The Globe releases a survey of top workplaces in the state. Bostonist is overlooked again! [Boston Globe] Congressman Barney Frank joked about Bill O'Reilly and republicans on NPR's "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" [Boston Herald] The City of Worcester wants local colleges and frats to chip in some cash for what must be excessive stupidity. For example, police responses are averaging more than 650 per year. [Telegram & Gazette] An Amtrak Acela train fatally struck......

Most of the time, we think of Barney Frank as 'Ol Stodgy or Mr. Party Pooper. He certainly doesn't like Stephen Colbert's brand of comedy, and he gets wicked testy if you ask him why his arm is in a sling.* But perhaps Representative Frank loosened up a bit. He declared on "Real Time With Bill Maher" that he'd like to legalize small quantities of pot. He said, according to the AP, "I’m going to......

LAist is experimenting with blogging dates from J-Date, but finds the best men are found offline. Some date vicariously online and that is one reason why porn is big -- really freaking big -- so they ask if they should cover XXX since the heart of it lays in the city's San Fernando Valley. A writer grapples with her food porn photography obsession, another gets censored on Flickr, one gets scooped by the LA......

Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank is wearing a sling. And, according to Wonkette, he sent an e-mail to Congressional offices announcing that he doesn't want anyone nosing into how he wound up in that sling. Frank sent out a statement saying that he hurt his left arm "using a curling machine at a gym" and underwent surgery. We aren't using the scare quotations to say we don't believe him. But we will say that the phrase......

Like most people, we start to get a little sleepy when politicians start talking. We tend to doze off completely when politicians start talking about their books. And we just pass out cold when politicians start talking about a book that has "America" in the title. So we really can't recall much of what Ted Kennedy had to say about his book "America: Back on Track" last night on "The Daily Show". Usually we skip......

This afternoon Al Franken rocked Air America’s AM airwaves* from right here in the Hub. As part of a nation-wide book tour Franken made his appearance in Boston and coupled it with a broadcast of his three hour program from the Wilbur in the Theatre District. Harvard alum Franken pulled on the alumni network to fill his show's time slot. Robert Putnam from the Kennedy School of Government, Laurence Tribe from Harvard Law School,......

Have you ever walked down Boylston and seen weird people with funny accents and large tote bags? These people from all over the country come to the Hynes Convention Center to pay large sums of money and hear important people talk. Nothing upsets Bostonist more than an event too expensive to attend, and for once we have found a different solution than charging the guards at the front gates. AIGA has decided to podcast all......

Just before Bostonist’s lunch break ended on June 27th an email popped into our inbox with the subject line "Santorum Blames Boston For The Catholic Priest Sex Scandal." Bostonist got all excited that we might be in the loop on some big, breaking story. The email we got linked out to the CapitolBuzz blog referencing a June 25 column in the Philadelphia Daily News. We read the article and actually, Santorum’s "blame" was laid in......

The pictures of Bush and Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Abdullah holding hands last week gave us a chuckle. This week Wonkette points out the pictures of our own congressman Barney Frank playing what looks like grab ass with a young buck. The Washington Blade, the DC area’s weekly gay community news source, had self-described "spies" at the Philadelphia Equality Forum scoping out good gossip. As far as Bostonist can tell the best tidbit that came......