--A man was shot yesterday afternoon on Dorchester Avenue in what the Herald describes as an "ambush from behind." The 20-year-old victim was taken to the hospital but later died from his wounds. [BPD News, Boston Herald] --Fallout from the BPD officer arrested for holding up a Roslindale gas station. The family of Michael T. Jones is surprised. His mother added a few more details about him and said that he took time off from......

Jason Webley Lily Pad (1353 Cambridge St) Thursday, November 29, 7:30 pm All Ages $7 Jason Webley is to the accordion what Girl Talk is to the iPod, and his shows are manic celebrations of musical storytelling. Webley takes his audiences on wild journeys--sometimes literal ones that involve actually trekking outside the venue--and leads singalongs (or clapalongs) rife with spirit. He's also widely known for incorporating vegetables (thrown, consumed, or otherwise) into his performances; at......

--Veterans come home, but the trauma of war follows them. [Boston Globe] --The story behind the sculpture of an Iraqi soldier made out of 70,000 ball bearings. [Blue Mass Group] --Veterans Day closings for Monday. The Globe put liquor stores second on its printed list, third on the online list. Just so you know, liquor stores are open. [Boston Globe] --Ratings for local talk radio are sucking, and local radio stations are trying to......

PodCamp Boston 2 Friday, October 26 through Sunday, October 28 Boston Convention & Expo Center Free, but registration required Official Site PodCamp Boston 2 promises to teach you more than how to bedazzle an iPod, as witnessed on the reality-show I Love New York 2. The days are packed with practical seminars on creating your own web-media empire. Seminar titles include "Web 2.0 Tools That Are Actually Useful" and "Intellectual Property Law for the Creative......

OK, we're as excited as anyone about the first game of the Boston-Anaheim ALDS. We'll get to that in a second. But let's begin by trying to imagine how thick the tension must have been within a conference room in the catacombs of Fenway Park recently, when Theo Epstein allowed Dan Shaughnessy to sit down and talk baseball. Seriously! After the columns and the gorilla suit, the jabs and the barbs, this was a matchup......

Got the feeling, power steering, Pistons popping, aint no stopping now! Panama, panama Panama, panama Now that the movie Superbad has revived Van Halen's song "Panama," it might be appropriate for Mayor Menino to upload the track to his iPod for his upcoming trip to Central America. The Mayor has managed to finagle his way into a trip with Carlos Gutierrez, the nation's secretary of commerce, to explore business opportunities in the region. He will......

-- A man was walking home on Normandy Street in Dorchester late Thursday morning when a young black male, one of a group of three, reportedly walked up to him and asked to see his iPod. When the victim declined the opportunity to show off his piece of gadgetry, one of the men drew a gun and placed it against the victim's temple and told another to take the iPod. They then walked away. Police......

-- The Boston Police Department's news brief headline summed this one up perfectly with "With Friends Like These...Who Needs Enemies": East Boston guy goes out with his friend on Monday afternoon. Friend goes back to guy's house, breaks through the window and steals some of the guy's toys (iPod, digital camera, PlayStation). When guy confronts friend about the theft, friend smashes guy's digital camera right in front of him. Bostonist says guy needs new friends.......

An employee of the Cambridge AT&T store, which was selling iPhones, said his store sold out of the fascinating new gadgets in one hour flat, between 6 and 7 pm last night. He said that people didn't get too crazy, but a few people started their iPhone vigil at 11pm Thursday night. Boston NOW asked local comedian and Dig columnist Baratunde Thurston, who is kinda pissed with his iPod right now, what he thought of......

This is a bit out of our geographical reach, blotter-wise, but a pastor was stabbed to death by her own husband in Great Barrington. Esther Dozier, a pastor for the Clinton AME Zion church, was found stabbed to death yesterday morning. Her husband, Henry, told police he took poison and went to the hospital. He pled not guilty to the crime. News reports mentioned Dozier's contributions to society: "Esther Dozier helped create an African-American Heritage......

--We don't always put fires on the blotter, but a firefighter had bad luck during a Dumpster fire at Boston College early this morning. However, it wasn't fire that hurt the firefighter – it was his department's own truck! The Newton Fire Department arrived to fight the blaze. The BC Heights reports, "While the fire truck was powering the pumps, the vehicle lurched forward, running over the injured firefighter. The truck broke through the fence......

Perhaps with all the recent hype surrounding UK soul sensation Amy Winehouse, you plum forgot about Alice Smith, who made a bit of a splash her own damn self last Fall. Smith's debut album For Lovers, Dreamers & Me on ultra hip UK underground hip hop label BBE (J Dilla, Pete Rock, DJ Vadim, "Return Of The Magnificent DJ Jazzy Jeff," etc.) is just as impressive as Amy's heralded sophomore effort Back to Black. And......

There are two types of people in the world: those who are willing to slog through rain, wind, possible snow (hey, you never know) and agony to complete a marathon, and...the other kind. Bostonist freely admits to being the other kind. But to everyone who wills their way through this, we tip our hats, raise our glasses, and count our blessings that we'll be home watching you on TV. If you have time to fiddle......

With violence on the increase in the city we thought it might be a good time to remind ourselves of the good efforts being taken by those around the city. The Start Peace single is available via iTunes and you can listen to it on the group's myspace page. T-Mizzie should loop it on his iPod and make sure that the new Commish knows the hip-hop anthem.......

