Results tagged “mayday”

-- A good round-up NY tabloid covers on the Red Sox sweep. [Boston Dirt Dogs] more ›

An early Easter made April less holiday-filled than usual, so now that May has rolled around, everyone's ready for a bit of celebrating. The first of May is host to more holidays than you might imagine, from the obvious MAYDAY! to the perhaps lesser-known Law Day. Here's an overview of May 1 holidays and a brief preview of stuff to do on May 5, Boston's beloved CINCO DE MAYO (strangely unrelated to the sandwich spread). more ›

There's so much going on across the Ist-a-Verse that it's almost impossible to keep track these days. Fortunately, we do it so you don't have to! Londonist took a walk through Oliver Twist's London, thanks to a gorgeous map layer for Google Earth. They also caught up with modern-day fictional London, with the Fantastic Four and 28 Weeks Later. It was a week of insanity over at DCist. They started the week off with... more ›

Things were looking bleak in Canada yesterday. Leonard Cohen bleak. Down 3-1 after seven innings, the Sox looked like the "feast or famine" roller coaster was about to take another big dip. Then Manny homered to tie it. He's finally off the schnide, and only one behind Miracle Mirabelli now. Then in the bottom of the eighth, Alex Cora survived a tough slide by the Jays' Lyle Overbay to turn a rally-killing double play. Cora,... more ›

Today is May Day, which in the old days, when labor had some clout in this country, meant unruly socialist rallies and general anarchy in the streets. In this more civilized time, we have learned to peg our obligatory working man's holiday to a long weekend, guaranteeing that most wage slaves will be home grilling rather than out seeking to overthrow their duly elected government. Perhaps conscious of the date's history, many of the same... more ›