Results tagged “babies”

--Dice-K is a daddy! [Boston Herald]

In Cambridge, some residents are irritated by the sound of leaf blowers--as opposed to all the other noises one can hear in Cambridge. So, the City Council is spending its valuable time debating when and where the dastardly leaf blowers can be used. According to Matt Dunning at the Cambridge Chronicle, the City Council spent the "better part of two hours" discussing how strong bans on leaf blowers should be. Exceptions to the ban kept...

In honor of the mother of all football matchups, which will take place when the New England Patriots play the Indianapolis Colts this Sunday afternoon, Bostonist is going to compare the coaches and the quarterbacks. The following piece addresses one of the sillier aspects of the Face Off--which quarterback inspires the most baby names. You can compare New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady and Indianapolis Colts quarterback Peyton Manning in all kinds of ways. Their...

The sweet strains of Sir Mix-a-Lot immediately popped in our heads upon hearing the word that Kathleen the anaconda might be knocked up. The New England Aquarium performed an ultrasound, but the results were inconclusive, so a vet will keep watching her. You can watch the Aquarium's footage of Kathleen getting her ultrasound over at the Aquarium site. Kathleen and another female anaconda share space with a male anaconda who must be quite the babydaddy...

--Sure, people like to collect knickknacks. Salt-and-pepper shakers, Beanie Babies, comic books, parking meters. Yeah, parking meters, 123 of 'em, in fact. Thomas Gannon of Cambridge had cut the meters off poles all over Cambridge and Somerville. Police stumbled upon them when visiting Gannon for other reasons on Monday night. Master of understatement and Cambridge PD spokesman Frank Pasquarello said, "This does seem to be odd." Indeed. --Police arrested 17-year-old Derek Lodie, of Revere, for...

Mitt Romney is throwing an unusual contest. After his thuggy aides tried to drive people away by pretending to be police officers, Romney would like to bring the masses a little closer to him. Contestants will write 100 words or less about why they want to spend time on Romney's tour bus. The three best essayists (or fawners, whatever) will get to hang out with Romney for a day and watch him kiss babies...

Steve Almond's (Not that You Asked) will be sold in bookstores starting today. He will be reading at Brookline Booksmith on Thursday, September 13, at 7:00 pm. Almond spoke with Bostonist right after Karl Rove resigned, so we caught him when he really raging against The Man. He resigned from Boston College when BC invited Condoleezza Rice to speak at their commencement, so he didn't mince words when it came to Rove or any other...

Former Massachusetts governor and Republican presidential aspirant Mitt Romney is in a full-scale Battle Royale with former Harvard hotshot Democrat presidential aspirant Barack Obama about the subject of sex. In the Atlantic piece Obama, Romney, and Sex, Sex, Sex, which appears to be titled for maximum search-engine optimization, Marc Ambinder writes about Romney's "shock" at Obama's proposal to teach sex-ed in kindergarten. Romney said, "I heard a quote today from Sen. Barack Obama which puzzled...

An employee of the Cambridge AT&T store, which was selling iPhones, said his store sold out of the fascinating new gadgets in one hour flat, between 6 and 7 pm last night. He said that people didn't get too crazy, but a few people started their iPhone vigil at 11pm Thursday night. Boston NOW asked local comedian and Dig columnist Baratunde Thurston, who is kinda pissed with his iPod right now, what he thought of...

Early reports said that 8-year-old Liquarry Jefferson* was shot and killed by a group of armed men who burst into his family's home. The police smelled something fishy, and the truth came out. Liquarry was shot by his 7-year-old cousin. Apparently the family tried to protect the boy. Perhaps they didn't know that the cousin is too young to be charged for the crime. He and his mother are now talking to police. There's no...

On the rare occasion in middle school we witness a classmate light his own farts on fire. Mostly lighter-singed underwear was the result. BU and the CDC have released a study that lactating moms might have the ability to light their breast milk on fire, or more precisely, blow it up. High levels of perchlorate have been found to be delivered by 49 Boston area moms in unsafe doses to babies. The Environmental Working Group...

Think about it: Josh Beckett's been out of the Boston Red Sox lineup for a couple of weeks. He missed two starts and generated some genuine worry over the cut on his finger that taught a few million baseball fans what "avulsion" meant. One couldn't expect a super top-notch showing from a guy just getting back into the groove, right? Seven innings, seven strikeouts, one walk, three hits. Oh, and he's the first Red Sox...

All across the Ist-A-Verse (or at least the American parts thereof), writers and editors are in the midst of enjoying their three-day weekend. But after the week we've all had, we feel like the break is not only needed, but deserved. Just look at everything we've been doing! Gothamist headed into the Memorial Day weekend with a number of tasks accomplished. They worried about Long Islanders giving New Yorkers a bad name. They tried...

