Tom Brady is a great quarterback and we would never dispute his judgment on the field. But he should never, ever, ever give dating advice. Remember what happened last time? Unfortunately, Bostonist saw on Deadspin that he's at it again. Here's what a "source" said Brady allegedly told Romo from MSNBC: "After that debacle of a game with Jessica being flashed on the screens during every play, Tom told Tony to put a stop to......

--Representative Ed "Biz" Markey is going to Bali--in Second Life. Way to be hip to the Internets, but does that avatar look like him? Discuss. [Boston Globe] --Boston got dumped by CNN. A debate that was supposed to be in Boston next week has been knocked off the schedule because of the early caucus dates this year. And we were hoping for a look at Wolf Blitzer. [Boston Globe] --The jury in the trial of......

Update: Joan just gave us a heads-up in the comments section that Jen, David, and Nicole will be at Felt tonight to watch the finale. Beauty & the Geek will end tonight with a decision between two teams, each with a Massachusetts resident. Will the golden-voiced Nicole and her meatheaded Beauty Sam win? Or will LARPer David, who already has a dating site and a big local fan base, and the squeaky-voiced Jasmine triumph?......

For all his rakish ways and unfortunate dating advice, the mere presence of Patriots quarterback Tom Brady makes some women go weak in the knees. Or weak in the brains. NBC reporter Andrea Kremer conducted what should have been a typical post-game interview with Tom Brady and Randy Moss. Watch Kremer's goo-goo eyes: Here's a link to the entire interview on NBC Sports (via Deadspin). At first, it seemed as if sports bloggers were exaggerating.......

A kind tipster sent along an e-mail announcing a special website devoted to David, the Somerville LARPer who is currently competing on "Beauty and the Geek." Some of David's college friends have decided to give their friend a boost and find him a date. They have built the site in his honor, and they list all kinds of reasons why a woman want to meet him in person. If you are interested in a geek......

Online dating is becoming as big of a commitment as a serious relationship. The applications and endless profile-building keep you chained to your computer when you could be out meeting The One or at least adding to your repertoire of Hell-Date stories. Crazyblinddate.com, which is launching today in Boston, New York, and San Francisco, strips the online-dating process down to its bare bones. Crazyblinddate.com promises to get you interacting with as many people as......

John Fulton Reading With Joshua Henkin Brookline Booksmith Tonight, October 22, 7:00 pm Free Fulton's Official Site John Fulton doesn't go for sly pop-culture references or verbal pyrotechnics in his short-story collection The Animal Girl. Instead, he zooms in on the emotions of his older characters who are attempting to find love. With Match.com and eHarmony, dating and romance seem easy and ordinary topics, but Fulton throws obstacles in the paths of his characters, and......

Why, oh, why didn't this happen in Boston? Gawker heard from one of their spies that Patriots QB and panty model Gisele Bundchen had a spat at a New York City restaurant: "I saw Gisele Bundchen and Tom Brady this Monday at Extra Virgin and they were fighting. Everybody was looking at them, until Gisele left Tom at the table—seated alone! Drama!" Brady keeps winning on the field and appearing in Stetson ads, but he......

Ya know the old theories that those who are dating slowly begin to resemble each other? Tom Brady's Stetson campaign leaves us with the sinking feeling that he's turning into the clone of his girlfriend, panty model Gisele Bundchen. Give the above image of Brady as a steaming slab of manliness a long once-over. You'll see he's channeling Bundchen with the come-hither stare, the eye color that has an intensity courtesy of Photoshop, the......

Keith Cardoza and Julia Stoner, of Boston, got more intimate after six months of dating than most couples get in a lifetime. Cardoza and Stoner trusted each other enough to go for the gold in the North American Wife-Carrying Championship. Cardoza and Stoner, who are not married in the States but who may be married in nations where wife-carrying is part of the ceremony, won last Saturday's championship by three-tenths of a second. Cardoza carried......

