Update to the Update: Green C is back to normal. (12:30 pm) Update: Just received a T alert about a problem on the Green C Line: "Subway Green "C" Line - is being diverted due to weather related problem - tree fallen on overhead at Fairbanks/Beacon street. A Shuttle bus will run in both directions between Coolidge Corner and Cleveland Circle." Drivers are already spinning out on the roads this morning, and pedestrians are walking......

This is a much better result for Daisuke. Instead of him pitching brilliantly and losing due to poor run support, he pitched a very average game, but was helped by a barrage of Red Sox home runs, including a team-record four solo shots in a row, courtesy of Manny Ramirez, J.D. Drew, Mike Lowell and Jason Varitek. Who was worried about Manny and 'Tek's slow starts? That was all well and good, but it was......

Props go out to Terry Francona (a man who really doesn't receive enough credit for the job he does in Boston) for his handling of the Coco Crisp situation. Crisp returned, and was immediately re-inserted into the starting lineup as the center-fielder, and lead-off hitter. But, it looks like 7th or 8 slot is most effective, with Youkilis at the top, and Francona has leveraged this. The Sox also have some interesting options from......

Call Bostonist crazy, but WTF?! The Boston City Council has taken up the cause of making parking lot operators refund money to Sox fans who park and then leave because of rain delays. Naturally, we can see the political capital in this move, what with the way that lot operators jack up prices when demand is high (stupid capitalism!), but will someone at City Hall start getting serious about encouraging fans to take the T......

Long ago, when the happy promise of springtime filled the air, Bostonist told you that Somerville was making plans to be the first Boston-area municipality (and only the second in the whole Commonwealth) to implement a 311 phone line for non-emergency calls to city government. Back then, it didn't seem like much of a big deal. "Non-emergency calls to Somerville?!" you scoffed. "Forget that! It's the middle of May! I'm going to go drink beer......

If Bostonist were the Middlesex County DA's office, trying to find a man accused of beating a woman nearly to death with a rock in Stoneham in July, we would be pretty peeved at the Globe right now. The suspect, Joseph Simpson of Dorchester, was indicted by a grand jury on Friday for armed assault with intent to murder, but he remains at large. The Globe today reports this under the headline "Public's help sought......

Bostonist was a little late on the uptake on this series of Open studio tours working its way across the Greater Boston area, but it's just like what your mom always said about "Thank you" letters - better late than never. The Boston Open Studio Coalition (which we JUST discovered this weekend) has organized what sounds to have the makings of a fantastic few hours of eye candy. In addition, we are sure that......

If Bostonist could paraphrase the infamous words of Colonel Jesop in the movie A Few Good Men, "You weakened Red Sox Nation today Larry Lucchino, that's all you did." Theo is gone, and the Boston Red Sox are without a General Manager. In what will go down in history as one of the supreme boffo manuevers in the Boston Red Sox checkered history became "official-official today" when Theo Epstein held his farewell press conference with......

Part of the charm of our fair city (and our fair Commonwealth, and, really, our whole fair region from Rhode Island to Canada) is that people talk funny and place names aren't pronounced the way they're spelled. This is a much written-about phenomenon and Bostonist need not elaborate further upon it here. But something we can't understand is why people who claim to be selling their services in Massachusetts and for the benefit of......