Bill Maher interviewed Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick on his HBO "Real Time" show Friday. While the interview was ostensibly set up to promote Patrick's new book, it turned into a defense of President Obama and progressive policy.
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Despite Tom Brady's awesomeness on the field, there are times when he does things that make you wonder about him. Then, he provides us with unequivocal redemption.
Say what you will about Curt Schilling, you usuallly know exactly where he stands on every issue on which he chooses to opine. Quite often it feels like he addresses every single issue. Schilling appeared on Joe Buck Live on HBO on Tuesday and held nothing back except for some choice language Buck only hears from Artie Lange.
Comedian Rhys Darby, the man who brought "The Flight of the Conchords" manager, Murray, to life, will be coming to The Wilbur Theatre on Sunday, November 9th.
Massachusetts Congressman Ed Markey, last seen basking in praise for his support of public television at the opening of WGBH's new building, isn't getting much applause from the founder of Black Entertainment Television (BET). During a House Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection hearing, Markey said that BET represented “the lowest common denominator of cheap and tawdry music videos and other questionable programming.” As connoisseurs of lowbrow culture, Bostonist would like to point out...
From the tallest skyscraper in the City of Brotherly Love to Canadian tourism copywriting brilliance, here's what you should know from our -ist cities: This week, Phillyist took a gleeful listen to the White Stripes' exciting new release, watched in awe as their new tallest skyscraper was finally completed, found a cheaper way to get to Gothamist, invented a tasty new dessert, and brought back their Craigslist Round-Up feature with a bang. Bostonist watches...
The documentary Have You Seen Andy? will air on Cinemax tomorrow, Tuesday, June 12, at 7:00 pm. In an age of Amber Alerts, JonBenet Ramsey, and images of missing children on all the 24-hour news channels, it's difficult to imagine a disappearance that wasn't resolved. But 10-year-old Andy Puglisi, who vanished in 1976 from a Lawrence swimming pool, has never been found. One of his childhood friends, Melanie Perkins, grew up to be a...
Holy smokes! Giant fish on the MTA, Paris Hilton in jail, then out, then in again, Al Gore, goatses, blumpkins, Matt Damon, and baby art critics! It's been a busy week across the Ist-A-Verse, and here's a smattering of what's been going on. In Gothamist's neck of the woods, they found out that many things are possible: A man caught a 40+ pound fish off the Rockaways and took it home on the subway. Graffiti...
Great expression captured by Flickr user oberazzi. Photography Event: Photographer Lauren Greenfield best known for her photographs of girl culture and her recent HBO documentary "thin" will be speaking at the Photographic Resource Center tonight. Each weekday Bostonist will be selecting a photo from those tagged "bostonist" on Flickr or otherwise submitted to us for this feature. Please contribute yours. Jennifer Chase is using her keen eye to sleuth out photos, like the one...
The Boston Police Department issued a press release today indicating that twenty-three people will be charged for crack and cocaine distribution in the Bromley-Heath housing development in Jamaica Plain. In season one of The Wire it was Avon Barksdale working for control of The Towers – its season four now and the lines are still tapped in hopes of shutting down Marlo Stanfield's operation. The fiction of HBO's drama is well developed and revolves around...
As we're sure you readers out there can tell, Bostonist is pretty sarcastic and can laugh at itself or anyone else for that matter. So when we heard about this movie, "The Aristocrats," which focuses on one dirty joke delivered by a slew of different comedians, we thought we should check it out. This hour-and-a-half documentary by Penn Jillette, of the comedy/magic act Penn and Teller, visits with comedians young and old to get their take on the standard joke, "The Aristocrats." Bostonist had never heard the Vaudeville era joke, so our precious little ears (and stomachs) were surprised to hear that the premise of the joke usually involves vomiting, incest, sex, and feces (not exactly in that order according to the many comedians). We admit that some parts were extremely funny (Sarah Silverman and Bob Saget) while other parts were just pretty gross. Bostonist can't recall the last time people walked out during a movie we went to, but it was pretty standard at "The Aristocrats," with some movie-goers leaving five minutes into the film. While the premise of a documentary about one joke and many comedians' variations on it is good, the film would have been better cut down to 45 minutes on HBO. While the New York Times and the Boston Globe both seemed to give it the thumbs up, Bostonist would tell you to save your $10 and rent it on Netflix.
All those indie and punk shows getting you a little too worked up? We thought so. Take a deep breath, remove the suspenders and striped socks. Put on your dancing shoes and listen to some poetry. But it’s the weekend you say, and you’re not up for some tame literary adventure? You want something with a little beat? Revive your soul at the Center for Latino Arts' Soul Revival on Saturday night. One of Bostonist’s favorite live action poets, Iyeoka Ivie Okoawo, will be there. She’s been around the slam scene in Boston for a number of years and has been pondering her continued participation on the Boston area Slam Team (yeah, Bostonist didn’t really know there was a regional team either). If HBO is your only feed for culture you may have seen Iyeoka on Def Poetry Jam.
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