Image of good times still available on Route 1 by GregMacKay from photos tagged "Bostonist" on Flickr. Somerville's Good Time Emporium is closing today. The future IKEA should be prepared for lecherous drunks and hostile youths. [Boston Metro] In totally unrelated news, Harvard’s Fogg and Busch-Reisinger Museums are also closing today for major renovations. [Harvard University Art Museums] Terrese Edmonds wasn't using her cell phone when her Green Line trolley crashed, but hundreds of... [continue]

Two more Boston cafes are cited for health code violations -- at City Hall and at the Inspectional Services building. [Boston Globe] The lousy roads in Massachusetts are costing drivers approximately $718 million in additional repairs. [WBZ Radio] In another move that appears to be a genuine attempt at governing the commonwealth, Deval Patrick will offer 50+ education-related proposals this week. [Boston Globe] Quentin Tarantino spent the weekend in Provincetown with John Waters. The... [continue]

Field Trip Boston #2 Feat: Mike Fiore, Hello, Shark, Christine Hayward, boy without god Begins at Modica Way/Graffiti Alley, 567 Mass Ave, Cambridge June 21, 5pm [website] Over the course of the summer, the musician known as boy without god is presenting a series of mobile concerts. With a DIY ethos and adventurous spirit, Field Trip Boston creates a fresh, stimulating experience that sets 30-minute performances as linchpins for a neighborhood stroll of mysterious... [continue]

It's a wicked pissah year again as the Wicked Pissahs skated to their second consecutive Boston Derby Dames championship. About a thousand fans from all walks of life, young and old, gathered at Wilmington's Shriners Auditorium for a 60-minute battle on wheels over three periods. An excitement hung in the air like the delicious aroma of popcorn, dogs, and beer. After reading the rules in the program and watching the live slow-mo tutorial, Bostonist... [continue]

-- Bostonist/Gothamist makes the Vanity Fair Blogopticon chart as "news-oriented" but slightly "scurrilous." We are honored and will certainly try to pump up the snark. [Vanity Fair] -- Why try to hack your iPhone, when they're available in Chinatown? [The Chinatown Blog] -- There's a new Red Sox fansite with a forum, blog, stats, and AP news items. The Sons of Sam Horn will probably stay put, but the interface is cleaner than the... [continue]

From the "bad taste in our mouth" department: Prosecutors in the Neil Entwistle murder case want to enter nude pictures of him from a swingers website as evidence. [Boston Herald] After showing his family pride on Saturday, Gov. Patrick appeared on MSNBC this morning to hype the biotech stimulus bill to be signed today. Is someone trying to raise their national profile? [Boston Globe] What happens when child porn is found on a state... [continue]

Boston Derby Dames Championship: Season 2 Shriner's Auditorium, 99 Fordham Rd, Wilmington June 14, 6pm $16 [website | directions] No one needs to wait until tomorrow for a local athletic championship match. While really tall guys will throw a ball into a basket and run around the court tomorrow, the real weekend sports action goes down in Wilmington tonight during the Boston Derby Dames Championship. This is rock-em, sock-em Flat Track Roller Derby action.... [continue]

-- It's official. Bostonist reported back in April that the Longfellow Bridge is falling apart, which is clear to anyone who walks across it. As of Friday the sidewalk facing Back Bay was closed to pedestrians to repair a support beam. And no spectators will be allowed on the bridge to watch the fireworks on the Fourth of July. [Boston Globe] -- Ed O’Reilly, an attorney and former lobsterman from Gloucester, is going to... [continue]

--Boston cabbies want to increase fares, which would make a Boston ride higher per-mile than NYC, SF, and Chicago. Taxi drivers cite rising gas prices, yet do not mention large cell phone bills. [Boston Globe] --Since pedicabs aren't always nearby, more and more people are riding their bicycles around Boston. Local agencies to support the surge in biking by adding bicycle racks among other initiatives. [Boston Herald] --"Blackest" is poised to become the "new... [continue]

-- Brett Rosenberg, former guitar-slinger for local band The Rudds, moved to Nashville last year; but Brett must be hankering to do a Boston show in June because he's put himself on the auction block. What started out as $50 for a 45 minute set has mysteriously ballooned to $199.99, but he'll still play anywhere in a 50-mile radius --a perfect gift for Father's Day or your sister's bat mitzvah. You have until tonight... [continue]

