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January 21, 2008
Art Although the weather is bone-chilling, the MFA wants to lure you out of the house with free admission until 4:45 this afternoon. Kendrick Oliver and the New Life Jazz Orchestra will also perform in Remis Auditorium between 11:00 am and 3:30 pm. More info from the MFA. Movies One of Woody Allen's best will screen at the Coolidge Corner Theatre as part of the "Science on Screen" series. In Sleeper, Woody Allen is transported......
Continue Reading "Happening Today & Tonight: Sleeper, Free MFA"January 11, 2008
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......
Continue Reading "Reel Hub: "Reel" Laughs with the 100 Funniest Films"June 4, 2007
It's official - Brookline will purge trans fats, which increase bad cholesterol, from all foods made within its restaurants and schools. Per the ban, restaurants must "stop using trans fats for frying by Nov. 30, 2008, and to end their use in baked goods by April 30, 2009." The ban proposal enjoyed overwhelming approval, and, since more and more food products are phasing out trans fats, these bans don't seem that ridiculous after all. "Trans......
Continue Reading "A Quiet Response to Brookline Trans Fats Ban?"March 13, 2007
Ok, so let's say you're more into celebrity train-wrecks than college basketball Fafarazzi has some March Madness brackets just for you. We just went through and made our picks. It's a long shot but we're hoping for some unexpected nip-slip or Woody Allen fodder to get Scarlet Johansson to take the movie division. We've got her all the way to meet, and beat, Justin Timberlake in the Final Four in order to take on K-Fed......
Continue Reading "A Celebrity Bracket: Do it for the Fafarazzi Points"February 16, 2006
Neil Entwistle, who has captured the media’s attention on two continents, has arrived back in Massachusetts where he’s set to appear in Framingham District Court this afternoon at 2p.m. to be arraigned on charges of murdering his wife and baby daughter in late January. After being arrested at London’s Royal Oak tube stop on February 9, Entwistle has remained in British custody until yesterday when he was handed over to U.S. Marshals at Gatwick Airport.......
Continue Reading "Entwistle Back in the Bay State"February 10, 2006
Bostonist understands that actual, real-life news outlets like newspapers necessarily move more slowly than lithe, web-based outfits like our own, especially since we're so light on reporting and heavy on snark analysis. But could whoever is in charge of the Herald's website make even a little bit of an effort to pull the outdated Entwistle stories as more facts become available? Of the 22 news pieces in the Local/Regional section of the Herald's site, 16......
Continue Reading "Herald is All Over the Entwistle Story"