Justin Timberlake, who co-stars in the upcoming partially made-in-Boston flick based on local author Ben Mezrich’s tell-all book about the founding of Facebook in a Harvard dorm, picked up his Man of the Year pudding pot during a roast orchestrated by Harvard’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals....

Danielle DiLorenzo, a Lynnfield native who schemed her way to the finale of “Survivor: Exile Island” in Panama to lose in a 5-2 vote to Aras Baskauskas for the $1 million prize, is slotted to host a viewing party starting at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 11 at Za Za Restaurant & Nitery, located...

Adam Green, a Holliston native and director of the thriller “Frozen” hitting Boston-area theaters on Friday, Feb. 5, says his indie flick following three snowboarders stranded on a chairlift and forced to make life-and-death decisions was inspired by childhood treks to local ski slopes....

With Gov. Deval Patrick’s latest budget proposal slotted to restrict tax credits for the film industry–slashed to $50 million a year for 2010 and 2011–expect a meaner and leaner film-production season in 2010. Yep, say “bye-bye” to big-budget flicks with talent like Tom...

Thurs. Feb. 4 If you don't want a wild one/Quit hangin' 'round with me, sings one of the three gals who goes by the surname Darlin. Later, another (the same?) Darlin sings, I'm drivin' nails in my coffin/Every time I drink a bottle of booze/I'm drivin' nails in my coffin/Though...

Mon. Feb. 8 Beaten up anybody recently? Enjoy watching people gettin' the crap kicked of them? A big UFC fan are you? (Check out the profile of UFC kingpin and former local boy Dana White in the current Esquire.) We've always professed profound ambivalence to what they call the sweet science...

ongoing Sun. Feb – 7 I met Arthur Miller once. It was at an A.R.T. party with a lot of other theater world notables. I was covering the event for the Globe, writing what was then called Names Faces. (Now that it has more faces on the page, it’s been renamed Names. ) When I was introduced...

ongoing – Feb. 7 “Nothing will bring you closer to reality than facing your own mortality,” says artist David Rosen. This is something he knows intimately. We caught up with the 50-year-old South African native and Somerville resident as he was hosting a party in January, celebrating...

Sat. Jan. 30 The Tour de France involves bicyclists and, most often, Lance Armstrong. The “Tour de Champagne” involves champagne and seven American cities, including Cambridge, where it all begins this year on Saturday Jan. 30. Once again, it’s at the Charles Hotel and, while nothing...

Thurs. Feb. 25 Johnny Cash once sang I shot a man in Reno/Just to see him die, but to the best of our knowledge Johnny Cash - tough man though he sometimes was - never did that. Singer-guitarist T-Model Ford did kill a man with a switch blade in Tennessee. I had to kill the man because he was gonna kill...