The BPD announced that on Tuesday they ordered a rogue fortune teller to stop dealing in the future. Neighbors on Marlborough Street didn't appreciate the fortune teller's fliers on their cars. No word if they were creeped out by the intense psychic energy. She was operating a business without being properly licensed, but we didn't know that fortune-telling required a license. A Google search on fortune telling in Boston turned up selectmen minutes from Hull......

The gap week between the celebrations of America's Independence Day and upcoming France's Bastille Day, this is the perfect time to dabble in some French and American wine tasting history. Ever since the ground-breaking Paris Tasting in 1976 where in a blind tasting France's top wine tasting experts (to everyone's shock) picked American wine over their French counterparts as the best, America's reputation in wine has been on a steady rise. Specifically it was California's......

Today is Bastille Day, marking the day in 1789 when French people stormed a prison known for arbitrary imprisonment on the king's orders, to show their support for the creation of a constitutional, rather than absolute, monarchy. (Trading in one sort of monarchy for another seems like a half measure these days, but it was rather something at the time.) Shortly thereafter, in August, the new French government would proclaim the Declaration of the Rights......

Bostonist heard about the menacing incident on Marlborough Street between Fairfield and Gloucester. On Thursday, March 24 at 1 pm, a woman was screaming because she had been attacked. She was visiting from New York and was unloading her car. With a 5 month-old in tow and her purse on the trunk, a man approached to snatch her purse. She tried to grab it but he got it and when she went for her......