If you were drawing a Venn dagram (and why wouldn't you be?) of Bostonians, lovers of indie rock, and fans of Harry Potter, you might expect the elusive middle to be quite bare. They always seem to be, in Venn Diagrams. But then you wouldn't have been at the Middle East on Sunday Night for the last stop on Harry and the Potters spring tour. The band is comprised of two brothers (Boston natives both)......

Weeks of anticipation of Condoleezza Rice's address to the graduates of Boston College have left us wondering if she would or if she wouldn't. She did, and it worked out fine. There is difficulty in standing alone against a public figure – 50 Boston College seniors stood with their backs against Condi as she began the keynote address to the graduates. The rest of the class and much of the audience stood in a standing......

Boston is one of the main battlefields of the epic book superstore vs. indie bookstore battle that currently rages through America. Bostonist assumes that this is the case because this town is perhaps the only place where the indies have a fair shot at winning - people in Boston do love the high-brow experience of an indie bookstore, particularly if they can throw around a few snooty comments about how much they prefer the indies......