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WBZ reports that Endicott College in Beverly will host a celebration of the World Series–winning New York Yankees. Slated to involve a pinstriped fire hydrant, the celebration is described to WBZ by president Dick Wylie as a way to teach "tolerance." However, WHDH describes the event as the result of a bet between Wylie and a Red Sox fan on campus. How a Yankees fan got to be president of a Massachusetts school is somewhat beyond us, but even further beyond us how Beverly is located "10 minutes" from Boston, as one Endicott student describes it. Most of Boston isn't even 10 minutes from the rest of Boston, for Chrissake.

The anonymous, satirical website GlennBeckRapedandMurderedaYoungGirlin1990 is the brainchild of Isaac Eiland-Hall, according to legal documents filed today with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Switzerland. The papers were filed by Gloucester attorney Marc J. Randazza, who represents Eiland-Hall and who, if this brief is any indication, is among the North Shore's most hilarious legal writers.

It was the perfect game to break the bad news. The Bruins looked like a minor league team that had fallen out of contention, lost its stars to the big leagues, and had decided to coast for the rest of the season. Not a minute of solid play.

-- Police in the North Shore believe that the same man is behind a series of bank robberies that have happened miles apart in recent days. His alleged exploits have included a failed heist in Arlington, and robberies in Chelsea, Winchester, and Woburn. [WBZ]

Today the MBTA rolled out new Emission Control Diesel buses in the North Shore. The 70 new buses (23 in service now; more to come at the rate of 5 buses per week) will run 24 bus routes departing from the Lynn Garage. The routes serve about 26,000 customers per day in 12 North Shore communities: Beverly, Chelsea, Danvers, Lynn, Malden, Marblehead, Peabody, Revere, Salem, Saugus, Swampscott, and Wakefield. MBTA General Manager Dan Grabauskas said that 80% of the North Shore bus fleet will be brand new once the rollout of new buses is complete. There are also 20 new buses coming to Cabot Garage in South Boston.

Update: Good Blotter news! Thank you, tipsters, for spreading the word. Police found Starsha Tupper through bank records, and she is safe, according to the Gloucester Times. --If you're a robber, and you're looking for the big bucks, where are you gonna go? Isn't it obvious? The Yankee Candle store! Some robber dressed all in black held up the Yankee Candle at Quincy Market yesterday afternoon. Boy, he must be a thug – he wears...

Just minutes after midnight The Departed took home two big awards. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences started handing out Oscar statues at around 8:45 pm (here on the east coast, much earlier for those watching it in Hollywood). The Departed was our local favorite and hit 4 out of 5. Alan Arkin, who won the Oscar for Actor in a Supporting Role, may have been good in Little Miss Sunshine but we've got no regrets in our unabashed support of Mark Wahlberg in his first Academy Award nomination. The film based in Massachusetts with scenes filmed around Boston took home the other four awards for which it was nominated. The Oscar went to The Departed for:
- Film Editing: Thelma Schoonmaker
- Writing (Adapted Screenplay): (the North Shore's own) William Monahan
- Directing: (eight time nominee) Martin Scorsese
- Best Picture

If you had a chance to look outside this afternoon you noticed something that we haven't seen this year: accumulation of snow. It was a wimpy snow dusting the Boston area lightly, a reported half inch or less in Boston and up to 2 inches in the outer suburbs, especially in the North Shore. The dusting today would have likely been welcomed with open arms if it had occurred on Christmas Day. Coming a...

There was a time and a place when Bostonist kept missing upcoming shows in the area because we were too busy to pay attention. Along came Tourfilter. A locally based website (now with worldwide reach) that allows us to take a look at upcoming shows based on the information provided by the venue. Each and every day they let us know who's coming to town, where they'll be, and which of our friends are tracking the bands. Recommendations, suggestions, and tracking hits help find out what might be this week's hit that we've never heard of before. Suggestions, of course, are always welcome – and since we first reported on them significant changes have been made to improve the site for the better.

The weather is gorgeous. Great day to hit Fenway for an evening match-up. Too bad we don’t have tickets. As is standard this time of year, we’ve got baseball on the mind. Well, baseball and the next challenge to same-sex marriage here in the Bay State. To be perfectly accurate the case the Supreme Judicial Court will hear today is about banning a ballot question, a question which would move to ban same-sex marriage. There are power plays and legal particulars involved that confuse and confound us. So we’re just going to kick back and think about baseball – and homosexual innuendos. Sure, it may not be politically correct, but without the internets where would creative editing be? Brokeback Mountain meets Jeter and Johnny – brilliant. The video trailer is a nice outcropping of the image we've seen floating around the internets for a while.

Perhaps not a huge fan of Clay, Bostonist is a fan of the contest. We, and we think you, like free stuff and that feeling of being special. We were reminded today of the Bon Jovi show that we gave away a pair of tickets to back in mid-October (congrats Pyng, enjoy the show!). The concert sold out for the Garden pretty quickly, but looking out the window today we think there may be a few no shows and some scalpers with tickets discarded by North Shore Bon Jovi fans who will make the wise decision not to make it into the city for the show. We don’t encourage scalping, but if you really want to see the show, check the ‘list, or hang out in North Station and see what you can find.

Although the population of greater Boston probably doesn't think much about Assembly Square ("That's off 93, right?" "No, wait, it's off 28, isn't it?" Yes and yes), in Somerville it is ever on residents' lips and minds: "With but a few anchor mega-retailers," Somervillians muse, "a gleaming shopping Mecca might arise, nestled among humming highways and reaching into the wallets of Boston, Cambridge, Woburn, and - dare we say it - even Winchester!" It's...