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Genies Are Standing By
In the booming business of making wishes come true, nobody’s better than Boston-based Circles and its army of personal concierges. Trouble is, when you promise to do the impossible, people start thinking that’s what they deserve.
The Firebrand
The more Boston turns against its scandal-plagued firefighters, the further out on a limb Ed Kelly goes to defend them. Is the bombastic union boss as nuts as he seems? Or does he know a few things the rest of us don’t?
The Shocking Truth
At the Judge Rotenberg Center, students who misbehave receive electric shocks powerful enough to sear their skin. What’s even more unbelievable is how the moms and dads of the kids there feel about the Canton school.
Dan Grabauskas Has Accepted Your Friend Request
Social networking sites used to be the haunt of cyber-stalking significant others and tech-savvy teenagers, but now everyone from young folks devoted to local media […]
The Downside of Internet Porn
When you get off the highway and head for my apartment, you pass what must be the sketchiest adult bookstore in the entire Boston area. […]
Won’t Anyone Think of the Golfers?
As we’ve noted several times, the Longfellow Bridge is being held together with Silly Putty and prayer. The Red Line continues to catch fire at […]
Notes from the Near Future
We sent Boston Daily intern Lisa Lombardi to a MIT symposium earlier this week to see what the future of climate change will look like […]
Bill Galvin Goes Vitale Hunting
In this month’s issue of Boston magazine, we learn that you don’t want to piss off Secretary of State William Galvin, especially when it comes […]
Goldklank Avoids the Klink, Quits WHDH
Things have been pretty quiet on the Randi Goldklank front. Back in April, WHDH’s General Manager was arrested at Logan Airport after screaming her head […]
Get Ready to Hoof It
We’ve got good news, and we’ve got bad news. The good? It’s going to be a fun weekend in Boston. The bad news? City-dwellers are […]
The FBI Pinky-Swears They’re Trying to Find Whitey
Much like our quest to find the earring we lost one drunken evening, the search is still on for James “Whitey” Bulger. The gangster, who’s […]
Deval’s Daughter Comes Out
We’ve had our differences with the way Gov. Deval Patrick deals with some issues. Like casinos. The timing of his book deal. His inability to […]
Buddy Cianci Comes to the Big Screen
While I love watching Mayor Tom Menino bike around Boston and talk about what’s loaded onto his iPod, he is not the politician that is […]
Ross to the Globe; Chabot Named Herald’s New State House Reporter
Early this morning, a Boston Daily tipster informed us that the Globe had poached powerful journo Casey Ross from the Herald. Soon after, the report […]
The Case of the Missing Super Bowl Rings
The Patriots Super Bowl loss to the Giants still stings, but we really shouldn’t be so giddy at an AP report that said the team’s […]