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We keep hoping a couple of tickets will drop like magic from the sky, but we've pretty much resigned ourselves to several more long nights with Joe Buck and Tim McCarver and several more mornings when coffee is all that stands between us and oblivion. Or you could sell everything you own and do what one guy did: pay $21,766 for two seats behind home plate, as the Globe reported this morning. The article also...

We sure hope Josh Beckett found time during yesterday's off-day to watch High Noon. If you haven't seen it, the plot is that Sheriff Gary Cooper has one day left until retirement, and a pack of mean outlaws are coming to town to wreak havoc. He tries to round up a posse to meet them, but everyone in town has a dentist appointment, or their hair is drying, or they don't roll on Shabbos, or...

The interface is fairly simple. Select your cities and date and find out if you should buy now or wait for a better deal. The flexible date search seems to be a helpful tool as well. In addition to finding out when you should buy tickets for a pre-set date you can search for a period of time and return the best times to travel. The sliding bars to limit your departure times and length of stay helps the interface on the flexible search. Find your preferred date and jump back (with just a click) to find out if you should buy now or chance it to find a lower fare for those dates. Another reason to be caught in a somewhat infinite loop looking for airfares – at least with Farecast they provide a confidence meter for time of purchase. At some point you'll just have to trust your gut, or the confidence meter.

Wednesday kicks off the 4th annual Boston International Film Festival (BIFF). BIFF offers 8 consecutive days of 110 films from over 27 countries with movie genres ranging from animation to comedy to political documentary. All films are being screened at AMC Loews Theatre Boston Common with additional screenings at Mass Art. The BIFF was created to spotlight independently produced films all across the world on stages here in the Hub. A juried festival of...

Anything billed as a “Flirt Fest” must be commented on here at Bostonist. It’s not every day that alliteration can make one giggle but the event held tonight at trendy Saint on Exeter Street sounds like an interesting event to say the least. Bostonist has noticed a definite increase in the amount of singles’ events and scorned lovers’ themed dinners and drinks this year. Despite all the articles in recent weeks about specialty dating sites, it must be trendy to be tread alone in 2006. So when we heard about the sixth annual Flirt Fest, we just had to look into it a bit more. There of course is the best and worst pickup lines contest (please see last year’s top 10 below which reminds Bostonist why finding a date can be so tricky), voting of the biggest flirts (male and female), a lingerie fashion show (um, of course!), and free cocktails from Pearl Vodka from 7:30-9p.m. Flirt Fest is touted to sell out so if you are up for some drinking and possibly ackward eye contact, you can buy tickets online now for $14 ($20 at the door); the event starts at 6p.m. While the ‘Fest is scheduled to end at 11p.m., perhaps you’ll be going home with the love of your life tonight.

We knew it was that time of the year when we saw them all huddled together at the Hynes Convention Center T stop, shouting something about “Thin Mints.” Of course our ears perked up and before we knew it, we had shelled out $16.00 for two boxes of Shortbreads and two boxes of “Caramel Delites” (which used to be called “Samoas” back in the day). Yes, we are currently in full swing for the three...

Bostonist loves a good book and we find extra comfort when that good book is written by a local Boston author. To help celebrate Picador Publishing's 10th anniversary in the literary world, they have offered up some free books to you readers out there. Who is this oh-so-generous publishing house, you might ask? Well, Picador is an imprint of Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, and has published some of Bostonist's favorite novels (The Corrections, Running With Scissors, The Hours, etc.). To mark their big birthday, they have been traveling the country with a tour showcasing their books written by local authors. Picador's latest stop is at the Boston Athenaeum on Beacon Street tomorrow night at 6:00 p.m. The event features two authors, Atul Gawande and James Wood, who will both be reading from their Picador novels. Gawande, chief resident in surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, authored Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science, which focuses on the true stories of life in the medical world. Forget those plot lines on E.R.; these are stories that show the real world of medicine. This is Gawande's first novel and for those who think medical writing can't be enjoyable, the Globe thought otherwise: "descriptive without being condescending or mechanical. He's insightful, compassionate, and gently funny."

We know you are excited, we have renamed "Upcoming Music Events and Concerts" the Breakdown (at least for the time being). So here it is, the second installment of must-see gigs for the weekend, next week, and in the future. Please let us know if you have any suggestions for events that you want people to hear about that don't manage to make it on the Bostonist radar - just shoot us an e-mail at bostonistmusic (at) gmail dot com.

Recently Bostonist noticed the influx of JetBlue ads around the MBTA stations in Boston. We also observed the changes that are set to take place at Logan Airport in the coming months when Terminal A, finally, comes online. Delta will move operations over to Terminal A and JetBlue will take on many of the gates currently occupied by Delta in Terminal C. JetBlue has been sparking some rumors for the last couple of days about...