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A coastal city, Boston has no shortage of waterfront dining. Meritage, Sal de la Terre, Anthony’s Pier 4, all these are spectacular restaurants boasting five-star meals at five-star prices. But where to go when it’s the day before payday? When all you need to complete your week is an ocean view and a cup of chowder, but all you’ve got is a couple fivers? The answer, friends, lies under a yellow-and-red striped tarp on Sleeper street, and its name is the Barking Crab.

Although Bostonist generally gravitates to low-cost eateries, when a local newbie makes it into Conde Nast Traveler, we sit up and take notice. We'll let you in on a little secret – high priced eateries usually offer more affordable brunches. It's a great way to sample the atmosphere and nosh without taking in the full bill of dinner. It wasn’t long before we found ourselves in the darkened bar of OM Restaurant and Lounge, eager to see what all the fuss was about.

If today’s fabulous spring weather is inspiring you to get out of the apartment tonight, then you should stop by the Sebastian Junger event we told you about yesterday…and if for some reason you are feeling very studious tonight, why not make it a double header? For those of you who are on the ball, you already bought your tickets to the Jonathan Safran Foer event at the Coolidge Corner Theater in Brookline. After this...

Although Bostonist has been pretty oblivious to the 2006 Mass. gubernatorial race thus far, a story in the Globe couldn’t help but reel us in. Apparently independent candidate Christy Mihos didn’t realize that when someone said a life in politics was for the dogs, they weren’t exactly advising him to get his favorite pooch involved in his campaign. Mihos isn’t just using his best pal, Reagan, as a photo-op but actually giving him a commanding...

24 hours later and our bodies are still recovering, but oh what a day for college football, or at least for tailgating.

We just adore English translations on the many packages of Asian products. Since our fair city sorely lacks stores that carry such sincere messaging, Bostonist decided to take what we could get locally and indulge in a little epidermal action at Skin Care Adventure in Chinatown.

As Boston Magazine has adeptly pointed out, there is nothing like living in a two-newspaper town. Although Bostonist has chided the Herald at times for its breathless, light-on-facts coverage, we must admit that the truth seems frequently to lie somewhere between the Globe's muted understatement and the Herald's bold generalization. Case in point: today's stories about Councillor Maura Hennigan's plan to mortgage her JP home to fund her flagging mayoral campaign. The Herald blames the Mayor, saying (without any confirmation or detail) that he has "put the $queeze" on would-be Hennigan donors, and depicts Hennigan as a scrappy fighter willing to risk it all. The Globe focuses on the fact that Hennigan, scrappy fighter though she may be, owns four properties in Boston with a total assessed value of over a million dollars, and places the blame for her paltry fundraising more with her lack of - how shall Bostonist put it? - a snowball's chance in hell. (The Globe does point out that former Mayor Kelly mortgaged his home to kickstart a successful come-from-behind run in 1983.)