Every week Bostonist's videos go viral for your viewing pleasure. This week we revisit a favorite viral video genre: children reenacting historic events. As with the previously featured "Boston Massacare" Emily's, Eric's, and Peter's "semi-non fictional reenactment of the Boston Tea Party" using Legos and kitchen supplies has a few head scratching moments. "It was a dark and stormy night" when the Boston Tea party happened in 1180 (as indicated by birthday candles) "we think,......

-- Bostonist/Gothamist makes the Vanity Fair Blogopticon chart as "news-oriented" but slightly "scurrilous." We are honored and will certainly try to pump up the snark. [Vanity Fair] -- Why try to hack your iPhone, when they're available in Chinatown? [The Chinatown Blog] -- There's a new Red Sox fansite with a forum, blog, stats, and AP news items. The Sons of Sam Horn will probably stay put, but the interface is cleaner than the......

Every week Bostonist excavates the best Boston-tagged videos from the deepest darkest corners of YouTube for your viewing pleasure. This week Bostonist dusts off an old gem for you: The Sensational Alex Harvey Band's glam rock spectacular "Boston Tea Party." Mixing oversized cowboy hats with mime face paint and a smoking miniature cannon, it is no wonder The Sensational Alex Harvey Band was voted the fifth best Scottish band of all-time in 2005! Bostonist only......

Gary Vaynerchuk has a message for Bay Staters: Rise up against your oppressors. He says it’s a “sad state of affairs” that the place that hosted the Boston Tea Party allows itself to fall victim to “archaic wine shipping laws.” Vaynerchuk, the 30-something host of the wildly popular Wine Library TV podcast – “the Internet’s most passionate wine program” – says that “a few special interest groups have shut things down” and not allowed wine......

As Bostonians we pride ourselves on our history as a city steeped in sea-faring tradition. Whether it be our statuesque U.S.S. Constitution, the ubiquitous story of the Boston Tea Party, or the ever-present duck boats, Boston and the ocean will be forever intertwined. As such, Bostonist presents some last-minute gift ideas that pay homage to our salty roots. Looking for the perfect gift for the animal lover in your life? Consider giving a "Proud Parent......

--A new company, FlexPetz, will let you rent a dog for a few hours so you can enjoy canine companionship without getting up in the cold to walk the critter. Wouldn't it be great if you could just rent human companionship for a few hours? Oh, wait. That's illegal. Nevermind. [Boston Globe] --Wondering why there are so many kids running around today? Seventy drivers called in sick or took a personal day today, and about......

Boston Tea Party Sunday, December 16--Today Old South Meeting House, 310 Washington, 5:30 pm $5, free if you're dressed up Old South Meeting House site One lump or two? Two hundred and thirty-four years ago, Bostonians rebelled against the British by gathering at a massive protest and dumping tea into the harbor. Re-enactors will be at the Old South Meeting House to perform the debate that led up to the tea party. You'll see......

The forces behind the Ron Paul Blimp suffered many delays. For a while, it seemed like the blimp promoting the campaign of Republican candidate/Internet sensation Ron Paul might not launch. But they launched their blimp this morning at 9:00 am from Elizabeth City, North Carolina. Unfortunately, due to the inclement weather, the Ron Paul Blimp won't be making it up to Boston in time for the Ron Paul Rally and the Boston Tea Party......

Republican presidential candidate and Internet sensation Ron Paul doesn't need Oprah. He doesn't need connections to the hot-shot politicians. He just needs a blimp. Ron Paul's supporters are sending up a blimp for an East Coast tour from North Carolina, through DC and New York, to Boston. According to the flight plan on the Ron Paul Blimp site, the balloon will launch Wednesday in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, and then travels north, flying over......

Happy first weekend of September - and happy Labor Day weekend, too, for our American cities! Let's take a look at what's been happening around the Ist-a-verse. The deaths of two firefighters shook Bostonist this week. Boston's firefighters bent over backwards all week long - first, they fought flames pouring from the Boston Tea Party museum, and then a restaurant fire killed two and injured many more. Their efforts make everything else - like Tom......

Update: The Globe is now reporting that the Boston Tea Party museum caught fire. It had been closed for renovations. The Globe photographer got close enough to catch some intense flames coming from the museum. The Herald got word from a detail officer that sparks from welders working on the bridge may have set off the blaze. Around noon today, smoke started filling the area around Congress Street Bridge, spewing from an object around the......

Governor Deval Patrick has signed off on a "tax holiday" that will encourage people to go shopping and juice the local economy. If you don't feel like paying the state's 5 percent sales tax, then you can drop your bucks on whatever you like as long as it doesn’t go over $2,500 on the weekend of August 11 and 12. Massachusetts has done this in the past because maybe the schools, the transportation, and......

Last week was the ebay developers conference/ebay Live!, the week-long series of events for ebay developers and power sellers, took place in Boston. The usual smatterings of self-promoting conference topics were presented. Widgets and gadgets made some noise (including the new box we've embedded here showing items for sale relating to the search term "Romney") and ebay enthusiasts networked and discussed success in hawking their wares. The real news wasn't the official program ebay lined......

Perhaps the headline is a bit overstated, but the news this week that Microsoft was making grants available to Massachusetts public schools and universities that would figure to be about $800 per high school student and $2,400 per university student it seems a bit suspicious. The grants would provide Microsoft's advanced software-writing and Web-building technology to students across the state. Last year there had been much chatter about abandoning any format that did not comply......

If all the history we ever needed to know about Boston could be condensed into four and a half minutes it would have to employ claymation and legos. And it does. Today's video is a clever animation of the Boston Tea Party – and events that led up to it. We won't attest to the accuracy of a snowball fight that preceded the Tea Party, nor the revolutionary war. But it could have happened. We......

Apparently video blogging is the hot new thing. We like video blogging we’d like to see more from the locals, we encourage folks to pick up the camera (Steve Garfield and Ravi Jain will teach ya). Creating community through vlogs is a central tenet to vlogging. Node101::Boston Media Makers meetings are working on paving streets in the new neighborhood. The group's first meeting produced ideas that people were interested in fostering, including citizen media, video......

Living in the cradle of the Revolutionary War that is Boston, we are often called upon to take note of important historical dates. Usually, we do this by taking a day off from work, which we frequently accompany with heavy drinking. This weekend, however, in honor of the 232nd anniversary of the Boston Tea Party, it's all history and no holidays or boozing it up: On Sunday at 5:30 p.m., the Old South Meeting......

Bostonist would like to think that spring/summer has arrived now that the temperature has risen above 45 degrees and the sun is actually shining this week. So the first thing you do when it gets warm out is start enjoying the great outdoors with a beverage in hand, right? Well, Bostonist has been indulging in more beers than usual now that the summer ales are out for the season. One of Bostonist's favorite, Sam Adams......

While most Bostonians are nursing a huge Irish hangover this afternoon, others are looking for something to do this weekend. Bostonist has scanned the scene and come up with some options for you. March Madness hits the Worcester area this weekend, with the first round of playoffs held at the DCU Center (since when did it change from being "The Centrum"?) where games are already in progress. A few of today's teams include Big East......