State legislators are busy people. Once elected, they have to figure out how to keep their jobs, how to get re-elected, how to advance, and how to keep their peers from stabbing them in the back. (Presumably, they govern in the midst of all that. Oh, who are we kidding?) Such is the case of House speaker Sal DiMasi, who, according to Casey Ross at the Herald, informed two underlings yesterday to pretty please stop......

We've praised the Celtics up and down over the course of 14 games. Given the fact that they won - again - on Friday night, this time defeating Shaq and the Miami Heat, we're going to give them the Belichick once-over. You know, give 'em a taste of what Randy Moss and Tom Brady deal with every week. You guys feeling good? Feeling confident because you beat Miami by 10 points? A 95-85 win, fellas.......

The nailbiting, the pacing, the swearing, the chainsmoking - they all end tonight. Except maybe at Tommy Heinsohn's house. Tonight, we find out the next step in the Celtics' drive back to relevance. Will Danny Ainge swing one of the deals we've heard about? Will we be welcoming Kevin Garnett (no way), Shawn Marion (probably not), Dikembe Mutombo (possible) or Bill Telfair? Or will Danny stand pat and actually use his #5 pick to draft......

We can't get the image of the neon red lights invading Kramer's apartment in the episode of Seinfeld when Kenny Rogers Roasters opened up a joint right outside his bedroom window. The affliction for Northeastern University residents in the proposed building wouldn't be the sleepless nights, apartment trading, and addiction to rotisserie chicken, rather perverse Village People nightmares as the YMCA sign flashes into the evening. If approved, the GrandMarc, a proposed 34 story......

There's so much going on across the Ist-a-Verse that it's almost impossible to keep track these days. Fortunately, we do it so you don't have to! Londonist took a walk through Oliver Twist's London, thanks to a gorgeous map layer for Google Earth. They also caught up with modern-day fictional London, with the Fantastic Four and 28 Weeks Later. It was a week of insanity over at DCist. They started the week off with......

"The art of war" usually refers to Sun Tzu's military treatise from the 6th century BC, sometimes refers to Machiavelli's book, a fim starring Wesley Snipes released in 2000, or even a Bone Thugs albubm. The MFA isn't using the recognizable term (and obvious pun) for the exhibition that opened today, they're taking a little different approach to the art they're presenting and the title it has been given: War and Discontent. The new installation......

There's two ways to handle a loss. Even if that loss is an utterly flat performance against an utterly forgettable K.C. team that made Gil Meche look like Christy Mathewson and Mark Grudzielanek look like Rogers Hornsby. The first way to approach it is, hey, it's only one game. Even the best teams in history lose more than fifty times a season. And Pedro lost Opening Day in 2004, and we know how that turned......

Frigid temps all week. Hot shows all week. Put them together and you've got a warm soul. Brave the cold and make it out this week, it will totally be worth it. Looking for a little inspiration while you're sitting at your desk this week? Plug in the headphones and pop on over to tourfilter to check out the HypeMachine powered mixtape. Look in the upper right corner and click mixtape, sort it by......

We're sure there are high school girls with Tom Brady's name penciled into the backs of their notebooks. Who are we kidding? There's a guy in the next cube who's got a framed picture of the QB sitting on his desk obscuring the pictures of his kids. There's a lot of love for the man who's helped elevate the Patriots to (at least talk of) dynasty status around New England and even across the country.......

Little darling, it's been a long cold lonely winter. Little darling, it feels like years since it's been here. What's better than Bostonist ripping off lines of Beatles songs on a Monday? Checking out the Boy Least Likely To show at TT's. What's better than Bostonist ripping off Beatles lyrics on a Tuesday? The Aaron Goldberg Trio's Boston CD release party. What's better…oh you get the point. Check out this week's music picks for......

Attention local film patrons, geeks, students, snobs, enthusiasts: Cambridge's endangered Brattle Theatre is looking for volunteers to write for their Film Notes series. They'd like to see 800-1,000 word essays that "avoid the plot summaries and superficial value judgments of newspaper criticism," to be distributed at screenings and posted on their web site: "Anything from a personal recollection of the first time you saw Vertigo to an abridged academic paper on its critique of the......

In just over a week, on May 7, the ICA will close its doors at the Boylston St. location in Back Bay and move into the New ICA building on the waterfront. (Hynes will be left by it's lonesome when both Virgin and ICA leave the nearby stop.) The New ICA will open on September 17, 2006 on the waterfront and at some point it will lose the “New” part of the name and become......

There's a whole wide world out there, and here's the proof: DCist revels in The University of Maryland's basketball triumphs, marvels at Metro's security strategy, and applauds DC local Katie Couric's new gig. Phillyist is all about the Philadelphia Film Festival. OK, not all about -- they still have time for loitering, underage sex, and random wacky news. LAist would have to send a camera around the world to get shots as bizarre as Katie's......

Bostonist came across some tickets to the Rogers Sisters concert what we thought you might be interested in. How nice it would be to be able to give them to some reader out there for a bonus prize for reading this website. Then we got all excited when we found out that the Ponys and Art Brut would also be rocking the Middle East Downstairs next Monday (that's 4/3!). The contest will be here......

Mo Vaugn really is the strangest guy ever. We understand that the end of his baseball career wasn't so dignified, but damn, do we have to keep learning new ways in which the former Sox slugger is really weird? First, we heard that he's opening up a high-end car wash in Attleboro, which despite making sense in light of his well-known love of Providence's Foxy Lady strip club, is pretty odd. Now it has come......