Mayor Thomas Menino probably won't be happy with today's Boston Herald. The lead story paints a picture of Menino as a master player of the blame game. The article seems to be the result of Menino's rage after the snowstorm mess. Jessica Van Sack writes that people noticed Menino didn't step up and admit that any of those problems were his fault. It's old-school "you smelt it, you dealt it" politics. The piece suggests that......

For the past few months, Bostonist has engaged in a scientific experiment. We've been sniffing around T stops to find out which ones are the most pleasant and which ones are an offense to the olfactory nerves. Each day this week, we'll evaluate the odors you will find at various T stops. And here it is--the complete list of T stops with the most distinct odors: Aquarium: High tide, dolphin pee Airport: Pleather luggage,......

Charlie, Fletcher, and Special Ed of WFNX morning show The Sandbox invited Bostonists Korri and Caroline up to chat about the Smells of the T. Little did we know that smells would be the theme of the entire show. Callers were eager to share the smells they have encountered all over the state, such as peanut-butter factories, burnt coffee, prison feet, and pee simmering on radiators (ugh). For the record, the WFNX studio smells like......

Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory in Smell-O-Vision Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle Street, Cambridge Thursday, December 13, 7:30 More information If you missed the outdoor screening of Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory in Smell-O-Vision at Union Square this summer, you have the opportunity to miss it again. The indoor debut of the event is sold out. Last July, a group of artists led by Megan Dickerson and funded by the Somerville Arts Council, presented......

For the past few months, Bostonist has engaged in a scientific experiment. We've been sniffing around T stops to find out which ones are the most pleasant and which ones are an offense to the olfactory nerves. Each day this week, we'll evaluate the odors you will find at various T stops. Today marks a trip down the Orange Line. You might get the munchies on this one: Downtown Crossing: Fried food, mouse poop,......

Now that David, the Somerville LARPer, took the grand prize in Beauty and the Geek, we are focusing our attentions on Denise, the martial-arts aficionado with the heroic hair. Denise has hung on throughout several rough rounds of Survivor:China. This week, Denise caught a break since the reward challenge involved the presence of family members. The producers saved Denise's husband for last--for good reason. He is a big, burly dude who looks like he would......

A fried turkey is a delicious turkey because the skin is ever-so-crispy and the flesh is meltingly moist. But Bostonist would like to issue a public-service announcement--turkey-frying is dangerous. You best know your way around propane because 'tis the season for turkey-fry fires. Be sure to take the turkey fryer outside before you start. Essentially, you will be hooking up a vat of oil to a propane tank and dipping a whole turkey into the......

A very well constructed shot for today by PotD newbie schwachs. A remote flash was used to create the interesting glowing door effect. The cool blue tones really put you in the scene - you can almost feel the crisp breeze and smell the salt air! Welcome to PotD schwachs!......

A flight crew from DC to Boston became sick from possible carbon monoxide poisoning. The source of the problem may not have been the plane the crew was flying on. WBZ reports that "the crew was working on a different flight earlier in the day and had complained about a smell on that jet." Rampant speculation of gastrointestinal distress fired up at the thought of a funny smell. Wonkette offered a "he who smelt it,......

--An alleged drunk driver decided to turn the JFK library parking lot into her own personal fun zone on Wednesday. Christine Selby of Wareham got cuffed and sent out for a psychological evaluation. --The body of an unidentified man in his 60s was found in a Roxbury apartment yesterday. The BPD says the man may have been stabbed. The body was discovered when neighbors complained about a smell. --A man was found wounded on Thane......

--Why toss a bucket of paint on a richie's fur coat when you can stop furs at the source? In Hinsdale on Monday, someone set about 400 to 500 mink who were destined to become pricey furs free from a farm. That's a lot of mink to let loose! The owner of Berkshire Furs is naturally blaming the "antifur people." No one's been caught yet, and the owner said the animals wouldn't be able to......

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory will screen at 8:30 pm tonight at Union Square in Somerville. The "Carnival of the Nose" starts at 7:00. So, you don't have Police tickets? Console yourself with the smell of an Oompa Loompa! You've no doubt seen the original Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, starring Gene Wilder (not the one with Johnny Depp doing his best Michael Jackson impression). But now Somerville is giving you the opportunity......

What a depressing ending. All of the characters were in place, the tension was building, the smell of a big finish was in the air, and then...nothing. Zip. Just like that, it was all over. We kept looking for some extra time, or some trick being played on us, or something to keep us from screaming, "That's IT?!?!?!?" Coco Crisp's line drive sailed right into Chris Young's glove in center, and it was over. Of......

The whole purpose of a country club is to keep the have-nots out and remind them exactly why they're not invited. This attitude inspires both curiosity and hatred, and the have-nots ask themselves, "What's in the country club that's so great, anyway?" Not much, answers local author JoeAnn Hart, whose novel, Addled breaks into the country-club life and finds that what's going on in the back rooms and kitchens is far more exciting than the......

--Pot has a distinctive odor. Some describe the scent as that of burning leaves, or socks aflame. Either way, the scent of marijuana is powerful, and very little can cover it up. However, two perps tried valiantly to hide the smell of their weed from the BPD by keeping "over 30 tree air fresheners" in their vehicle. It didn't help. K-9s and officers found a bag of pot in the guys' glove compartment after and......

