Results tagged “lies”

Maybe Shepard Fairey, beleaguered street artist, has now admitted to lying about his use of AP photos in creating the iconic "hope" poster featuring Barack Obama. His lawyers have withdrawn now that the lies have come to light (lawyers withdrawing from lies? that's a new one). It's unclear whether Fairey's countersuit against the AP will continue under other legal guidance, but it seems unlikely.

We recommend viewing it large Flickr talent tommyvon gives us this quintessential New England capture. We love the bright HDR-enhanced colors and the gorgeous autumn sky. The line of the railroad tracks really draws you in and encourages you to wonder what lies around the bend. Thanks tommyvon! This Bostonist is travelling to St. Louis for the Thanksgiving holiday so Photo of the Day will be taking a hiatus until Tuesday the 27th. The...

The story about a Boston priest getting arrested for stalking Conan O'Brien keeps getting weirder, if that's possible. Reverend David Ajemian, 46, who attended Milton and Harvard and who was a local priest, was nabbed trying to get into an O'Brien taping. The Smoking Gun has documents that show Ajemian may be even stranger than previously thought. Letters indicate that Ajemian was mad at John McEnroe as well, and he claimed that McEnroe assaulted them...

Donnie Darko American Repertory Theatre Based on the screenplay by Richard Kelly Adapted and directed by Marcus Stern Through November 18 Zero Arrow Theatre, Cambridge Ticket and performance information In bringing "Donnie Darko" to Cambridge's Zero Arrow stage, the American Repertory Theatre has made bold move: it decided to issue a challenge to two diverse target audiences, either of which could easily feel skittish about the mere idea of A.R.T.'s latest production. The challenge? To...

There was very little else for Londonist to be concerned with when the threat of a Tube strike became a very unpleasant reality. The inconvenience was extreme: there aren't many alternatives to the Tube in London despite the best efforts of the Londonist team to get everyone from A to B. Brighter news came in the form of the first ever female Yeoman Warder, or Beefeater as the position is more commonly known, and...

Last week the Boston Globe reported that a discovery had been made at the MFA. They had a Vincent van Gogh painting in their possession that they never knew about. Unfortunately it wasn't just sitting around in the basement or tucked in a closet it was literally buried underneath another painting in the museum. According to the report: " Now a conservator at the Museum of Fine Arts has discovered the lost painting, but museum...

--Meet Dirus Gaines, a man with an iron constitution. Mr. Gaines' seemingly lifeless body was found by the railroad tracks on Wednesday afternoon in Framingham. Gaines exhibited all the signs of being dead – no movement, eyes rolled back in head, odd position of body. Then, Gaines "suddenly" awakened and displayed his beverage of choice, a bottle of blackberry brandy. And here's the best part – Gaines is awfully lively when he's not completely pickled:...

So, Gawker started up this feature on "The Poors," in which they ruthlessly mock media encounters with those of us who don't have trust funds. Gawker might be interested in a recent front-page article by the Globe about the South Bay Center, the big ol' mall that is apparently a crossroads of class conflict. The form of Sarah Schweitzer's article isn't the problem. Well, maybe the fact that the Globe put a story about a...

Every day for the last week month it seems we've read something in the papers about the Mashpee Wampanoags and their move to set up a casino. Will it be in Middleborough? New Bedford? Palmer? Some other Massachusetts town? It's not clear where they're going to open up just yet, but two things are certain: 1. the Mashpee Wampanoags receive their official federal recognition this week and 2. We'll hear the word "bingosino" a lot...

The sexy Bill Belichick is a lot like the Loch Ness Monster. He doesn't show up much, but when he does no one can forget it. The Track Girls announced that Belichick made the scene with his latest blonde in a luxury box at the Red Sox game. They refer to him as a "swinging single," but we'd rather not look at him as that kind of sexy. Maybe Belichick needed to step out...

