Got the feeling, power steering, Pistons popping, aint no stopping now! Panama, panama Panama, panama Now that the movie Superbad has revived Van Halen's song "Panama," it might be appropriate for Mayor Menino to upload the track to his iPod for his upcoming trip to Central America. The Mayor has managed to finagle his way into a trip with Carlos Gutierrez, the nation's secretary of commerce, to explore business opportunities in the region. He will......

Several years ago, Bostonist was in Auburn, Maine, for work and we picked up a copy of the Lewiston Sun Journal. On the back page of the front section, we read with some amusement a story about the recent opening of a Wal-Mart in the town of Mexico. The article quoted resident after gushing, happy resident, many of them from neighboring towns with equally fun names (Peru, for example), all of whom said, in essence,......

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......

Bostonist's mother always told us not to stare; and yet, with all the tricked-out bicycles on the street this spring, we seem to have gawked away our good manners. Color Bostonist impressed. It's not easy to stand out from the two-wheeled crowd these days, what with every Tom, Dick, and Huffy mass-producing lowriders and pseudo-Sting-Rays for the kiddies. In fact, more often than not, standing out requires bounties of scrap metal and unlimited access to......