Down in the basement of the Charles Playhouse is the Playhouse Lounge. Darts on Tuesday, trivia nights on Wednesday, live music on Thursday, and karaoke on Fridays. Karaoke, some people love it, some people hate it. If you’re looking to get your sing on in the company of theatre types (front and back of house types as well as patrons of the arts), the Playhouse Lounge might be the best place in Boston to do......

Cambridge based Power Pop trio Anushka Pop, are earning some well deserved buzz from their 2nd EP, Akathena. Give a minute, well, 2 minutes to be precise, and listen to the title track; you'll understand why. The boys (John Soares - lead vocal/guitar/ organ, Chris Welch - drums/vocals, and Johnny Arguedas- bass/vocals) were nice enough to sit down with Bostonist, and after one round of whiskey, spill all their trade secrets. Akathena.mp3 | Why I'm......

So Bostonist has never claimed to be the most intellectual of the bunch, especially when it comes to television. We’ve been tuning in these past couple weeks to Fox’s harshest reality television show (no, not Skating With Celebrities) to see just how mean the judges on American Idol can get. As we’ve seen in the last few seasons of this spinoff of the British show, Pop Idol, the best part of Idol is the......

Bostonist first caught wind of the alleged groping incident at Brookline High School on the evening TV news teasers. It appeared in the local newsprint yesterday. We actually were surprises the story didn't get some real estate on the Herald's front page. (Instead Simon Cowell shared top billing with the search for Neil Entwistle, whose wife and daughter were found dead over the weekend.) We learned from both local papers that Jonathon Alsop, the now......