Harvard students were producing yet another season of Ivory Tower. The good folks at IvyGate just reminded us that season 4 of the all new Ivory Tower is well under way. The Harvard College soap opera describes themselves as a show "Completely acted, directed, written, and produced by Harvard undergraduates, Ivory Tower is Harvard’s very own soap opera. Both parodying and revealing the world of Ivy League sex, lies and privilege, college has never been this much fun! Ivory Tower provides the only campus opportunity for professionally-minded students to start producing fiction television today." After the 90's version was retired from Harvard-Radcliffe Television the show hit a hiatus until broadband brought it back. Now you can catch all the latest action from the other side of the river via YouTube. Episode 1 of season 4 hit the net in November, just last week Episode 2 was granted upload status. While students are spending their precious moments creating quality internet episodes the members of the presidential search committee are hard at work. They're still looking for that replacement for the departed Larry Summers. The Crimson recently shortened their list to four candidates; today they're saying "members have expressed enthusiasm" about two of the four. Sounds steamy – stay tuned an announcement is due in early February. In the mean time feel free to catch up on your favorite soap you keep forgetting to TiVo.

Bostonist loves a night out, especially when she can save the receipt and write it off on her taxes, so attending Blogtoberfest at Match was like a dream come true. We'd been hearing about the luxe lounge since 2005, but, until last Thursday, hadn't found a good excuse to strap on our high heels and do some drinking. The hook for this trendy hotspot lies in the selection of specialty martinis and gourmet miniburgers that allows you to mix and match your food and beverage (get it?) and the promise of a meetup provided perfect bait to toss back a few cocktails on the freelance tip.

The Church of Christian Science, the Boston-based church, is taking up issue with the Commonwealth's new law on mandatory healthcare coverage. They fear that the way the law is currently written it does not allow for employers to provide an option of faith-based healing. Christian Scientists believe that the power of healing lies in the deity, and through prayer all illness and sickness can be healed. To that end they don't practice medicine or subscribe to the common treatments that common medical practice provides. In this recent push the effort is being made to make sure that the language provided in the new healthcare law will allow for them to provide a faith-based healing method (so you pay for someone to pray for you, not to give you penicillin). Semantics are always important when discussing law, even a comma can effect the legality of an action. The Church of Christian Science is treading lightly on this issue. While it's an important issue for the nature of their faith and they don't want to be subject to the fines the state may impose for every person in their employ who chooses their faith-based heathcare plan (because it's not medical care, it's "health care") they are making sure that it's understood they're only asking for the option to provide the service. They are not requiring that the option be provided by all, only that they're not penalized for providing it.

Hey, don’t laugh - you know you’ve been there. Wandering the display floor in search of that perfect sidetable or hopelessly lost in the warehouse trying to find aisle 16 bin 35, you suddenly feel weak, beaten. Hungry. Luckily, IKEA is there for you with prefab dishes served cafeteria style in a sterile yet oddly welcoming atmosphere. Their food, like their products, varies in quality from “not-so-hot” to “pretty-ok-actually-especially-since-it-cost-almost-nothing”, but by using some discretion and common sense, hungry shoppers can recharge and relax for under six bucks a person.

A bit of a misnomer this year, Boston's Summer Restaurant Week spreads itself leisurely over a 14-day span, affording the populace twice as much time to spend money they don't have on food they can't afford. And we at Bostonist couldn't be happier about it! This biannual event (winter and summer only) provides a beacon of light for culinary adventuring, allowing even us poor writers a chance to taste the good life. The difficulty lies in choosing where to eat, because even though cheaper is better, at $30.06 the 3-course prixe fixe still packs a punch to the wallet. Participating restaurants open their reservation books today, so break open your piggy bank and give them a call!

A coastal city, Boston has no shortage of waterfront dining. Meritage, Sal de la Terre, Anthony’s Pier 4, all these are spectacular restaurants boasting five-star meals at five-star prices. But where to go when it’s the day before payday? When all you need to complete your week is an ocean view and a cup of chowder, but all you’ve got is a couple fivers? The answer, friends, lies under a yellow-and-red striped tarp on Sleeper street, and its name is the Barking Crab.

The Herald delights in the rhyming headline, the punny headline, and, above all, the hyperbolic headline. Fair enough - therein lies the Herald's charm. But today the tabloid was really unfair with the way its headline teased us. We saw this entry in the paper's ongoing series on welfare: "Welfare abuse runs rampant: Recipient admits: ‘Everybody lies’" We thought, "Really? How rampant? What percentage of welfare recipients are cheating the state?"

