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Nubian ∑agle found some photographic goodness at the Old State House Museum. A new take on a classic shot, the curves and lines do an excellent job of keeping your eyes moving throughout the photo. more ›

The forces behind the Ron Paul Blimp suffered many delays. For a while, it seemed like the blimp promoting the campaign of Republican candidate/Internet sensation Ron Paul might not launch. But they launched their blimp this morning at 9:00 am from Elizabeth City, North Carolina. more ›

Republican presidential candidate and Internet sensation Ron Paul doesn't need Oprah. He doesn't need connections to the hot-shot politicians. He just needs a blimp. Ron Paul's supporters are sending up a blimp for an East Coast tour from North Carolina, through DC and New York, to Boston. According to the flight plan on the Ron Paul Blimp site, the balloon will launch Wednesday in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, and then travels north, flying over... more ›

Bank of America wants you to get cultured. Or it wants more cultured people to open bank accounts with them. Whatever. They're continuing the tradition of free admission to Massachusetts Bank of America cardholders during the month of May. The Old State House Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, the Museum of Science, and the Museum of African American History are participating in the promotion. We didn't see any fine print, so it looks like... more ›

So this Saturday, as we learned from a recent MBTA press release, the Old State House entrance to the State Street station was closed for a week (till the coming Saturday) for the installation of exciting new Charlie Ticket machines and the Blue Line stopped going to State Street. Nothing terribly exciting, right? Right. But here's what vexes us: The T is providing free transfers so that Blue Line customers who ordinarily change for the... more ›

If you type in “Boston” (yeah, we roll without a state identifier, ‘cause we’re cocky like that) and then zoom all the way in, you find the GoogleCenter of Boston is One Beacon Street. We actually think this is a pretty fair approximation of the center of the city. If you look at the civic side of it One Beacon Street sits pretty much equidistant from the State House, the Old State House, and City Hall. We even checked and it’s a near estimation of the spot in the center of all the MBTA lines as they run through downtown. We like thinking of this as the GoogleCenter of Boston but to be quite honest it’s not nearly the geographic center of Boston. more ›

There’s the Duck Tour, the Trolley Tour (we’re not talking Green Line), Park Service Docents, the Freedom Trail, and dozens of biking and walking tours of the city. Steven Tyler may be local, but Bostonist has already seen the Old State House and we can’t be wasting our precious cell phone minutes to listen to him talk about it. With our attempt to find out some of those local hidden historical markers, we were very happy to find this “Hidden Historical Mania-in-a-can.” When Bostonist once again welcomes the parents to town for the Holidays this year, we’re sending them out, bundled up, for our new favorite tour of Boston. AudisseyGuides, produced by Robert Pyles. An intrepid, Boston-native, twenty-something entrepreneur, Pyles has pulled together a 27-stop tour of historic downtown Boston for sites we’ve passed by a thousand times and, now, will never think of the same way again. more ›

Bostonist decided to highlight some of the events that might interest you readers out there this holiday weekend: more ›