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.

Did you miss the New Kids on the Block’s triumphant return to Boston last weekend? There’s still time to try and score tickets to tonight’s show at Mohegan Sun. And if you fail, at least you can gamble to ease the pain.

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George Foreman is many things to many people. To boxing fans, he’s a former World Heavyweight Champion and Olympic gold medalist. And, of course, he is also the man behind the George Foreman Grill.

Foreman will appear in Boston wearing yet another hat—spokesman for the UFood Grill. The healthy fast-food chain is currently asking customers to sample the UBerry dessert or the UnFries and vote for their favorite. On Thursday, Foreman will announce the winner of the contest, and customers can enjoy the winning dish for free on Sunday.

We talked to Foreman about his favorite healthy foods, whether endorsing the UFood Grill is a conflict of interest for him, and the similarities between boxing and business.

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For the love of Perez, there are some things the Internet just shouldn’t be used for. And near the top of that list is posting your own death announcement. But that’s what Christian Mogensen did before he shot his wife and then himself on Sunday night.

After the jump, we lay forth some other items that should not find their way on to the Internet.

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Taking you around the Internet for your afternoon enjoyment.

Where’s Sarah Palin when you need her? Authorities shot and killed a 1,000-pound moose that was on the loose in Worcester this morning. [WCVB]

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Every Tuesday, Matthew Reed Baker will offer his thoughts on the arts and culture scene. This week: What better time to hail the American worker, and what better place than the International Poster Gallery; A sight unseen film recommendation for Yasujiro Ozu’s An Autumn Afternoon now out on DVD.

As the economy flails at the edge of a global crisis, it’s hard to take a breather and fully appreciate artistic abstraction, so I decided to try something more timely this week. I decided to celebrate America’s work ethic by visiting the International Poster Gallery.

The IPG has 10,000 vintage posters in stock, and it regularly circulates themed selections into its cozy display space on Newbury Street. From now until November 15, it’s showing a unique quasi-propagandistic collection from the 1920s, “Made in America: The Mather Work Incentive Posters.”

Produced between 1923 and 1929, these posters were actually not produced by the government, but by a Chicago printing company called Mather, which sold the posters to factories. The factories would in turn display them to inspire productivity and promote worker incentives—think of them as a pre-Wagner Act, proletariat version of Successories. (more…)

When news broke that WHDH sports reporter Julie Donaldson had allegedly been abused by her SlamBall-playing boyfriend, we expected the worst. Ivan Lattimore proclaimed his love for Donaldson from his jail cell, and reported that he and his then-girlfriend had made a sex tape. It had all the makings of an ugly, protracted legal battle.

But Lattimore took a deal on Friday, and Donaldson will return to work tomorrow.

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The illusion of financial solvency was nice while it lasted, but it looks like the ride is over. As the partisan bickering continues in Washington, the credit markets are tightening up like Cape traffic on Labor Day weekend.

It’s not just affecting your ability to get a mortgage—even State Treasurer Tim Cahill can’t get a loan to cover the full amount of a quarterly local aid payment, forcing him to tap the state’s rainy day fund.

Surely the treasurer knows how to handle this setback.

“I don’t think any treasurer alive could say they’ve ever seen anything like this. . . There have always been cash shortages, but you could always go to the market and get more. This is the first time we haven’t been able to do that.”

Aw, crap.

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We want to live in whatever world MBTA employees inhabit.

In our world, the headlines have been dominated by words like “crash” and “recession.” Banks are falling like dominoes. Instead of investing in stocks like Apple, wise investors are moving their money into fast-growing soup stocks.

But the MBTA drivers’ union doesn’t seem to register the upheaval. Instead of giving the agency the time it needs to scrounge up the money to pay back wages, employees are threatening to slow service until their checks clear.

Which begs the obvious question—how could the service get any slower?

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Your condensed guide to today’s daily papers.

Witnessing history is no fun: The Dow Jones suffered its worst one-day point drop in history after the House failed to pass a bailout bill. That means investors lost more than $1 trillion. [Globe]

Sovereign is not king of the world: Stock in Boston’s third-biggest bank lost 72 percent of its value yesterday. Investors are worried that it could be the next bank to fall. [Herald]

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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.

Got a case of the Mondays? We’re pretty sure that Filet Mignon and Lobster for Two will cure what ails you. Fleming’s will serve you and a friend two six-ounce filets, two Australian lobster tails, two chopped wedge salads, potatoes, sugar snap peas, and two chocolate mousse desserts with hazelnut bark for the low price of $99.

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