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......

Tobacco and breast-milk: two great tastes that go great together. Actually Bostonist just wanted a reason to put "butt" and "boob" in a headline; it’s Friday after all. Two recent stories have grabbed our attention. The first comes from the Globe yesterday, reporting on two smoking tenants in Southie whose eviction due to their collective two-pack-a-day habit was upheld by the Boston Housing Court. The State House will entertain breasts as a topic of......