Your long day of corporate drudgery is over. Get out and enjoy the city! Here are a few ideas to get you started, lovingly picked by Boston Daily.

If today’s rain has you a little cranky, treat yourself to Mellie Hair Salon’s Rainy Day Special. You’ll get 20 percent off the service of your choice, along with a free blow-dry and an umbrella to keep your new ‘do looking great.

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As longtime Boston Daily readers know, we love minor league baseball. Whether it’s the Lowell Spinners dubbing the yet-unnamed red-tailed hawk the mascot of its Yankees Elimination Program or the Pawtucket Red Sox handing out donut-themed baseball cards, we come for the inventive promotions and stay for the affordable baseball.

The Paw Sox have a new gimmick that made us chuckle. It’s all-you-can-eat BBQ night on Cinco De Mayo. Which is coincidentally the night that hefty pitcher Bartolo Colon may make his first start for the team.

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Taking you around the internet for your afternoon enjoyment.

Let’s hope he keeps the anti-Semitism at home: Variety reports that Mel Gibson might use the Hub to start his journey back to leading man status. He may be here in August to film Edge of Darkness. [WBZ]

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Talk about a media blitz. After years of work and months of screenings, Errol Morris‘ new documentary, Standard Operating Procedure, is now engaging in weeks of publicity. This harrowing film about the Abu Ghraib prison scandal just premiered in New York — it opens here on May 2 — but you’ve probably already heard about it by now through any number of magazines or newspapers.

While Morris has not been press-shy in the past, he’s hardly had this kind of blanket exposure with his previous films. But, with the controversial subject matter and the fact that this is his first feature film since he won the 2004 best documentary Oscar for The Fog of War, it’s no surprise that Morris and Sony Pictures Classics are doing the full marketing push.

We’re just glad that this strategy included a long conversation with us. (more…)

We’ve got to give it up to the Boston Fire Department. It’s been raining so hard that we almost decided to eat a lunch comprised of whatever is available in the vending machine at Boston Daily HQ, rather than braving the elements. But the firefighters didn’t let the drizzle stop them from turning out in force to protest the media at the State House.

We certainly respect them for that. Although the firefighters aren’t feeling the love.

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In the latest issue of Boston magazine (Mayor Tom Menino’s sexy face is gazing out at you from newsstands now), we asked the city’s power players to tell us who they think are the most important people in town for our Power Wiki.

Several Red Sox-related figures made the list, but NESN color commentator Jerry Remy did not. This may prove to be a massive mistake. It seems that the RemDawg is bent on developing an empire.

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Being a Republican in Massachusetts is often a Sisyphean task, even in the best of times. But with Sal DiMasi at the helm of the House, at least the GOP has something to do.

Minority Leader Brad Jones is taking the Speaker to task for his relative indifference to the resurgence of phantom voting, insisting the state purchase new equipment that would cut down on voting irregularities. In response, DiMasi has done little more than slap wrists.

That’s not good enough, Republicans say. To make sure DiMasi gets the message, the GOP has filed three ethics complaints against King Sal in the past two months.

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Today’s Globe editorial about how text messaging is killing off proper English didn’t make me ROTFL. In fact, it made me think, WTF?

That’s because the editorial board decided to write the 342-word piece in text message lingo. The website version comes complete with this handy explanation of what follows:

A new study warns that writing text messages could hurt a writer’s command of standardized English.

And forcing your readers to slog through an entire editorial of the same garbage is, what, good for them? (more…)

Well, that wasn’t supposed to happen. Four games in, and suddenly the Atlanta Hawks are shocking the world. You couldn’t find a soul, outside of Atlanta, who gave the Hawks even a slight chance last night, and here they are with the series tied, 2-2.

What was so disconcerting for the Celtics is they delivered not one, but two, knockout punches last night—opening up 16-3, and taking a 10-point lead into the fourth quarter—and they still couldn’t close the deal. The whole turn of events was so stunning, Donny Marshall was left with nothing but spin: “Both teams did what they had to do,” Donny said. “They won their games at home.”

Um, no. When you finish 29 games ahead of your opponent, you are supposed to sweep, or at the very least, split on their court. After the jump, three observations of what has become a very interesting series. (more…)

We still can’t believe that Dustin Pedroia is married. That’s not a dig on his looks, but rather because he’s only 24-years-old. Shouldn’t he still be chasing after country music singers with Josh Beckett? (Not with Roger Clemens, please.)

But, today we met Mrs. Kelli Pedroia in a Globe piece about her issues with melanoma, and even she can’t help but make fun of his diminutive stature.

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