We here at Bostonista have grown to love Victoria Beckham. While we once scoffed at her comically-large breasts and dour expression, somewhere along the way we grew to accept them. When we saw the low-rated but spectacular Victoria Beckham: Coming to America this summer, our affection turned to love.

Open up your Outlook Calendars. Posh Spice is coming to Boston.

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Scrolling through hundreds of travel PR pitches (hot Cabo nights now $199! say “I do” in Russian luxury! save 40% in St. Moritz!) can be carpal tunnel-inducing business, which is why we get a little too excited when something truly fresh—and entirely bizarre—enters our inbox.

This week’s winner—thank you, Elliot Gillies—is Zorbing. The art of careening down a hillside in a Zorb, a giant clear inflatable platic ball, the extreme sport is a succint mix of imagination, physics, and insanity.

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While we here at Bostonista appreciate innovation in all areas of commerce, the one thing we never expected to evolve is what happens to our fabulous remains once we’ve shuffled off this mortal coil. We figured our options were to be cremated and sprinkled at some favorite spot or to be buried in our favorite outfits. But for those who can’t tolerate the idea of a pedestrian afterlife, there’s something new for you.

The Silvertooth Memorial Reef.

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Okay, so there wasn’t a lot of food, but the 500-odd partygoers didn’t let that ruin their good time at the ICA on Tuesday night. The occasion was our first ever Best of Boston Home issue (shameless plug), and the guests were winners, losers, and anyone else wearing architect-y looking glasses.

Welcoming this ultra-hip crowd was the eclectic acid-surf band, The Weisstronauts, who played two sets in front of the ICA’s latest art-wall project, created by Dave Muller, looking at the evolution of rock n’ roll. (Well, that’s how the website explains it, anyway.)

Though the galleries were closed (we couldn’t afford the security guards, and they knew at least one of our esteemed guests would try to rip off that 10-ton Louise Bourgeois spider), there was still plenty to look at, including a multi-media trip through the pages of the magazine and an ice-sculpture bar shaped like a brick fireplace, complete with a faux “dancing flame.” (more…)

SPOILER ALERT: If you haven’t seen episode 8 of Project Runway, Season 4, you might want to stop reading now.

Bostonista attended a sneak peek of the teleportation movie Jumper last night at MIT, and in the rare moments we were neither drooling over Hayden Christensen (present, along with the director Josh Liman and two well-spoken MIT professors who explained the science of teleportation) nor laughing hard at the science jokes, we checked out the fashion choices of the MIT students.

Turns out there is a high variability, from quite fashion-forward (think Diana from Project Runwayseason 2, naturally) to a bunch who came wearing Darth Vader masks. Thusly inspired, Bostonista headed home to watch the new episode of our favorite show (reduced to snagging a ride from a friend, as the professors weren’t able to bring us a safe model for teleportation. Yet.) (more…)

While sifting through the Bo-mag beauty closet, Bostonista likes to play a game called “But would you actually buy it?”

It’s a complicated, high-concept endeavor: We apply the product, stare at our tiny desk mirror, Google the product’s retail price, and then return to the mirror to ponder the eternal question.

Alas, the answer is generally “no.” (more…)

Reasons Bostonista hearts Hilary Swank: Her Next Karate Kid totally could have kicked Daniel-San’s waxy ass. Her single mom turned Peach Pit charity case on the best 16 episodes of 90210’s eighth season was wayyyy too complicated for frat-tastic bonehead Steve Sanders. And her toenails are painted Mrs. O’Leary’s Barbecue! And they got that way here in Boston!!

The two-time Oscar winner had her tootsies trimmed with that “deliciously saucy shade of molasses” this weekend at Newbury Street day spa Melt. (more…)

I admit I’m late to the party, but it wasn’t until last week that I realized that on top of all the other things I so inartfully juggle (parenting, my job, my husband’s job, our daughter’s meals, her pre-school applications, cleaning, pretending to read important books, etc.) I now have to add another: Mad Men.

I usually resist cable series television. For years, I bristled under the tyranny of Sunday night HBO—I didn’t sign on to The Sopranos until way late in the game, and never took up Deadwood, The Wire, or Six Feet Under. And, so, lumping it in with the others, I initially dismissed Mad Men, the AMC series about an advertising agency in 1960 Manhattan.

But it had gotten to the point where I was smacking into references to the series at every turn and started to feel too far out of the conversation for my comfort. My husband, who considered his “To Do” list too long to add another item, begged off, and so a few nights ago, I settled into bed, grabbed the laptop and downloaded my first episode from iTunes. Five hours later, at about 2 a.m., I had to force myself to stop. (more…)

Yes ma’am, I’m strutting my stuff in Vera Wang. Designs that I previously only pouted at are now hanging in rows in my closet. And yet, I didn’t have to spend my entire salary to get the new look.

Thanks to Kohl’s Simply Vera line, I’m donning the designer’s skirts, dresses, and blouses, and zipping up my very own Vera Wang boots. I admit it, I’m Simply Vera hooked. (more…)

Johnny Earle, owner and founder of Newbury Street’s Johnny Cupcakes boutique, has a few not-so-sweet words for surf-wear empire Billabong. As Earle reports on his blog, Billabong’s latest collection of t-shirts features a near-replica of one he designed and sold way back in 2005.

It’s too precise to be called coincidental, says Earle, pointing out that the only difference in the new “Bling-Bling” tee is the Billabong wave logo in the place of Earle’s cupcake (Bostonista, who has yet to meet a cupcake she didn’t like, prefers Johnny’s version).

“I thought for some weird reason Billabong had bought a heap of my shirts and were selling it, until I closely looked and saw their logo attached on my design,” Earle said when we talked to him this afternoon.

Asked if he would take action, Earle said, “You bet I will!” (more…)