Bostonist was a few minutes late arriving in Davis Square on Saturday evening. We briefly worried that we wouldn't be able to find Boston's undead elite lurching their way toward Harvard Square. Fortunately, zombies aren't the neatest of creatures and we were able to follow a twisted sort of crumb trail composed of corn syrup drops, fabric scraps, and distant cries of "BRAINS!" Zombie organizers told Bostonist prior to Saturday's march that last year's event......

A BPD officer has been arrested on drug-related charges. The officer, Jose Ortiz, has been on the force since 1986 and worked in the Back Bay and the South End. Details on the arrest were murky at first, but Ed Davis' opinion on Ortiz was clear. His statement is chock-full of irate zingers, such as "Ortiz disgraced his badge and dishonored his brother and sister officers" and "Good cops don’t like bad cops." And, if......

On Saturday, cardio-respiratory failure deprived Worcester, Massachusetts of a woman who had been on life support for nearly two decades and, some believe, a bedridden miracle worker. Audrey Marie Santo fell into a pool at age 3 (on the same day of the year and exact time of day that the atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, according to her web site) and, after an excessive phenobarbital prescription and subsequent coma, awoke in a state......

It was such a short time ago that stabbings were flaring up all over the area. But yesterday shootings returned as the latest unfortunate trend in violence. --A young woman was shot in the leg while walking around Lowell yesterday afternoon. Three suspects were arrested, and police were saying "she was not the intended target," but it doesn't matter. The episode is reminiscent of the murder of Quinntessa Blackwell, who was also not the intended......

Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy gave the kind of speech that makes people want to stand up and cheer. He's always been a smooth talker, but he threw a little bit of Howard Dean's barbaric yawp into the mix, and the result was explosive. Here's Teddy railing against the Republicans tacking on more and more amendments, which are slowing down the passage of an increase in the minimum wage: At about three minutes into the video,......

The BPD must've smelled a lot of weed Wednesday night. One of their early reports describes what happened when they served a warrant: "Officers, on approaching suspect’s room, were immediately assaulted by the smell of burning marijuana." Can marijuana "assault" the senses? If so, it must have been some terrible weed. Upon further inspection, the officers found "a plastic sandwich bag containing green leafy vegetable matter believed to be marijuana." Bostonist wishes that the officer......

It's rare when we dare to merge sports with the blotter because Matt Taibbi at the Phoenix has that department covered. But a high-school hockey game between Amesbury and Newburyport got ugly when Amesbury fans threw golf balls and squid onto the Newburyport ice. What were these teens thinking? And who found the squid? Real squid? The Globe writes that the Amesbury kids found enough stuff for a "deluge" that "lasted 5 to 10 minutes."......

We don't know about you, but it's been friggin warm out there. Well, not for some of you. It seems as though places that are supposed to be cold are warm and places that are supposed to be warm are cold. Or maybe that's just us. Either way, it's just confusing. Austinist said goodbye to their co-editor (sell-out) and played rumor monger on the SXSW lineup. And when dozens of dead birds littered downtown......

The New York Times printed a glowing review of the new ICA building on the waterfront today. Fun quotes from the article like "its ability to interweave art and civic life makes it the most important building to rise here in a generation." show that the New York press are as impressed with the new building as the Boston media seems to be. There is early mention of the piece of the John Hancock tower......

Ah, the North End. The labyrinthine snarl of one-way streets, the perennial crowd at Mike’s Pastry, and the wafting aroma of espresso and garlic. On a cool June evening, what more could one ask for? Free parking, for one, but you take what you can get. The goal was simple: a nice, relaxing meal for two with wine and no wait for under a hundred dollars. After some 20 minutes of pounding the cobblestone, Bostonist......

Say what you will about Somerville Congressman Michael Capuano's questionable policy on accepting gifts and trips. When it comes to blowing stuff up, he and Bostonist are on the same page. The Herald reports today that Capuano is arranging with "an unnamed liquefied natural gas company" to shoot a missile at a huge tanker in the ocean, "to see what happens." We realize that this may be useful in terms of planning for terrorist attacks,......

It's spring outside (um, and snowing?) and the smell of leather, chewing tobacco, and pine tar is in the air. Bostonist loves the beginning of baseball season. It is this time of year that we are filled with enthusiastic optimism. Around June we are usually filled with self-pity and despair. And, of course, come September we embrace blind faith. How better to whet the baseball appetite than by listening to a podcast devoted to Boston......

This morning the house still smelled like bacon. A two-for-one deal at the supermarket made brunch abound with bacon Sunday morning. Mmmmm…bacon. The deliciously fatty pork product is the reason that we couldn’t keep up a vegetarian diet or have we ever thought of becoming kosher. Today we’re hearing reports all over the place that bacon may be healthy for the first time since the Atkins Diet fell out of favor. omega-3 fatty acids have......

It’s in these bleak days of March when you realize that winter is far from over. So, like most Bostonians, Bostonist takes to the local pubs to warm up and forget that there is a snowstorm on the way. Our Gothamist friends might be talking about a mysterious maple syrup scent in the city, but you might be wondering why a berry smell is wafting in from the waterfront. Well, the folks over at our......

Now, Bostonist doesn't like to make light of serious matters that could, potentially, have led to tragedy, but damn, this is amusing. A woman from Brockton, formerly a waitress at a strip club there and another in Stoughton, was so fed up with mistreatment by men that she mailed condoms containing drano and gasoline (an almost-but-not-quite-explosive combination) to various locations she apparently felt were good representatives of male wrongdoing: Bridgewater State College (?!), the Taunton......