Seattlest watches as a S.L.U.T. is born and Seattle Flickr users go nuts over a local art installation. A restaurant critic demands a Diner's Bill of Rights over a gnat next to her drink, and, in lieu of a Portlandist, Seattlest debates with itself over the identity of the Northwest's crown jewel. Seattlest also joins the guys from Fantagraphics for an ill-fated gun party in the woods. LAist saw national headlines soar this week with......

Ivy Gate Blog has been compiling videos of Ivy-League students acting like idiots. Harvard students produced a fine piece of work in which two shirtless male students make an "avant-garde peanut-butter and jelly sandwich" while chugging booze: The one on the right appears to channeling the accent adopted by "Mr. Boston," competitor on the dating reality show I Love New York. Video originally posted to YouTube by HarvardHooligan. His parents are proud.......

--The Cambridge City Council has decided to name intersections after Ben Affleck and Matt Damon. The Track Girls write that the council plans "to dedicate the intersections of Pearl and Cottage streets to Affleck and the corner of Pearl and Auburn streets to Damon." Once this is accomplished, wait for the college students to start defacing Affleck's corner and shouting, "And that's what I think of Gigli!" And then wait for someone to launch a......

Tom Brady has been opening his mouth a lot lately. Today, he brushed off TapeGate as nothing, but he is also taking a stab at giving men dating advice. Here's what he had to say in an interview with Rick Reilly of Sports Illustrated: "You can't let them know you're that interested. I try to get this across to my best friend. He's really into this girl, but I keep telling him she's got to......

Were we sore baseball losers, we might snicker about how Johnny Damon's version of a home run is about as wussy as his arm. We could hypothesize about what Yankee operative snuck into the Red Sox clubhouse to tamper with the Icy Hot Manny Ramirez and Bobby Kielty were using to prevent their backs from seizing up during play. We might even politely ask Cameron Diaz to quit jinxing our team and instead focus on......

Story time. It's early 2001 at a snowy New England college campus. Collegiate-Aged Bostonist takes in a set by San Francisco-based Matt Nathanson in the campus student center. It is Nathanson's birthday and Sister Helen Prejean (of "Dead Man Walking" fame) is also appearing on campus. Did we mention that this is a Catholic college? Nathanson winds up performing a very, very intimate two sets and, we imagine, having a pretty sucky birthday. But Bostonist......

I'm Through With White Girls opens the Roxbury Film Festival and will be at the Museum of Fine Arts' Remis Auditorium at 7:30 pm on Thursday, August 2. The Roxbury Film Festival is running from Wednesday, August 1, to Sunday, August 5, at various venues around town. Check the Roxbury Film Festival's website for a schedule and details. The ninth-annual Roxbury Film Festival starts off with the provocatively titled comedy I'm Through With White Girls.......

NESN starts airing "Sox Appeal" tomorrow night after the Red Sox – Orioles game. The show follows one person as he or she mingles with three other people during a game, and the show's website leers, "There's more than one way to score at a Red Sox game!" Well, maybe, if the thought of peanuts, beer, fans who forgot to wear deodorant, and brawling gets you hot, then this is your kind of show.......

Now that the July 4 hub-bub has subsided (quick recap: boo to rain, yay to fireworks, poor network branding choice to have the Scottish Craig Ferguson serve as an honorary MC for a July 4 celebration), we can note that we had earlier this week our first expereince observing baseball speed-dating in progress. Bostonist was on hand for Monday night's Sox/Rangers game - sometime late in the game, we turned to the center field jumbo......

Boston College lets us know that women's ice hockey is actually rather hot. Tom Mutch, the women's ice hockey coach resigned yesterday following allegations of sexual misconduct." This is quite a change for Mutch, who helped bring the Eagles to this year's Frozen Four. The Heights describes the misconduct of which Mutch is accused: "Allegations have surfaced suggesting that the former coach, 39, was involved in an inappropriate sexual relationship with Eagles Rookie of the......

