Results tagged “omg”

From the tallest skyscraper in the City of Brotherly Love to Canadian tourism copywriting brilliance, here's what you should know from our -ist cities: This week, Phillyist took a gleeful listen to the White Stripes' exciting new release, watched in awe as their new tallest skyscraper was finally completed, found a cheaper way to get to Gothamist, invented a tasty new dessert, and brought back their Craigslist Round-Up feature with a bang. Bostonist watches... more ›

Bostonist can't quite believe that it's been 15 years since our fair city got itself a rockstar symphony conductor. We remember well when the Keith Craze first sent music fans into a tizzy - the swooning, the squeals, the questions about what the young Keith Lockhart was going to do to the Boston Pops. And here it is, a decade and a half later and Bostonist still under KLo's spell. We've sighed at the sight... more ›

Sorry about the title, we just couldn’t refrain from using a pun in Boston’s English. The show’s been open for just over a week now on its stop in the Hub as part of the 2006 tour. We’ve only heard positive reviews. It actually seems like everyone Bostonist has run into this morning went to see Wicked over the weekend. The snippets of commentary include: "costumes were great", "sets real good", "what’s the deal with the dragon?," "some of it made more sense in the book," "every time there was flying it was like OMG" (seriously, someone used o – m – g abbreviation in speech), "they could have done the monkeys better," "that part when they were all in green – spectacular." Ok, so that’s the story, in brief. Wicked is playing through May 14 at the Opera House and tickets are still available for some performances. The show may be all about pre-Dorothy Oz, but the following video is all about post-Tony Wicked. more ›

Bostonist is never surprised by revelations about the current administration, so when we learned from local internet security expert Richard Smith that the White House web site uses cookies to keep track of the internet browsing activities of people who visit the site and other programs to keep possibly past content from being archived, well, we weren't like, "OMG!" (Full disclosure: In addition to his web sleuthing duties, Smith is our mother-in-law's husband.) But we... more ›