Back Bay News

On Wednesday, November 18, 2009, Boston Police Officers, assigned out of Area D-4 , responded to 221 Massachusetts Avenue for a report of a robbery in progress.

The following is an excerpt from Scott Van Voorhis's article in the Banker & Tradesman: The last thing downtown Boston needs is another ugly hole in the ground.

A respected Back Bay research physician will be arraigned in Alaska today on charges he journeyed to the frontier state to join a sex ring with a demented dad and the father's two tots.

Market by Jean-Georges opened in the W Boston on October 29, and is receiving reviews that vary from thrilled to underwhelmed.

The Mary Baker Eddy Library is celebrating the holiday season this year with "Caring for Christmas - a Nineteenth-Century American Story." This original musical and dramatic review will explore the evolution of Christmas as a holiday from pre-nineteenth century forward.

Boston Police report a guy who made off with a salad from the salad bar at the Pru Shaw's yesterday tried to hold a woman up on Huntington Avenue even as he was stuffing the salad into this mouth.

One casualty of last year's financially hectic winter season appears to be making a 2009 comeback: the holiday party .

I have a tip for her. Do what I do, take 'em off. We walked from the theater district to Tremont St on Halloween and I did it barefoot.

Multiple Listing Service records show that a purchaser has agreed to pay an undisclosed sum for Jacobson's three-bedroom Trinity Place unit.

Henry Haley was crossing between stopped cars at 188 Massachusetts Ave. in the Back Bay when he was hit by the bicyclist, Julian Paul Cavarlez-Flores, 22, of Randolph, according to police.

If you can't afford to purchase at the Mandarin, you could always rent. A new luxury rental was just listed at 776 Boylston Street for only $52,000 per month.

Featuring Melinda Doolittle from a oeAmerican Idola and R&B sensation Brian McKnight The City of Bostona s Official Tree Lighting hosted by Mayor Thomas M. Menino, the Boston Parks and Recreation Department, title sponsor Nova Scotia Come to life, and media sponsors WCVB-TV Channel 5 and MAGIC 106.7 FM comes to Boston Common on Thursday, December ...

The 2009 holiday tree lighting celebrations hosted by Mayor Thomas M. Menino and the Boston Parks and Recreation Department will kick off with the Trellis Lighting at Christopher Columbus Park in the North End on Monday, November 23, from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. The lighting display, sponsored by the Friends of Christopher Columbus Park and the ...

Check In The brand new, ground up 265-room W Boston is now open. So what was it like to check-in to the hotel? Well, check-in was chipper.

Yesterday was Take-Your- Laurence-Maroney -to-School Day for 12-year-old Tyler Hutchinson .

Crews with the Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz spy flick " Knight & Day ," formerly known as "Wichita," are setting up shop outside of the Boston Public Library for a shoot slotted for Tuesday, Nov.

Boston today gave Tom Menino a record fifth term today, re-electing him by a 57-43 margin over challenger Michael Flaherty.

John Krasinski chatted up Boston.com visitors yesterday on a visit to the Globe.

Liberty Mutual Group has announced its 10 St. James Ave. building, a 585,000-square-foot Class A office building in Boston's Back Bay, has been awarded LEED Silver Certification for Existing Buildings Operations and Maintenance by the United States Green Building Council .

The home-design guru said his "Happy Chic" philosophy is a welcome respite amid retail's dark reality.