Looking for something to do tonight or this weekend? Bostonist Fashionistas would like to recommend a few events that’ll make you look good and some that’ll make you feel good when they’re done. Boston’s branch of the Hello Stiletto Shoe Club will be throwing their Shoe Soiree Benefit for Dress for Success at California Closets tonight in Brighton. There will be cocktails, prizes for best shoes, a walk off and a chance to win......

Dark Side of the Moon, Sorta... --The last lunar eclipse for the next 2 years is happening tonight. With binoculars or even the naked eye, the moon will start to look pretty darn red around 9:00 pm EST, as if the green cheese has turned into a port wine spread. The prime time will be between 10pm and 10:30pm. Why not get a better look at an obsevatory? Harvard Observatory, 60 Garden St, Cambridge,......

Enza Sambataro may not be a household name, but she inspires a passionate response from baseball fans. She's about to marry the beloved Red Sox player Kevin Youkilis. The Globe recently ran a light lifestyle piece about how Sambataro won't be the ordinary baseball wife. She dated Ben Affleck, she jokes about Yooooouk drinking too many margaritas, and she has a shoplifting record, around which the article danced delicately. Adam Reilly at the Phoenix detected......

Santa Speedo Run Saturday, December 15, 1:00 pm Lir, 903 Boylston, Boston Run goes down Boylston to Berkeley and back up Newbury Official Site For some reason, people are compelled to prove their strength by taking off their clothes in winter and running around, displaying their pasty, quivering flash to one and all. (Tufts, we're talking to you.) But the people participating in the 8th annual Santa Speedo Run are stripping down to their skivvies......

Josh Ritter Tuesday, December 11 Club Passim, Harvard Square 7 p.m. and 10 p.m., $35-$75 (SOLD OUT) When Josh Ritter closed his most recent Somerville show with a rambled monologue in which he dispensed impractical driving directions from Davis Square to Canada (via the Fresh Pond Whole Foods) and plugged his two upcoming benefit concerts at Passim, Bostonist jumped at the chance to see him in such a cozy, acoustic-friendly venue—and so did everyone......

With Boston as perhaps the world’s foremost college town, a large part of our population is staring down Fall Semester’s final exams. For some, this period is little more than another opportunity to display a sharp mind. For others, however, exam period is one of struggle, frustration, and pain. To this latter group we suggest an alternative: Just go back to high school. It’s been done before… A twenty-five-year old Kenneth Lickiss took a Greyhound......

--Deval Patrick has signed a bill that expands buffer zones around abortion clinics. Anyone who protests must stand at least 35 feet away from entrances and driveways to the clinic. [WBZ] --Three men are being tried for funneling profits from charity to promoting jihad. [Boston Globe] --The injury toll for yesterday's fire in Mattapan has risen to 16, and the 2-year-old baby rescued in the fire is in critical condition in the hospital. [Boston Globe]......

While Gold Glove Youkilis shaved his goatee for charity tonight, the funnymen at ImprovBoston are getting into the spirit of Movember (Moustache Month) with a growing season of their own. Bostonist commemorates their valiant attempts to grow mustaches for charity--or at least hilarity (see how that rhymed? do you SEE?!). Though the Improv team started their mustache-growing season a little bit early (on October 18), this means their hirsute results will simply be that much......

Dominic Luberto's annual feat of light pollution Christmas devotion -- 500,000 bulbs and counting -- has long brought media attention to his Jamaica Plain home and won him admirers across the globe. He gets fan letters simply addressed to "Christmas Castle" and has started his own children's charity drive. But his crowning achievement may be his undoing. The Globe has more details on the City's efforts to bring down the "Crown of Christ" that Luberto......

The Mayor's Office announced that Mayor Menino and Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper have set up a bet. Depending on who wins the World Series, the losing mayor will ship foods native to that area to a local charity. The press release's language is precise: "When Boston wins the World Series" and "If the unthinkable should occur." The mayor is leaving nothing to chance when it comes to winning the Red Sox World Series, and we......

LAist began the month with a new food series exploring the popular and unknown late-night eats around town. If a Top Chef winner opened up a late-night spot in Los Angeles, denizens would flock to it, yet the LA Times and other media might be wary. Turning to sports, the Dodger season was quite memorable in the way that it imploded and the LA County Sheriff's Department made some games of their own such as......

The New England Backgammon Club (NEBC) plays its tournaments in an out-of-the-way seafood and burger joint, tucked at the end of a commercial strip in suburban Malden. The Dockside is a cavern of a restaurant, dedicated to Boston sports, Keno, and beer. Despite its distance from the city's center, it's the kind of place that could exist only in Boston. If you aren't talking Pats or Sox, you might as well be speaking Greek. It's......

Four Stories Enormous Room (567 Mass Ave) Monday, October 1 7:00-9:00 pm FREE! In its last installment, the internationally acclaimed reading series Four Stories addressed faraway places; this time, it's all about two subjects close to everyone's heart: love and money. While some of us may focus more on one than the other, either love--of a person or a passion, returned or unrequited--or money--having it or not having it--is usually at the center of most......

You cannot escape the Brady Baby. OK! Magazine released the cover image of its latest issue with Bridget Moynahan and her little boy, John Edward Thomas Moynahan, son of Tom Brady. He's a cute kid. Every news outlet has this image, and the Fox 25 morning crew tried to debate whether or not it was a good idea to put the little baby on the cover so soon. The debate swiftly degenerated into a discussion......

When much-loved Boston frontman Brad Delp committed suicide, he left behind an estate mess that his first wife, his ex-girlfriend, his fiancée, and adult children are trying to sort out. In his will, Delp left his home in Atkinson, New Hampshire, to another ex-girlfriend, Patricia Komor. According to everyone who knows Delp, he hadn't seen Komor in 11 years. The other women in Delp's life are understandably surprised. Micki Delp, Brad Delp's ex-wife and mother......

