Ethan Gilsdorf and Ted Weesner, Jr. Friday, December 14, 7:00 pm Willoughby and Baltic Art Space 195 G Elm Street, Somerville (T: Davis Square) Free Ethan Gilsdorf's official site Listings for readings may be slim while everyone is busy for the holidays, but it's quality that matters. Two recipients of fellowships from the Somerville Arts Council will be sharing their latest projects for free tomorrow night. Journalist/poet Ethan Gilsdorf and novelist Ted Weesner, Jr., are...
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--Representative Ed "Biz" Markey is going to Bali--in Second Life. Way to be hip to the Internets, but does that avatar look like him? Discuss. [Boston Globe] --Boston got dumped by CNN. A debate that was supposed to be in Boston next week has been knocked off the schedule because of the early caucus dates this year. And we were hoping for a look at Wolf Blitzer. [Boston Globe] --The jury in the trial of...
It's safe to say both the anti-gay presidential aspirant and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney and readers of gay.com got quite a shock when they saw a Mitt Romney for President ad on the website. Was Romney letting his rainbow flag fly? Jim Rutenberg at the New York Times reports that it is no joke: "Over the course of at least two days in August, [readers of gay.com] may well also have seen banner advertisements...
Online dating is becoming as big of a commitment as a serious relationship. The applications and endless profile-building keep you chained to your computer when you could be out meeting The One or at least adding to your repertoire of Hell-Date stories. Crazyblinddate.com, which is launching today in Boston, New York, and San Francisco, strips the online-dating process down to its bare bones. Crazyblinddate.com promises to get you interacting with as many people as...
Today the final list of Webby nominees was released. According to the press release:
Hailed as the "Oscars of the Internet" by the New York Times, The Webby Awards is the leading international awards honoring Web sites, online film and video, interactive advertising, and mobile content. The Webby Awards is presented by the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences, a 550-person judging academy...more ›
Friday means something special for lovers of comic strips and internets. No, it's not the winner selection from the Finger Quotin' Margo (that happened last Sunday). Every Friday Brian McFadden posts the most recent strip of Big Fat Whale, his cartoon (also) published in the Phoenix. This week, as he's reported on his big fat blog, he's sorry for the apparent suckage of the weekly cartoon – but hopes you'll get over it and still come out to support some local cartoonists. Tomorrow from 2 – 4 pm he'll be at Million Year Picnic in Harvard Square. McFadden won't be alone signing copies of Attitude 3: The New Subversive Online Cartoonists alone, fellow featured cartoonist Mark Poutenis who's strip Thinking Ape Blues can be found in the pages of the Dig will also be on hand. It's a great chance to meet some of the great new faces pioneering comic strips in the age of the internets – it's not just for print media anymore.
We're obviously suckers for the hilarity that is a headline pun. Perhaps the most literal, yet still hilarious, headline printed in a while related to the recent unarmed robbery of a Rozzie bank. The Parkway Blog, a new blog by the Town Online paper subset from West Roxbury and Roslindale Transcript, recounts the incident where a 14 year-old walked into a bank, passed a note, and received an undisclosed amount of US currency (we're waiting for the day they give them Canadian currency just to stick them with the exchange rate). The best part of the story is that the heist had its fair share of problems, no clean get away was had. The suspect was shortly apprehended with a 17 year old, who would also be charged, when he was found after the splotches of red dye were found on his door handle and the walls leading to his apartment – when he was found he had just showered and Boston Police found that his shower was stained red with dye. The bank teller not only passed cash but also a dye pack to stain the cash and identify the burgler to authorities. Perhaps it's from film that the assumption is made but Bostonist always thought the dye was purple – it's much more appropriate when the dye is red and headlines like "caught red handed" can be employed in reporting the story to the public. Kudos Cooperative Bank, your dye pack color choice is worth a chuckle.
AmericanDad.com is run, like many small internet businesses, off of a desktop computer and a server located remotely. The web magazine that serves as a resource for positive parenting, targeted to fathers, faces a struggle with Fox over brand identity. Typing out reviews, stories, and parenting tips from a renovated South End wharehouse space, AmericanDad.com’s founder and CEO, Peter Demers, is fighting to protect his magazines vs. Fox’s promotion of their bumbling father figure, Stan...
Stop Snitchin’ shirts have reportedly been pulled off the shelves in a number of local stores. Boston Police, with their shiny new blog, apprehended 77 persons on outstanding warrants over the weekend. Crime statistics still say that Boston has hit a ten year high for violent crime, as measured by the murder rate. Bostonist often touts the merits of the libertarian values. Be that as it may we still wonder how 77 people were walking...
We know that as a reader of this little corner of the Internet that you’re a savvy, smart, sophisticated person—that or you can’t figure out how to work the mouse and click away from here. Bostonist would like to think it’s the former. We’re going to play make-believe for a minute think that we’ve been stealing away visitors from the Boston Globe’s website...Ok, Playtime over. Boston.com we know is ten, but losing readers?
"Rather than go back to my tiny apartment, we headed into the State House, drank Jack Daniel's, rolled naked about the oval 'Cabinet meeting' table," wrote Byrnes. Now, the next time Mitt sits down to a cabinet meeting, he might be wondering if the table is coated with Old English or Olde English.
Just before Bostonist’s lunch break ended on June 27th an email popped into our inbox with the subject line "Santorum Blames Boston For The Catholic Priest Sex Scandal." Bostonist got all excited that we might be in the loop on some big, breaking story. The email we got linked out to the CapitolBuzz blog referencing a June 25 column in the Philadelphia Daily News. We read the article and actually, Santorum’s "blame" was laid in a 2002 article to Catholic Online. So we flagged the email, kept it in the inbox, and waited.
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