On a day in which some genuine environmental innovation took place in Boston (see below), our local papers were fixated upon one celebrity's solution for environmental waste. Singer Sheryl Crow said that people should use only one square of toilet paper when going to the bathroom. And, yes, the sh*t hit the fan. (We use the asterisk because we don't want the city Wi-Fi blocking us, too!) The Fox Morning News crew latched onto this......

Bostonist had a revelation this evening when it was finally made official that the Dave Matthews Band has been the chosen one to play at Fenway Park this summer. Bostonist's little sister (age 16) called in a hurry, asking if we had any connections to getting tickets and we suddenly felt very old. Bostonist now knows what our parents felt like when we would frequent Great Woods (now the Tweeter Center) to see the Allman......

Mention “music festival” this weekend and the hipster friends may immediately presume you’re talking about Austin City Limits. Out hipster them and clarify that Boston, in fact, has its own music festival in the brew this weekend: N.E.S.T. (North East Sticks Together). A series of 30+ (mostly music related) events at 6 venues over 7 days, N.E.S.T. spans all genres, deeming itself “a solid cross sampling of local artists.” Though N.E.S.T. claims that it......