Movies Buster Keaton’s silent masterpiece The Genera l (1927) is a train chase movie set during the War of Northern Aggression (Keaton plays a Southerner). A young conductor (Keaton) loses a train and a girlfriend in one fell swoop. The plot involves his slapstick attempts to rescue both from...

"It’s just a sad situation," said Tim Wakefield afterwards. He was talking, of course, about the pregame ceremonies in Anaheim last night to honor the late Nick Adenhart - the moment of silence, the emotional moment when Torii Hunter and John Lackey brought his jersey out to the mound,...

You may have heard that the Zakim Bridge lights are being turned off so the struggling Turnpike Authority (which we thought they were going to get rid of ?) can save some money. It seems that creating a beautiful, attractive bridge was so expensive that they can’t afford to light it up anymore....

teenytinyturkey finds the answer to all questions Another day, another face transplant. Ho-hum. [ Globe ] Let’s hope no staph infection results. [ Globe ] A funeral was held for victims of the recent earthquake in Italy. [ NYT ] Think pirates listen to priests? [ WBZ ] Is Boston the new Milwaukee?...

We would like to take a moment to thank this week’s advertisers on Bostonist. Ride for Research , uniting to fight brain tumors on May 31st. Boston Symphony Orchestra , releasing its first major recordings with Music Director James Levine! Antiques Roadshow , save your Mondays for the 2009 Roadshow...

We said earlier that the T may have to cut service drastically if the state doesn’t help subsidize its budget. Now, the Globe adds details , and they are frightening. Commuter rail folks will never be able to get home after 7pm. Three stops each on the B and C lines will be gone. The E line will...

Transportation Secretary James Aloisi says remain calm and just ignore everything you’ve read about service cuts because nobody actually has any idea about how we are going to fix the MBTA’s financial situation. Read the blog post and tell him what you think. Read more from the original...

Up until yesterday, mothers in Massachusetts could have been banned from parks and restaurants or even prosecuted for indecent exposure for taking care of their babies in the most natural and healthful way possible: breast feeding. Deval Patrick signed the law that officially frees the ta-tas of mothers...

    “How do you tell what’s going on in a city?” asked Assaf Biderman, associate director of MIT’s SENSEable City Lab . “You can wire every piece of pavement, but it’s not very sustainable, it’s not scalable, it’s expensive. We’re partnering...

Wine Riot, a wine-tasting extravaganza of epic proportions, is launching in Boston next weekend. Hipster wine mag The Second Glass and Boston’s Weekly Dig , the event’s organizers, promise that “This Isn’t Your Parents’ Wine Event.” With DJ Die Young on the decks,...