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Update to the Update: Green C is back to normal. (12:30 pm)

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 and flirt with good-looking young people." But now, with winter holding you in its crushing, angry grip, the news that the system is actually up and running seems pretty exciting, doesn't it? OK, not really. But it's true: Somerville residents have now joined the illustrious ranks of New Yorkers, Chattanoogans, and others in being able to dial 311 for all their municipal needs.

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 in search for suspect." But the public may find it hard to render help since the story (or the on-line version, at least) contains neither a photo nor a description. Luckily, the good folks at Channel 4 and the Stoneham Sun are on the case: Simpson, 34, is black, 5'11", and heavyset. His picture is above.

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 the artists who create in Fenway Studios (this week's featured area) are anxious to have some foot traffic and perhaps sell some of their work.

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...

We first got irritated about this when we made the mistake of signing up for the cheapest health plan at work, only to find out that there were no doctors anywhere near us. When we got on the phone and asked for a general practitioner in or near Somerville, the customer service lady paused a moment, did some clickety-clacking on her computer, and said, "Oh sure. I have someone in War-cester." Considering that Worcester is wicked fah from Somerville, her mispronunciation just added insult to injury. Then yesterday evening, a pollster called to ask Bostonist questions about local politics, which we love. But this guy couldn't pronounce the names of any of the Somerville politicos he was asking us about (or, for that matter, the name of Desmond Tutu), and that made us bullshit. (Also, the poll was obviously designed to get us to say that the campaign to divest local assets from Israel was a terrorist plot designed by communists who kick puppies, and we hate being manipulated so inexpertly that we realize we're being manipulated.) Now we learn, via Universal Hub, that even the MBTA can't get its automated bus announcements to sound regionally accurate (Reading is announced as "REEding"). What's up with that? If Bostonist finds out that the T is announcing Quincy with a soft "s" sound, we will be forced to raise our mass transit annoyance-alert level to wicked ripshit.