from the first one:

Boston 2024 and City Hall are, at this point, a team.

For a meeting hosted by the city, it was somewhat striking to see upon entering that the panel of speakers would be Boston 2024 representatives—namely, Chairman John Fish, CEO Richard Davey, architect David Manfredi, Executive Vice President Erin Murphy and Paralympian Cheri Blauwet.

Boston Redevelopment Authority Project Manager John FitzGerald got the meeting started, but quickly turned the floor over to Boston 2024. Fish addressed the crowd first, before turning it over to Manfredi and Blauwet, who gave essentially the same presentation they provided at Boston 2024’s first public meeting in January. All told, Boston 2024 controlled the first hour or so of the meeting.

Boston 2024 CEO Richard Davey (left) an John Fish (right). —The BostonSummertime in San Sebastián rekindled the annual debate about the strains created by excessive tourism. This year, though, residents of the Basque provincial capital have also had to put up with our city being turned into the latest Woody Allen film set. The movie, Rifkin’s Festival, is about a couple who fall in love while in town for the San Sebastián film festival, drawing on the annual event (this year’s begins on 20 September) as the backdrop to a romantic comedy.

At a time when Allen is being shunned by many people in film, the veteran director has seemingly found a reliable ally in his Spanish partner Mediapro. The company ishandling the co-production and distribution of Rifkin’s Festival, just as it did with Allen’s previous movie endeavours Midnight in