We're digging through the week's music finding that the best deal of the week for jilted lovers comes from Upstairs on the Square. Local rocker Ad Frank plays a show for only $13 for singles, it's $14,000 for couples. Other than that and the iPod DJ Night at River Gods (you can't do all Al Green) we're ignoring the occurance of Wednesday. You'll probably be too busy for music as you're buying flowers, chocolates,......

Valentine's Day is only a few days away, and we here across the network wanted to express would like to tell you, in the spirit of the holiday, just how much we love you, our readers. Don't let it get to your heads, though. There are plenty of things we love, you included. Just be glad you're not amongst the things we hate. SFist saw their beloved mayor enter rehab, and they loved the opportunity......

This past September something innovative happened in Boston. The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum launched a webcast. It wasn't just any webcast, it was a creative commons licensed release of concerts performed as part of the long standing museum concert series. It's allowed users world wide to take in a little classical music culture by downloading the file and playing it on their iPod, in the windows media center or whatever MP3 compatible device they choose.......

At least the Whole Foods stores in Cambridge. Today, Tuesday, January 9 the Whole Foods Markets in the three Cambridge locations will be donating 5% of their sales to Cambridge Housing Assistance Fund. Whole Foods runs these five percent giving days (they call them CommUnity Giving Days) to benefit local charities from time to time, but it's great when the benefit helps to even the playing field a little bit. Cambridge Housing Assistance Fund (CHAF)......

Last week the Globe ran an op-ed by Robert Kuttner. He rented a Pontiac around Christmas and was real disappointed. His account of his experience was peppered with declarations like "So what's wrong with GM? The cars. GM is famous for being run by bean counters and ad men. Toyota is run by engineers." He goes on to cite American engineering feats like the iPod as an example to support his assertion that Americans can......

Every year since 2001, the Bazaar Bizarre has brought together avant-garde knitters, hipster t-shirt printers, vinyl melters, and other makers of objets d'adorable. At last year's Bazaar in the Cyclorama, this Bostonist finished her Christmas shopping in record time, pawed covetously at a purse shaped like a turtle, ran into long lost friends, chatted up the author of a favorite web comic, heard "Smells Like Teen Spirit" played on a theremin, and misplaced our......

If you’re hiking, consider charging up your iPod, as Seattlest finds out that a man lost during a hike was found by the glow of his iPod. That cleverness seems to be devoid in cops who were using police cruiser instant messaging clients - although we imagine IMs “so are you nakie” to be included in cop shows, just for realism. If only the cops were busting the Hummer-driving jerk who made a poor......

We just love listening to all the great 'casts out there. Sure, we have to wade through mountains of manure to find the ones worthy of calling our shiny little MP3 player home. Bostonist thinks it might have found one such 'cast: Love and Radio. Love and Radio is just what you would expect from a show that is available via alt.NPR. It contains the interesting accounts and stories collected by two twenty-somethings spending their......

Even though Apple has yet to release the "true video iPod", Bostonist digs the video podcasts. This week, we offer up a gem of a vodcast, Hello the Podcast. Hello the Podcast is a video podcast that tells the stories of twenty-somethings living in the Boston area. This is, essentially, season two of the Hello Simon podcast. Episode one of this season of the podcast begins with Simon leaving Harry (the narrator). Wait, should we......

Are you ready for some football? Rather, are you ready for a fantasy football podcast? If you answered yes, then this week's webcast review is just up your alley. Bostonist likes participating in the occasional fantasy football league. Unfortunately, despite coming close, we have yet to win (although, by the amount of smack-talk we spew, you might think we had). Given our track record, we can use all the help we can get. Thankfully, a......

Yes, Bostonist is a tad tardy in posting this week's webcast review. We could blame it on being overworked. We could blame it on sheer laziness. But, the truth is simply that we weren't looking forward to writing this review. However, it is not only our duty to help you locate good 'casts to fill your iPod, it is also our duty to steer you away from ones that will occupy otherwise useful storage space.......

Sometimes we want more from a podcast. Yes, it is nice to listen to some independent music artists, get some financial advice, or get your geek on. But, sometimes we want to be inspired. For those times, we have the Old South Church Sermons from Boston's Old South Church. The congregation of the Old South Church has its roots extend back to the late 1600s. It is an open and diverse congregation with parishoners of......

It has been a while since Bostonist has reviewed a video webcast. This week we take a look at a 'cast that is sure to be enjoyed by cooks and aspriring cooks alike. This week, we take a look at Simply Ming, a video webcast from one of Boston's most well known chefs, Ming Tsai. In culinary terms, the Simply Ming video webcast can be seen as an appetizer to his public television show of......

We at Bostonist like our Apple computers. Ok, it does distress us a little to hear that our shiny iPod might have been produced in a sweatshop. But, if we turn the volume up really loud, we forget all about it. If you want to hear the latest Apple talk from four local enthusiasts, then MassMUG is the podcast for you. We are always looking on the intarweb for Apple news and rumors. What will......

Menino and friends kicked off Boston's 2006 gun buyback program today with a press conference at 10:30am, firearms could be turned into local police precincts starting at noon. When the new initiative was announced we pondered the merits of not offering cash in return for a firearm while giggling at the irony of offering a Target gift card in exchange for the weapon. Apparently the Mayor's office wasn't done there – they've named the new......

So, what's a purl anyway? Bostonist has to admit that we cheated and looked it up in the dictionary. Apparently, a purl is related to knitting, as in a purl stitch. Beyond that, we are clueless. However, if any of you didn't need a dictionary and, quite frankly, are like "Duh, I knew that!" then this week's webcast review might be right up your yarn-filled alley. This week, Bostonist took a llisten to the It's......