Image by mer-made from photos tagged “Bostonist” on Flickr . Property taxes in Boston will increase for the first time in three years. Bills are due out this month and will increase by an average of $173. [ Boston Globe ] The Boston Police plan to increase patrols on Newbury Street during...

While Celtics owner Steve Pagliuca didn’t get the win he was hoping for yesterday, he can at least take solace in the fact that his day job is going well, as the C’s won their eight straight last night, slamming on the defensive clamps in the 4th quarter to finish off Milwaukee, 98-89. The...

Lorianne DiSabato got out and took some shots of our first real snow of the winter. She captured these beautiful red roses frozen in snow, a great contrast in color and texture. Read more here: Photo of the Day, December 7, 2009: Snow on Roses

Lynne Sladky / Associated Press Is it the home/road thing? Is it true that the Patriots can’t win any road game, unless it’s a neutral site game on another continent against a winless team? Or is it just that the Pats really aren’t that great, and we should be thankful that at least...

The Bruins won! Sure, they gave up a 2-0 first-period lead, and they allowed Atlanta to tie the game again, 3-3, in the final minute. But Patrice Bergeron beat Ondrej Pavelec in the shootout to give the B’s their first win in like forever. They got that 2-0 lead on goals by Marco Sturm and Michael...

A quick update on the Glen Beck WIPO case . The verdict is in, and Gloucester attorney Marc J. Randazza’s totally killer pleadings were sufficient to convince the WIPO panelist to deny Glen Beck’s complaint against the website GlenBeckRapedandMurderedaYoungGirlin1990 . Since Randazza regrettably...

Michael Dwyer / Associated Press Maybe the results are a little skewed, since the Charlotte Bobcats clearly didn’t belong on the same floor or in the same league as the Celtics last night. Or maybe the Bobcats just looked like that because the C’s’ defense locked them up so tight that...

Half the team is hurt. Much of the other half is brand new. But somehow, this bunch of strangers wearing Bruin black and gold managed to squeeze out a win over Nashville, 3-2. The first two goals all came from Bruins vets (Michael Ryder and Patrice Bergeron), but the game winner, Steve Begin’s...

Half the team is hurt. Much of the other half is brand new. But somehow, this bunch of strangers wearing Bruin black and gold managed to squeeze out a win over Nashville, 3-2. The first two goals all came from Bruins vets (Michael Ryder and Patrice Bergeron), but the game winner, Steve Begin’s...

The Celtics returned to more-or-less full strength, and in their first game in Hartford in over a decade, mauled the Raptors 106-90 in their finest preseason outing yet. Everyone significant played except for Rasheed Wallace, who sat out to nurse his sore ankle (nobody thinks it’s that serious)....