Allston News

Update: The pizza chain says you can't believe everything you read, even its own license application - says it just wants to add a guitarist , not dinner theater .

A manager at Tavern in the Square in Allston had to explain to the Boston Licensing Board today why nobody at the Brighton Avenue bar called police after a patron had a beer bottle thrown at his head and another was tossed to the sidewalk outside and kicked by bouncers on March 16.

Hamilton Co.'s president and COO president Carl Valeri in the kitchen of a new apartment at Hamilton Crossing in the downtown.

Authorities said the 12-year-old was struck outside a fire station while crossing Cambridge Street in the city's Allston neighborhood at about 6:50 a.m. Thursday.

A 12-year-old boy was struck and killed by a van in Allston Thursday morning, Boston Police told WBZ-TV. It happened around 6:45 a.m. on Cambridge Street, near Brighton Avenue and North Beacon, close to the Jackson Mann School.

A Waltham man is facing serious charges after he allegedly helped hold four people hostage in a Boston home last week, according to the Boston Glob.

At the hearing, set for today during the regular Council meeting, members will discuss "options for modifying the design of our streets" to increase cycling safety and encourage more residents and tourists to travel around the city by bike .

Officials have identified careless disposal of smoking materials as the cause of the April 28 Allston house fire that killed a Boston University student and injured 15 others.

Members of the band Aerosmith Brad Whitford, Tom Hamilton, Steven Tyler and Joe Perry perform in front of their old apartment building in Allston, Massachusetts, Nov.

The owner of the burned home in Allston was cited by the city on Tuesday for running an illegal rooming house.

Stanley Staco reports three people barricaded themselves and some victims inside a residence at Arden and Hooker streets shortly before 4 a.m. A hostage negotiator secured the release of some victims not long after; the last of the suspects was taken away around 5:50 a.m. More to come, no doubt.

The lawyer for a landlord accused of running an illegal rooming house for college kids that burned Sunday, leaving a woman dead, claims the Linden Street home was inspected repeatedly and never found to be in violation.

The mother of a Boston University student who died in an early-morning fire Sunday aftera getting trapped in the attic bedroom of an Allston rooming house told the Herald she feared for her daughter's a safety after a visiting the packed dwelling.

A fire at 87 Linden St. in Allston killed one BU student and prompted a call for a review of student rental properties in Boston.

Due to continued economic prosperity, one of Boston's well-known food trucks, Roxy's Gourmet Grilled Cheese, will open a brick-and-mortar restaurant in Allston for the next academic year.

A Boston University student died and 15 people were injured, including two other BU students and six firefighters, when fire tore through a house in Allston early Sunday morning, the university and fire officials said.

The Boston Fire Department reports a fire that broke out around 6:30 a.m. at 87 Linden St.

On the block in Allston where a man said he was carjacked last Thursday night by the two alleged Marathon bombers, several landlords, business owners and employees said they do not know of any people or cameras that might have witnessed the carjacking.

A Harvard professor came to Allston to talk about the importance of the arts in Bogota, Columbia during the 1990's. Meanwhile, Harvard has shelved the plans it had a few years ago for Western Ave and other parts of North Allston to become an arts mecca.

In an effort to make a safer environment on roads shared by bicyclists and motorists, the city of Boston will create lanes this coming spring on Brighton Avenue in Allston that both cars and bikes can use.