Oscars Hooray that the writers' strike is over, and we can see overmedicated stars and their pretty dresses walk the red carpet! Regarding the actual movie-picking, Reel Hub is a touch grouchy due to the shadiness of the Oscar voting process. If you'd like to watch the festivities with others, dress up for the Fafarazzi.com Oscar party at Lir, 903 Boylston, Boston, 5:00 pm. Travel Plans The Boston Globe Travel Show is on at......

The political epicenter has shifted from Iowa to New Hampshire, right next door. The state is erupting in general chaos as the politicians who are still in the race are fighting for attention. Every reporter, pundit, talking head, and his or her brother is in town. Eventually, New Hampshire might regret rolling out the red carpet for some of them. Bill O'Reilly just had a massive hissy fit at Nashua North High and attempted to......

Protest over national vs. regional chains, the never-ending debate over the place of cars and bicycles in our metropolises, professional sports scandals, remembering a solemn day, and being issued a search warrant - it all happened across our sites this week! Another banner week at Chicagoist started off with daily reports from food writer Lisa Shames on her attempt to eat only locally grown and raised foodstuffs all week as part of a farmers market......

We don't know about where you are, but it seems like spring can't decide whether or not to happen. Some days are warm, some days are cold, and sometimes you aren't sure which. Baseball may have started up (and soccer/football winding down) but it still seems cold out there. Unless it's not. Anyways, onto the -ists. Austinist happily anticipated fall's Austin City Limits, even though they're not fully recovered from South By Southwest. In......

The Harris Center for Eating Disorders presents Thin at the Brattle Theater. The movie will screen at 7:00 tonight, and director Lauren Greenfield and Dr. David Herzog will hold a Q&A afterward. Photographer and filmmaker Lauren Greenfield, who explored "Girl Culture" in her last work, is in town to screen her documentary about women suffering from eating disorders - the timing is right now that we've seen all the lollipop-headed women parading up Oscar's......

When it comes to Oscar fashion, we prefer to watch the red carpet arrivals on mute. Bostonist doesn't care who people were wearing. Bostonist doesn't care for the backstory. We just care whether or not people look good. And very few people looked good this year. In fact, they looked either rotten or boring. You'd think these stars would have the money to make themselves look good. And you'd think they'd have the money......

It's finally here. The feature film that brought traffic snarls and gaping tourists and residents to scene location across the Hub is finally hitting theaters today. The Departed opens nationwide tonight. They didn't have the premier in Boston as was originally planned – instead NYC got the red carpet for the movie. A film by Scorsese with a fair amount of star power is the recipe for a flash forward this week – we'll be......

Torontoist throws down the gauntlet and challenges all comers: pillow fight, bitch. They also stand up for a fellow blogger taking heat from the TTC and welcome city-wide WiFi. SFist can finally admit it: It's possible that Bary Bonds juiced. Is Bay Area artist (tempted to put quotes around that) Thomas Kinkaid "kinda crappy" or "explosively crappy" or does he just like marking territory? SFist wonders. Technology comes in the form of new Mac goodness......

On December 1, 1981 the first AIDS (SIDA in several languages) diagnosis was made. Today, in rememberance of that date of diagnosis, is World AIDS Day 2005. Before that science had provided no explanation for a rapidly increasing death. By 1986 donated blood has been routinely screened for HIV. In a practice of questionable morals and rationale, the Red Cross would not accept blood donations from persons who had engaged in homosexual acts (some chapters......

Wednesday night marked the launch of Boston Common magazine with a blowout, star-studded event at the Boston Center for the Arts’ Cyclorama in the South End. Perhaps “star-studded’ is a stretch, but by Boston standards, it was an impressive showing. Celebrities included: Steven Tyler (Boston Common cover star); Christopher Reid (event MC, and yes, Kid of Kid ‘n Play fame); Daniel Sunjata (actor, FX’s Rescue Me); Doc Rivers (Boston Celtics head coach); Todd English (celebrity......

Fox 25 is inviting people to show their love of the Sox during their April 6 morning broadcast and win tickets to the premiere of Fever Pitch at Fenway Park. Ten winners will receive 2 tickets each to the "red carpet" event, featuring Jimmy, Drew and the boys, and tickets to the movie premiere, at Boston Theatre. Showing up anywhere from 6 a.m. until 9 a.m. seems like it should be enough to get a......