--A list of the troops who died since last Memorial Day. [Blue Mass Group] --A five-year-old boy was struck and killed by a Newburyport/Rockport train when he was riding his bicycle across the train tracks in Revere. The incident is under investigation. [WCVB, Boston Herald] --Nothing, not even a brain tumor or, for that matter, wind turbines, keeps Ted Kennedy from sailing. He really should get a tattoo that says "Figawi Forever." [WBZ] --Anyone......

--Obligatory stories about high gas prices over Memorial Day. Thanks to high gas prices, now you have to dig for conversation topics with family members at home instead of on the Cape. [Boston Herald] --Did Mayor Menino just call Bill Clinton "Big Daddy"? [Boston Globe] --Governor Deval Patrick is in trouble again for spending like a drunken sailor. Dan Kennedy suggests he may have a "tin ear." Then again, it's Menino who called Bill......

--An MBTA bus struck a pregnant woman and her 2-year-old child after the child ran into Washington Street last night. Their injuries are non-life-threatening. [WBZ] --In light of the traveling carnival mishap in California, the state of Massachusetts will be inspecting all Yo-Yo rides. The mere name "Yo-Yo Ride" makes us queasy. [Boston Globe] --This isn't a crime, but it is embarrassing. A New Bedford police officer didn't unload his weapon before a safety......

It's summer, and summer likely means a trip to Cape Cod at some point. If you're planning to go, you might want to think about driving because the latest news about flights to the Cape scares us. Cape Air cancelled flights through yesterday to this afternoon because engines have failed three times. Here's the details on the failures from the Globe: The decision to shut down the airlines was made after two engine failures over......

Now that we've recovered from the Saturday's sunshine and sonic overload (and celebrated a little Memorial Day Weekend action), we can tell you that Bostonist was all over WBOS EarthFest on Saturday. Once you start speaking of concert attendance in tens of thousands, attempts to calculate turnout gets dicey. We're hearing reports that there were around 100,000 folks at the Hatch Shell on Saturday for WBOS EarthFest 2007, but rather than offer our own......

--Is that a blanket? Is that a pillow? No, it's some random dude sleeping on your sofa! A woman in Hyannis found a stranger sleeping on her couch. He says he thought he was in his sister's house. He was charged with breaking and entering. --More details have emerged about the weekend crash that killed theMark frontman Paul Farris. Javier Morales, the driver who attempted to evade police, was driving with a suspended license at......

It's a wonderfully quiet holiday. But this Memorial Day weekend is typical in that auto accidents are populating the blotter. In Attleboro, a teenager died this morning after he lost control of his car and hit a guardrail on 95 South. The teen wasn't wearing his seatbelt. --A similar accident happened on Storrow Drive early this morning. A man driving without a seatbelt struck an SUV and rolled over. WBZ reports that the unidentified man......

All across the Ist-A-Verse (or at least the American parts thereof), writers and editors are in the midst of enjoying their three-day weekend. But after the week we've all had, we feel like the break is not only needed, but deserved. Just look at everything we've been doing! Gothamist headed into the Memorial Day weekend with a number of tasks accomplished. They worried about Long Islanders giving New Yorkers a bad name. They tried......

--The last thing we need, especially with a presidential election coming up, is for someone to add fuel to the flag-burning debate. On Thursday, someone in Natick destroyed a solar-powered trash container by stuffing it with American flags and setting them on fire. The person who did it must be trying to offend as many people as possible - the left by wrecking an environmental device, and the right by burning flags. We are all......

Sure, it's Memorial Day weekend, and it's 90 degrees out. But it's not too early to start thinking about this fall, specifically Patriots football. A limited number of single-game and standing-room tickets are on sale today. There aren't going to be many out there, so act quickly. Which games might you actually have a chance at getting to go to? Preseason (2) vs. Tennessee, NY Giants. Preseason football, combining the high prices and long......

By now you're probably either planning your strategy for Saturday's WBOS EarthFest or figuring out how to avoid Storrow Drive like the plague over the course of the weekend. With predictions of weather in the low 80s and partly cloudy skies, it appears that the folks over at BOS have picked themselves a beaut of a day to devote to free music and environmental friendliness at the Hatch Shell. For EarthFest attendees, it might seem......

