--Bechtel, Parsons & Brinckerhoff still keeps this city on a tight leash. They received $5.3 million after the Big Dig was supposedly finished. [Boston Herald]

--Local restaurants are going to stop selling bottled water and get people who want water to drink tap. This news leads to the following question--how do you feel about the local tap water? [WCVB]

--The Boston City Council wants to move voting day to Saturday. Voter turnout is so rotten, why not? [Boston Globe]

--Winthrop House on Harvard's campus is going to be a hot spot on Friday night. Karl Rove is coming to town. [Harvard Crimson]

--The Globe isn't just laying off employees. It's laying off entire sections, and people noticed the new, uh, "Food & Arts" section, which one b0st0n LiveJournal commenter has already merged into the word "Farts." . [The eagle-eyed Ron Newman at Universal Hub, b0st0n]

Those baby head sculptures at the MFA are wild! Image by Blue Socks from photos tagged "Bostonist" on Flickr.