First Night What to choose? Ice sculptures? The film festival? Harry and the Potters? Visit First Night's official site for a full schedule. Music --Bang Camaro will bring their huge band and their even huger metal sound to the Hard Rock Café. The Hard Rock should thank Bang Camaro for making them cooler. Hard Rock, 22-24 Clinton St., Boston, 8:30 pm. $20. --The Upper Crust will look bewigged, powdered, and bloody well gorgeous as they--ahem--rocque.......

There was an Old Man of Nantucket Who often set sail in a bucket When faced with a Man Who had a grand plan Well, as for the Earth, he said __________. Cape Wind, the hotly debated proposal to build a wind-turbine farm in Nantucket Sound, looks like a brilliant idea. Building wind turbines that took advantage of Cape Cod winds would relieve pressure on the electrical grid, generate clean energy, and help wean the......

So Bostonist was sitting on a stoop on Newbury Street yesterday afternoon, waiting for some coworkers who foolishly thought they could get to Upper Crust from Government Center faster on the T than we could on our bike. As we soaked in the sun and enjoyed the parade of shopping-bag-laden, wealthy foreigners, we had the additional pleasure of witnessing a drama with three distinctly Bostonian elements: Parking, profanity, and difficult race relations. Allow us to......

We’re getting mixed messages in the blogosphere. It’s not uncommon, we’ll admit. Bostonist sat down with this week's edition of the Economist and read the whole section on “new media.” We felt like we might be part of that club in some way, but just laughed out loud when they made the comment “Want a debate? Ask a blogger what a blog is” perfectly valid question - one that has more answers than we......