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......

It's a good week to take the whole week off. Well, is there such a thing as a bad week to take off? Grilled meats will be invading your pores for the first time in such a heavy dose since Memorial Day, which was only about a month ago. In addition to this weeks picks for some of the great shows creeping up on us in Boston we'd like to point you over to......

Memorial Day has come and gone, and despite the torrential rains, in a few weeks it will be officially summer. This naturally implies two things: It’s safe to start adding white back into your palette of wardrobe colors… and If you’ve ever been (even affectionately) referred to as “butter fingers” – it may be time to shelve the red wine for a few months (at least till Labor Day) and save the stains on your......

Not too long until these parties rock with the roof off. That is to say we're only a few weeks away from the official start of summer. The unofficial beginning came last week with Memorial Day. Put on your white pants and go see some of the last few shows inside before you rock each park, lake, and outdoor venue you can find in the greater Boston area. Wednesday 6/7 Cat Power Indie chanteuse......

Some thoughts while preparing for a sunny Memorial Day Weekend cookout… David Wells had some bad luck earlier this week, taking a baseball off his right knee. The 43 year-old lefty was pitching quite well until he took a Travis Lee line drive off his knee which knocked him out of the contest. Wells was pitching quite well, leaving after giving up 1 run on 5 hits (and no walks) over 4 1/3 innings. Although......

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......

One of the better kept secrets in Boston is the Langham Hotel's Three Season Chocolate Bar at Café Fleuri. Bostonist wants to be clear. It's a bar that serves chocolate, not a bar of chocolate or a bar made out of chocolate. (What imaginations you have!) When the doors are closed for three months over the summer, it's not certain whether the chefs head for the Cape or if no one in Boston likes chocolate......

Governor Romney was spotted this afternoon at the Park Street MBTA station. The Governor returned to Boston from a Washington DC fundraiser in order to show residents that things were perfectly safe. Bostonist usually rides on the Trolley with a couple of body guards too, perfectly safe Mitt. Channel 5 already has posted a report on Mitt’s return home just to ride the subway (similar to when he slept in his own bed in the......

Bostonist wrote a while back about a mysterious boat that turned up in an empty city-owned property near Somerville City Hall. Turns out the yacht belonged to Frankie Santangelo, a city employee who violated ethics rules by using city property for personal use. Santangelo was reprimanded by the city, and the brief scandal subsided for the time being. Until this weekend, that is. According to the Somerville News, during Sunday's Memorial Day parade through......

Due to the vagaries of using frequent flier miles on holiday weekends, Bostonist's mom visited from Thursday to Sunday, causing us to take Friday off and work today. This has given us the rare and pleasurable opportunity to see downtown Boston in a state of slumbering not-quite-readiness: At 10:00 this morning (when the swan song of coffee drew us out of the office) the streets were warm and empty. Short of a few tourists,......

Happy Memorial Day, everybody, and Bostonist hopes you celebrate it all proper-like, with hot dogs, not dogs, beer, and some radio blasting Amerie's "One Thing." Anyone read the recent Blender interview with the pretty little thrush? Apparently she was born in 1980 and went to Georgetown in 1996. So she's wicked smart, clearly. C'mon guys, Catherine Zeta-Jones can lie about her age better, yes? Friday there's several awesome shows going on, it just depends on......

Bostonist would like to ask: What the hell is up with the weather? Being New Englanders, we can all expect the weather to throw us some curve balls here and there, but this is getting ridiculous. Does the sun not shine in the Hub anymore? After this past weekend being another washout, making it the fifth in a row, Bostonist was hopeful that things would turn around before the long holiday weekend. Well, according to......

Monday is Patriots Day, another one of those Massachusetts-only holidays that Bostonist adores. Some cynics suggest that it is no accident that two of our unique holidays, Evacuation Day and Patriots Day, fall on occasions usually celebrated with hearty amounts of drink (St. Patrick's Day and the Boston Marathon), and the third, Bunker Hill Day, saves June from being a month without time off and falls conveniently half-way between Memorial Day and July 4th. Bostonist......