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Seattlest saw a house party get senselessly attacked with a shotgun and end in seven dead. A local senator is debated and their version of the big dig is investigated. To truly get to the bottom of it they interview the writer Jonathan Raban. Bostonist has its first birthday party and investigates how to attach more gambling dollars to the Red Sox. Benjamin Franklin is celebrated and Johnny Damon is not. Image by Ethan Bagley...

Sure, Benjamin Franklin’s 300th birthday has been getting lots of press here in the city that strives to keep that American Revolution spirit alive. Well, there is another famous birthday coming up next week and a local museum has decided to dedicate a whole day to him. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is turning 250 years old on January 27th and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum will be celebrating it all day long on Sunday, January 29 with their “Mozart Marathon.” There will be three concerts (10a.m., 1p.m., and 4p.m.); each will feature a violin sonata, a string quartet and an orchestral work. Why all three you ask? Because they want to showcase what a composer he was, that’s why. (Let’s just say that by the ripe old age of 20, Mozart had already composed 30 symphonies and 9 operas. When Bostonist was 20, we were lucky to have completed a college term paper.)

Just as you're coming down from the high of celebrating the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr., along comes the birth date of another great American, and this time it's one of Boston's own. Benjamin Franklin was born on January 17, 1706 - 300 years ago! - on what is now Milk Street, right here in the Hub (although the man who would give Boston that nickname wouldn't be born for another 103 years). Philly...

When Bostonist went through grade school Ben Franklin was the gold standard of inventor/kite-flyer, revolutionary, patriot, journalist, abolitionist and all-around model American. Born on Milk Street here in Boston in 1706, affection for Franklin and the many accomplishments in his life have long been used as a teaching tool for the Bay State chillins. Major news media is reporting today that Star Wars may usurp Franklin’s position. “Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination'' which will open tomorrow at the Museum of Science has been touted not only as a Star Wars fan’s wet dream but also a teaching tool about modern science. The $5 million exhibit displays parts of sets and costumes used in the six movies, the original trilogy and the more recent prequel trilogy. In the hands-on fashion that the Museum of Science uses in may of their exhibits people can build their own simple ‘Maglev’ trains which use magnetic propulsion while looking at some of the wicked cool space ships and hovercraft used in the Star Wars series.