While we were cruising Huffington Post to find a meaningless top 10 list to reblog so we could start a meaningful conversation entertain you meet our pageviews quota, we came across this list of the "Top 10 Hipster Colleges." While honorees Weslayan and RISD are in New England, and number one college, Hampshire, is actually in Massachusetts, even we found this particular list to be too off-topic to reasonably post. So we decided to make our own.
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A crowd of citizens (and city councilors) actually showed up to a public hearing to oppose Turnpike toll increases. [Boston Herald]
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Boston College and Boston University's showdown during the Beanpot final on Monday demonstrated just why their rivalry still has legs - and why a BC/BU showdown can entertain even those without any connection to the schools.
Thousands of fans poured into the TD Garden on Monday clad in the colors of their hockey teams of choice, each fan absolutely convinced that his fan would be victorious when the final buzzer sounded.
The Globe reports that lefty historian Howard Zinn died today at the age of 87. Zinn, best known among several generations of idealists and students, as the author of the iconoclastic A People's History of the United States (1980), which retold American history from a left-revisionist perspective, worked at Boston University from 1964 until his retirement from teaching in 1988. The Globe's obit has quite a bit more about his remarkable career.
Scott Brown went to D.C., had a sit down with Boston Mayor Tom Menino and meets with Gov. Deval Patrick on Thursday. Tomorrow's session with Patrick could have some substance to it as Brown "respectfully" disgrees with how he is disbursing stimulus funds allocated to Massachusetts. The Herald reported the Patrick administration has spent $2.4 billion of $4.3 billion received under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Bostonist might - might - consider making out with Senator Brown if he takes down corporate bad guys.
For the 248th time, Boston College and Boston University players stared each other down before the puck dropped and a men's hockey battle began. It was the first instance in the rivalry's storied history, however, that Eagles and Terriers players did so on ice featuring a Green Monster backdrop.
Finally, people in ski goggles lip syncing to "ABC." It's just what this world needed.
The Werner Herzog Attack Wing of Bostonist.com has been breathlessly awaiting the Boston release of Bad Lieutenant Port of Call New Orleans, Herzog's not-remake of Abel Ferrara's 1992 classic. Darryl Strawberry doesn't show up in this newer version, we don't think, but Nic Cage, Mr. Dinosaur Skull does, which might even be better.
- Boston University set aside rooms for students exhibiting flu-like symptoms. Students are discussing the policy's strengths and weaknesses. [B.U. Daily Free Press]
- Consider this: Could fears about the swine flu be more disruptive than the actual flu outbreak? [Yahoo!News.com]
Joel Tenenbaum, a Boston University grad student from Providence, is accused of illegally downloading and distributing thousands of songs in a civil lawsuit filed by the recording industry. The recording industry alleges Tenenbaum downloaded more than 800 songs on the Kazaa file sharing Web site. The suit is only focusing the suit on 30 songs. He expects to lose, and if he does, could be fined up to $4.5 million. His lawyer, Harvard law professor Charles Nesson, said that possible fine is "crazy". Tenenbaum, 25, has a websiteexplaining his perspective. Check out this ComputerWorld blog for more details.
A piece of concrete the size of a basketball broke off the facade of the Barnes and Noble bookstore at Boston University and fell to the ground at around 11:30 p.m. on Saturday. No one was injured and there isn't any structural damage. This the second such incident in Boston in less than two weeks. On July 13, the facade of a Huntington Ave building on Northeastern's campus collapsed.
Self-important Boston University students didn't think representative Mike Capuano was important enough to speak at their graduation, apparently inspiring instead for someone like Smokey Robinson or Michelle Obama (who was won over by earnest efforts, not empty complaints, from students). Yesterday, though, Capuano apparently impressed the BU students who'd never heard of him. Proving that you don't need to be on a magazine or CD cover to be important, Capuano sent a message that work, not fame, is what matters. It might have been a surprise to BU students, but it's no surprise to students of life.
