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We would like to take a moment to thank this week's advertisers on Bostonist. Wicked, playing a limited engagement in Boston through Sunday! Go Eight, a Hanukkah party on December 8th at TT The Bears. Homes for Working Families, because who hasn't been squeezed out of the housing market? The Cheetah Orphans, airing Sunday on PBS. How to Cook Your Live, opening in Boston on 12/6. Austin City Limits, which will feature The Arcade Fire....

WGBH's Victory Garden has started its 32nd season with a new host, the beefcakey Australian Jamie Durie. When we heard about the new season and were offered a chance to chat with Durie, we were skeptical because we have neither land nor lawn upon which to garden.

Mort Sahl will perform at Jimmy Tingle's Off Broadway Theater on Thursday night. For more information, go to Jimmy Tingle's website. All shows are at 7:30 pm. Without Mort Sahl, there would be no Daily Show or Colbert Report. James Wolcott at Vanity Fair went so far as to suggest that Sahl was more important to American comedy than Lenny Bruce. Whether or not that's true, Sahl laid the foundation for today's political satire. He...

Punk's Not Dead is showing at the Brattle Theatre through the weekend and on Monday. Check the theater's website for showtimes. The documentary Punk's Not Dead has so much to say and so clearly loves the music of the punk movement. Its passion for the subject matter blinds the filmmakers, though, and the movie loses focus, splitting apart into different fragments, suggesting that it would have been better as a PBS series or a shorter...

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...

This year's James Beard Foundation Awards have been announced. Prizes for the prestigious food-related award are handed out in a multitude of categories. From top chefs to television, print critics to books. The Boston area usually gets a fair representation at the Beard Awards, but this year the medals for Boston are tough to come by. The big winner was Frank McClelland of L'Espalier who took home the honor for Best Chef: Northeast. A...

Sister Aimee will screen for free at the Coolidge Corner Theatre tomorrow night, Thursday, March 29, at 7:00 pm. Afterward, author Matthew Avery Sutton will sign copies of Aimee Semple McPherson and the Resurrection of Christian America at the Coolidge Corner Barnes & Noble. America has a longstanding evangelical tradition. America also has a longstanding tradition of evangelicals falling off their high perches, a la Jim Bakker and, more recently, Ted Haggard. Aimee Semple McPherson...

Last year Carl Deitrich was awarded the prize for his work on a 'practical' flying car. Yesterday, Nate Ball was awarded this year's $30,000 Lemelson-MIT student prize for his latest invention the ATLAS Powered Rope Ascende. .It allows a user to scale a rope as fast as 10 feet per second. The prize is described as "awarded annually to an MIT senior or graduate student who has created or improved a product or process, applied a technology in a new way, redesigned a system, or demonstrated remarkable inventiveness in other ways." The rope ascender will allow the user to drastically cut the time it takes to scale a building, even with 80 or 100 pounds of gear on their person. Mechanical ascension of a building will also reduce the fatigue of the user who might otherwise be running up stairs or climbing a ladder. The potential uses for emergency response personnel like firefighters and EMTs as well as soldiers are top on the list of uses –though it's also just wicked cool in a comic book fantasy way. Who wouldn't want the opportunity to scale the Hancock Tower in about a minute?

Not feeling up for First Nighting? Unable to get to New York City to watch the ball drop in person? As usual, the TV networks are more than willing to provide you with the kind of entertainment that will drive you to drink. Here's the lineup: WGBH 2 (PBS): Garrison Keillor's New Year's Eve Special. 10 pm. This one's for those of you who are feeling civilized. WBZ 4 (CBS): Local First Night Special. The...

Not to raise an alarm before one is necessary, but a small news item appeared tonight on the WCVB 5 website that might have a huge impact on our public television station. Here's most of the text of the article: Live coverage of the Massachusetts House of Representatives is leaving the television airwaves and heading to the Internet.... The move is expected to save about $300,000 over the next two years that would have been...

