Thanks to an influx of new readers, Bostonist grew this year, and we'd like to launch a few new regular columns. Here's the specifics: 1. Food Writer: One column every Tuesday. Bostonist's New Year's Resolution is to write more about food. As you can see, we are partial to recipes and restaurant reviews. 2. Drink Writer: This city loves its booze. Bartender interviews, reviews of new drinks, reviews of your favorite bars--we'd love to......

Everybody's making "best of" lists at this time of year, but who's in charge of making a list of these best of lists? Well, nobody really, so we've put ourselves in charge and assembled a list of the "best books" lists of 2007. Nobody really needs another list, but a compilation of lists--and determining what's best according to all lists--is something helpful that nobody else really does. Bostonist has checked out several "best of" book......

Elizabeth Hand will be reading from Generation Loss: A Novel at Harvard Book Store on Wednesday, May 23, at 6:00 pm. Novelist Elizabeth Hand has woven together art, music, and mystery in the story of photographer Cass Neary. Neary wanders through a fictionalized version of the New York punk underground, complete with cameos by Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe, and she takes photographs of strung-out kids. Eventually, her collection, "Dead Girls," propels her into the......

Nina's Heavenly Delights will screen at 7:45 pm on Sunday, May 20. Both movies will be at the MFA's Remis Auditorium. The Gay & Lesbian Film Festival caps off with Nina's Heavenly Delights, which gives something old a new twist. No indie plot could be more cliché than a wayward child returning to the family fold. But Nina's Heavenly Delights changes it up when a Scottish woman returns to her family after the patriarch dies.......

"Sunshowers" was the first M.I.A. track off the 2005 release Arular to make the Bostonist iPod morning playlist; at 8:45 a.m., a good beat and a 70’s disco sample are all one needs to pass up Dunkins without second thought. Bostonist would report into work feeling upbeat, shiny and happy. Admittedly, the lyrics were a bit hard to follow, but that all seemed secondary. When the beat fully saturated the subconscious, the words began......

Mark your calendar (and make reservations) for August 22nd through 26th, because it’s restaurant week in Boston! Restaurant week is an August tradition where many of the higher end restaurants in Boston offer a prix fixe menu in order to lure in new customers. To those of you who didn't already book your restaurant, the official site lists the current availability of all the restaurants participating. The unofficial site is arguably better. Those of you......