Well, Bobby Brown doesn't have a clock, but he could use the money, and he's single. So it makes sense that he's pitching a dating show starring himself. Throw in some bikini-clad hoodrats, and you have something special! Or will you? Such a concept (faded musician, hoey babes) has already been done – and done right if you've seen Flavor of Love, in which rapper Flavor Flav selects one woman from a veritable buffet of......

After the news came out that Tom Brady and Bridget Moynahan had split the dream of dating a superstar hunk thrived in the Hub's young women. When he paired with supermodel Gisele Bundchen hearts fell as the QB was again off the market. And then it hit. Word came out that Moynahan is carrying Brady's baby. It seems that the man has been taken off the table. No one want's a piece of the Brady......

The defining moment in the career of Dennis Johnson - who Larry Bird called the best teammate he ever had - came in the 1987 Eastern Conference Finals against the evil Pistons (as seen on this clip). Everyone remember's Bird's steal, but it was Dennis' layup that won the game. And check out the clip; DJ is breaking towards the basket even before Bird picks off the pass. It was like telepathy. And now DJ......

Who the #$&% Is Jackson Pollock? will screen at the ICA this Sunday afternoon and next Sunday afternoon at 2:00 pm. Tickets are available online. Is this piece of art the work of a) A five-year-old b) Your old college roommate who put "magic mushrooms" on her pizza c) Famed painter Jackson Pollock Harvard researchers are saying that, whatever this painting is, it probably isn't "c." Harvard researchers tested three paintings owned by Alex Matter,......

Doesn't a certain old saying go that if you are feeling - ahem - too amorous too early, you should think about baseball? NESN begs to differ, as they've teamed up with Scout Productions for a new dating show called "Sox Appeal," which will start airing on NESN in July. Dating shows are a dime a dozen, but this one will take place entirely in Fenway park. Here's how the show will work: "Sox Appeal"......

The current Bostonist panty theme isn't over. And it's not our fault. This city has it on the brain. First off, Tom Brady might be dating lingerie model and DiCaprio cast-off Gisele Bundchen. The Track Girls gleefully reported Bundchen draping herself around the locker room. Normally, this Bostonist wouldn't give two plug nickels to know who Tom Brady is dating. However, the presence of Bundchen may have an impact on Brady's state of mind before......

Wired named Boston one of its Best! Geek! Cities! (They abused the exclamation point - not us.)Why? Well, the abundance of brainiacs here should be a serious clue. But what really impresses Wired is the fact that the city's geeks are - ahem - horny. In the romance department, Boston has a high amount of personal ads per capita on Geek 2 Geek, which proudly proclaims that "Geeks make the best friends and lovers, because......

Sunday. Usually, a quiet, contemplative day in the Blogosphere. But not here in the Ist-a-Verse. Nonono! Just look below and see all of the wild and crazy stuff our staffs are up to. In Austin, bands are beginning to confirm for SXSW and the rumor mill is up and running. Good thing, too, because we all know how much Austinites love live performances. Austin also found itself in the national spotlight, with Longhorn Legend......

Perhaps it's because people from Massachusetts are larger-than-life. This television season has more than a few ties to the upcoming crop of reality-show debuts. Here a few notables from the upcoming schedule: Tim Urban, from Newton, will be on The Apprentice and runs the risk of sleeping in a tent outdoors if he doesn't impress The Donald. He's a pianist, he runs a tutoring company, and he is a Harvard grad. The Globe profiled Urban......

The cover of today's Boston Herald showcases the hottest dog in town - Ajax, the K-9 cop who sniffed out a perp who tried to hide himself in the brick shaft of a warehouse. The Herald writes up Ajax as if he were Boston's latest eligible bachelor: "A Boston police rookie with four legs and a fully loaded nose likes long walks on the beach, fondue, and poodles …" (Okay, okay, the last three bits......