Attention all singles! Looking for something different to do this Valentine's Day? If you don't mind the early hour, consider making the trip to the WFNX studios for The Sandbox Morning Show's "Sandbox Singles Mixer." Aside from the chance to be part of a live studio broadcast and hang out with our buddies Charlie, Fletcher, & Special Ed, you will also enjoy live music from local Marty O'Malley, catered food from Ivy, and cocktails......

Waking up to an everyday landscape purified and made strange by snow on the day after seeing DJ Spooky’s Subliminal Strings: Nature Morte musical performance was a perfect reflection of the concert itself. Starting out with a familiar, instrument-based backdrop, Spooky built an electronic scaffolding on top that both complemented the more traditional sounds and allowed them to become even more breathtaking. While built on recognizable notes and tonal systems, the conversational interchange of Spooky’s......

Fun Fun Fun Fest 2007 Recap from Super!Alright! on Vimeo. Austinist attended a town hall meeting about proposed noise ordinances that could undermine the city's future as the Live Music Capital of the World, and lamented the possible loss of Texas's only feminist bookstore. Throughout the week, they interviewed a bunch of indie fashion designers and D-I-Y websites—Etsy, Ornamental Things, 31 Corn Lane, and Aorta Designs—for the upcoming Stitch Fashion Show. They also did......

Brand Upon the Brain! will screen at the Brattle between June 29 and July 5. Check the calendar for times. Chicagoist whet our appetites for the latest wild surprise from director Guy Maddin (The Saddest Music in the World) – the black-and-white movie Brand Upon the Brain!. In Chicago, the movie was shown with, according to Chicagoist, "A live 11-piece orchestra, a castrato, three sound effects artists, and Crispin Glover narrating the proceedings in person."......

Last week was the ebay developers conference/ebay Live!, the week-long series of events for ebay developers and power sellers, took place in Boston. The usual smatterings of self-promoting conference topics were presented. Widgets and gadgets made some noise (including the new box we've embedded here showing items for sale relating to the search term "Romney") and ebay enthusiasts networked and discussed success in hawking their wares. The real news wasn't the official program ebay lined......

Holy smokes! Giant fish on the MTA, Paris Hilton in jail, then out, then in again, Al Gore, goatses, blumpkins, Matt Damon, and baby art critics! It's been a busy week across the Ist-A-Verse, and here's a smattering of what's been going on. In Gothamist's neck of the woods, they found out that many things are possible: A man caught a 40+ pound fish off the Rockaways and took it home on the subway. Graffiti......

This year will be the first ever wine event at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. A Spring Serata (serata is Italian for "evening" but sounds way fancier in Italian than English) will take place on June 7th at the ISGM. They're setting up tasting stations all over the museum for the grassy, floral, and mineral wines – don't ask us what that means, ask them: A Spring Serata also puts a unique, creative twist on......

He started snapping photos of religious icons while taking his son out for walks in the stroller near their Somerville home. Josh Michtom, an amateur photographer, public defender, and one of Bostonist's own, found the project to be addictive. His iconography of Somerville's Madonna statues (and other religious lawn ornaments) expanded his set of images into a 234 image set on Flickr, and last November the Somerville Madonna shop was born on the Internet. Note......

After a weekend of rain where all we heard was disgruntled Bostonians complaining, because that's what we do best, about the weather we rock into the week. Miraculously the Red Sox managed to play all their games this past weekend making us furiously check the forecast for WBOS' 14th annual EarthFest coming up this weekend. For us it marks the first of many outdoor events that will happen this summer, and it's Memorial Day......

A weekend stand of winning baseball at home when the Sox take it to the Angels followed by the all day boozy spectator sport that is the Boston Marathon it's going to be a long week. Lucky for music fans there's a lot to look forward to and keep you up all night with that lovely ringing in your ears that only comes from live music. Tuesday, 4/17 Sammy Miami's Southern Alternative Acoustic Jamboree......

Today the final list of Webby nominees was released. According to the press release:Hailed as the "Oscars of the Internet" by the New York Times, The Webby Awards is the leading international awards honoring Web sites, online film and video, interactive advertising, and mobile content. The Webby Awards is presented by the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences, a 550-person judging academy... Unlike other awards shows, where only judges choose the winners, The Webby......

If you look past the fact that the Sox are back at home for their first few games at Fenway this season you'll be able to hear a greater beat on the street. As is often the case there is more good live music going on in town this week than any one person could possibly listen to. Time to clone yourself so you can scoop up a standing room ticket to watch Dice-K......

After the total lunar eclipse spiced up the night sky this past weekend we've got enough of the visuals. This week we're committed not to go see live music but to go hear live music. This week we're welcoming a few new contributors to the list, have a listen, will ya? Monday 3/5 Badly Drawn Boy It's okay to admit to liking British singer-songwriter Damon Gough, aka Badly Drawn Boy. He may write lyrics......

There's something about these little bars. They've got a lot of fight in them and they just won't give in. The Littlest Bar kept on keeping on for months after the initially announced closing date. Tir na nÓg is following suit. First it was February, now it's March. Another month's reprive has been granted and the nÓg will serve up many more pints. There will be another St. Patrick's day to celebrate before the nÓg......

Sunday. Usually, a quiet, contemplative day in the Blogosphere. But not here in the Ist-a-Verse. Nonono! Just look below and see all of the wild and crazy stuff our staffs are up to. In Austin, bands are beginning to confirm for SXSW and the rumor mill is up and running. Good thing, too, because we all know how much Austinites love live performances. Austin also found itself in the national spotlight, with Longhorn Legend......

