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• Governor Deval Patrick says his plan to replace cops with civilian flaggers on major work sites would save Masachusetts $7.2 million per year. The city of Boston disagrees, and the City Council yesterday voted 12-1 to prove it. [Boston Herald]

• Several off-duty police officers protested the presence of a civilian flagger in a road crew on Route 6A in West Barnstable. [Cape Cod Times]

Clear your schedule for Sunday evening, because Brooklyn trio The Antlers will make the Middle East Upstairs the only worthy destination for the night. Once a project composed of bedroom recordings by Peter Silberman while a student at NYU, the indie-rock group has taken off since Silberman received his diploma. After self-releasing Hospice earlier this year, The Antlers have experienced a wave of critical acclaim, and one that only looks to get bigger when Frenchkiss digitally re-releases the album next Tuesday.

Here's an interesting story: as the economy plunges into a recession and people panic over the prospect of lost jobs and money, psychics continue to make big money. Well, okay - it was a mildly interesting story when NPR's Day to Day covered it in November of last year. When a CBS affiliate did it in January it was somewhat less fresh. By the time CNN wrote about it back in February, let's face it, much of the appeal was gone. Yesterday, when Boston Globe writer Brian MacQuarrie found it in the back of the fridge, sniffed it, and tossed it the microwave for 90 seconds, it was probably time to throw it out.

Fangela has had quite enough news about the New England Patriots' linebacker Tom Brady's torn ACL from NPR during her morning and afternoon commute, thank you very much. And because WBUR's recent focus on "local programming" basically translates to "recycling the same news a whole lot," they'll make sure to update us every ten minutes on the lack of a change in status in the ACL tomorrow. That is, if the world still exists tomorrow.

--Adam Gaffin of Universal Hub was on NPR this week to discuss Boston Crime, which tracks violent crime on a Google map and allows people to comment on cases. A must-listen. They describe him as a "computer guy by day, crime chronicler by night." [NPR]

Continuing our list of list series, Bostonist slugged through all the best and worst of lists for the albums of 2007.

Everybody's making "best of" lists at this time of year, but who's in charge of making a list of these best of lists? Well, nobody really, so we've put ourselves in charge and assembled a list of the "best books" lists of 2007. Nobody really needs another list, but a compilation of lists--and determining what's best according to all lists--is something helpful that nobody else really does. Bostonist has checked out several "best of" book lists so you don't have to, and we've assembled lists of the best of the best of lists. Below is our list o' book lists, and after the jump, we summarize the best-best books of 2007 from all lists!

Authorial Intent is Bostonist's wrap-up of local readings. All events are free unless otherwise noted. Wednesday, November 28 Helen Vendler, Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and the Lyric Form, Sacker Museum (via Harvard Book Store), 6:00 pm. More info. Vendler, the closest reader of all close readers, so says the New York Times, shines her spotlight on William Butler Yeats. Thursday, November 29 David Hosp, Innocence, 7:30 pm, Charlestown Branch Library Hosp will be reading from...

Four (Curious) Stories Monday, November 5, 2007 7-9pm (Music starts @ 6) The Enormous Room 567 Massachusetts Ave Central Square, Cambridge Admittance free and open to the public While "Tales of exploration, experimentation, and questioning" might conjure up images of coming out stories, tonight's installment of the Four Stories reading series isn't specifically tailored to that topic. It's just a bunch of curious tales, designed to step off the beaten (written?) path and spark some...

Turkeys have been terrorizing Brookline for some time, but a Bostonist reader happened to catch one in the act, just waiting to strike on Washington Square. In September, the other BPD, the Brookline Police Department, warned residents about turkey trouble and what to do in case you are faced with the kind of wild turkey that doesn't come in a bottle. Our favorite tip from them is "Don’t let turkeys intimidate you — Don’t...

Mahmood Rezaei-Kamalabad Aladdin Auto Repair Behind Fresh Pond Cinemas Friday, October 12, through Sunday, October 13 Gallery reception on Saturday, October 13, 5:00 to 9:00 pm Cambridge has always had a knack for making cars way more interesting to those who are not mechanically inclined. People without cars can enjoy NPR's "Car Talk," broadcast from Harvard Square. But Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers, have nothing on Mahmood Rezaei-Kamalabad, proprietor of Aladdin Auto Repair....

Bostonist sends a hearty congratulations to Rebecca Watson, of Brookline, for winning the Public Radio Talent Quest. Watson will have the opportunity to produce a pilot to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

The On the Road 50th-anniversary event will be on Thursday, September 6, at 6:00 pm at the Brattle Theatre. Tickets are $5 and are available at Harvard Book Store. You may have heard rumors of a bar at the event, but, alas, the idea was nixed. Lowell's own Jack Kerouac is getting the royal treatment from Massachusetts now that On the Road is turning 50. Lowell is showing the legendary Kerouac scroll, and authors Joyce...

