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The Suffolk County–specific holidays of Evacuation Day and Bunker Hill Day were upheld yesterday, but people are up in arms about state senator Michael Knapik's mockery of senator Jack Hart's Irishness and commitment to Evacuation Day. Knapik supported eliminating the holidays, questioning the need for Suffolk-only days and positing that the days off cost the state $5 million each—a hefty sum. Hart countered that the holidays honor Suffolk County's uniquely Irish heritage, and that eliminating them sets up a path for docking other holidays, such as Thanksgiving and even Christmas. Notably, Hart is from here; Knapik is not—so may just be suffering from sour grapes. Check the video for the debate.

We're a bit late for evacuation day proper but we wanted to wait until Film Friday for this shot by light under a bushel. This black & white has a real feeling of history to it. The Union Jack being flown from a stick begs us to ask the question of who put it there and why. I think this photo is a great glimpse back into our history.

-- Comedy duo Hard Left celebrate St. Patrick's Day with some hard drinking. [Hard Left Productions YouTube]

This week the music world turns its gaze to the party they call SXSW. A number of local bands are hitting the scene in hopes that it will propel them to some worldwide tour – or at least help them get out of that "garden level" apartment in Medford. While some eyes turn south to Texas where an immigration debate runs wild the US immigration policy has taken a toll on the local concert...

In the greatest celebration of Evacuation Day the cannon was drawn from Pasadena to Cambridge. The feat was a bit different from the schlep Henry Knox would make from upstate New York to Dorchester Heights – but still a page in a historic battle. Perhaps a better sign of spring than crocus or forsythia the rivalry between MIT and Caltech has begun in full force. Each year creative, technically challenging, and often quite humorous pranks...

It is now a week gone by since St. Patrick’s Day and ye olde Evacuation Day gripped the Hub and spilled from every bar with a little bit of Irish in it (or at least a bit of green in the window). At five days since we stood with Solo in hand atop Telegraph Hill watching the parade, Bostonist has become a little nostalgic for last week - already.We thought it appropriate last week to...

Walking to work today, Bostonist saw two people a day early in their full-out St. Patrick's Day Irish gear (green paper hat, "all about drinking and Irishness in a hard-drinking, heavily Irish town. But part of us clings to the belief that if people only knew more about Evacuation Day - commemorating an actual Revolutionary War victory in Boston (unlike Bunker Hill Day) - they would embrace it as we do. To that end, some...

We’ve been blogging here in our tiny corner of the internets for just over a year and we’ve finally put together a party - and it won't be the standard happy hour. We want you to come. There will be a couple of live local acts we've nailed down, we’re still working on the DJ details to keep things hopping until the end of the night. When you wake up from your green beer hangover sometime mid-week next week make sure that you've already put this on your calendar.

Hey Bostonist, I'm Adam, and I'm a food writer for your sibling to the south, DCist. I'm making a trip up to Boston for St. Patty's to visit friends and will likely be the one cooking the big dinner we won't eat at either 'noch's or Harvest. What I'm looking for is the best cheesemonger in Boston, as I'm planning my menu around the cheese course. I figured you guys would have the goods. Please...

Adding another holiday (um, Evacuation Day?) to the calendar, the State Legislature is on the way to approving a day off for sales tax in the Commonwealth again this year. Last year, consumers went wild, spending $400 million on the one sales-tax-free day in August. The proposed bill was set to win approval and would have established this year's tax free day on August 13, but it has been amended to include August 14, the...

Monday is Patriots Day, another one of those Massachusetts-only holidays that Bostonist adores. Some cynics suggest that it is no accident that two of our unique holidays, Evacuation Day and Patriots Day, fall on occasions usually celebrated with hearty amounts of drink (St. Patrick's Day and the Boston Marathon), and the third, Bunker Hill Day, saves June from being a month without time off and falls conveniently half-way between Memorial Day and July 4th. Bostonist...