Back Bay News

On the corner of Stuart and Tremont Streets in the theater district, the W has 235 rooms and suites; Market by Jean-Georges, a new restaurant from chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten; a Bliss Spa; and 5,000 square feet of meeting space, in which the largest room seats 150 banquet-style. 2. Ames Hotel Morgans Hotel Group converted the historic 1889 Ames ...

After searching around the world for more than a year, the Museum of Fine Arts found a new curator of contemporary art about 2 miles away.

Congratulations to Vinay Shah for being the first to purchase a condo at The Clarendon, 400 Stuart Street #15B for $1,500,000, with a $600,000.00 mortgage.

Boston Police report they're looking for this guy in connection with a series of coat thefts in the Back Bay.

What happens when the owner of a stylish boutique gets knocked up? She births yet another shop, of course.

Boston police are searching for a 42-year-old woman who has been missing since last week.

The number of rapes continues to rise in Boston, a frightening trend that is startling police who are grappling to understand why there are more sexual assaults when the city is generally seeing fewer homicides, robberies, and aggravated assaults.

For the first time in three years, taxes for single-family homes in Boston are set to rise as the city tries to make up for declining property values, officials said today.

Your buddies are a patchwork of smart, sweet, high-maintenance chicks. Here are the goods you need to show each one of them you actually care.

Joseph F. Perroncello, who owns a 15-room home in the Back Bay that is assessed at $5 million, owes the city $210,773 in property taxes, more than twice what he owed last year, according to a public notice posted yesterday by the Office of the Collector-Treasurer. Last year he made the Top 10 list of delinquent taxpayers for failing to pay taxes ...

In the upscale Heritage on the Garden condo building, Bistro du Midi has replaced Excelsior, offering a taste of Provence - via London - overlooking Boston's Public Garden.

A year after the MBTA suspended a construction project that caused a crack from the foundation to the roofline of Old South Church, the jackhammers are back in operation, thudding away and sending small tremors through the 136-year-old National Historic Landmark across from Copley Square.

For more than 60 years, Bay State College has offered students quality, career-focused programs in some of the fastest-growing industries.

On Wednesday, November 18, 2009, Boston Police Officers, assigned out of Area D-4 , responded to 221 Massachusetts Avenue for a report of a robbery in progress.

The following is an excerpt from Scott Van Voorhis's article in the Banker & Tradesman: The last thing downtown Boston needs is another ugly hole in the ground.

A respected Back Bay research physician will be arraigned in Alaska today on charges he journeyed to the frontier state to join a sex ring with a demented dad and the father's two tots.

Market by Jean-Georges opened in the W Boston on October 29, and is receiving reviews that vary from thrilled to underwhelmed.

The Mary Baker Eddy Library is celebrating the holiday season this year with "Caring for Christmas - a Nineteenth-Century American Story." This original musical and dramatic review will explore the evolution of Christmas as a holiday from pre-nineteenth century forward.

Boston Police report a guy who made off with a salad from the salad bar at the Pru Shaw's yesterday tried to hold a woman up on Huntington Avenue even as he was stuffing the salad into this mouth.

One casualty of last year's financially hectic winter season appears to be making a 2009 comeback: the holiday party .