Correction: Many thanks to an anonymous guest who pointed out that it is "Tappet," not "Tappert." That was an egregious typo because Bostonist loves "Car Talk." This kind guest also provides a Wikipedia explanation of "Tappet" and its link to "Click" and "Clack." Dewey, Cheetham, and Howe forever! Car buffs, stoners, and the hung over will wax rhapsodic over "Car Talk," the NPR talk show that airs out of Harvard Square. The car tips of...

Providence's corrupt mayor, a brazen statement backed up by a federal court ruling, has been released from prison in New Jersey and is now currently in a Boston halfway house. Media were camped out around the building awaiting his arrival. He thwarted most of the cameras by slipping in the back door. It appears that a Providence TV station managed to secure some cameraphone shots of his arrival. It was reported last week that he'd...

Roy Blount Jr. will be reading from Long Time Leaving: Dispatches From Up South at First Parish Church Meetinghouse on Wednesday, May 16, at 7:30 pm. Tickets are available at Harvard Book Store. On Saturday mornings, we need a Roy Blount Jr. fix. We're addicted. If he's not answering questions in NPR's Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me in his warm, avuncular, Southern-fried voice, we get crabby. We don't know why, but we love hearing him...

Text messages aren't just our favorite way to vote Sanjaya off of American Idol, they're also the quickest way to get in touch, no matter where we are. The mobile is always close at hand (and usually in the pocket) if we're at a concert, in class, or even in the cube toiling away on our TPS reports a text message won't likely go ignored for long. A number of US colleges and universities have...

This morning on NPR's Morning Edition the money race was quantified in numbers. Since it was NPR they needed something other than visual aids to make the point. What better way to make that point than to use music? The brothers Gibb classic “Staying Alive” was used, for every one second played the candidate indicated had raised $2 million dollars. For some of the candidates, like Joe Biden, Chris Dodd, and Bill Richardson the clips...

This American Life Live! will be at the Boston Opera House at 8:00 pm tonight.

Garrison Keillor will be at Symphony Hall tomorrow at 3pm. Tickets are available through the celebrityseries.org website.

This past September something innovative happened in Boston. The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum launched a webcast. It wasn't just any webcast, it was a creative commons licensed release of concerts performed as part of the long standing museum concert series. It's allowed users world wide to take in a little classical music culture by downloading the file and playing it on their iPod, in the windows media center or whatever MP3 compatible device they choose....

PJ O'Rourke is being hosted by Brookline Booksmith for a reading at Coolidge Corner Theater tomorrow night, Monday, January 29 at 6:00 pm. The price is two bucks. How can you write about an "invisible hand" if you can't even see it? Well, you can if you're PJ O'Rourke and you're writing about Adam Smith, the great-grandpappy of free trade. PJ O'Rourke is tackling Adam Smith's legendary The Wealth of Nations. But he's not really...

The Executive Office of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is taking a giant leap into 2005. Deval Patrick will podcast. Shoot he might even blog. Local leaders are already doing it. Menino is doing it. O'Malley is doing it. So why shouldn't Governor Patrick jump at the chance to bring his message directly to the people? It's a cool idea, we just wish he was going to make it a warm and fuzzy fireside vlog. The podcast is the governor's latest method of reaching out directly to the voters. He took to the airwaves state-wide with the help of NPR for an hour-long live call-in show, the podcast will launch on that appearances two week anniversary.

John Sedgwick will be reading at Emmanuel Church Tuesday, January 9th, at 6:30 pm. Tickets are $15 in advance and $20 at the door and can be purchased via the Massachusetts Historical Society website or by calling 617-646-0560.

In preparation for tonight's big night, you might be concerned with how you'll feel on New Year's Day. No one wants to start the New Year crouched over a toilet bowl, clinging to the cool porcelain throne. NPR's "Morning Edition" aired an informative piece about how people wind up in so much pain after a night of overindulgence. Basically, if you're hungover, you just "pickled" yourself: "The second theory of hangover involves a type of...

We just love listening to all the great 'casts out there. Sure, we have to wade through mountains of manure to find the ones worthy of calling our shiny little MP3 player home. Bostonist thinks it might have found one such 'cast: Love and Radio.

If you're not into traveling all the way to the Tweeter Center for Journey and Def Leopard, check out this week's picks. Even if you are into heading down to the big name act's show you'll need something to do the rest of the week. There's no joking about it this week. Fall is here. By the time the weekend hits it's time to break out the cider and make some pumpkin pie. We're saving that for Sunday, however, the rest of the week is for music.

If it weren't for our life as an -ist, we're not sure we'd ever leave our apartment. Fortunately, to fully -ist, one must seek out the new, the fresh, and the unknown. Brand new, or just new to us, that's what we're all about this week. Phillyist keeps it fresh by getting a new motto, learning to prioritize, and taking in an experimental indie rock show. Torontoist does their first post in franglais, gets ready...