In a world where there's nothing to do but watch movies. In a city full of theaters, museums, and libraries. One moviegoer who can be in three places at once. This week, Boston's movie theaters offer a variety of giant monsters (fire-breathing turtles, radioactive lizards, skyscraper-climbing apes), smaller monsters (teenagers on myspace, paintball enthusiasts), and a terrifying alternate universe where everyone sings with R. Kelly's voice. Wednesday 4/26 King Kong & Godzilla Triple Feature A...

R. Kelly's Trapped In The Closet is the story of Sylvester, a hapless philanderer whose simple one-night stand with a preacher's wife leads him into a tangled and ever more preposterous web of lies, betrayal, asthmatic midgets, and telenovela-quality cliffhangers. Lauded by some (notably R. Kelly himself) as a work of genius and enjoyed by many as "the Plan 9 of music videos," this shamelessly operatic R&B melodrama has spawned its own Wikipedia entry, an Upright Citizens Brigade symposium, and a great many parodies: one of them a South Park episode involving a certain totally not gay Scientologist, but none of them funnier than the thing itself.

Located on Mass Ave. in Cambridge between Harvard Square and Porter Square, Cambridge Common is a pub-grub beer-bar that caters perfectly to its college-aged crowd. This isn't an upscale place, but Charlie Christopher, owner of Christopher's, Toad, and West Side Lounge, has been keeping his Red Line crowd happy for years with high-quality, low-priced food. Busy almost any night of the week Cambridge Common's patrons range from music geeks waiting to enter the Lizard's Lounge downstairs, to law students just looking for a pint before finals.

On Bostonist's daily commute history is often hard to dodge, from inadvertently following along the red brick line of the Freedom Trail to a simple feat like riding on “Americas First Subway.” Other bits of history show up in the most unusual places. The “hub” marker lies underneath crates of oranges at the fruit stand outside of Filenes in Downtown Crossing. Oliver Wendell Holmes first referred to the old State House (so really the State Street station, and not Downtown Crossing) as the “Hub of the Solar System,” which developed into Boston's well-known nickname.

Just before Bostonist’s lunch break ended on June 27th an email popped into our inbox with the subject line "Santorum Blames Boston For The Catholic Priest Sex Scandal." Bostonist got all excited that we might be in the loop on some big, breaking story. The email we got linked out to the CapitolBuzz blog referencing a June 25 column in the Philadelphia Daily News. We read the article and actually, Santorum’s "blame" was laid in a 2002 article to Catholic Online. So we flagged the email, kept it in the inbox, and waited.

On Monday night Bostonist had a chance to see Happy Endings, the latest film from writer/director Don Roos (Bounce, the Opposite of Sex), at the Landmark Kendall theater, and also stuck around after the film for a Q+A with actor Jason Ritter. Usually the title Happy Endings would allude to something a bit more lascivious or perverted, but in this case there were no lecherous old men being "fully serviced". The rather convoluted basis for the movie lies in a handful of storylines intricately threaded together and star an ensemble cast of familiar names - Lisa Kudrow, Tom Arnold, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jason Ritter, and Laura Dern. In general the multiple plots target the unpredictability of life, loves, and the uncertainty people have in themselves and those around them.

The Improv Asylum also has a midnight show on Saturdays for $10 where "all bets are off." They also offer corporate training events where you can bring the Asylum into the office. Having an actor play your boss? Now that is a company outing worth going on.

Up in Somerville in Davis Square there lies a little Irish pub called the Burren. Thursday nights at the Burren are straight off of the iPod. Every Thursday night for a $5 cover the back room, as they call it, features the Swingin’ Johnsons (also known as the Johnson Brothers when they’re playing to wedding receptions). Bostonist was a little skeptical about the whole scene until the bar whiskey poured was Jameson. Good whiskey in the well is a pleasant surprise. So were the tunes from the Swingin’ Johnsons. With Jesse’s Girl, Summer of ’69, well, You Shook Me All Night Long with a wide variety of 80’s and 90’s favorites. Chris Marsh leads the band on bass, he had with him the “four piece” which includes guitar, drums, and the fourth is on keyboard. Bostonist can’t help thinking that Chris looks a little bit like John Cusack’s long lost brother. There isn’t much time given to audience banter; the back room is a little too noisy with all the students in attendance for that anyway. The seamless transitions between songs long lost in our memory banks were a pleasant surprise. Isn’t there an old saying, “everybody loves a cover band...sometimes”?