Results tagged “tshirts”

The Sam Yoon campaign knows how young people communicate with each other. Using their t-shirts. The campaign has set up a Cafe Press store hawking several t-shirt designs using Yoon's name in sometimes excruciating puns. Nobody among his competitors in the mayoral race offers anything similar. We couldn't find a single Thomas Menino shirt for sale, provided this one doesn't count, and Michael Flaherty only offers boring white t-shirts with the campaign's logo affixed.

You may have heard that the Patriots are undefeated, the only team so remaining in the NFL, and are causing many a sleepless night among the '72 Dolphins champagne brigade. It may not be as flashy - it may not even last 'til tomorrow - but the Boston Celtics enjoy a similar distinction. With their brushing off of the Hawks last night, combined with the Clippers' (!) loss to Detroit, the C's begin today as...

We're going to predict it now: regardless of how the coming weeks treat our local baseball team, the 2007 Red Sox season - sorry, 2007 Pennant-Winning Red Sox season - is going to go down as one for the history books. Years from now, there are going to be many people out there who exclaim that they never doubted that the Sox would win the division. They're going to talk about how they knew that...

There’s nothing subtle about the sign outside the Mayflower Poultry Company in East Cambridge: “Live Poultry, Fresh Killed,” it proclaims across the silhouette of a sunny yellow (and presumably doomed) chicken. We picked up a whole chicken at Mayflower’s butcher shop to see if a freshly killed chicken is better than our usual supermarket bird.

The Darfur/Darfur Exhibit will be at the Institute of Contemporary Art on Friday, September 7, in the Barbara Lee Family Foundation Theater. The exhibit of photographs will run from 10 am to 3 pm and is free with regular admission. Tickets to the lecture and Yo-Yo Ma performance are already sold out, but you will be able to hear it outside the ICA. Sometimes "awareness-raising" only goes so far, especially when it comes to...

--Yesterday, a guy in the North End gave police a 30-inch-long baby boa constrictor inside a Crown Royal bag. We're not sure if toting a snake in a Crown Royal bag is animal cruelty or public disturbance or what. It's definitely weird and kind of cool. The unnamed man said he "found it on the street." The bag was also wet, and the Herald didn't know why. One can only guess. The optimistic answer would...

Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney won the Republican straw poll in Iowa tonight with about 31% of the vote. Of course, it wasn't that hard since John McCain and Rudy Giuliani opted out, and the straw poll was Romney's to lose. Lisa Wangsness at the Globe pointed out that Romney outspent his opponents by an "almost comical degree." Adam Nagourney of the New York Times noted that everything wasn't all Romney all the time. Presidential...

Sometimes, we in Boston take our Sox for granted forget how good we've got it. That's why every so often, the Bostonist Sports Department likes to hit the road and investigate the conditions at other ballparks around the land. So we found ourselves in Pittsburgh this weekend, watching the woeful Pirates play the hapless Reds at the sublime PNC Park. We forget just how lucky we are, when we hear mutterings from a Pittsburgh...

TheANTI has been kicking it with custom made t-shirt designs since 2004. After moving into some semi-dedicated shop space (and out of their living rooms and kitchens) the crew of theANTI now has a pretty sweet line of designs available on t-shirts for $15, and hoodies for $30. Hats, totes, mixes, and DVDs round out the product line. Inspired by street art, the designs come from a collective of artists and have some great Boston themes.

theANTI is a Boston based company that prides itself on ideas and motivation. We've physically existed since June '04 when our first shirts were printed, but the idea of our own designs on t-shirts has been something we've all been playin with for a while... We finally stopped talking about it and did it, and the results have been nothing but pleasing so far.

Bostonist was walking past the hustle and bustle of Fenway Park on Friday afternoon when we finally identified that nagging feeling that had been with us ever since the Park Street station. We had seen more Baltimore Orioles jerseys, hats and T-shirts in an hour than we saw all day when we traveled to Camden Yards last season! What was going on? Everyone knows that the orange-accented Baltimore ballpark is known fondly in Red Sox...

--The Northeastern News reports that the owner and an employee of Cappy's Pizza and Subs will be arraigned for allegedly attacking two college students who were really unhappy with their pizza.

Zipcar and MBTA have formed an alliance, and Zipcars have been positioned at various MBTA stations to make life even easier for occasional drivers. A total of 24 Zipcars will be at the following T stops: Red line - Alewife, JFK/UMass, Savin Hill, North Quincy, Quincy Center, Quincy Adams Green line - Riverside, Woodland, Brookline Village Orange line - Forest Hills, Malden, Oak Grove Blue line - Left all alone at this time. Show the...

