Some major-league punkings went down today. One of them included a gag from the Weekly Dig, which proclaimed in its Daily Dig that Radiohead would be doing a free benefit for the Oxfam Cafe. They even threw in a must-see video promo. The UMass-Boston Mass Media website also offered a cutout Mr. T mask that would help you look cool and properly pity the April Fool. The Harvard Lampoon April Fool's was okay, if a......

Not to be outdone by Charlize Theron, who is being honored by the A-list Hasty Pudding, Paris Hilton continued to cut a wide swath through Boston when she was at The Estate. In fact, she garnered attention by dancing on a coffee table. With Oompa-Loompas. And then she showed her boobies. We're wondering what was up with the Oompa-Loompas. Sadly, Bostonist does not have rights to the photo the Track Girls put up, but at......

This afternoon, Bostonist waited in the cold rain for Paris Hilton to show up at the Harvard Lampoon castle this afternoon and had to leave because she was running so late. Bostonist was surprised by the small size of the crowd and thought it would have been bigger. A few people, including the news teams, couldn't wait to see Paris Hilton in person. Others stopped by briefly to take in the minor ruckus. One......

After freezing our buns off outside Casa Lampoon, while 'Pooners were slinging T-shirts and crackers at the crowd, only to be told that Paris Hilton was late, we're glad that we weren't the only ones who missed out on seeing the Queen of Wine in a Can.* The BPD denied a group of rowdy fans the opportunity to see Ms. Hilton early this morning on Warrenton Street: As officers were attempting to move traffic and......

Music Few acts in hip-hop's young guard come more correct than Berkeley, CA crew The Pack. Roiling, minimalist beats, raps about partying and sneakers, and a whispered menace that keeps you off guard: it's like degree zero of the art form. Sounds great on record (or Myspace), but can they rock an audience? Harper's Ferry, 158 Brighton Ave., Allston, 7:00 pm, $12/$14. Could your music options for tonight be any different? "Lady rapper" Leslie......

Ed. Note: No wonder the Harvard Lampoon is honoring her. She brings her own beverages. Socialite Paris Hilton has posed naked in a new advertising campaign to launch her luxury sparkling wine in a can brand. The hotel heiress can be seen nude, covered in gold paint and crawling across a desert for the advertising campaign for her drink Rich Prosecco. The drink is described as: “The perfect ’starter drink’ for your night or a......

The Hasty Pudding, the filet mignon to the Harvard Lampoon's ground chuck, has announced the recipients of its Hasty Pudding award. This year, Charlize Theron is Woman of the Year, and Christopher Walken will be Man of the Year. The Crimson announced that Theron will be honored with a parade and roast on February 7, while Walken will be honored on February 15. Walken has been spotted here recently while filming The Lonely Maiden. And......

--A few days old, but still exciting--the MBTA says it will improve the lighting at the JFK/UMass stop. [Boston Globe] --Speaking of transportation improvements, the city will start work on the intersection of American Legion Highway and Walk Hill Street, which one neighbor calls "Kamikaze Way." [Boston Globe] --Want to know how to help Frank Enwonwu, the local man who may be deported to Nigeria, even though he informed for the DEA? [Bostonist] --Cable......

Famous people visit Harvard all the time, but the university announced that two equally well-known, yet quite different, women would be visiting soon. JK Rowling will be speaking at commencement, and the Harvard Lampoon will honor Paris Hilton on February 6. You'd think that Harry Potter creator JK Rowling and socialite Paris Hilton would have nothing in common, but you'd be surprised … Let's start with the obvious. Both are blonde. Both have an......

--After such nice weather, a Nor'easter? You're kidding, right? Oh, no. You're not. At least it's scheduled to arrive Sunday, which will make the Pantsless T Ride much more pleasant. [WBZ] --A report indicates that a terrorist attack on Everett LNG would be a bad thing. Gee, ya think so? [Boston Globe] --Alex Jimenez, the soldier from Lawrence who went missing in Iraq last May and who still has not been found, has been......

--Maybe Fung Wah isn't so bad after all. The local press picked up on a b0st0n LiveJournal story that a Peter Pan bus driver felt that his passengers on a trip to Boston should be punished and forced to stay on the bus in Framingham because one of them called the company about his poor driving. The driver's sorry ass is about to get fired. [WBZ, Globe, b0st0n Live Journal] --Female parking enforcement officers......

WGA Strike Support Rally Friday, December 14, 12:00 pm-3:00 pm Harvard Square Fans4writers.com Update: Bradley's Almanac just gave us a heads-up--the WGA East announced "Please RSVP to 212-767-7843 and leave the number of people in your party" if you plan to attend the event at the church. By now, we're all sick of the writers' strike, and Bostonist HQ is suffering from MCRW (Major Colbert Report Withdrawal). Rest assured, the writers are even sicker of......

The Harvard Lampoon has a grudge against the trees at Mount Auburn and Holyoke, and an editor was busted hacking on a tree in October. Now, the Crimson reports that the Cambridge Department of Public Works had to take down the rest of the trees on the same island James Powers allegedly vandalized because they were damaged so badly. Three Japanese maples and a crabapple were removed. Poor trees. If they could be reached for......

A Harvard student got caught trying to cut down trees that weren't his last Sunday morning. James Powers, a Lampoon editor, decided he didn't like trees that had just been planted at Mount Auburn and Holyoke. The Cambridge Chronicle tried to get a comment, but Powers isn't saying anything. He thinks that's funny? Does he plan to pay the city back for those trees? Oh, his parents can probably handle it. Fifty-three people commented on......

Zach Braff in Conversation at the Brattle Sunday, October 7, 2007, 2:30 pm Free More info at the Brattle As if their announcement that Wes Anderson and Jason Schwartzman were going to be at the Brattle to discuss The Darjeeling Limited (tickets are gone, alas), the Brattle also dropped the bomb that Zach Braff would be stopping by. The Harvard Lampoon is inviting Braff, actor in Scrubs and semi-emo director of Garden State and The......

Boston Craigslist had a reality-tv casting call that caught our eye. Danny Bonaduce, last seen locally getting nekkid for the Harvard Lampoon, is casting for a new VH1 show that will feature aspiring child stars and their parents. We don’t want a pissed-off Danny Bonaduce on our doorstep (would you?), but the new show idea puzzled us because Bonaduce himself was a child star. He has said many times that the experience wasn't exactly the......

Child star, radio DJ, and reality-show fixture Danny Bonaduce, last seen naked save for a pudding cup at Harvard, is getting a divorce. His wife filed the papers and cited "irreconcilable differences." Given the picture associated with this post, we wonder why it didn't work out. Bonaduce and his wife, Gretchen, aired out their increasingly ugly marriage on the reality show Breaking Bonaduce. Bonaduce had an affair, which kicked off season one. In the middle......

The staff of the Harvard Lampoon, whom Bostonist last saw honoring Danny Bonaduce, sent out prank e-mails announcing that Harvard's next president would be – ta-da! – Larry Summers. That was kind of cute. But the Crimson went on the warpath against the Lampoon for the gag. The Crimson referred to the Lampoon as "puerile" and "so-called humor." They were also irritated because the e-mails mentioned a forum and invited students to call a phone......