--The BPD blotter writer had reason to be confused yesterday afternoon because something happened, only the BPD isn't exactly sure what it was. Here's what they know: In Brighton, two witnesses claim they saw three people "wearing sweaters, camouflaged clothing, and ski masks drag a white male off the sidewalk and push him into a van." The witnesses got a description of the car and a license plate number, but the BPD blotter writer is......

--We're starting with the comic relief because, well, the rest ain't pretty. The Northeastern University Crime Log reports a man who up and peed all over a stack of onions at the Symphony Market. What did the onions do to him? Naturally, the manager took umbrage, and the offender happened to leave his Northeastern ID behind. NUPD tracked the peeing perp down at his residence hall. The Symphony Market manager must be a nice guy......

Bostonist had the opportunity to attend the ART's stage adaptation of "Wings of Desire" this week. We're a little embarrassed to admit that we haven't seen the film, so we won't be offering any comparisons. We've come to expect great things from the ART's stage design, and so it was a bit of a disappointment when the curtain rose on an essentially barren stage. Aside from some shafts of light illuminating falling sand (a......

Gene Wilder, known to many as either "Young Frankenstein" or "Willy Wonka", is appearing at Boston University's Tsai Performing Center on Wednesday night. He's in town to promote his new auto-biography, "Kiss Me Like a Stranger: My Search for Love and Art," where he hits on all the high (the role of a lifetime in "The Producers") and low points (his third wife, Gilda Radner, dying of ovarian cancer) of his life. While some look......