Did Bostonist ever say a disparaging word about the Boston Herald? We take it all back, because the Herald has pulled out the literary stops today. With court papers released yesterday outlining some of the discoveries made in a police search of Entwistle's hard drive, you might think the Herald would want to emphasize that the new documents confirm its own earlier reports that Entwistle researched suicide on the internet. Instead, readers learn that Entwistle......

Once again, the Somerville Arts Council is justifying the thousands of holiday light sets purchased on clearance last year by all the "Griswalds" of the world by hosting their annual Illuminations Holiday Tour. The tour goes round trip from Somerville city hall, lasts 45 minutes, and "celebrates the folk-artistry of the many city residents who transform their houses and yards with lights, illuminated ornaments, and shrines of devotion and fantasy during the darkest time......

Bostonist knows better to think that most of our dear readers are likely to take a jaunt to Nicaragua's capital anytime soon: Unlike, say, Montreal or the Cape, it's neither close nor pretty, and in terms of tourism, it has precious little to commend it, since most of the historical buildings and the civic center were completely destroyed by an earthquake in 1972. (Did we mention it is an absolutely terrible place to go with......

Two political parties, both alike in dignity,in fair Boston, where we lay our scene,from ancient grudge break to new mutiny,where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. Did Bostonist spend a perfectly good Thursday evening watching well-known lawyers and politicians do a reading of Romeo and Juliet? Yes we did. Why? So that you, dear reader, wouldn't have to. Sadly, while the Red Sox nation sat in judgment on the case of Sheffield v. Some Guy,......