What's the trashiest TV show concept you can think of? MTV's The Real World probably comes close. Though it used to feature real people with occupations, brains, and sometimes even college degrees (from Harvard, no less), the show has degenerated over the years into alcoholism-condoning, hookup-filled, cancer-causing trash. And what better place for a trashy show than the fakest location of all: Hollywood? MTV's wet dream, The Real World: Hollywood, hasn't just signaled the downfall......

Citizens of the Commonwealth, please stay calm. I have already received pleas and entreaties asking why I allowed something so earth shattering to occur. How could I, guider of planets and stars, seer of all things known and to be known, and memorizer of at least 3 different Dr. Seuss poems (The Lorax is impossible by the way) permit such a volatile combination of powerful forces that are borderline nuclear? I must be honest,......

--Boston is a city that plays fast and loose with traffic laws, but the city needs money, so that's about to stop. The City Council is considering increasing fines for jaywalking and actually enforcing the rules. [WCVB] --After Caddygate and Drapegate and the casino mess, Governor Deval Patrick probably thought the media was going easy on his nemesis, House Speaker Sal DiMasi. But the free ride might be over. [Boston Globe, Boston Herald] --Norman......

--People marched yesterday in memory of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Steven Odom, a 13-year-old who was shot and killed in random gunfire. [Boston Globe] --Michael P. Lewis, former head of the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority, was fired. He didn't retire. Yet he gets a pension of $72,578 a year. And people wonder why this state is broke? [Boston Globe] --Christopher McCowen, the man convicted for killing fashion writer Christa Worthington in Truro, will not......

After months of "will they, won't they" rumors and days of "wow, they will" anticipation, the New Kids on the Block announced on the TODAY show this morning that they are officially reuniting. A new album and new tour are in the works, and the band's first live performance will take place on May 16, at New York's Rockefeller Plaza. The local media has been abuzz with ideas about what this could mean for NKOTB's......

Bostonist is feeling pretty wary of the media today, so we were skeptical when the Globe announced that the New Kids on the Block will be announcing their reunion tour this Friday, for real this time, no joking. We were especially doubtful considering an NKOTB reunion was Boston.com's April Fools joke a few years ago. But no: we googled it, and it's true. We guess they talked Danny into it and coaxed Jonathan out......

People Magazine is reporting that the former five hardest working kids in show business might just become the five hardest working middle-aged men in show biz. That's right - New Kids on the Block are reportedly planning to follow in Extreme's footsteps as the latest former Boston glory band returning to the spotlight. Just how long has it been? Bostonist remembers back when teen mag pin-up boy Joey Joe McIntyre (who has subsequently dropped the......