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If you saw the Boston Herald cover for today, you might think the Red Line is crawling with gropers--or, as Bostonist likes to call them, "T Bags"--even though it's the Green Line that spawned its own groper only recently. But Jessica Heslam took a look at the MBTA's recent crime reports and writes,

Oprah Winfrey was in Manchester, New Hampshire, last night as part of her very public endorsement of presidential candidate Barack Obama, and 8,500 people showed up to hear her. The Herald sent Jessica Heslam and Mike Underwood up there. They interviewed several people who seemed to be more swayed by the celebrity endorsement than by Barack Obama's record. One woman said, "Just because Oprah believes in him, maybe there's more to him." While that surely...

Talking head and Herald writer Howie Carr, still trying to ditch WRKO and join WTKK, is appealing a judge's decision that states WRKO had the right to match WTKK's lucrative offer.

Correction: Many thanks to an anonymous guest who pointed out that it is "Tappet," not "Tappert." That was an egregious typo because Bostonist loves "Car Talk." This kind guest also provides a Wikipedia explanation of "Tappet" and its link to "Click" and "Clack." Dewey, Cheetham, and Howe forever! Car buffs, stoners, and the hung over will wax rhapsodic over "Car Talk," the NPR talk show that airs out of Harvard Square. The car tips of...

The case of Charlie Weis versus the surgeons who performed his gastric bypass received a dose of unbridled starpower on Friday with an appearance by an immaculately groomed Tom Brady. Yvonne Abraham at the Globe deserves kudos for a slyly funny article covering Brady's impact on the courtroom: "Don't anybody get cute with those picture phones," [court officer ] O'Brien sternly warned those who remained, "or I'll take them away from you." Nobody got cute....