Whew! We're so glad all those officials said that our bridges are safe. What's that? You meant safe to drive ON, not UNDER? Oh!! Silly us, our mistake. Thanks for clearing that up. The Tobin Bridge, Boston Authorities were clued in to a potential problem when Dan French of Londonderry, N.H., said last month a softball sized-chunk of concrete smashed his 25-foot boat's windshield. The debris from the Tobin Bridge has not hit anyone,......

Last month controversy erupted surrounding an invitation extended President Jimmy Carter to speak at Brandeis. The invitation was extended by a trustee with the suggestion that he make Waltham a stop on his book tour and have a little debate with Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz. Carter gave the idea a thanks but no thanks response. Carter’s newest book Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid was publicly criticized by Dershowitz who has asserted that the former President......

Shanghaiist probably knows a little more about China than the Chicago Sun-Times. Giving them the benefit of the doubt on that one. The city does to have a music scene. Don't even front like they don't. They also have Dorito bananas and white guys shopping for wives. What they don't have is any more tolerance for jaywalkers. Bostonist sees Boston and Somerville each whip out their art and face off. A plagiarized novel is the......

Well, the weather outside is frightful . . . and what to do? Our office softball team (the embarassingly named Attorneys at Bat) is slated to start its season tomorrow (against another name-challenged team, the Summit Sea Monsters); we've already optimistically stowed away our cold weather clothes and heavy blankets; and now, annoyingly, the New England spring is going all ODB on us (that is, raw). So what's poor Bostonist to do until the sun......

The All-Star festivities began in earnest tonight as Phillies right fielder Bobby Abreu demolished the competition with 41 home runs, in total, to win the Home Run Derby. Not only did Bobby tear the covering off the baseball most often, he is the owner of this year's farthest traveled ball as well - a mammoth 517 feet. Chicks, indeed, do love the long ball, Bobby. Our own Big Papi, David Ortiz, showed up to mash......

With the oppressive pseudo-summer turning back to comfortable spring for a few days before summer actually begins, Bostonist's thoughts are turning to the weekend and to upcoming holidays and events. (Ordinarily, we would say that the beginning of summer is a good reason to celebrate, but we have the impression that everyone's pretty much fed up with summer for now.) If you work in Suffolk County, you probably have Friday off in honor of......

With summer suddenly and oppressively upon us, there is a natural inclination to turn our attention to outdoor activities. However, in light of Bostonist's interest in all things hip and youthful (Bostonist, like Wu-Tang, is for the kids), we will not focus on softball, mini golf, or croquet. Instead, we offer a primer on that hip-to-death-to-the-point-of-being-over subset of cycling, the fixed-gear bike. For the uninitiated, a fixed-gear bike (of which many many examples can be......

Spring is in the air, the sun is finally shining, our softball team is posting losses on a weekly basis (although Bostonist went 4-4 with 2 RBI and a run scored last night), and it's the time when a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of . . . safety. Yes, June is National Safety Month (along with Aphasia Awareness Month, Scleroderma Awareness Month, Myasthenia Gravis (?!) Awareness Month, Vision Research Month, and Fireworks......