Last night, Denise Martin, who worked as a lunch lady in Douglas, said the school district she worked for didn't let her return to work as a lunch lady and that she had to work as a janitor and she was not happy at all. She received $50,000 from Mark Burnett as a result. (Having another castmate make a demeaning comment about "welfare" and saying Denise "sucks at life" probably also prodded Burnett to......

At first it seemed like it was just a ploy for sweeps. Deemed the first big snow storm of the season initial reports had upwards of eight inches falling on Boston. Local TV news stations have fired up the severe weather graphics, pulled in their storm teams, and gone to almost all weather all the time. The National Weather Service even issued a winter storm warning for the next 24 hours:... Winter Storm Warning......

"Michael Moore's films are great," Randy Olson has told the Kansas City Star, "but I've never seen a debate afterward." Olson's documentary, Flock of Dodos: The Evolution-Intelligent Design Circus, aims to provoke discussion through the filmmaker's encounters with inarticulate, media-shy evolutionary biologists and with advocates of intelligent design, a Totally Legitimate Scientific Theory that species were created miraculously appeared suddenly, designed by the Lord an intelligent entity with the power to do that kind of......

In this week’s News & Opinions’ “Weekly Dig” Editor Joe Keohane delves into the heated controversy over Intelligent Design (ID). It’s been difficult to escape the term Intelligent Design, a variation on “Creationism,” in popular media’s discourse. In recent weeks the Kansas Board of Education voted in favor of teaching ID, causing many, including Keohane to cite Kansas’ history with teaching evolution in public schools. The infamous John Scopes debacle of 1925 when the high......

Super Tuesday it ain't. Cities around the Commonwealth go to the polls today, but the big excitement seems to be in other places. To be sure, today is a big day for Maura Hennigan and her supporters (most of whom, from what Bostonist can tell, live along the Jamaicaway and have the most gi-normous lawn signs ever). But Bostonist still doesn't know quite what it is that makes Councilor Hennigan a better choice than Tom......