--A four-alarm fire broke out in Brookline overnight on Sewall Avenue. The building was vacant, but 120 people were evacuated, and three firefighters were injured. [WCVB]

--Heist, heist baby. The Herald pulls out all the stops when anniversary the theft of priceless art from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990. [Boston Herald]

--Whole Foods plus the South End sounds like a perfect storm for satire. [Boston Real Estate Blog]

--The priceless line of the day describes the nastiness of the Big Dig Tunnels: "The brand-new walls on the $15 billion tunnel project will continue to look as though they belong in bathrooms in the former Soviet Union, at least until the weather gets better." Yes, we paid a pretty penny for a Big Dig that resembles a USSR toilet. [Boston Globe]

--Open the bars early for the Sox opener in Japan? Really early? [b0st0n LiveJournal]

Image of birds over Sunday church service on the Common by gnarayan from photos tagged "Bostonist" on Flickr.