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Our friend the Food Monkey revisited his old standby Ruth's Chris Steakhouse for Restaurant Week. Find out what cut he got and how it tasted in the video! more ›

March 27th marked the end of 2009's Winter Restaurant Week. Over the course of the past two weeks, this Bostonist visited several restaurants to take advantage of the occasion. A few of them delivered everything that Restaurant Week promises: a great value and delicious food. Unfortunately, several others were more than a bit disappointing. In a year with such a rough economy, you would expect that Restaurant Week would be a time for local eateries to go all out, giving customers a good reason to remember them once the great deals have ended. Instead, several places that we visited offered slow, mediocre service and dull, uninspired menus. more ›

Global warming protesters mixed their messages today when a mannequin bearing the cryptic legend "THE REAL DUMMIES EVICT PEOPLE & CAUSE CLIMATE CHAOS" was locked to the Bank of America in Kenmore Square, prompting, as usual, a bomb scare and an evacuation. Credit for the prank was taken by Mannequins for Climate Justice, a group so obscure that it doesn't even have a website. (Not even a Facebook group.) Cops defused the alleged hoax device in a maddeningly dull fashion while shutting down traffic throughout the square for an hour and a half. more ›