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Six bottles of Chateau Lafite Rothschild 1870. You can't afford them.
Oprah and Obama Sunday, December 9 Verizon Wireless Arena, Manchester, NH Doors at 6:00 pm, rally at 7:30 pm You can knock, but you might not get in. Waiting List As the presidential race heats up, Barack Obama isn't messing around. He's already been to Boston several times and paid extra-special attention to New Hampshire, but now he's uncorking his secret weapon--Oprah Winfrey. Winfrey will be with Obama in South Carolina Sunday morning, and then...
--Screenwriters, get your pens. A boy finagled his way into becoming an exchange student at the all-female Wellesley College. Ready … set … go! [Boston Globe] --Barack Obama and his supporters didn't let the weather stop their gathering at the Park Plaza Castle. He joked that "the name of my cousin, Dick Cheney, will not be on the ballot.” Now when's Oprah coming? [WCVB, Harvard Crimson] --Dr. Ruth was in town. Laurel Sweet describes her...
--Yarelis Cruz, 26, of Lawrence, is a mom who allegedly grew pot in her house, and she got caught when the teacher of her 11-year-old son found pot pictures on the boy's cell phone. The teacher confiscated the cell phone when Cruz' son was taking pictures in the school when he wasn't supposed to, and she spotted pot plants on the screen. The teacher did the math, the police investigated, and they found a plant...
Touring the Ben and Jerry’s factory in Vermont while taking an afternoon off from Skiing at Sugarbush is good. Getting free ice cream at a scoop shop on a nearly 80 degree day in April is so much better. With some morally reprehensible corporations making the local news recently (think Gillette and gubernatorial candidate Deval Patrick’s Coca-Cola ties) Bostonist is glad to take a little something back from our growth hormone free friends from the north at a Ben and Jerry’s scoop shop. Bostonist is maxing out our caloric intake for the day in a fifteen minute walk. Freedom Trail-Eat your heart out. From the Prudential Mall we’re grabbing some New York Super Fudge Chunk, going past the store on Newbury for some Dublin Mudslide, loosening our belts, maybe taking a little nap in the Common and making it to the store at Park Plaza for some Coffee Coffee Buzz Buzz Buzz to keep us going through the rest of the afternoon. If we haven’t had enough we’ll hit the store in Harvard Square and then have someone drive us out to Natick, ok, now we’re just getting obsessive.
While thousands of runners will be carbo-loading and burning it all off on Monday's 109th running of the Boston Marathon, Bostonist has been looking into some more relaxing options that don't involve sneakers or water bottles. The 5th Annual Boston Beer Summit starts tonight at 6 p.m., where thousands gather at The Castle to taste over 200 beers from over 50 different breweries. From local brands like Sam and Wachusett to some international flavors like...
The MBTA is having superfun budget proposals this week, and they may be putting the Night Owl service out of its misery. Not without a fight, though. According to the Herald, City Councilor Michael P. Ross is organizing a rally at MBTA Headquarters (10 Park Plaza) at 11 this morning to keep the buses running, arguing that they are necessary for safety and late night workers. The Night Owl service, for those who stumble...