Boston joins in the celebration of late Warhol muse and Pop Art Poster Girl Edie Sedgwick. Tonight, the MFA will screen Sedgwick's final movie, Ciao! Manhattan, which was released shortly after her death in 1971. The Sedgwick tribute is timed to complement the release of Edie: Girl on Fire by David Weisman, who also directed Ciao! Manhattan, and Melissa Painter. It's probably a good idea to see Sedgwick on screen and read about her...

It is surely true that Bostonians, more than other people, carry grudges and nurture grievances. Whether this is a product of the forced closeness and resulting small indignities of cheek-by-jowl city living, or of our severe, cold-climate, Puritan disposition, Bostonist cannot say. But one need look only as far as local bloggers (ourselves included) to see evidence of the Hub's pervasive grumpiness. Still, we were somewhat surprised to discover the graffiti in the Back Bay (pictured below) urging violence against one of our nation's most beloved sitcom actors and insipid-home-video-show hosts.

There are all sorts of short video clips out there on the internets. We've been scouring the interweb to find some of the most entertaining for your enjoyment. Sometimes they're relevant to local news or politics, sometimes they bring up memories of PBS pledge drives past and spin them in a whole new way, and sometimes they're not really worth watching. Today we've found the perfect start to your Friday. Dice, Blaze, and Fury...

Seth McFarlane, creator of Family Guy and voice of Griffins - Stewey, Brian (the dog), and patriarch Peter as well as Quagmire, spoke at Harvard's Class Day yesterday. Today the Exercises of Commencement clog most of Cambridge and hoard the sheriff of Middlesex County. There's a choice of what to watch: Larry Summers' final charge to graduates at the helm of Harvard University, Jim Lehrer of News Hour on PBS, or the Family Guy. Academics...

SFist commeters pose for before and aftershocks when the mayor commemorates a 1906 earthquake...at 4:30 in the morning. A hot tip on the Chronicle vending machines comes in and the SFist war correspondent risks life and limb to post this dispatch from the frontlines.

Last night PBS premiered “RX for Survival - A Global Health Challenge,” a three-part, six-hour series on worldwide public health. Focusing on innovations in the last century, including vaccines and antibiotics, the series highlights efforts to eradicate disease around the world and comes at a timely moment: The Massachusetts State Legislature is debating a bill that would change healthcare coverage in the state and the White House just yesterday, released a plan to address the...

The Emergency Rooms are relatively empty with the Red Sox in and out of first place (sometimes only depending on the rain). The excitement heats up tonight with Boston playing one of the few games before the end-of-season run with the Yanks. As the Globe editorialized yesterday, the main event tonight will certainly not be the Town Hall meeting with the mayoral candidates. After months of lackluster competition, the Town Hall happens tonight. Menino and...

Did you ever want to teach, but once you learned what kind of paycheck you'd be getting, you jumped into Corporate America instead? Well, Gov. Romney is going to attempt to make teaching in the state of Massachusetts more attractive by creating a bill, which would give public school teachers merit bonuses depending on their students' progress. If this bill gets the okay on Beacon Hill, 25,000 teachers or so could be getting up to...

Mention “music festival” this weekend and the hipster friends may immediately presume you’re talking about Austin City Limits. Out hipster them and clarify that Boston, in fact, has its own music festival in the brew this weekend: N.E.S.T. (North East Sticks Together). A series of 30+ (mostly music related) events at 6 venues over 7 days, N.E.S.T. spans all genres, deeming itself “a solid cross sampling of local artists.” Though N.E.S.T. claims that it isn't a music festival, it more or less is. Four friends got together, made some calls and made it happen. The Boston Phoenix added a sponsorship and thus, we arrive at a week of DIY musical merriment. Bostonist, admittedly, knows very little of the bands slated to play; fortunately, both the Phoenix and N.E.S.T. mastermind Dan have put together solid recommendations. Check out the N.E.S.T. website for the full line up and venue details; N.E.S.T. runs September 18 - 24.