwards this photo of a tiny tree in Franklin Park that somebody wrapped with a blue tree skirt and decorated with a single red ornament, just like Charlie Brown would do.
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