Clay Buchholz is coming! The Red Sox have groomed and nurtured their up-and-coming phenom, and will turn him loose on an unsuspecting American Leage this afternoon. Well, not entirely unsuspecting, since it's been pretty widely reported. He has explosive stuff (if no gyroball), good command, and a great attitude, says everyone who's worked with him in the farm system. And he gets his first crack in the bigs today against the [Your Municipality Here] Angels.......

Serenity will screen at midnight on Saturday, June 23. Proceeds go to Equality Now, and the Coolidge will be accepting food for the Greater Boston Food Bank. Tickets are $10. Joss Whedon fans will have chance to rejoice thanks to Coolidge Corner's midnight screening of Serenity, the full-length movie born after the 2002 cancellation of Whedon's short-lived but much-loved show "Firefly." The screening is on Whedon's birthday and will benefit his charity of choice,......

On Thursday, Bostonist joined a bunch of tired people in a red line car, and a guy hopped on and started shouting. We rolled our eyes at each other and looked uncomfortable because we figured he was either there to make trouble or sell candy bars for a dubious charity. But he had a surprise. He whipped a boom box out of a voluminous green backpack and pressed play. The sounds of Stevie Wonder's "Part-Time......

All in all, it's been a pretty good week for former Massachusetts governor and presidential aspirant Mitt Romney. Aside from a minor seatbelt flap, Romney saw a considerable improvement in his chances at election. The Des Moines Register announced that Romney was backed by 30 percent of Iowa Republicans, which puts him ahead of McCain and Giuliani. What is making Romney so appealing to those who haven't had the dubious pleasure of being governed by......

Curt Shilling has a lot of things going for him. The bloody sock has been auctioned off, he's tossing down in Fort Myers and seems to be ready for another season in good health. He's crusading for support of a cure for ALS and working with his wife Shonda and her SHADE foundation – but all work is not charity. Of course he's still a star pitcher for the Olde Towne Team but he's also......

The Florida Panthers beat the Bruins 7 to 2. What happened? Things were looking up! Maybe they're just tired after being on the road. Or maybe stamina isn't their strong suit. At least Marco Sturm resigned for four years. Fourteen million dollars ought to help wake him up! The Bruins' loss surprised us a little bit. The Celtics' loss did not. They lost to the Jazz 87 to 105. There's a thin silver lining for......

Picnic at Hanging Rock is like a dream you know is full of meaning, but you can't resolve all the symbols. When you wake up, you're left with images burned in your brain, and you'll spend the rest of the day trying to figure them out. This 1975 movie has a plot common in movies, thrillers, and 24-hour news channels - beautiful girls vanish into thin air, leaving the ordinary masses behind to obsess over......

The Patriots totally trounced the Packers in their Lambeau meeting yesterday. The Pack, however, still has us beat in one ongoing challenge. Campbell's soup is again running their "Tackling Hunger" promotion and will award a can of soup for every pound the winning team weighs to a food bank of the team's choosing. Both the team with the most overall clicks and the team that's most improved by December 15 will win the award for......

Living here in the Hub, we are faced with daily indignities, from the complications of an ill-administered public transportation system to the risk of completely random death in the most poorly planned and implemented public works project ever. But the struggle that unifies us more than any other must surely be that scourge of sidewalk strolling, the dreaded MassPirg canvassers. How heartless these innocent-looking youngsters are, accosting us in the midst of our important business......

Torontoist immediately wins our heart by using the word "Jackass" in a headline. In fact, we love their use of it so much that we're going to use it as much as possible throughout this post. For example, it looks like there are Toronto-area jackasses besides those who misuse the sidewalk: look at the crap on sale on Toronto's craigslist. But it looks like Toronto doesn't contain the kind of jackasses who pee in public......

The Jimmy Fund has been synonymous with charity in reference to the Red Sox for years. The official charity of the Sox the Jimmy Fund has donation boxes set up around Fenway Park, an annual "triple winner game" at Stop and Shop stores, and annual large donations from the team. Enter Curt Schilling. In 2004 Schilling commissioned a Red Sox chopper, which he sold to Hill | Holiday. The marketing company agreed to put the......

What happens when you take two dozen New England interior designers and put them in a house? Do they stop being polite? Um, no, there's no indication that they're no longer polite. But do they start being real? Well, kind of…if "real conservative" counts. In the recent Junior League's 34th annual Decorators' Show House, in which a bunch of designers get together to exhibit their skills for charity, New England designers didn't stray far from......

Massachusetts loves the Lottery - and the Red Sox. The two will now live together in scratch ticket form. Sales of the Red Sox branded $5 instant win tickets begin on April 11, 2006, the same day as the home opener at Fenway. The $2 games are about as high as Bostonist will reach when dropping some cash on a lottery ticket, but we may be alone in this. Back in January we remember reading......

Bostonist isn't usually one to jump to the defense of some local institution just because it's local - that would mean rallying to the cause of the unsavory likes of Dunkin' Donuts, Harvard, and Staples. (What makes them especially evil? Nothing really - they're just the first few that came to mind.) But when Bill Gates takes time away from hyping his company's latest $1,000 laptop to poke fun at the MIT media lab's project......

Governor Romney announced a plan yesterday to hype the business and research assets of Massachusetts to the world, an effort meant to draw more companies, jobs, etc. to our fair Commonwealth. Bostonist can't argue with this, but we think a crucial element is missing: a slogan for Massachusetts. Sure, we have our tourist slogan - "The spirit of Massachusetts is the spirit of America" - but that doesn't really speak to our high-tech nerd cachet,......