Frankly, we'd like to know what Daisuke Matsuzaka did to alienate his teammates. Does he play "Gyroball" constantly in the clubhouse? Mix wasabi in with the Ben Gay as a lockerroom prank? There must be some reason why his lineup consistently fails to give him any run support, making him 1-3 against the Devil Rays to his 12-7 record against the rest of the league. Don Orsillo put it best late in the game last...
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Stephen Carter will read from New England White at Harvard Book Store, tomorrow, Thursday, June 28, at 6:30 pm. Stephen Carter knows university politics. He's a law professor at Yale. So it is no surprise that the literary mystery New England White focuses on a university president and his family. The president in question, Lemaster Carlyle, is a black man who has risen to a position of power. He's friends with the president of the...
The U.S. Air Guitar Championship series is winding its way across the country and tonight descends upon Boston. The rock and its rockers will show their best air windmill moves and air thrashing at Harpers Ferry, the third stop on the 14-city tour.
Chanel 5's Cindy and Jeff have a blog. It's about traffic. Today it was about grabbing a Taxi. When Bostonist has a flight to catch we've been known to walk ourselves to the nearest hotel so that we can grab the flat rate to Logan because it's almost always cheaper than a ride with the meter running. As fast as the Big Dig has made an airport run, traffic usually slows us down enough to...
The not-so-secret secret that a ride around the lagoon on a swan boat on a steaming New England afternoon is a great way for a tourist to feel comfortable or a Bostonian to feel nostalgic for childhood when they first climbed aboard the bike pedal style powered boats. The Swan Boats launch every May and are taken out of the water and stored at Labor Day – USA today reports, via the AP, that the...
Bostonist once believed that we were defined as a "Gen X'er" since we were born on the tail end of that era (between 1961-1981). But after reading an article in yesterday's USA Today, we might have to recategorize ourselves as typical "Generation Y'ers." It seems that Generation Y, also known as "Generation Why?" with their questioning of everything, is 70 million strong and are taking over the office environment with lots of attitude, with flip flops on feet and iPods in hand. Defined by some as those born in the late 20th century, Generation Y is now starting to enter the "real world" and people are classifying them as those "who want to work, but don't want work to be their life." Now Bostonist must agree that work is work, and everyone should still have a life outside of a cubicle. But the Generation is also being called "nurtured", "pampered", and they've been active since pre-school, creating "high performance and high maintenance" individuals. This is the first generation who were introduced at a young age to the Internet, cell phones, and Instant Messager. Gen Y'ers, who are also finding themselves next to baby boomers in the work place, are also big mouths according to the experts; they like to have their opinion known, which some employers can find annoying to say the least.
"Youthquakes" is the new hot word over at USA Today, which ran an article today about the increase of younger people relocating to those states known for their elderly population. Florida and Arizona are each up over 10% in growth in their under-25 population, while the rest of the country only had an increase of 2.9%. One demographer quoted in the article says that it is mostly immigrants and suburbanites moving from the Snow Belt and crowded coastal states. Eastern states are losing younger people too according to this newest Census report; Maine is the oldest state in population, with the median age being 40.6, with Vermont right behind at 40.2 years. (Thank goodness we are all so young down here in the city.) So why not trade in our mittens for flipflops? Bostonist would love to be tan and be able to wear t-shirts year-round, but what would we complain about? The cold weather and constant transportation woes would be gone. What would an east coaster do with all that free time?
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