-- Passive aggressive notes from BC are "great practice for when you are living alone or with your husband." [Passive Aggressive Notes]
Hundreds of BU students were displaced last night following a tragic oil spill in the Miles Standish Student Preserve. Rescue crews were dispatched to the area immediately in order to rescue as many students as possible, with volunteers scrubbing oil-soaked students in makeshift baths hurriedly constructed on Comm Ave.
The Celtics throttled the Oklahoma City Thunder (we had to look them up, too) last night, 103-84, but not before Oklahoma City's Kevin Durant split Glen Davis's head open during a third quarter scrum for a rebound. Big Baby, whose head needed 10 stitches, ended the game with his second consecutive double-double (19 points, 10 rebounds). It's an auspicious streak for a man who is starting in place of Kevin Garnett.
The Hockey East final was a great game to conclude two very good weeks of hockey. The Terriers of BU took home their seventh Hockey East championship by defeating the UMASS Lowell River Hawks. Kieran Millan posted 32 saves and was named tournament MVP en route to a 1-0 shutout, the 3rd in Hockey East finals history.
It was a terrific night of hockey at the TD Banknorth Garden on Friday as 4 area teams took the ice for the Hockey East semi-finals. UMASS Lowell squared off against Northeastern in game 1, and Boston College took on Boston University for the second game. The players were clearly excited to play in front of the big crowds at the Garden, and the fans were loud and proud and did not disappoint.
Welcome to Collegitate Matchup, a new feature on Bostonist. We'll be bringing you the big games from our local universities every week and we certainly decided on a great weekend to start. On Friday night, we caught some men’s ice hockey, as the #1 ranked Terriers of BU took on the #4/5 ranked Huskies of Northeastern at Agganis arena.
While Bostonist already passed on 200th birthday wishes to Charles Darwin, it didn’t seem quite right to end it there. So we decided to peruse some of the Darwin Day fare offered up by this uniquely scientific city. We think ol’ Chuck would’ve been pleased with the diversity of the events we managed to find. After all, if there is no variety within a population, natural selection can’t really lead to speciation…oh, never mind.
Lost triumphantly returned to television this week, turning even the most composed fans into shuddering masses of confused jelly. Questions abound—is Locke really dead? Who wants Aaron and why is he so important? Can Sawyer not wear a shirt for the rest of the season, please? It would be easy to write off work or school and just re-watch the show from the beginning, hopelessly taking notes and trying not to freak out over polar bear sightings. This, however, would be a mistake. Instead of wasting time on the black hole that is Lost fandom, why not try another J.J. Abrams show, Fringe?
We start with the research of BU computer engineer Thomas Little, who is currently working on transmitting wireless internet through room lighting. Using LED’s from a flashlight and a router, Little has already developed a prototype of his system, which has received interest from several communications firms, and may be available for purchase in a year or two.
Every week, Boston Viral Video brings you the choicest slices of Grade-A YouTube.
You might've seen ads for Ennio's show around the internet (and even right here on Bostonist). We weren't sure what to make of the bright colors and crazy costumes featured in the ads, so we thought we'd check out the show for ourselves. After spending the first few minutes of last night's show in utter bewilderment, we warmed up to Ennio and his odd combination of paper costumes with energetic lip synching.
Every week, Bostonist dispatches its internet spiders to canvas the interwebs, bringing you the juiciest morsels in Boston-based viral video.
--A student from Hingham died early this morning after "he apparently jumped out the 17th-floor window of a dormitory" at UMass-Amherst. [Boston Globe, tip board]
--The Commonwealth's fire marshall says that arson caused a fire that took out five businesses Tuesday in Northborough. 70 firefighters were needed to put down the flames. A five and dime that had been in operation for 50-plus years was among the casulties, which also included "an appliance store, a jeweler, a market and a bead shop." [Boston Herald]
Update: The BU Free Press has a piece today entitled "Frat Brothers Try to Dispel Myths." Although we were expecting them to say they actually trash Radissons, not Days Inns, some of the nicer fraternity brothers explained that a few of them engage in philanthropy.