--Are you freaking out over the fact that the St. Patrick's Day parade falls on the same day as Palm Sunday, March 16? 'Cause the press sure seems to be making a fuss. [Boston Herald, Boston Globe] --The local papers are bombarding us with Foreclosure Doom. Foreclosures in Massachusetts are up 128% in January. Bus tours of foreclosed homes might reflect a corresponding increase. [Boston Globe] --A Globe blog post headlined "Suburbs, the future......

A story about hookers would usually be part of the Boston Blotter, but the sudden burst of coverage in the Suburban Hooker Plague deserves its own post. Bostonist is underwhelmed by the Suburban Hooker Plague because prostitution happens all the time in the city, and prostitution-related incidents are so common that they rarely rank on the Blotter. That is, unless the BPD's ongoing "Operation Squeeze" nets a lot of people or particularly old or young......

While SFist cringed at the fatal dose of crime littering the Bay Area, it found solace in Hillary Clinton's San Francisco campaign headquarters opening, which featured loads of exposed mammary glands. In other news, SF Taxi Commission ruled that Satan's cab must keep its (in)famous medallion number, 666; and in an un-fashion-forward frenzy, San Francisco Fashion Week (chortle) bars bloggers from covering and getting smashed at their shows and parties, respectively. Also, they found a......

Banner week for SFist as the site's new editor introduced himself -- hooray for Brock! While the NY Times weighed in on SF's mayoral race, only SFist had the (insert tongue firmly into cheek) hard-hitting latest on candidate/activist Josh Wolf. Coverage of a protest vs. gentrification spawned a fantastic debate amongst SFist's readers. Finally, from the sublime to the ridiculous: video of a man that confused a Board of Supes meeting with "open mic......

Lavender Diamond sounds like the cast album to a plotless off-Broadway musical starring a fairy princess on rollerskates. In reality, they're a Californian indie quartet fronted by Becky Stark—sparkling chanteuse, wearer of candy-colored gowns and, occasionally, iridescent wings. Her musical influences are church singing and Fugazi, and she got a magic wand for Christmas:it's pink and has a red heart that lights up and it plays a magic spell sound when you wave it. i......

We don't know about where you are, but it seems like spring can't decide whether or not to happen. Some days are warm, some days are cold, and sometimes you aren't sure which. Baseball may have started up (and soccer/football winding down) but it still seems cold out there. Unless it's not. Anyways, onto the -ists. Austinist happily anticipated fall's Austin City Limits, even though they're not fully recovered from South By Southwest. In......

If you had a chance to look outside this afternoon you noticed something that we haven't seen this year: accumulation of snow. It was a wimpy snow dusting the Boston area lightly, a reported half inch or less in Boston and up to 2 inches in the outer suburbs, especially in the North Shore. The dusting today would have likely been welcomed with open arms if it had occurred on Christmas Day. Coming a......

Everybody holla pre-nup. AOL is digging for gold in the suburbs with hopes of recovering some of the money they're owed. They're not searching for back service fees, rather they're going after any part of the nearly $13 million they were awarded in a judgment against Davis Hawke. A suburban native, Hawke was unsuccessful in his attempt to make it big in southern hate groups (they found out his father was Jewish) and turned instead......

The Globe calls it Highway Blogging. Operation Over calls it effective. Yesterday the collective calling themselves Operation Over, working to stop a new BU biolab from opening its doors in Roxbury tossed bed sheet banners to display their message on 128 and the Mass Pike. They're looking to get their message out to a larger community, including the suburbs. Threatening situations like the spread of Ebola in the Hub – or even smallpox – has......

Boston awoke this morning to the news we dread, more Big Dig stories. Last night, sometime around 11 pm a large hunk of ceiling in the Turnpike connector tunnel came crashing down when a steel tieback let go. The three ton slab of concrete crushed a car; while the driver was rescued alive the passenger in the vehicle was killed. The stretch of turnpike connector to the Ted Williams Tunnel is closed until at least......

While we don’t long for the days of having a required summer reading list, Bostonist has been feeling a bit inspired to pick up a book and actually start reading something not on a computer screen. Since we’re going to be “vacationing” in the city this year, we might as well read some books that are set here in our fair state. Here are some of our Bostonist staff picks for your reading enjoyment. History......

Londonist prepares a Happy Birthday bath for Buddah this week and then things get all cliched. A madman goes on a rampage while axe-wielding and London's mayor warns an American diplomat to avoid the kitchen if the heat bothers him so much. LAist has finally come around to purchasing tickets for Clipper Train. Hyper local dating sites are spamming L.A. neighborhoods and the fascinating Dame Darcy talks with LAist about art, the city and earthquakes.......

Bostonist was exposed to Boy in Static (Alex Chen) a mere four weeks ago thanks to the wonder of our favorite online photo gallery (and oh so much more) Flickr. Ever since that moment we have been listening to his album on late night drives home to the suburbs, in the lingering hours of a night of studying (yes, some of us are STILL in school), and just generally whenever we get a free......

This Sunday's Boston Globe Magazine asks, "Is The Commuter Rail Worth Saving?" If you ask Bostonist, the answer is yes. Although the article quotes people who use the commuter train and people who don't, it is the quote form a dissatisfied rider that we find most telling:"I can't do it anymore, I'd rather sit in my car, undisturbed, not have to share my space, not have to have someone's elbow in my lap, have my......

Oh, the irony. On New Year's Day, the Globe reported on the Boston area's high rate of millionaires (one in every 20 households, apparently) and on January 2, the mayor crowed in his inaugural address about the city's bright economic future and then suggested the answer to stopping violent crime is for pesky bystanders to stop being such chickens and start testifying. Right, because the root cause of high crime is, um, a lack......

Bostonist, being a luddite at heart, has long been a champion of minor-league baseball: It's an affordable way to get a close-up taste of the game without all the booming sound effects, incredibly long between-inning delays for TV advertising, and capricious general managers players. But we're a little dubious about Boston City Councillor John Tobin's idea of bringing a minor-league team from the independent Can-Am League to town. As it is, there's a ton of......

It's not often that Bostonist has the pleasure of using the words "modern" and "Massachusetts" in the same sentence, but Design Within Reach seems the appropriate venue to promote just such a mix of old and new. Tonight, at the Boston store, DWR is hosting a lecture by Stephen Chung of Mod.A Architecture titled "The Modern Boston Suburb." Besides being featured in the book Great Houses on a Budget, Mod.A has actually built a......

It is every Bostonian's nightmare: getting towed, and last night one Bostonist experienced it for the first time - me. This is my story. Living in the suburbs has its perks namely free, plentiful, and covered parking; however, whenever I must venture from my protective bubble a big decision must be made: to drive or not to drive? With an early morning flight looming on Wednesday morning, the prospect of venturing via commuter rail......

Bostonist, where have you been? Why, stuck in traffic of course. In the "Urban Mobility Report" by the Texas Transportation Institute released on Monday ranks Boston as the 13th slowest commute. The statisticians stacked up the hours slowed or stalled in rush hour traffic in order to compute which of 85 major metropolitan areas was the worst. Bostonist thought that after $14 billion and counting that our travel problems would have been "dug out." Besides......