Image tagged Bostonist by tprussman Iraq has $79 billion to burn. That could fund about 7 months of war. All right! [NYT] Young Iraqi Rakan Hassan, treated for US-inflicted gunshot wounds in Boston in 2005, has died after a bomb exploded in his hometown, Mosul. All wrong. [Globe] Brookline is really, really into The Dark Knight. Like bat-infestation really. [Wicked Local Brookline] DeVal Patrick signed a bill to fund bridge repair. [Globe] Kidnapping may......

There is a lot to love about the MBTA. Its mascot is a man who began a nightmarish lifelong captivity 'neath the streets of Boston when he tried to take the T to Jamaica Plain. It offers Bostonians spontaneous trust exercises. It grants importance to our geographically inclined citizens. And, let's face it, it gets us to work. But America's oldest subway is poised to become America's most annoying. The concept is T-Radio, and it......

The Armenian Memorial, a proposed park, would pay homage to the Armenian Genocide that saw the loss of an estimated 1.5 million lives in 1915. The memorial has been on and off in the news mostly for their intention to develop a parcel of the Greenway near Christopher Columbus park as the site of the memorial. Tom Menino has voiced his opinion: no way. He doesn't want the Greenway to become home to a number......

The other day, Bostonist was walking with a friend, discussing Thanksgiving plans. Bostonist said we expected forty or fifty people at our mother’s house. Our friend’s jaw dropped to the ground. That was when Bostonist realized that Russian immigrant Thanksgiving celebrations are not quite like traditional American ones. Russians in America, particularly the Russian Jewish immigrants who abound in the Boston area, have a lot to be thankful for: three-bedroom apartments, SUVs, and TJ Maxx,......