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Councilor John Tobin thinks that Dominic Luberto, the man whose "Christmas Castle" bathes Jamaica Plain in holiday light, is courting disaster.

The game was tucked in the dark corner of the Cambridge Common last night, away from the lamp-lined paths and trees covered with Christmas lights. From afar, it looked like some kind of goofy science project: a pair of lights darting back and forth in the night. But when you approached the field and saw the players, you realized that it was something even more bizarre. Those floating lights were frisbees. The Illuminated Frisbee Nighttime...

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...

A coastal city, Boston has no shortage of waterfront dining. Meritage, Sal de la Terre, Anthony’s Pier 4, all these are spectacular restaurants boasting five-star meals at five-star prices. But where to go when it’s the day before payday? When all you need to complete your week is an ocean view and a cup of chowder, but all you’ve got is a couple fivers? The answer, friends, lies under a yellow-and-red striped tarp on Sleeper street, and its name is the Barking Crab.

It's no day in the park, but it still must have been a fun assignment at the Herald. Looking into sex-for-sale over Craigslist reporters at the Herald exposed the truth that other, less safe for work things than Christmas lights, can be found for sale on the community site. Don't take us wrong, we love Craigslist, but there may be some less than rosey uses. Bostonist had taken interest in the reports of pimps losing...

The days of Craigslist job posting spam scams may be on the way out on the Boston board. Bostonist has good things to say about the list-o-craig. From missed connections connected to the missing iPod delivered in our account of the Craigslist miracle to the plethora of jobs we can dream about and those we’re sure to be overqualified for, the list has made us smile. Not a day goes by without the promise of riches on the Craigslist job board. Be it cosmetic sales commissions or night life promotions, there are plenty of opportunities to take a job with no real base pay. Bostonist is merely speculating on this, but we think that with a fee attached to the posting, some of these frivolous ads may be filtered out.

Bostonist opened up our inbox this morning to find a message from a friend with the subject “You’re never going to believe this…” We’ll backup here and start with a preface to the story: she wasn’t going to be able to go home for the holidays. Her family exchanged gifts at Thanksgiving instead of those days of various religious, cultural, and retail significance in late December (Robertson and O’Reilly please note: for her it was a Christmas present). The smallest, most expensive gift she’d been given was a shiny new video iPod.

One of the prime spots on the Somerville Christmas lights tour is Springfield Street between Concord Street and the Cambridge line. As luck would have it, (this) Bostonist lives right around the corner from there, so we went out a couple nights back to snap some pics. Unfortunately, our luck didn't extend to an innate ability to photograph lights at night without a tripod, so the photos below have two purposes (1) Showing people in other parts of the Boston area the Somervillionaire holiday spirit, and (2) showing teetolaers what Christmas lights look like to a booze-hound like Bostonist as we stumble home from another night of yule tide revelry.

Craigslist continues to provide bostonist with a wealth of Christmas lights, comfy chairs and assorted junk. It also serves to find apartments, jobs, and some very unique groups. Recently this post was spied on the list: