Two men were arrested for allegedly assaulting two female BU students in their own dorm rooms on Sunday, and the university is cracking down on those who sign strangers into the dorms. The alleged attackers, one from Brookline and one from Chestnut Hill, convinced two female BU students to sign them into Claflin Hall--even though the students didn't recognize them, the Globe reports. The BU Free Press interviewed one of the victims, who described what......

Jim McCue Book Launch Party Comedy Connection Faneuil Hall (T: Government Center) Sunday, December 16, 8:00 pm, $15 Free for veterans and military personnel Official Jim McCue Site AnySoldier.com The troops could use a lot from us right now, whether it be body armor or sunblock. But one local performer is using his specific talents to make the lives of the troops a little bit better. Comedian Jim McCue, who is also co-founder of the......

A Tribute to Ingmar Bergman Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle Street, Cambridge Friday, December 7-Wednesday, December 12 Tickets and more information Swedish director Ingmar Bergman, who died in July, made too many movies to fit neatly into a polite retrospective. With that in mind, be grateful that the Brattle Theatre has arranged its Bergman tribute around a tidy theme -- films starring Liv Ullmann -- that demonstrates the broad range of Bergman's mastery. (The Harvard Film......

The story about a Boston priest getting arrested for stalking Conan O'Brien keeps getting weirder, if that's possible. Reverend David Ajemian, 46, who attended Milton and Harvard and who was a local priest, was nabbed trying to get into an O'Brien taping. The Smoking Gun has documents that show Ajemian may be even stranger than previously thought. Letters indicate that Ajemian was mad at John McEnroe as well, and he claimed that McEnroe assaulted them......

John Fulton Reading With Joshua Henkin Brookline Booksmith Tonight, October 22, 7:00 pm Free Fulton's Official Site John Fulton doesn't go for sly pop-culture references or verbal pyrotechnics in his short-story collection The Animal Girl. Instead, he zooms in on the emotions of his older characters who are attempting to find love. With Match.com and eHarmony, dating and romance seem easy and ordinary topics, but Fulton throws obstacles in the paths of his characters, and......

Julian Velard with Jordan Carp Paradise Lounge Tonight, 7 p.m. 18+, $10 website The baseball fates are smiling upon Julian Velard today. The New York-based singer-songwriter told Bostonist recently that he was looking forward to performing in Boston tonight, with a show at the Paradise Lounge that serves as a brief escape to live performance during an intensely busy recording process. But Velard knew that trying to compete against the Red Sox in Boston is......

Jonathan Messinger Thursday, October 11, 7:00 pm Lorem Ipsum Books 157 Hampshire Street, Cambridge Official Site Chicagoist Interview Author Jonathan Messinger is such a busy guy that a) we're surprised he has time to sotp in Cambridge and b) we're surprised he had time to talk to us. He runs the Dollar Store Series, in which authors write pieces based on knickknacks found at dollar stores. He's book editor for Time Out Chicago. He started......

Steve Almond's (Not that You Asked) will be sold in bookstores starting today. He will be reading at Brookline Booksmith on Thursday, September 13, at 7:00 pm. Almond spoke with Bostonist right after Karl Rove resigned, so we caught him when he really raging against The Man. He resigned from Boston College when BC invited Condoleezza Rice to speak at their commencement, so he didn't mince words when it came to Rove or any other......

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......

The series Barbara Stanwyck - Maybe I Am Just a Dame starts at the Brattle Theater today and runs on Tuesdays until August 28. Check the theater's website for showtimes and dates. Ball of Fire is tonight at 7:15 and 9:30. The Brattle Theatre's series on Barbara Stanwyck begins tonight with 1941's Ball of Fire, a title that pretty much sums up Stanwyck's legend. She would have been 100 years old this week, and her......

Elizabeth Hand will be reading from Generation Loss: A Novel at Harvard Book Store on Wednesday, May 23, at 6:00 pm. Novelist Elizabeth Hand has woven together art, music, and mystery in the story of photographer Cass Neary. Neary wanders through a fictionalized version of the New York punk underground, complete with cameos by Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe, and she takes photographs of strung-out kids. Eventually, her collection, "Dead Girls," propels her into the......