No, you don't need to be a paying member of "Red Sox Nation," and this isn't a jingle for any of his eBay items. Manny Ramirez needs two more home runs to join the 500 club, so you still have a little time to download Joe Pernice's tribute, "Moonshot Manny," for free on the Pernice Brothers website. Holbrook native Pernice crafted this slinky tune while living over a Brooklyn bar during the '04 season.... [continue]

--Have you heard the BPD is installing massive woofers to the front of patrol cars? You may hear and feel "The Rumbler" if you're pulled over. [Boston Globe] --A Chicago meat company is recalling potentially E. coli contaminated beef products with tasty titles such as "Boneless Clods," "Flat Rounds," "Gooseneck Rounds" and "Knuckle." Some was shipped to MA in industrial amounts, so carnivores only need to cross their fingers. [Chicagoist] --The Big Dig tunnels... [continue]

Music -- The ubiquitous cellist Yo-Yo Ma will be lending his talents to the Boston Youth Symphony as they celebrate their 50th anniversary. Symphony Hall, 3:00 pm, $50 to $75. We gasped at the price, too, but 50th anniversaries don't happen every day. -- DeVotchKa and Basia Bulat may not make sense to you as words, but trust us when we say that their equally strange-but-wonderful folk-rock will transport you--maybe even to the point... [continue]

Move over, ICA--you're no longer the new kid in town. The Boston art scene has moved on to something new. Something bad. A pilgrimage to the basement of the Dedham Community Theatre is no longer required for Bostonians looking for a bad art fix, as the Museum of Bad Art (MOBA) has opened a second location downstairs in the Somerville Theatre. Conveniently located steps away from the Red Line at Davis Square, the theatre... [continue]

Cut Copy, a trio from Melbourne, brought their dance party to the Paradise Rock Club on Monday night. (Stay tuned for the review...) With live instruments and keyboard, they may remind you of all sorts of styles (synth-pop, dance-rock, electro, post-wave, etc). They piece their sound together on their second CD "In Ghost Colours" with producer Tim Goldsworthy (UNKLE, LCD Soundsystem, Hot Chip), which debuted at #1 on the Australian album chart in March.... [continue]

--They don't call him "The Cheeseman" for nothing. Carmen DiNunzio really wants to get out of jail and has offered a long list of conditions he'd comply to, including a promise to "conduct no non-cheese-related business in the North End." [Boston Herald] --A 3-year-old was found wandering the streets of Roxbury on early Sunday morning. The child told police he had forgotten to get a Mother's Day card. [MyFoxBoston] --Have you ever wanted to... [continue]

doktor cocacolamacdonalds has the strangest name of any of the comedians performing at this weekend's AltCom 2008 festival. Bostonist got the jet-lagged doktor to answer a remarkable number of questions before he performs tonight at the Somerville Theatre. Hey, doctor. Where are you from? The city of Derby in England, birthplace of the Industrial Revolution, the home of the Jet Engine and the owners of the worst premiership soccer club of all time. Some... [continue]

Alternative Comedy Festival Somerville Theatre, 55 Davis Square May 9 and 10, 8pm [ Website | Tickets] Yes, Virginia, comedy can be funny and unpredictable again. Don't be lulled by jokesters treading over the typical, fallow topics trying to be the next Jerry Seinfeld or Ray Romano. In what will hopefully be the first year of a new local institution, the Somerville Theatre hosts the Alternative Comedy Festival tonight and tomorrow. Some may roll... [continue]

...And one very small step for waiting Somerville & Medford residents. The Cambridge Chronicle reported the results of yesterday's Green Line Extension Project Advisory Group meeting. After listening to public comment, they recommend moving Lechmere Station to the other side of Monsignor O'Brien Highway and adding the following stations: • Brickbottom at Washington Street • Gilman Square at Medford Street (near the Homans Building) • Lowell Street across from the Maxpak property • Ball... [continue]

--If you don't want to pay outrageous gasoline prices, take the T. MBTA ridership in the first quarter of 2008 is up 6.2%. [Boston Globe] --A Terrier goes rabid before finals? When the Mugar Library staff wouldn't accept her boxes of weird stuff as a donation, a BU student caused an evacuation by declaring she had a bomb. [BU Daily Free Press] --Another reason why we don't need to taunt Yankees fans anymore. A... [continue]