The Boston Globe popped a little story in the business section this morning about another Menino belly-ache that he shouldn't be belly-aching about. The Filene's store that closed earlier this year has been home to a street-level discount bonanza serving as a clearance center for the Federated Department stores. The cramped, trashy store is selling a lot of wares at deep discounts on the first floor of the formerly six floor store. Menino is worried......

Even though Boston somehow failed to make the Top 50 world's most expensive cities to live in list (although this survey is of arguable accuracy.) God knows it's nice to find a deal in our "in-what-world-is-Boston -cheaper-than-Chicago-which -ranked-38-on-the-list" little city. One thing we can always count on in Boston is Filene's Basement, a little chunk of discounted-retail heaven on earth. The Basement is stocked right now…If you're a medium or above. Smaller sizes are still......

Every Filene’s flyer we’ve checked out in the past few months has had a nice little fine print section informing readers that the sales are not effective at pretty every store in the area. They’re all closing as part of the merger with Macy’s parent company Federated. Bostonist went to visit the liquidation sale at the Downtown Crossing location in February and we thought the super sale prices weren’t really any better than automatic markdowns......

The annual "Running of the Brides" at Boston's own Filene's Basement is taking place this Friday, February 18 at 8 a.m. For those of you not familiar with this psycho-shopper event, people line up at 4 a.m. to get in line to have a chance to grab a designer wedding gown at a budget price. The 1,500 dresses range in value from $800-$9,000 but brides-to-be can get them for $249-$699. Gaggles of brides and their......

If you're like Bostonist, you love partying on Wednesday nights. Thankfully there are a number of good options to keep you up late: Blackout Bar at Great Scott's: Cocked n Loaded, DJ Mark V and Eric (Sex Positions) spin good punk, indie, rock, metal, etc. Dead Meadow shit on the walls and tables [9pm/$5/18+] Paradise Rock Club: The Information, The Good North, Asobi Seksu, Emergency Music [in the backroom][8pm/18+] T.T. The Bear's: Truth Serum......