This Bostonist swung by the newest sushi restaurant to invade Back Bay last week, and the overall impression was a good one. First off, Haru is a New York city implant, and the location in Dick's Last Resort's old spot in the Prudential Building is the chain's first in the city. Thank you very much, New York. We'll take your trophy AND your sushi. That'll be just fine. But Bostonist digresses. The decor at......

--Meet the best state trooper ever and the dumbest truck driver ever over at Other People's Emergencies. --Spatch lists the many reasons why you should stay the hell away from High School Musical. We appreciate his bravery in watching it for us. --Jeff at the Boston Community Live Journal page has some helpful tips for those who are new to Boston, including a template for ordering at Dunkies: "(size), (type), (extras) and (food)." --Beantown Bloggery......

Trevor Corson will read from The Zen of Fish: The Story of Sushi, from Samurai to Supermarket at Harvard Book Store, tomorrow, Wednesday, June 13, at 6:30 pm. Trevor Corson couldn't have timed the arrival of The Zen of Sushi any better, at least where Boston is concerned. With the arrival of Daisuke Matsuzaka, Hideki "Hero in the Dark" Okajima, and their media entourage, Bostonians who previously eschewed sushi might be giving the raw-fish treat......

French electronic producer and Tiger Sushi label founder Joakim Bouaziz released Monsters & Silly Songs in February, making a huge leap from his previous efforts. Having remixed Air, Annie, Stereolab and Fischerspooner, along with two previous albums that stayed true to the French electro genre, Monsters brings elements of post-punk and pop to the mix. Tonight at Axis, Joakim plays a DJ set in lieu of the live band he’s taken on tour (The Ectoplasmics)......

The Globe reported today that Deval Patrick was reversing an order by former Governor Mitt Romey and would allow 26 couples to have their marriages to be recorded in Massachusetts. A 1913 law which stated that those couples whose marriage was specifically outlawed in their state of residence could not marry in Massachusetts was used by the Romney administration – and withheld by a State Supreme Court decision – precluded the couples marriages from being......

With the demise of the drive-thru and the largely inhospitable weather in New England, the outdoor movie theater has been all but forgotten. Too many film buffs are denied the simple pleasure of munching popcorn while the moonlight casts shadows over the screen. If you're one of the poor sods who's never experienced the romance and magic of al fresco cinema, fear not! Boston's own Asian Community Development Organization (ACDC) is teaming up with......

What goes better with summer than al fresco dining? Al fresco beer, of course, and Cambridge Brewing Company (a.k.a. CBC) has both in spades. Although this Kendall Square hideaway makes for a cozy nosh during the winter months, (wood-burning stove outside the front door so smokers don’t have to freeze,) once the mercury rises CBC opens its spacious patio for diners and drinkers alike. It’s an ideal place to while away a weekend afternoon, and......

If you’re an astute reader of the postings here you’ll know that Bostonist packed up our things and moved to the other side of the tracks back in September. After a good bit of time living in Egleston Square our landlord decided to sell our triple-decker apartment building as affordable condos. They were priced affordably by Boston standards, not, unfortunately, by Bostonist standards. While living there we told our mother we were living in Jamaica......

Just north on Route 1 in Saugus lays Kowloon Restaurant, a gaudy landmark entertaining people with Asian cuisine for years. Primarily filled with an Polynesian/Easter Island look, Kowloon is best described as eclectic. The front lobby is filled with pictures of past celebrities that have visited Kowloon over the years, most of who are no longer celebrities. Bostonist didn't really pay any mind to that though since we were craving some Chinese food. Luckily Bostonist......

Mama Bear Jen Chung made the top five. In fact, she’s number three. Bostonist recently stumbled upon our very own Katie listed on David Krug’s site as a “2006 Sleeper” for the top ten most powerful women in the blogosphere. In the spirit of High Fidelity, we really can’t get enough of these lists. The liberalcowboy (David Krug) put together one of the many lists on his site and titled it “10 Most Powerful Women......

One of the better kept secrets in Boston is the Langham Hotel's Three Season Chocolate Bar at Café Fleuri. Bostonist wants to be clear. It's a bar that serves chocolate, not a bar of chocolate or a bar made out of chocolate. (What imaginations you have!) When the doors are closed for three months over the summer, it's not certain whether the chefs head for the Cape or if no one in Boston likes chocolate......

When someone hears the word, "tsunami" today, one instantly thinks of the natural disaster that hit the Indian Ocean, devestating the entire region. Unfortunately, a sushi restaurant in Brookline has been named "Tsunami", complete with a tidal wave on their sign, for some time. Located in Coolidge Corner, this smaller, little frills Japanese place was visited recently by Bostonist, who usually turns to the "big guns" of Brookline sushi, like Fugakyu and Jae's for their......