A funeral service for King, who died last month at age 94, will be held Tuesday at noon at Union United Methodist Church in the South End, and may also be viewed at two satellite locations or streamed online.
The Boston Licensing Board last week approved plans by Alamo Drafthouse Cinema to purchase the liquor license of the closed Canary Square in Jamaica Plain for the ten-screen movie complex it wants to open at 60 Seaport Blvd. - the fourth time in four years that a Seaport chain has taken a liquor license out of JP. Read more.
After years of trying for more liquor licenses, Boston is on the verge of getting five more - one for the Strand Theatre in Uphams Corner and four for the Bolling Building in Nubian Square. The State Senate on Thursday gave its final approval to a measure to let the Boston Licensing Board grant the new licenses, following passage in the House of a measure sponsored by state