We here in the Ist-A-Verse know that we're sensational, but it's very rare that we get a chance to be sensationalistic. This week, we've decided to have ourselves a little fun and try our hand at tacky tabloid headlines, using nothing more than our favorite posts from this week. Torontoist Special Report: Rosie to Trump: "Fire 300 Bicyclists for Fraud!" On DCist: Students Go Wild for Slogans, Secrets and Sexual Harassment The action was thick...

Texas is thawing, the Northeast is freezing, and a sort of natural order seems almost restored to the Ist-A-Verse. Almost. Londonist HQ—that is to say, the city of London—was battered by heavy winds, making it a bad time to be a twelve-meter (nearly forty-foot) tall snowman. Still, not everyone decided to keep warmly covered. Meanwhile, back indoors, the Big Brother racism is now causing all kinds of headaches for international diplomats, and Londonist got into...

Yesterday, a newborn baby was found dead in a garbage truck in Milford. A garbage person discovered the body, and now police are trying to find the parents. It can't be said enough that this tragedy could have been avoided. Massachusetts has a Safe Haven Law that "allows a parent to legally surrender newborn infants 7 days old or younger at a hospital, police station or manned fire station without facing criminal prosecution." Bostonist has...

Rachael Ray will be at the Barnes & Noble at Prudential Center for a book signing at noon tomorrow - Wednesday, December 20. Then she'll be at the Sur La Table in the Mall at Chestnut Hill on the same day from 6:00 to 7:30 pm. A Globe article named "Hatred of Rachael Ray Can Be a Powerful Uniting Force" became one of the most popular articles on globe.com (not as popular as "Flatulence...

Today we flipped on the radio for a bit of a dose of news. First thing we hear is about breastfeeding. The issue of the day was the Massachusetts Department of Public Health's approval of the "gift basket" with infant formula distributed to mothers in state maternity wards. Pro-breastfeeding groups had pushed for a ban on the distribution of free infant formula – before the Govnah stepped in and according to the Boston Globe "...

Now that the holidays are over and you’ve put away your volunteering spirit until next December, why not get it going again this weekend, while also picking up a little something for yourself? A cashmere fundraiser is happening, with lots of discounted designer items for sale with all proceeds going to Room to Grow. This non-profit started up in 1998 as a way to better the lives of those babies born into poverty. With locations...

When Krispy Kreme doughnuts first came to the Commonwealth, lo those many years ago (OK, three years), Bostonist was excited. Sure, this is Dunkin' Donuts territory, but damn! Krispy Kreme's doughnuts tasted wicked good, like eating flavored fat with sugar on top (yum!). But now, it appears the frail craft that was our doughnut enthusiasm has been cruelly dashed against the rocky shoals of business futility: Krispy Kreme has now closed two of its Massachusetts...

Bostonist has long had mixed feelings about high-priced, multi-artist, big-venue hip hop shows, so we approached last night's Breed Love Oddyssey Tour (Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Pharoahe Monch, and Jean Grae) with some apprehension. In our formative concert-going years (back when we were a Brooklynist), we got pretty well-accustomed to seeing our hip hop up-close and personal, being able to hear lyrics, and expecting freestyles to make up a healthy part of an evening's entertainment....

While Bostonist has never been a real follower of feng shui, the book, "Dorm Room Feng Shui: Find Your Gua, Free Your Chi;)", has opened Bostonist's eyes to a new world of room arranging. Bostonist picked up this book, which focuses on applying the principles of feng shui to the normal dorm room, for our college-aged sibling, but since we live in a cozy (re: tiny) bedroom, Bostonist ended up reading it too. Written mostly...

I will be spending 4 days in your lovely city for a design conference at the Hynes starting next week. Would have you have any suggestions as to what I should do while I am visiting Boston? Good places to eat on the company dime (sadly solo), places to go, etc? I want to make the most out of my trip. Any suggestions would be welcome. - Samae Claspill For once, our use of the...

Even if (as is our dream) Bostonist were the scriptwriter for an absurdist political sit-com, we could not have come close to crafting the amusing scene that unfolded around Mitt Romney as he actually rode the T yesterday to prove to all of us that orange-plus ain't that bad. First, he couldn't say how much a subway ride costs. Then he was harangued by a man (unnamed and homeless, according to the Globe) about his...

The long-running Demoulas family squabble, in which two branches of a Lowell family (one of them originally headed by a man named Telemachus, who disappointingly preferred to be called Mike) battle for control of a supermarket empire, has been appealed to the Supreme Court. That gives Bostonist a good opportunity to wax poetic about the actual subject matter of the dispute, Market Basket grocery stores. Bostonist loves Market Basket above all other supermarkets and wants...