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.
Amanda the roving UHub photographer spotted Santa Squirrel outside the Dudley Street firehouse in Nubian Square today.
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.
Boston Police report they will seek criminal charges against a 15-year-old and a 16-year-old they say approached a group of "elderly Christmas carolers" from behind on Johnston Road in Dorchester and punched two of them in the back of the head several times, around 3 p.m. on Sunday. Read more.
The T-Rex nativity at 61 Putnam.
How many different ways can you decorate your yard for the holidays? You might opt for the classy, minimal look with classic winter colors. You might choose a whimsical aesthetic with bright and multicolored lights, or you might prefer an over-the-top look with giant inflatables. Or, if you're 61 Putnam St. in Somerville, you might decide to create a portal to a prehistoric hellscape featuring a T‑Rex nativity and elves being torn to shreds by the skeletons of demon hellhounds while a raptor skeleton in a Santa hat flies overhead. Read more.
Mary Ellen reports she came across some of the folks who have been decorating a living Christmas tree at Millennium Park in West Roxbury for years: Read more.
A put out citizen files a 311 complaint about Boston's less than world-class public Christmas decorations: Read more.
Paul Revere forced to go "Whoa!" to avoid careering into the tree.
A disgruntled citizen files a 311 complaint about the Christmas tree now towering over the Prado and Hanover Street in the North End: Read more.
Festive dual-season holiday tree at the Dunkin' Donuts on Washington Street in West Roxbury.
Our own Cybah walked into the Dollar General in Chelsea yesterday and could only think: "Not yet Dollar General.. not yet."
A concerned citizen or, perhaps, a Public Works employee out and about, based on the way the 311 report is written, noted at 6:28 this morning that somebody has already de-trimmed their Christmas tree and put it out for disposal at Beckler Avenue and K Street in South Boston.
This good boy has his stocking full of a special gift that was his only wish.
He is so happy that Santa brought him a fish.
An old tradition among Jewish reporters is to take shifts on Christmas Eve and Christmas day so that their Christian co-workers can take the time off. Harvey Leonard came out of retirement tonight to give one of his former weather colleagues time off.
H/t Monica.
The Puritans may not have been quite as dour as we think, but their aversion for celebrating Christmas is well known - and persisted in Massachusetts long after they were gone. Aline Kaplan recounts how 19th-century Boston Unitarians began to change that.
Matt Frank tracked Santa making his way across the harbor on a State Police patrol boat to Chelsea.
Adam Castiglioni watched Santa (and the Italian consul in Boston) ride down Hanover Street today.
A decision not to put a Christmas tree in a Dedham branch library has turned into the sort of brouhaha you don't normally expect to see in a quaint Massachusetts town, or Dedham, for that matter.
Lisa Green got a gander at the Faneuil Hall Marketplace Christmas tree being delivered today. Read more.
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