The Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film continues its annual Top 100 List tradition with a list of the one hundred funniest films of all time. All members were asked to contribute 20 ideas, which were then compiled into the final list of mostly modern American films. According to the press release: Many filmmakers from various eras appear more than once on the list, including Tim Burton, Charles Chaplin, Christopher Guest, Albert Brooks, John Waters, Buster......

--A 22-year-old man was shot in Roxbury outside Packy's Pub early this morning. He is now in critical condition. The Globe reports that police learned about the shooting from ShotSpotter. --BPD News is back with a flood of Christmas news. On Friday, allegedly inebriated young men annoyed the police. Four young men from Milton (who were a little old to be from the Academy) showed up at a party in Brighton. They had not been......

Imagine that you're stuck on the Green Line, wedged in between two people yammering away on their cell phones, and one of them is stinky. Each stop seems to last for an hour. When you reach your destination, you think to yourself, "I could have walked there in half the time." You were probably right. The Brookings Institution has declared Boston America's second-most walkable city, second only to DC, and Beacon Hill as one of......

Underworld will be performing at Bank of America Pavilion tonight. Doors are at 6:30 pm, and the show is at 7:30 pm. With John Digweed, DJ Dave Ralph. Last night Bostonist was out at the Middlesex Lounge listening to local DJs spin some of the best minimal and house that's out right now. Though the room was dimly lit and the atmosphere was very chill, the spectrum of sobriety went from stone cold to completely......

Story time. It's early 2001 at a snowy New England college campus. Collegiate-Aged Bostonist takes in a set by San Francisco-based Matt Nathanson in the campus student center. It is Nathanson's birthday and Sister Helen Prejean (of "Dead Man Walking" fame) is also appearing on campus. Did we mention that this is a Catholic college? Nathanson winds up performing a very, very intimate two sets and, we imagine, having a pretty sucky birthday. But Bostonist......

If you believe the worst of the rumors, the members of the Police spend most of their downtime on the tour bus smashing bottles and going after one another with the jagged glass. But whatever happens offstage, it doesn't seem to affect the show. The Police reunion tour hit Fenway Park Saturday for the first of two nights, and they've hardly lost a step. The best part of a reunion that nobody thought would ever......

You'd think that the story of last night's Red Sox/Devil Rays series kickoff would be the glorious-yet-atypical change of character demonstrated by DR pitcher Scott Kazmir. Sure, we'll get to that, but c'mon - something huge happened. Julio Lugo safely hit the ball! And then he did it AGAIN! It had been a long, rough road for our offensively challenged shortstop - a road with 33 seemingly untravelable off-ramps along the way. Different spots in......

The happiest Red Sox fans around have to be the ones who stopped watching baseball around 7:30 last night. They would have seen Game 1 of the doubleheader, a 13-3 Sox rout/Home Run Derby. They would have seen the Yankees' nightmarish loss to the Mets. But most importantly, they would have been spared Game 2, in which Atlanta demolished the Sox 14-0. A wild day all around. Game One was a laugher thanks in part......

It must be the Dunkies Turbo Ice. Well, not really. The makers of Hiro Beverage, yet another option on the ever-expanding field of contenders to Red Bull, asked Sperling's BestPlaces to come up with some stats on the most energetic cities to help hype the beverage's launch. Statistics supported the assertion and put Boston in third, San Francisco took the top spot and New York City was the nearest East Coast contender hitting the top......

Open Studio season is upon us. Artists around the city are opening up their creative spaces to show off what they've been working on. The culture train hops from one neighborhood. This weekend the fall season kicks off with United South End Artists (USEA). They will be holding their 20th annual open studio weekend from 11 am to 6 pm Saturday and Sunday. Galleries and studios are littered all over the south end, though a......

We first heard about The South End Buttery and their organic cupcakes when they first opened up in the South End this past spring. Bostonist was heavy into cupcakes at the time (now we're intrigued by homemade lemonades) and had heard great things about their 'cakes. Well, we never got over to The Buttery until recently for a lovely Friday afternoon lunch and we were very pleased with the results so much that we were......

Walking around Boston – from the Common to Mass Ave – characters had invaded the Hub. They weren't the usual Saturday afternoon cast: tourists strapped with cameras and children, or Red Sox fans in full attire getting ready for the evening game. Boston Anime 2006 took over the Hynes Convention Center for the weekend, spilling out on more that one occasion into the Pru and Copley Malls before taking in some of the sights and......

We were wondering what would be next on the list of complaints, now that the rain has passed. Apparently it's the fact that we're not the worst drivers in the nation. The recent survey, which was covered in the Herald yesterday, put Boston in the top five cities in Road Rage. Bostonist has our own theory about why we don't rank #1 – we're used to it. We were following an SUV this past weekend......

