Allston News

Allston got lucky Saturday night ... really lucky. Girls played their fourth show of their first US tour to a tightly packed and utterly appreciative Great Scott.

The 24-year-old man stabbed and killed in Allston in the early hours of Sunday morning was a Boston University Dining Services staff member, BU officials said.

A West Roxbury man today was identified as the person who was stabbed to death in Allston after bars and nightclubs closed early Sunday morning.

Boston Police report a man was stabbed outside the Store 24 at Brighton and Harvard avenues shortly after midnight.

James Jones of the Back Bay has been driving cabs in Boston since 1974. "People pull up next to me at 4 in the morning with raw panic in their eyes trying to get to the airport," says Jones, 55.

This came up in another thread, but figured it deserves it's own. I have some explanatory notes below as well: Best Liquor Stores in Greater Boston .

Boston police combed the area around the Franklin Park Zoo yesterday afternoon for a suspect involved in a shooting, cops said.

On November 15th, 2009 at 2:30 p.m., Great Scott , a casual bar in Allston, is hosting the Mac & Cheese Takedown .

A Boston EMS ambulance collided with a taxicab at Boston University last night, injuring one person who had to be taken to a hospital, police and fire officials said.

The best part of Halloween is Truth Serum's annual Halloween Bike Ride. Starting from the Green Street T station in JP, the ride winds through Boston, Brookline, Allston, and Cambridge before winding back up at JP Licks.

Talking to Dougy Mandagi over a crackling connection between our office and his cell as he ambles along the streets of lower Manhattan, one might easily mistake him for just another 20-something Australian hipster-kid. He's definitely not.

One of the basic rules of crisis management and organizational communications is that when you find yourself deep in a hole, the first thing you do is stop digging.

The business trade groups of Allston-Brighton sponsored a forum tonight for the two candidates running for the Allston-Brighton District 9 City Councilor seat.

Councilor at Large Michael F. Flaherty Jr., sprinting into the final week of the mayoral campaign, ramped up his criticism of Mayor Thomas M. Menino yesterday, citing recently disclosed e-mails from City Hall that appear to disparage Allston residents who have challenged the proposed relocation of a neighborhood housing complex.

Mayoral challenger Michael F. Flaherty Jr. seized today on a series of recently disclosed e-mails from a top City Hall planning official that appear to disparage Allston residents who have been challenging plans for a new housing complex in the neighborhood.

ON CAMPUS Massaro calls for an involved citizenry in recent opinion piece In a new op-ed piece published in America magazine, Rev.

Internal Boston Redevelopment Authority e-mails that belittle Allston residents who question a controversial housing proposal have heightened worries among some in the neighborhood that the city undervalues their opinion on development matters.

Salem, MA may the center for witchcraft but the center for all things "Brewing" with 112 taps and 380 microbrews plus exotic offerings is always stirring in Allston.

Why are residents of Allston and Brighton, including residents of Charlesview, becoming more public and visible to voice our concerns with Harvard's expansion, the Harvard-Charlesview land swap, and years of neglect at Charlesview? It's because over the past several years the Menino Administration has repeatedly made serious errors that have harmed ...

When she's not strolling Newbury Street or eating ice cream with her daughter, actress Katie Holmes spends a lot of time working out.