5. The Senate campaign . When the most interesting thing to come out of the campaign for Ted Kennedy’s U.S. Senate seat was Republican candidate Scott Brown’s happy trail, you know our democracy is in trouble. We’ve already seen what kind of kinky S&M games Republican Senate candidate...

Blotter siren — The DEA picked up Anthony W. Cristallo of East Boston, an alleged accomplice to the alleged OxyContin ring that authorities say neighborhood liaison John Forbes was running out of Boston’s City Hall. [ Herald ] — Sensitive toothed State Senator Anthony Galluccio had...

Flickr photo by Michael Femia; this is just a statue and NOT a Han Soloesque carbon freezing of the great man and an innocent little boy. We’ve learned a lot more than we ever wanted to know about the sad fate of Ted Williams’s cryogenically frozen head , which we last saw being used for...

Image by Lorianne DiSabato from photos tagged “Bostonist” on Flickr. Mayor Mumbles was sworn in for his fifth term this morning. [ Boston Globe ] Newton’s first black mayor has taken the oath of office. [ Newton Tab ] Lawrence is set to install the first Latino mayor in the Commonwealth...

But was it a booze sandwich? Cops broke up a New Year’s Eve party in Sandwich before midnight rolled around, rounding up several young folks who were illegally imbibing the booze, not to mention making too much noise. It’s a bummer not to make it to the new year, but that’s what an...

Brian Matiash is one of our favorites when it comes to HDR photography. He came up with this photo during a solo photo walk through Boston’s empty streets on New Year’s Day. Lots of detail, lots of texture, and excellent use of lighting. View original post here: Photo of the Day, January...

The Onion reports on a situation gripping the nation (or at least a part of Somerville): the cat that won’t die . Nineteen-year-old Socrates has ulcers, kidney problems, and some kind of eye infection that presumably makes his peepers weep with wisdom. Gooey wisdom. Yet he keeps on keeping on....

When the booze crazy alleged drunk Anthony Gallucio—he also happens to be a State Senator—allegedly violated his probation by failing a breathalyzer test, he blamed his toothpaste . Unfortunately for the reputed dipsomaniac, one of Sensodyne’s inventors actually lives around here—and...

David J. Phillip / Associated Press So the Patriots’ first move of the offseason - whenever that begins - should be to sign Bernard Pollard. Sign him, and then immediately send him on a fact-finding mission to Micronesia or wherever the Red Sox stashed Julio Lugo. Because having Bernard Pollard...

If you ever start to think you’re an awful cook, there may be hope for you yet: you’re (probably) not the worst cook in America. That honor will go to the “winner” (loser?) of a new Food Network show, Worst Cooks in America . After tonight’s dramatic-cum-patriotic “Super...