There have been plenty of famous rats in history: Remy from "Ratatouille," The New York City "Pizza Rat" and the Pokémon Rattata, just to name a few. But very few of those famous rats were artists.

They smell a rat. Or several thousand. In this case, they’re an assortment of Boston City Councilors, and the rats are our old friends rattus norvegicus, the Norwegian rat, which is coming out in ...

It’s that time of the year again, with the weather warming up and the local representatives of the Norwegian rat population emerging from their burrows to spawn a deluge of 311 reports to Boston and ...