Howls of despair erupted when Filene's Basement announced it would close for two years for renovations. People would miss the Bridal Dress Catfight Spectacular, and the closing would damage Downtown Crossing's economic prospects. To top it all off, the signs at Filene's Basement said, "Filene's is closing, but the basement stays." So much for that sentiment. The Globe went straight to the mayor. Downtown Crossing has been a pet project for the mayor's office. At......

The way things work here at Bostonist headquarters, when one of our beloved readers has an important observation about something we've written and posts it in the form of a clever comment, Moveable Type quickly sends a copy of that missive to the e-mail account of the person who wrote the post. Sadly, there are those selfish individuals roaming the wide open spaces of the internet who take advantage of this simple system to get......