Oh, you know the Oscar drill already: Marion Cotillard surprised everyone by winning Best Actress for La Vie en Rose, further proving the rule that if you go ugly for a movie role, you will win. Poor Julie Christie just looked too beautiful. Otherwise, Tilda Swinton delivered the best speech for winning Best Supporting Actress for Michael Clayton. The men's races were yawners. Of course, Javier Bardem won Best Supporting Actor for No Country for......

This short work week is long on music. The small show battles the bigger venue this week as the students invade the city. When they come back it seems the shows start up with vigor. Lots of 18+ hit the mark – and they've still got summer money in their pockets. What's this mean? Quite possibly there will be a few more sell outs than usual as the concert funds still run high. Fair......

We live in an iTunes nation. It's easy to pull a track down to your pod for under a buck. Bostonist still longs for cover art, liner notes, and that masterwork that is a multi-track collection of songs we call an album. Listed here is our much discussed, unbiased by payola, top 25 albums of 2005. After the jump you'll find where some of us stand individually on the subject of the years best. (Apparently......

Bostonist has long had mixed feelings about high-priced, multi-artist, big-venue hip hop shows, so we approached last night's Breed Love Oddyssey Tour (Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Pharoahe Monch, and Jean Grae) with some apprehension. In our formative concert-going years (back when we were a Brooklynist), we got pretty well-accustomed to seeing our hip hop up-close and personal, being able to hear lyrics, and expecting freestyles to make up a healthy part of an evening's entertainment.......

We know you are excited, we have renamed "Upcoming Music Events and Concerts" the Breakdown (at least for the time being). So here it is, the second installment of must-see gigs for the weekend, next week, and in the future. Please let us know if you have any suggestions for events that you want people to hear about that don't manage to make it on the Bostonist radar - just shoot us an e-mail......

Get ready, here comes Bostonist's first installment of "Upcoming Music Events and Concerts" (catchier title to be determined at a later date.) This weekend Saturday, November 12, 2005 Remember Reel Big Fish? Bostonist vaguely remembers “Sell Out” as the “jam” at one of our high school dances, so if you feel like reliving those memories and seeing what they have been up to the in post-Ska movement of the late 90s you can check......