--Local news outlets were especially good at stating the obvious today. The weather is windy, as in 70 mph, and the snot will freeze in your nose once you step outside. [Boston Globe, Uh, everyone] --Ten people were forced out into the cold after a fire broke out in their house this morning in Everett. [Boston Herald] --Sometimes justice has a laugh at our expense. A convicted Level 3 sex offender from Uxbridge won......

--The DA's office is facing outrage from a source other than the BPD. The mother of Joseph A. Wilson, who was stabbed to death at a party in 2005, is speaking out because jurors acquitted 19-year-old Etanis Cumba in the trial. The prosecutors accused Cumba of going to a party, getting in a fight that involved Wilson, and stabbing him. The person who stabbed Wilson was wearing a bandana across his face. After Cumba was......

This short work week is long on music. The small show battles the bigger venue this week as the students invade the city. When they come back it seems the shows start up with vigor. Lots of 18+ hit the mark – and they've still got summer money in their pockets. What's this mean? Quite possibly there will be a few more sell outs than usual as the concert funds still run high. Fair......

Exploit Boston and Bostonist are bringing you a two part contest. The first part comes tomorrow, Tuesday, night at the Exploit Boston Game Night at Common Ground in Allston. The second part is all-internets-all-the-time. Two great guilty pleasures, Jewel and Rob Thomas, are playing a show at the Bank of America Pavilion on Friday night, June 9. Toby Lightman will open the show for the two pop superstars. Rob Thomas and Jewel share something in......

Last week Bostonist arrived at an almost-empty TT the Bear's during Deertick's opening set of earnest acoustic guitar ballads. After an almost-pint of Newcastle in a plastic cup, we were drawn over to the stage by the upright bass and unapologetically fey vocals of the next act, Nat Baldwin. He made Bostonist think of Final Fantasy a few octaves lower, or a more mournful Joanna Newsom a few more octaves down. At one point, we......