Entertainment
Holiday Cheer on the Cheap
If you have seen a national news broadcast or a newspaper this holiday season, you know that consumers aren’t feeling as flush as they have […]
The Celtics Love Them Some Can-Can
It’s not often that dolls stir us to write a post, but this video is — dare we say it — Caddyshack-funny. Culled from I […]
Questions For… Eilen Jewell
Boise-bred and Cambridge-based country singer Eilen Jewell’s second album, Letters from Saints and Sinners is one of my favorites of 2007, by turns rollicking and […]
Local Man Illustrates Global Warming, with Elephants
We all know that the US pumps nearly six million tons of carbon dioxide into the air every year. What we don’t know is what […]
Go! Team, or Go Team!?
I was wearing my beat-up, perfectly faded Sox cap as I was leaving the office yesterday, so it was embarrassing to admit to a fellow […]
Tingle Exits, Stage Left
Last week theatre buffs and Bush-haters alike (I’m guessing there’s some overlap) received some sad news. After five celebrated years, Jimmy Tingle’s Off Broadway Theatre […]
Worth Seeing: Baby Boom
The International Poster Gallery on Newbury Street remains one of my favorite places in which to drop in, pick the brains of the staff, flip […]
Third Time’s the Charm?
We’re hardly slavish admirers of Keith Lockhart, and it seems that our readership agrees. But we’d be remiss in our gossip-spreading duties if we didn’t […]
Best Packaging Ever?
I picked up the new CD from Cambridge’s stellar Drug Rug last week. The album is terrific and I highly recommend it. It’s sort of […]
Boston Massacre
The Globe‘s always spot-on film section went for the throat today, handing out three 2-star reviews, two 1.5 stars and a 1-star. The lowest-rated was […]
The Evans Diaries
Sudbury’s own Chris Evans is back in theaters this weekend starring as Scarlett Johansson’s love interest in The Nanny Diaries. We profiled Evans in March, […]
Juggling Meets Future
I went to MIT last night to see The Shoebox Tour, a performance by a traveling troupe of avant-garde jugglers, organized by a local Globe […]
Mess with the Bull, Get Boston Rob
Oh, Boston Rob, is there anything you can’t do? From your multiple stints on Survivor and The Amazing Race to your recent turn on the […]
Hey La, Hey La, Buddy’s Back!
Rhode Island politicians woke up to some bad news this morning. Convicted felon and beloved former mayor of Providence, Vincent “Buddy” Cianci will let loose […]
Every Day Should be Madden Day
Looking around the office today and noticing a rash of suspiciously absent young men? That, of course, can only mean one thing: it’s Maddenoliday. To […]