Apparently in Cambridge it's just too hard to pop the collar on a corset. Yesterday the Harvard Crimson published an arts editorial "Preppy-Goth Is Doomed Fashion." The skull fashion is on the rise at Harvard. Hipsters and Preps alike are taking on the emblems normally associated with a gothic look. We know all about the Wal-Mart Nazi t-shirts that have been pulled from all many stores. But that was a simple case of plagiarism. They...

This weekend both NEMO and the Beantown Jazz festival will be taking place in town. NEMO is a showcase for New England artists, a networking opportunity for the little-known and the big fish. The performances will invade, occupy, and entertain at just about every venue in Boston. It's a great opportunity to see your favorite local band – or discover a favorite you never knew you had. It's a whole lot to take in,...

Living here in the Hub, we are faced with daily indignities, from the complications of an ill-administered public transportation system to the risk of completely random death in the most poorly planned and implemented public works project ever. But the struggle that unifies us more than any other must surely be that scourge of sidewalk strolling, the dreaded MassPirg canvassers. How heartless these innocent-looking youngsters are, accosting us in the midst of our important business and rudely appealing to our most base of sentiments - charity! Their importuning, to "take fifteen minutes to help the environment" is in truth no more than a lascivious invitation to cast aside the vital concerns of thrift and industry and fritter away life's short minutes on that most vulgar and socialistic of pursuits, collective action for the greater good.

-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 shorts, t-shirts, sandals, and bathing suits have come out of storage and we feel the urge to get outside and have some fun. Maybe your idea of fun is rock-climbing, or maybe hiking, or maybe you just want to have a picnic. Whatever your preference, A Life of Play podcast might be a good place to get some tips and advice on how to best plan your next excursion.

For those who love reality television, you are most likely familiar with the FOX series, "Trading Spouses", where two “couldn’t be more different” families swap the mothers for a week to see what happens when mothers stop being polite and start getting real. One recent episode had the fathers so riled up over one another's spouses that a table was thrown with shouts of "You're going to kill him. Stop it!" in the background. (Riveting, right?) So when this posting popped up today on craigslist’s “creative gigs” section, Bostonist had to give those Fox Television execs some credit. While they might have misstepped by killing off Mischa Barton's character on "The O.C." recently, FOX might be onto something good here:

Perhaps it is the hangover Bostonist still has from too many Scorpion bowls at The Golden Temple this weekend that is causing this malaise…or it could be the gloomy weather that makes us feel sad. But luckily, things are looking up this weekend, kids. The first day of April is this Saturday and along with changing the clocks an hour ahead, it also means that spring is right around the corner. (Some believe that the arrival of the Cadbury Cream Egg is also an indication.) Yes, we understand that the first day of spring was last week, but who the hell thinks it’s springtime when we’re seeing flurries and wearing scarves? Oh wait. There is a group of Bostonians who believe that the first day of spring means that dressing unseasonably is okay in society. Well, Bostonist has to admit that dressing like it’s summertime when it is cold, windy and barely 38 degrees is one of our many pet peeves.

Since limited edition t-shirts are "so hot right now", Bostonist can think of nothing better to take our minds off that post-St. Patty's Day hangover than checking out the Legends of Style: ICONS event at the BCA this Saturday, March 18 from 8 pm - 1 am. "ICONS will showcase artwork from more than 30 artists and designers from across the country. This time around, Future Classic [the event's host,] decided to add a...

For those living across river (or willing to hop the Red Line or #1), Bostonist thinks there’s no better place to grab a pint, munch on some gourmet pub fare (yes, there is such a thing) and hear our favorite local band than The Plough & Stars, reopening this Friday.

The Mayor seems disposed to do anything conceivable to fight violent crime, except put more police on the streets. We've seen him blame t-shirts for lawlessness in Boston, and now he's focusing on pay phones. The theory, as detailed in a story in today's Globe, is that drug dealers and prostitutes use pay phones for their business and congregate around the phones.

