Anyone who’s lived in Boston knows that we get very territorial about our parking spaces during blizzards, and with good reason. It takes a long time to properly shovel out and maintain a parking spot, particularly when the city’s plows create huge walls around your car simply because they have no other place to dump the excess snow. With this in mind, we couldn’t help but chuckle at the extreme lengths one Boston driver went to exact revenge on a neighbor’s car after it grabbed his parking spot. RELATED: Someone dressed up as a yeti is stalking the snow-covered streets of Boston It Continue reading >>>

A long time ago we decided we should try Florida for a couple of weeks in the winter. Other people seemed to like it. The place we are staying has drop-dead beaches, beautiful shells, a plethora of wildlife and an ocean that varies its shade of blue hour by hour. While all of you have struggled with snow, ice, transportation woes, loss of work, inconvenience, discomfort and wasted time as you’ve tried to get kids to school or family members to jobs, I’ve been walking the beach, collecting shells, training my binocs on a snowy egret and listening to the raucous call of the ospreys that live Continue reading >>>

Parking is serious business in Boston. Every winter is tough, but this season's unending freeze in the city has stretched residents to their breaking points. See also: 9 crazy snow records Boston has already broken this season Traditionally, Boston residents are permitted to shovel out parking spots and save them for later with an object, but the seemingly simple and time-saving measure can turn ugly when spots are tampered with. (Spots can only be claimed for the next 48 hours after a storm.) This year, however, Boston Mayor Marty Walsh is trying to make the South End district a "space saver-free" Continue reading >>>

Miffed man who digs out parking spot, digs usurper back in In cities where the snow is heavy and some car owners lazy, digging out a parking spot only to have someone else take it is a punishable offense. Perhaps not legally, mind you, but in terms of vigilante style justice. Recently a man in Boston posted a picture on Craigslist of a car he dug back in the snow after another car took his spot. The unidentified man spent hours clearing the space of snow and when he got home late at night it was taken by a car with New York license plates. via Boston.com   Sounds extreme? Childish?  Nope. Continue reading >>>

A Boston resident in a now now-deleted Craigslist post said that they took drastic measures when someone parked in his spot after he took the time clearing it of snow. The anonymous poster said, “I put all the snow back” on the car. According to Boston.com, the poster, who remained anonymous, said he took a long time shoveling the parking space and put an “old bookshelf” in it before he worked an evening shift driving for Uber. The anonymous poster said he came home “pretty late” Sunday night, finding a car “with New York plates” parked in the spot that was shoveled. “I’ve Continue reading >>>

In our collective memory, the 1960s flash across the screen in kaleidoscopic Technicolor, a bittersweet montage of soaring idealism, “Up, Up and Away” treacle, and savage violence. This week, on Feb. 21, we mark the 50th anniversary of one of the darkest episodes: the assassination of Malcolm X, in New York’s Audubon Ballroom, an old movie palace at 165th and Broadway.For Americans already reeling from the assassination of a president, turmoil over civil rights, and the expansion of the Vietnam War in early 1965, this act of brutality confirmed that something Continue reading >>>

[Rendering of Whittier plans via Elton Hampton Architects]ROXBURY—Boston wants $30M in federal funds to redevelop the Whittier area: " The transformation plan for the Lower Roxbury neighborhood and the surrounding Dudley Square area include bringing new housing investments to replace deeply subsidized existing housing and build new units. The neighborhood transformation plan also calls for investments in neighborhood infrastructure and public safety..." [Boston.com] __BOSTON—The Continue reading >>>

(Bloomberg) -- So far this winter, Boston has received 77.3 inches of snow, most of it in the past two weeks. Since records have been kept, well back into the 19th century, Boston has never had much more snow on the ground. Once, Ice Age glaciers covered eastern Massachusetts and my teachers told me they were a mile thick, so it could be worse. In my lifetime, I’m not sure it has been. As a lifelong resident of the area, snow and storms mark milestones in my memory, which can sometimes be tricky. “People do have a tendency to remember storms as bigger than they were,” Matt Kelsch, Continue reading >>>

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