Fun Fun Fun Fest 2007 Recap from Super!Alright! on Vimeo. Austinist attended a town hall meeting about proposed noise ordinances that could undermine the city's future as the Live Music Capital of the World, and lamented the possible loss of Texas's only feminist bookstore. Throughout the week, they interviewed a bunch of indie fashion designers and D-I-Y websites—Etsy, Ornamental Things, 31 Corn Lane, and Aorta Designs—for the upcoming Stitch Fashion Show. They also did......

Yeah, yeah, "Obama" as in "Barack" as in Deval Patrick's buddy sounds similar to "Osama" as in the despicable terrorist. But those are two names that you don't want to mix up in polite company. You don't want to mix up those names in impolite company. Alas, that's exactly what former Massachusetts governor and Republican presidential aspirant Mitt Romney did. Marc Ambinder has the quotation from a Romney presentation in Greenville, South Carolina: Actually, just......

Come on now. It's been six months since the BPD chased down some LED signs depicting the Mooninites and still we're subject to ridicule. A tipster on the Bostonist Contribute page alerted us to the Jalopink posting that there is an eerily similar rust spot to the Aqua Teen Hunger Force character of Meatwad appearing on a 1973 Datsun 610. As the intro lyrics go: "Meatwad make the money, see. Meatwad get the honeys,......

Between fake terrorist alerts and scandals big and small, this just might be the Best Best of the -ists ever. We're exhausted just thinking about it. First up, SFist, who saw their little 'ole site be the center of what was a nice little scandal (even getting their editor on TV) only to find their scandal dwarfed by the even bigger scandal caused by their Mayor boffing one of his aides' wife. We're not......

One thing's for sure - Mayor Menino is no fan of "Mooninites," or what the Globe calls "little square-shaped men frowning and making an obscene gesture." Most important, "Mooninites" are the objects that have tormented Boston law enforcement since lite-brite displays of the object were found attached to the city's sensitive spots - like by bridges and highways. It's time to figure out what to do about the people who hung LED light displays of......

The MBTA released the wrath of Charlie on the system for real today. December 4 marked the release of the long-promised plastic cards embedded with a chip to allow you to tap and go, rather than feed, wait, retreat with the paper CharlieTicket. They've got boxes full of zero-value CharlieCards to distribute, reportedly about a million before the end of the year, and are starting the effort with a full on blitz in T stations......

Gothamist has their eyes to the sky today and is keeping us updated on the breaking news story from New York City. Apparently a helicopter has crashed into an apartment building. Reports thus far have indicated that more than one building is on fire. Officials have already come out to claim that they aren't suspecting that it was a hijacking or terrorist related. It seems to have been confirmed that it was not a small......

Governor Romney, only weeks away from being a lame duck, announced that the MBTA would resume random bag searches of transit system passengers. We thought at first they'd be riffling through our bags trying to find any tokens we still have in our possession, though really they are indeed looking for bombs. The announced plan will deploy portable machines outside of stations that will test baggage for bomb residue, and, with probable cause, police can......

Maybe Romney is upset that he can't pronounce Ahmadinejad correctly (who can?). Perhaps he's afraid that there aren't enough of the Chargers for the Staties to drive. Or maybe he's just making another calculated move for a potential 2008 Presidential bid. Whatever the case may be, Romney has ordered to refuse all requests for security details in protection of the former Iranian president, Mohammad Khatami. A visit by Khatami has been scheduled for this Sunday,......

A United Airlines plane travelling from London to Washington D.C. was forced to land at Logan Airport this morning after a 60-year-old female passenger became agitated, claiming fear of claustrophobia on board. This U.S. citizen had to be restrained by passengers and was arrested by State Police once the plane landed at Terminal E. We much prefer when planes are diverted to less populated places, like Bangor. It's a little disconcerting that this DC-bound......

Trains are safe. That's the declaration from Michael Chertoff, head of the US Department of Homeland Security, after he took a ride on the MBTA Green Line. Perhaps malicious individuals looking to cause harm to Boston's subway system have also been thwarted by the introduction of the CharlieTicket system. If regular riders of the T, occasional patrons, and tourists are finding the new fare system a little cumbersome there maybe a built-in safety factor preventing......

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,......

Remember when Cat Stevens Yusuf Islam was "discovered" on a flight to Washington DC, and the flight was diverted to Bangor, Maine, for security purposes (because Cat Stevens, like so many other very bad individuals, has found his name on a terrorist watch list)? Bangor picked up a few other inbound bad guys after that, too. Now, a flight headed to Logan was diverted to Kansas City because of "threatening graffiti" in the bathroom. As......

How much longer until Mitt Romney decides whether to lose a bid for the white house or a bid for reelection? Because Bostonist is starting to feel like the matronly society wife in an old-time comedy of manners who married a philanderer for the economic and social benefits and now must stoically turn a blind eye to his dalliances with young showgirls (or primary states, as the case may be). Maybe we should create a......

Part of the charm of our fair city (and our fair Commonwealth, and, really, our whole fair region from Rhode Island to Canada) is that people talk funny and place names aren't pronounced the way they're spelled. This is a much written-about phenomenon and Bostonist need not elaborate further upon it here. But something we can't understand is why people who claim to be selling their services in Massachusetts and for the benefit of......

Bostonist was happy to read today about the homage to the late, great Tip O’Neill given in the form of naming rights to the I-93 tunnel. After Romney proposed naming the tunnel system running through the city "Liberty Tunnel" to honor the revolutionary spirit of Boston and to confront the terrorist attacks we’re happy to have had a win for the Democrats. The "sneaky" legislation put into the federal highway funding bill this month is......

Bostonist awoke this morning to breaking news of the latest terrorist attack hitting the London transportation system. Beginning in the height of rush hour traffic, the bombs exploded in several different areas of the Underground, as well as one double-decker bus; officials say that at least 10 people have died with over 90 casualities thus far. The entire London transporation system has been shut down and government officials have told city residents to stay where......

For the second time in a week Bostonist looks north for flight status. No, the flight monitors haven't been rearranged at logan, they've just diverted the flights. Today Alitalia Flight 618 from Milan, Italy which was supposed to land at Boston’s Logan Airport instead made way for Bangor Maine. Last Thursday an Air France flight headed to the hub was also diverted to Bangor. Here at Bostonist we would like to take a minute and......