--Several shootings happened last night in Dorchester and Roxbury. An unidentified man was killed and 27-year-old Sabrina Smith was shot in the leg at about 5:15 pm in Dorchester, and about 30 minutes later, 20-year-old Jerome Wells was killed in Roxbury. Police apprehended two suspects in the Wells slaying because an officer was there to witness the incident. The BPD is lucky only one person died – a bystander, Hector Miranda, was almost hit by......

You might think you've seen it all on YouTube or by watching Web Junk 2.0, but Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher are connoisseurs of filmed oddities. These two have been digging through stray videotapes and a few Dumpsters since they were teenagers, and you won't believe what they've found. They'll be sharing their treasures with the masses tomorrow night, Saturday, March 31, at midnight at Coolidge Corner Theater. Tickets are $9.50. If you think you've......

Bridie Clark will be reading at the Harvard Coop Thursday, March 8, at 7:00 pm. Bridie Clark is one brave woman. The Harvard alum recently released the chick-lit book Because She Can. It's a Devil Wears Prada-esque tale of a good-hearted but ambitious young woman who falls into the claws of a ruthless exec. The ruthless exec in Bridie Clark's debut novel might seem awfully familiar to book fans. Vivian Grant is the head of......

Hey, remember way back when, last week, when we told you how you could get an "I Hate MassPirg" t-shirt? Well, the creator of NoMassPirg.com, Andy Lin (not pictured at right), had the good graces to respond to our e-mail questions. Now, without further commentary and in the interest of giving you the full story while simultaneously doing very little work, we offer you our questions and his answers: Bostonist: Who are you? Where are......

Bostonist had a chance to catch one of our favorite indie hip hop acts when Soul Position brought their "things go better with RJ and Al" tour to the Middle East. Soul Position is beat master RJD2 and fellow Columbus, Ohio homie Blueprint. RJ and Blueprint were on. Really on. Bostonist had a chance to chat with them before the show. They are both disarmingly easy going and, well, nice. And funny. When Bostonist......

If they didn't know before, then by now Red Sox nation is well aware of the fact that turn-over is a necessary evil in the baseball world. The "business is business" credo is no more evident than in the wake of the Sox management shipping off our beloved rock'n'rollin' and high-kickin' Bronson Arroyo. Those with weak hearts and fragile emotions should steer clear of the baseball fraternity. Even the ubiquitous face of the Red......

Hey Bostonist, I ditched my car about a month ago and have been biking everywhere I used to take my car. It's been great, don't get me wrong, definitely the way to get around the geographically small and relatively hill-free city is by bike. I'm a little uneasy though: your horror stories of getting hit, almost getting run over by the UPS man, and getting ticketed don't really help. I wonder if you could......

Bostonist read in Sunday's New York Times that a recent study proves what Tom DeLay has been saying for ages: the legal establishment is hopelessly liberal (as evidenced by a preponderance of donations to Democratic candidates and causes among law professors). Now, being practically a communist, Bostonist has never found almost any group of Americans sufficiently left-leaning for our tastes, and we certainly didn't feel overwhelmed with liberal claptrap during our years at Boston University......

Believe it or not, the town that went nearly 85% for John Kerry last year, has a city-sponsored Commission on Nuclear Disarmament and Peace Education, and is lovingly (or not) refered to as the People's Republic also has some Republicans...or one, at least. Buried in the "Political Notes" section of last week's Cambridge Chronicle is a short blurb about Andre Green, a young Republican who has announced his candidacy for Cambridge City Council: Green......

Bostonist breaks into the day of commercialized love with our official launch. Boink Magazine, the much hyped college sex magazine to rival H-Bomb, will launch with their Boink at the Roxy party on Thursday (tickets available on their site). Bostonist asked Photographer and Boink Co-Founder Christopher Anderson questions about himself, photography, the magazine, and Valentine's Day. INTERVIEW Vitals: How old are you, How long have you lived here, Where did you come from, and Where......