Oh, the irony. On New Year's Day, the Globe reported on the Boston area's high rate of millionaires (one in every 20 households, apparently) and on January 2, the mayor crowed in his inaugural address about the city's bright economic future and then suggested the answer to stopping violent crime is for pesky bystanders to stop being such chickens and start testifying. Right, because the root cause of high crime is, um, a lack of witnesses? Bostonist understands that Menino wants to carry on the dumb-but-passionate momentum of his campaign against "Stop Snitchin'" shirts, but seriously, can we talk about segregation, income disparity, and the fact that most of the millionaires who are carrying us boldly into the future live in the western suburbs and have no interest in Boston's schools or police? Maybe someone should start making t-shirts that say "Stop Investin' Your Money in the City Where You Made It" or "Stop Creatin' a Tax Code that Forces Corporations that Want to Extract Profit from a City to Do More than Just Create a Few New Service Sector Jobs." Perhaps that would encourage the mayor can get on his high horse about those problems, and t-shirts like that would definitely have ironic, hipster appeal.

One of the many things we have in abundance here in the Commonwealth, in addition to snow, liberals, and Venezuelan oil, is lawyers. In fact, we have more lawyers per capita than any other state. That means there's probably at least one lawyer on your holiday gift list this year. Ordinarily, the best present you can give to your favorite litigator is a set of facts giving rise to a multi-million-dollar class action lawsuit that...

In the wake of recent shootings, Mayor Menino called a meeting of top public safety folks to figure out what could be done (short of spending more money, of course). Despite numerous suggestions and resulting proposals, the Herald homed in on Menino's absurd plan to confiscate "Stop Snitchin'" t-shirts from stores. While Bostonist would like to take the Globe's more measured approach and talk about everything that came out of the meeting, we know our place, and that place is snarky criticism. Unfortunately, our blogging brethren (and, really, the Herald article itself) have stolen our thunder by pointing out that Menino's anti-anti-snitching campaign is dumb. So let Bostonist focus on just one thing: In the Herald article, the Mass. Civil Liberties Union reminds the mayor of that theory first propounded by Oliver Wendell Holmes, that the answer to bad speech is not censorship, but more speech. The Globe article suggests that Menino actually has this in mind, because he's hoping to solicit pro bono work from PR firms to counter the "Stop Snitchin'" message. So what Bostonist wants to know is, what pro-snitchin' message should the city adopt? One possibility is shown above (though Bostonist might be reluctant to wear such a shirt). Others that come to mind are, "Snitchin': It's What's For Dinner" and "Loose Lips Actually Aren't So Bad For Ships." Dear readers, we would very much like to hear your suggestions.

Bostonist is pleased to unveil our brand spanking new t-shirts, bags, and hoodie. If you look close at the offerings you’ll note that we’re also selling underwear. We’ve gone with Spreadshirt for distribution. The graphics are fly and we can print them up in all sorts of colors. Some of the shirts are even made by American Apparel, sweatshop free! Once you’ve gotten yourself a couple of ringers, a baseball, and the hoodie--but just need more Bostonist schwag, drop us a line. We’ll consider making a special run just for you in your favorite color and style.

The logical part of Bostonist's brain understands why it is OK not to have a one-game playoff with the Yankees to determine who is the champion of the AL East: No matter who wins, both teams will be in the playoffs, and fighting over who gets to play Anaheim and who gets to play the White Sox is like, um . . . metaphors fail us; it's obviously dumb. But baseball is not logical -...

While Bostonist sits and takes in the Sox taking a beating from the Blue Jays, the entertaining website, SmokingGun.com, has brought up an interesting little glich in the MLB online store. It seems that the MLB believes that the Yankees will be taking the AL East title this season, despite the fact that the tight pennant race doesn't conclude until Sunday afternoon. T-shirts proclaiming their eighth straight division win were available for $19.95 as of...

They're a family, they're sticking together, and when the going gets tough, they look up to the Papi and hope he comes through ... like last night. Sox 3 - Angels 2!

Oh how Bostonist loves irony and when speaking about the Red Sox right now, we think it is all very ironic. The Herald featured an article yesterday about how Red Sox management is discouraging fans from sporting their eloquently worded, "Yankees Suck" t-shirts when visiting ol' Fenway Park. They kindly ask fans to turn their classy t-shirts inside out, because those "Yankees Suck" t-shirts aren't very "family-friendly." According to the chief communications guy for the Sox, "We are determined to keep Fenway a place where families feel comfortable." Bostonist would like to point out that the t-shirts don't actually shout out that the Yanks suck; those are the fans who lead a park-wide chant of "Yankees Suck" when Jeter steps up to the plate. Perhaps a little talking to the crowd about good sportsmanship will do the trick? Right now, the shirts aren't fully outlawed at the park, but Sox management legally does have a right to ban any sort of offensive material.