Emerge Spa and Salon opened its doors on Newbury street about a year ago and recently Bostonist had the opportunity to experience the best the Spa has to offer. Having once been to its sister salon, G20, Bostonist expected nothing but the best and Emerge didn't disappoint. Immediately, Bostonist was whisked up to the third floor while the representative explained such offerings as the roof garden, and the fireside lounge, juice bar and cafe. Weather......

The MBTA made a bold marketing move in branding the new fare cards. Bold, but perhaps brilliant. Before the CharlieCard, before the CharlieTicket, all passengers have is the MBTA to blame. Now riders simply raise their fists and curse Charlie (think Shatner screaming "Khaaan!") the MBTA isn't scapegoat - it's the new cartooned mascot. A mascot who was taken from the verse of a song about a guy who was stuck on the T because......

Today's edition of the Spare Change News went on sale for the usual dollar price. 75 cents goes to the seller and a quarter goes back to the paper. Sam Scott, editor and executive director of the paper, continues to make changes to the publication which is printed as a project of the Homeless Empowerment Project. The black and white broadsheet goes to four-color production with the help of MassWeb printing, part of the Phoenix......

On the coat tails of the Herald’s sale of many of its suburban newspaper franchises, the Audit Bureau of Circulations reported both newspapers in town saw a decline in circulation numbers – both papers down and Boston placed only second behind San Francisco for declining print readership. The Herald saw its print subscription drop at a slightly higher pace than the Globe for both the weekday circulation and the Sunday edition. It’s not that surprising......

A good friend of Bostonist was moving back to the middle of the country. He was looking for a place to live, and for financial reasons looking for a roommate. We suggested craigslist. But our friend was out of luck. Craigslist had yet to set up shop in the small city where he would be attending law school. He was dumbfounded. How was he going to find a roommate? Perhaps he could pick up a......

See, all those times at the office when you should be writing a proposal but you’re reading Bostonist, has paid off. You’ve helped our fine city climb to the coveted number 7 spot in the America’s Most Literate Cities 2005 study. This year Central Connecticut State University took over the survey, which looks at cities with a population over 250,000 and examines their literacy in six areas: Booksellers; Educational attainment; Internet Resources; Library Resources; Newspaper......

We know that as a reader of this little corner of the Internet that you’re a savvy, smart, sophisticated person—that or you can’t figure out how to work the mouse and click away from here. Bostonist would like to think it’s the former. We’re going to play make-believe for a minute think that we’ve been stealing away visitors from the Boston Globe’s website...Ok, Playtime over. Boston.com we know is ten, but losing readers? Thanks to......

For almost two weeks Boston Herald employees have been wearing little black ribbons in a show of solidarity trying to keep their jobs. This weekend the Herald announced that they would be scraping the Barnicles off the ship in order to save some money. To hit the $7 million budget reduction the paper’s top brass proposed a one-quarter staff reduction, Bostonist has gotten word that the Newspaper Guild says agreement has been reached and a......