Sitting outside on a grassy patch next to flip-flop and business suit clad Bostonians seems like a recipe for snippets of wonderment. Sometimes it is and sometimes it isn’t. As the weather turns from Spring to Winter to Summer (it’s New England, right?) we’ve got our ears open and hope you do, too. When you hear something, say something. Send in your nuggets of out-of-context statements, outrageous pickup lines, and nonsensical musings to us......

Well, the weather outside is frightful . . . and what to do? Our office softball team (the embarassingly named Attorneys at Bat) is slated to start its season tomorrow (against another name-challenged team, the Summit Sea Monsters); we've already optimistically stowed away our cold weather clothes and heavy blankets; and now, annoyingly, the New England spring is going all ODB on us (that is, raw). So what's poor Bostonist to do until the sun......

We don’t really know what’s going on with the New York folks. They’re always up to something crazy. We thank Michael Malice who’s let us become his partner for “outside New York.” Now you can find the New York crazy conversations at NewYorkOverheard.com, while in Boston check in with us (your ears permitting) every Thursday for what nutso conversations we’re overhearing. Join the fun by sending in the things you overhear on your commute,......

On February 26, 2006 Eric Koloski took home the title of State Yo-Yo Champion 2006. Participants in the contest headed west to UMass-Amherst for the championship and exhibition rounds of Yo-Yo tricks and finesse. Walking the Dog and Around the World are the height of Bostonist’s ability with a Yo-Yo, but those tricks are baby steps to the top Yo-Yoers, they probably don’t event call them tricks. Today’s video is a montage of footage from......

Walking to work today, Bostonist saw two people a day early in their full-out St. Patrick's Day Irish gear (green paper hat, "all about drinking and Irishness in a hard-drinking, heavily Irish town. But part of us clings to the belief that if people only knew more about Evacuation Day - commemorating an actual Revolutionary War victory in Boston (unlike Bunker Hill Day) - they would embrace it as we do. To that end, some......

This year attendance numbers were drastically down in movie theaters. That was the mantra being blasted at anyone who'd listen. When asked what was causing this, industry experts presented cases such as movie piracy, home movie theaters gaining in popularity, and if pressed enough, the waning quality of movies in general. If you looked hard enough or sampled enough of the releases, however, you would have seen a good number of entertaining and challenging films.......

The MTA, the one of New York City fame, not of Scollay Under and JP-nickel-exit-fare fame, isn’t running today. Gothamist is liveblogging it. Today they’re all strike, strike, "how'd you get to work?", and more strike. The transit strike in NYC has stolen the headline spot for all national news outlets. Now NYC seems to be trying to cheat Boston out of our nickname “The Walking City” with Mayor Bloomberg himself walking across to Brooklyn......

Baby its cold outside. The weather has brought us temperatures that we’re not quite ready to handle. Bostonist doesn’t want to go outside and find our next meal. Sitting in our apartment we’re deciding if we’re going to venture out and sit in a toasty restaurant to dig up dinner or if take out or, better yet, delivery is in our future. Where do we turn? The internets of course. Two new services have made......

People must be learning. We’ve had our ears open all week and the ridiculous nonsense we’re accustomed to hearing wasn’t flowing as fast and furious as it once had. But there’s no stopping our intrepid readers. Bostonist and our cohorts around the city will keep dropping those eaves, as long as you keep dropping us lines. Send them to bostonistoverheard at gmail dot com with your latest tidbits of out-of-contextual phraseology. Woman: So I......

Oh, Haymarket, how Bostonist loves your super low prices, general uncleanliness, and the gruff attitude of most of your vendors. What we really enjoy is the good bit of sauce you leave at the end of the day. But we’ve found a new spot for our fresh food, Mondays and Thursdays, so we don’t have to wait for the weekend. Walking across the Old Northern Avenue Bridge, a vibrant open air market surrounds you.......

It's spring, which means that the bikes are back on the street en masse. Bikes are great--exercise and transportation and saving the earth all in one. However, Bostonist would like to reiterate a couple of rules of the road. 1. Are you riding your bike on the streets? Please make sure that you are WEARING A HELMET! Bostonist was appalled to see last week that about one out of every three bikers coming down the......

If you are a "beer snob," then you have already hit up this Irish haunt out on Beacon Street. Located in Washington Square in Brookline, the Anam Cara Publick House is the real deal if you are looking to have some great beer to celebrate Ireland and all her glory. Walking into this cozy pub, there is a sense of medieval style with its heavy red drapes, but it also adorns its walls with beer......