Josh Michtom

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• Posted Focus On: Election Day to Bostonist
  Kerry Healey may be doing miserably in the polls, but the gubernatorial race is still very much a live issue in this East Somerville home - notice the defiant, handmade Deval Patrick sign in the front window. We like to think that this photo captures the political awakening of the next generation: Although mom and dad are G.O.P. stalwarts and proudly display their allegiance in the front yard, Junior is struggling to make his...
• Posted Highest Scoring Scrabble Game Ever - in Lexington to Bostonist
  If any doubt remained that this Commonwealth is the epicenter of wicked-smahtness, let that doubt be dispelled: A carpenter and a supermarket deli counter employee played a game of Scrabble at the Lexington Scrabble Club on October 12 in which the loser scored 490 points and the winner scored 830. This game broke the record for most total points in an officially sanctioned, competetive game (1,320), most points by one player (830) and most points...
• Posted Cancel that Trip to the DR to Bostonist
  Frankly, when we learned that Nelson de la Rosa, the world's smallest man/ Pedro Martinez mascot, had died, we did not automatically think, "I would like to look at his lifeless body." Then again, we have still not been to see the Body Worlds exhibit at the Museum of Science, so we're clearly out of touch with the mainstream when it comes to looking at dead people in museums. Other people, though, are interested in...
• Posted Enough Griping About a One-Party State! to Bostonist
  Bostonist has never made pretensions of conservatism, and it won’t take much to guess whom (this) Bostonist is voting for in a week and a half. Because of that, we don’t expect people to care if we take time out of our busy schedule to debunk things that Kerry Healey and her supporters say. Also, with Christy Mihos and Grace Ross running quixotically for governor, Healey has enough higher-profile-than-us detractors already. But damn it, if...
• Posted Focus On: Space Lasers! to Bostonist
  Sure, this cluster of equipment on the roof of an apartment building in Somerville might be innocent radar dishes and TV antennae. But it looks to Bostonist like a diabolical weapon of interplanetary destruction. We hope it is, anyway, because we'd feel good if Somerville got weapons of mass destruction before Iran....