Where to begin? When it comes to baseball, most of the news that came out of Tuesday was dreary, almost as dreary as the skies over Boston this morning. It felt as if it took ages for Barry Bonds to take the final steps in his journey to become baseball's new home run king, but on Tuesday night, the San Francisco Giants slugger did it. Shortly before midnight Eastern time, at a time when many...
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We missed it last week when BostonNOW published a story about a city ordinance proposed by City Councilor Chuck Turner to outlaw the sale of crack pipes in convenience stores. Yeah, that's right, prohibit the sale of crack pipes. Massachusetts already has pretty strong laws against the sale of drug paraphernalia. The restrictions force prices up in those Boston area stores that do stock those odd looking tobacco delivery devices, and local college students to...
A startup by some MIT grads started making waves a year ago when they began putting some venture capital to use to build their social networking site. After a year of growth some issues arose with their name, coincidentally with their expansion from Boston into New York City and the Bay Area. HeyLetsGo was to be no more; they were looking for a new name. Today they announced their new identity: Going.com.
As the world holds its breath, teetering precariously on the cusp of the Super Bowl (well, at least in America), the wheels of the -ists keep on turning.
While waiting in the bathroom line at the Diesel, Bostonist caught zombie overlord Alli Auldridge putting up a poster for Zombie March 2006. When cornered, Ms. Auldridge revealed her plans: on Saturday, April 29th, the local undead will walk from Davis Square to Harvard Square in search of a decent brain to eat. How long do you expect Zombie March 2006 to last? Are we talking about traditional, slowly-lurching Dawn of the Dead zombies,...
After Wired ran a story documenting the GoogleCenter of the United States a bunch of ists jumped on the opportunity to figure out their own middle. Gothamist, Chicagoist, Bostonist and Seattlest all zoomed in on their creamy GoogleCenters. A crack cartography team is hard at work determining the GoogleCenter of the Ist-a-verse as you read this... Austinist read a book about Olympian Bode Miller and liked it. They also took a few pictures of the...
The Boston Globe reports today that "the city of Boston has approved a 50 cents per ride gasoline surcharge on cab fares, which are already among the highest in the nation." Breath a sigh of relief because this fare hike is only temporary. The goal of the 50 cent surcharge is to relieve the Boston taxi cab driver's wallet of the burden of increased gas prices faced in the post-Katrina context. Don't get too excited, there is no definite termination of the increase.
Boston newsstands are currently battling the “Best of” as the Improper Bostonian and Boston Magazine are ranking everything, from “Best Place to Find a Relationship of Limited Duration” (Vox Populi, of course) to “Best Yoga Teacher” (David Vendetti at Back Bay Yoga). Well, Boston's singles scene has been rated too in a Forbes Magazine poll released on Monday. In 2004, Boston ranked 5th in the “Best City for Singles” but this year, we've moved up to the second spot. Bostonist is honored that our fair city is thought of so highly in terms of singles, but being a single, Bostonist must ask itself: how do we rank so high? Well, Forbes uses a rating system, ranking each city on a few factors, including coolness (4th place), culture (1st place), and job growth (a pitiful 31st place). It does help that oodles of college students flock into town each fall, adding more to the singles population as well as vamping up the bar scene (who do you think waits in line at the Foggy Goggle?)
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