Yesterday the fanfare that has been the opening celebration for the new ICA building in the Seaport district opened to the general public for a 12 hour free ride in the new space. The news today is that nearly 5,000 people visited the new facility over the course of the day, many of whom had positive things to say about it even after a two hour wait. The museum opened at 9 am and......

There's no good reason to be sitting at home carving pumpkins this week with all the good shows happening around the Hub. Take a moment to put down your $3 carving kit and your pumpkin to sing the pumpkin carving song as you head out to catch some live music. Oh, and if you wear your costume we won't tell. Tuesday, 10/24 Project Move with Elemental Zazen Local hip hop heroes Project Move and......

Bostonist is by no means immune to the pseudo-historical un-period pieces opening this weekend, Marie Antoinette and The Prestige, or to the less new but equally pretty Illusionist (now at our favorite theater for cheap matinees) and Camille (it's like Moulin Rouge, but with character development). But today we'd like to draw your attention to a documentary about an obscure local band called the Pixies and to the abundance of short film collections being offered......

How do you take Fine Art and make it hip for the kids? A DJ, Live Music, or Free Food? If you filled in the oval next to "D – All of the above" you'd be spot on for the effort the Museum of Fine Arts is putting on this Thursday, September 28 - College Night. If you can't scrounge up a student ID there's always Wednesday night entry without admission fee thanks to the......

After a sparse, lackadaisical August, the fall semester has arrived with a frenzied syllabus of film screenings: a slew of new documentaries, our favorite Terry Gilliam movies, a notoriously disorganized film festival, and a guest lecture from Bruce Campbell, chainsaw-wielder emeritus. Thursday 9/7 Four Eyed Monsters Two pale, artsy Brooklynites met through online personals, maxed out seven credit cards to make a movie about it, moved back in with their parents in Massachusetts, and made......

The gap week between the celebrations of America's Independence Day and upcoming France's Bastille Day, this is the perfect time to dabble in some French and American wine tasting history. Ever since the ground-breaking Paris Tasting in 1976 where in a blind tasting France's top wine tasting experts (to everyone's shock) picked American wine over their French counterparts as the best, America's reputation in wine has been on a steady rise. Specifically it was California's......

While perusing this week's issue of the Boston Phoenix we came across an ad for Old School Prom on the back page. It featured a young woman in yellow strapless prom dress, updo, and attitude-full look holding a massive mirror with the words "Now who's the fairest of them all?" written on it (as if to appeal to all the 'ugly duckings' out there who want to set the record straight). The details were......

People in Boston have gotten pretty good at finding new and innovative ways to clear up the rainy day blues. Still in our collective memory is a two-week long wash out that had everyone wondering if we would ever see summer – or just have to build an ark real quick. With gray skies all day today and a weekend looking like it will be another washout, there is a never fail way to......

America’s #1 Arts Festival East of the Rockies Introduces 90 New Exhibitors Memorial Day Weekend! Taking place at the Three County Fairgrounds, on Route 9 and I-91 in Northampton (yes, that's still part of Massachusetts - just west of 128, the Paradise City Arts Festival will run on Saturday, 10am-6pm, Sunday, 10am-6pm, and Monday, 10am-5pm. Admission prices for adults is $12, seniors for $8, students for $5, children under 12 are free, or you can......

Bostonist never tires of urging you to ride your bicycle and with the price of gas and the T climbing ever higher, you really ought to take our advice. Sure, the weather outside is frightful these days, but there are plenty of easy solutions to that problem. And to sweeten the deal, next week MassBike, our friendly neighborhood bicycle advocacy organization, has a bunch of events on tap for Bike Week 2006. The week, which......

Down in the basement of the Charles Playhouse is the Playhouse Lounge. Darts on Tuesday, trivia nights on Wednesday, live music on Thursday, and karaoke on Fridays. Karaoke, some people love it, some people hate it. If you’re looking to get your sing on in the company of theatre types (front and back of house types as well as patrons of the arts), the Playhouse Lounge might be the best place in Boston to do......

If today’s fabulous spring weather is inspiring you to get out of the apartment tonight, then you should stop by the Sebastian Junger event we told you about yesterday…and if for some reason you are feeling very studious tonight, why not make it a double header? For those of you who are on the ball, you already bought your tickets to the Jonathan Safran Foer event at the Coolidge Corner Theater in Brookline. After this......

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, through Thursday 4/13 48 Hour Film Project New films every night this week, freshly made over the weekend. Kendall Square Cinema 48 Hour Film Project: web site 7 pm & 9:30 pm, $9.25 The Devil & Daniel Johnston Jeff Feuerzeig's hilarious and moving......

So we’re having this little party – ok, so it may be a big party – this Saturday, March 25. We’d like you all to come out and have a good time with us at The Kinsale, co-sponsored by our friends at Like Life Boston and a big fat wet kiss to the people at Harpoon that may have a little something special in store for us. But you’ll have to come find Jon......

Dear Ask Bostonist, I have two out-of-town friends (NYC and DC) who are visiting me next weekend. They are all excited about being in Boston for St. Patrick's Day, but every time I venture out of the 17th in Boston, I don't seem to have a good time...very long lines, cheesy bars (Purple Shamrock, anyone?), or just a skeleton crew is left. Any suggestions where I can take them on St. Patty's Day after work?......