Great article in this month’s Boston Magazine by Joe Keohane, who looks at the way that Ted Kennedy’s political career was shaped by his experience in Boston politics. For Keohane, it all comes down to the pivotal 1962 debate when Eddie McCormack wiped the floor with Kennedy in front of...

Fruit beers: people either love them or steer away from them like they were wearing a Yankee’s jersey. We here at Bostonist wondered if there was any middle ground; any beers that both camps would like. So we swallowed our pride, put aside our prejudices, and sacrificed an evening to trying a...

Bostonist reader Monica Wing writes to tell us about her art car (pictured), which was apparently stolen in Brighton between June 16 and 18. We’ll let her take it from here: The car, though quite worthless and with a very distinctive paint job, was stolen from Brighton June 16-18th. (I admittedly...

The driver responsible for the May 8 Green Line crash will face criminal charges, according to the Suffolk County District Attorney’s office. Aiden Quinn, the 24-year-old who reportedly admitted to texting his girlfriend while crashing his trolley, was indicted under the charge of gross negligence...

You remember watching “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” when you were a kid. You were totally jealous of Charlie - because, really, who wouldn’t want to live in a chocolate factory? It’s a pretty sweet deal (sorry, couldn’t resist that one…). Believe it or not,...

Spring has come to Boston and with it, graduation season. And with graduation season come the herds of parents, siblings, and friends who want to take part in the big celebration and to seemingly annoy the hell out of every graduate in the city. We at Bostonist pondered this problem for a while and...

Image from Paragon Carousel website With the warmer weather approaching (almost here, really), we’re mentally preparing ourselves for the inevitable: tourists. Lots and lots of tourists. People from across the country and the world are drawn to Boston to experience the environment in which we...

A night in Framingham and Natick offers a lot of perks: endless shopping opportunities, a multi-screen movie theater… and restaurants galore. However, many of the restaurants are old favorites, with emphasis on old over favorites. Who isn’t a little tired of eating at Chili’s or Legal’s?...

The federal office that oversees fishing said today it would give $16 million to help the New England fishing industry transition to a new management system, two days after a round of fishing restrictions were announced. The money will not go to individual fishermen impacted by the new rules which are...