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Unlike the Top 10 Most Commented stories, the top 10 favorites represented a selection of all the fun, the playful, and just plain odd that this city has to offer. You loved sex scandals at the local schools, Vendetta Gunn, and the local productions On Broadway and "BU Tonight." But we were really surprised at how much you loved … Barbie. Yeah, Barbie. more ›

A few weeks ago, a sex scandal in Arlington boiled over. Stavroula Bouris, the principal of Ottoson Middle School, and teacher Chuck Coughlin had been exchanging sexy e-mails. An anonymous individual gained access to those e-mails and turned them into Arlington school superintendent Nate Levenson. Levenson had tried to fire Bouris before - and now, two weeks before school starts in Arlington, he's done it. Bouris and Coughlin, who had already been fired, hired a... more ›

Grace Metalious would be proud. Arlington always seemed kind of quiet and calm, but there's something bubbling under the surface. But principal Stavroula Bouris and teacher Chuck Coughlin at Ottoson Middle School are accused of turning the school into a hotbed of moral turpitude with their steamy e-mails. The Globe reports that the principal and teacher exchanged "sexually inappropriate e-mails" while at work. The Arlington Advocate reported that one of the e-mails from Coughlin to... more ›

Coolidge Corner Theatre is screening David Lynch's Blue Velvet this weekend at midnight on Friday and Saturday. Long before 1986, moviegoers and TV-heads have been fascinated with the truism that, inside every small town, there's a freak parade struggling to get out. Take the wild success of Peyton Place, for example. But Lynch took that concept to a whole new level with severed body parts, perverse relationships, and theatrical consumption of nitrous oxide. If you... more ›