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Boston city councilors Stephen Murphy and John Connolly aren't the only ones who have to learn how to get along. City councilor Chuck Turner, he of the stunning goatee, will also need to learn how to get along with Northeastern University, or vice versa depending which side you're on. Before the city council elections, Turner was angry with the school for not treating the neighborhood he represents with enough respect. He didn't mince words on...

Bostonist saw today's "Rolling Rally," featuring the players riding duck boats across the city and relief pitcher Jonathan Papelbon dancing to the Dropkick Murphys, from two different vantage points--near the Common and at the Hynes Convention Center. Everyone clearly enjoyed themselves, especially Papelbon: Wherever you were along the parade route, it was simply madness. Of course, the Red Sox faithful turned out in their jerseys. Hundreds of little kids skipped school. College students sat down...

Good Afternoon all you beautiful Boston photogs!

The North End hosted the Fisherman's Feast this past weekend in honor of Madonna del Soccorso di Sciacca. This year's event, Boston's oldest continuous Italian festival (97 years and counting!), featured the usual suspects: tons of tourists, tons of ducks, various carnival games, and food. So much food.

Saturday afternoon filled Davis Square with whimsical sculptures, Indian food, hipster-crafted trinkets, musical performances, children on stilts, and all the well-groomed puppies Somerville could muster up. Which, for the the record, is lots of puppies.

Protestors on Beacon Hill voiced their opposition to a great many things today—gay marriage, a proposed (and soon defeated) ballot question on gay marriage, Nazism, and even specific sexual positions:...

--Some young repo men watched the Emilio Estevez movie a few too many times. Or maybe Dog the Bounty Hunter. Michael and Robert Simeone, brothers who work for the family repo business in Brockton, were overzealous when trying to take a car from a woman who fell behind with her payments. It was their job to take Sara Bradley's Ford Focus back. We thought repo men tried to be sneaky, but the Simeone brothers were...

Bostonist saw Anime Boston 2007 participants all over yesterday: on Newbury Street, in the mall, at Spike's, outside the Pru, where they had strayed from Hynes Convention Center in their full regalia.

On this day a mere 131 years ago, Alexander Graham Bell received the patent for the telephone and Ma Bell was on her way to being born. Bell submitted his patent for the telephone at 11:30 a.m. February 14, only hours after Elisha Gray submitted a caveat for the device – but Gray didn't convert his caveat into a full blown application for patent, so the patent office granted the patent to Bell. It's a whole contentious story that could probably be researched for a decade before yet another book was written on the subject, but the long and the short of it was that Bell got the patent for the phone and a system of overtaxing citizens began.

The MBTA opened up the new Charles/MGH stop last weekend. Among the changes to the station the most notable is pedestrian and handicapped access to the station. Escalators and elevators will take passengers to the platform from ground level, a welcome change for, uh, the stop named for a hospital. The reconfigured station will allow pedestrians to avoid a bit more of the traffic mess that is Charles Circle.

An interesting idea - head out into the city armed only with a disposable camera, just like the tourists would use. Take pictures of those things the tourists would snap photos of. Flickr user irisell does just that and snaps this snowy portrait of City Hall.

In what seems to be a frequently broken down system on buses around Boston, the stop request tape wasn't letting the driver know passengers wanted to get off. Each driver seems to improvise their own method for surmount. The sign on this bus reads "No Bell's So Yell." A small sign is also taped over the "Stop Requested" sign which reads "No Bell." Grammar aside, at least this driver tried.

Reader, commenter, and shutterbug Ian Westcott provides us with the above image, we doctored it a little to drop the color from the background. See the original and more in his flickr photostream

The Boston Globe Magazine this week featured a number of photographs that the editors had picked as some of the best of the year. Then they told the back story. But it wasn’t the photos in that feature that caught our eye. Boston's new police commissioner was featured on page six in a striking and attractive photograph for a short "First Person" interview of 9 questions. We couldn't help but think there was something...

Bostonist went down to one of our favorite haunts to meet up with a couple of friends. You may know some of them; others were in from out of town. We got the announcement then that within 24 hours there would be at least one Somerville apartment whose living room would contain a stack of Somerville Madonna 2007 Calendars ready for delivery. Yeah, you read right. Somerville Madonna Calendars - and postcards, greeting cards, and magnets. All of it just in time for all your Christmas gifting needs.

Afternoon of November 9, 2006

In an anti-terrorism exercise to test bomb sniffing dogs and their handlers at Logan, State Police attached an 8 ounce piece of plastic explosive to a Massport pickup. The explosive turned up missing. No word on where the dogs are.

Sure, this cluster of equipment on the roof of an apartment building in Somerville might be innocent radar dishes and TV antennae. But it looks to Bostonist like a diabolical weapon of interplanetary destruction. We hope it is, anyway, because we'd feel good if Somerville got weapons of mass destruction before Iran.

We always see this sign on Washington Street in Downtown Crossing, and we always like it. Is it the jaunty little stout man, or the fact that stout men and big men, whom we always thought of as distinct groups, must share a store? We don't know, but this sign is cool....

The legislature may not be in session, but someone out there is still trying to get a message across to lawmakers. Frankly, we're not sure exactly what the message is, but its placement on a sign on Bowdoin Street right across from the side entrance to the State House suggests a political motive.

This string of nice days has made for some gloriously blue skies and thoroughly Hudson-River-School-esque cloud formations. Seeing this natural splendor as a dramatic backdrop to the enormous industrial plant in Everett just across the water from Charlestown reminded us of some sort of communist propaganda poster celebrating industry or progress or some such thing. Also, it was pretty, so we took a picture.

When Bostonist saw this guy on a tricycle tooling down Washington street at 10:00 a.m. this morning with two cases of Corona in his basket, we thought he looked cool, so when he stopped to chat with a friend, we caught up to him and asked if we could take his picture. As he was saying yes, the friend hopped out of his wheelchair and posed too (we don't know why he decided to hold up his half-finished Diet Coke). We're fairly certain this is the only photo we'll ever take of a man with one leg standing next to a man on a tricycle.

Rolling around Chelsea and East Boston this weekend, we came upon this view of the Tobin Bridge and Downtown Boston that made us feel like we were emerging from the jungle to discover a lost city (it's the trees hanging in from either side). This shot was taken from Mary O'Malley Park, which we urge everyone to check out, as it is an absolutely lovely place for whiling away summer afternoons. The park is off...

Bostonist has lately been taking a lot of leisurely strolls through the public alleys of the Back Bay (we need some privacy when we're sipping hooch from a brown paper bag, OK?), and we've noticed a tremendous variety of signs employed by individual property owners to convey the same basic message, "Don't park here." Much like the Bostonian character, which can be alternately caustic and kind, these signs range from almost pitiable pleading to ominous predictions. Here are two examples of this phenomenon:

Beacon Hill, during the Constitutional Convention July 12, 2006 12:02pm...

Beacon and Hawes St, Brookline