Biking in Boston (on a fixie or otherwise) is never for the faint of heart (or muscle), but biking in Boston in winter requires even more guts—or at least a good jacket. In preparation for the (still oddly warm) season, Boston Biker offers winter biking tips for the brave souls preparing to pedal through the slush this winter. Helpful tips include getting lights (a must when it's dark by 4pm), gloves, and fenders to protect yourself from the brutal dark and cold of winter.
Seattlest was thankful for all the ways that Washington sports doesn't suck.
Jesus doesn't just weep, he steams: a Methuen woman has found a burn resembling Jesus on her iron. Mary Jo Coady feels "spiritually uplifted" by the savior-esque image burned into the bottom of her ironing device; she confirmed the resemblance of Jesus by checking with friends on Facebook, which has been officially been recognized by science as a reliable source. We're gonna go with the iron image looking a little more Mona Lisa than Son of God, but we nevertheless commend Coady for not planning a cross-country RV trip to share the ironed image with others. In a post-Thanksgiving food coma this morning (er, afternoon), Bostonist and friends had the (somewhat dubious) pleasure of watching eccentric escape artist Jonathan Goodwin be burned by a falling iron during an attempt to escape from bedpost constraints (it was an awkward setup). Apparently Jesus was "on his side" (literally)?
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- Holiday Pops 2009, Boston's beloved Christmas tradition, on sale now.
- Best of Both Worlds, bursting with the sounds of R&B and gospel, a soulful re-envisioning of The Winter's Tale, Shakespeare's timeless story of heartbreak and redemption.
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Going forward, Hub-o-sphere will experiment by filling the weekly post with reader submissions.
Bostonist woke up a little late for Cyberposium 15 yesterday, but still managed to attend a number of informative sessions about “Navigating the Digital Storm.” This year’s theme, inspired by the escalating (but potentially halted) economic crisis, was designed to explore ways for technology companies to get through this tough time. Cyberposium is organized entirely by Harvard Business School students, and while their presence was strong at the conference, some normal folk (though many of them HBS alumni or MIT Sloan students) made their way in as well. Not many women were among the presenters—we saw absolutely none on the panels we attended, and there were only a handful involved in the conference overall. More heartening was the presence of female students in the audience; we hope that in a few years some of these women will be answering, not asking, the questions. Diversity was also lacking in panels but more prevalent in the audience, suggesting a more varied future for technology.
- Gothamist was saddened after seeing why Sad Panda is so so sad.
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Do you ever feel like weird shit hapens a lot in Boston? Well, you're not wrong. Tableseed.com, some kind of weird email system for restaurants, has inexplicably come up with a list of the strangest cities (and states) in the U.S. Boston makes the top ten, coming in at #7 behind (explicably) NYC, Philly, and Chicago, but (perhaps inexplicably) Lincoln, NE. Is it really that weird there? Boston shows well, but other Massachusetts cities are apparently a little more normal, relegating the state as a whole to a respectable but not overly strange #14.
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- Boston Symphony Orchestra, where you can get tickets for $20 if you're under 40!
- Best of Both Worlds, bursting with the sounds of R&B and gospel, a soulful re-envisioning of The Winter's Tale, Shakespeare's timeless story of heartbreak and redemption.
- GroupOn, using collective buying power to bring you one ridiculous coupon each day.
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"Musical numbers that leave the audience whooping!" - The New York Times
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Does Boston Need an Open Market?
As farmer's markets close, BostonZest is daydreaming about a Boston Public Market. Would you be interested in a year-round local food experience? Try Local Harvest for finding a resource in your area, or join the public market crusade.
Massachusetts College to Celebrate New York Yankees
WBZ reports that Endicott College in Beverly will host a celebration of the World Series–winning New York Yankees. Slated to involve a pinstriped fire hydrant, the celebration is described to WBZ by president Dick Wylie as a way to teach "tolerance." However, WHDH describes the event as the result of a bet between Wylie and a Red Sox fan on campus. How a Yankees fan got to be president of a Massachusetts school is somewhat beyond us, but even further beyond us how Beverly is located "10 minutes" from Boston, as one Endicott student describes it. Most of Boston isn't even 10 minutes from the rest of Boston, for Chrissake.
-- Alternative advice for bikers to not run red lights: only "slightly illegal." [Boston Biker]
-- Danvers High can't even handle reading "meep." They passed on an attorney's email to the police. [Theodora Michaels]
-- Statistically speaking, Coach Belichick wasn't that crazy. (And if they converted, everyone would call him a genius.) [Advanced NFL Stats]
Seattlest reminded us that we don't watch Mariners baseball for the game, we watch it for the player-on-player bromance.
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- Boston Symphony Orchestra, where you can get tickets for $20 if you're under 40!
- Zipcar is wheels when you want them. Rates start at $7/hour and include gas, insurance and 180 miles/day. Join now and get $50 in free driving. Sweet.
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Comedians Back of the Class present a short commercial touting what the school has to offer graduates from "exclusive prep schools." Apparently, the school leads to a number of amazing careers including "Nobel Prize winning physicist," "retired millionaire," and "Unabomber." [via
Menino Wins, Falls, Rises Again
In an expected non-turn of events, Tom Menino was reelected mayor last week. In a somewhat less expected turn of his knee, Menino fell down while at his son's house over the weekend. Mumbles had surgery at Brigham and Women's to repair a tendon torn when he missed a crucial step in a staircase. He's expected to recover fully, but was forced to cancel a celebratory "trip" (ha) to Bermuda due to the fall. We wish him a speedy recovery.
It's only a matter of time before Harvard gets its own anything. Money is certainly never an object. So it's no surprise that the FML phenomenon has gone Ivy with Harvard FML (a project of The Voice). Among the vicissitudes of the privileged? "I’m in my room, procrastinating writing my paper, eating a block of cheese," "Eight months until a new mad men episode," and "I’m in love with Steven Pinker" (hey, who's not a sucker for that hair?).
Seattlest talked about gay marriage, performing, and the sexiness of the Pacific Northwest with Rufus Wainwright.
So, everyone was Max from The Wild Things this Halloween, but one kid took it to the next level. Check it out at Fresh To Death.
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- Boston Symphony Orchestra, where you can get tickets for $20 if you're under 40!
- Zipcar is wheels when you want them. Rates start at $7/hour and include gas, insurance and 180 miles/day. Join now and get $50 in free driving. Sweet.
- GroupOn, using collective buying power to bring you one ridiculous coupon each day.
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Gothamist learned that Vespa owners are resorting to illegal measures (okay, scraping off their vehicle ID numbers) to keep their scooters on the street, not that it'll help.
In pop culture, scientists have mostly suffered from the flimsiest of one-dimensional portrayals. Whether socially awkward shut-ins or evil geniuses bent on world conquest, the popular imagination has taken a rather dim and confused look at real people doing interesting work. And really, is there much to see behind the white coats, anyway?
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