Image by hmmlargeart from photos tagged “Bostonist” on Flickr . Despite a determination by the National Park Service that the Nantucket Sound can be listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the Obama administration signaled a resolution to the nine-year dispute over the Cape Wind...

— We didn’t know anyone paid attention to the First Night parade, but Jewish and Palestinian activists do. [ Solomonia ] — The Bruins scored after “Sweet Caroline”, but you weren’t alone if you asked, “What the hell was with Dennis Leary and his buddy?”...

Public domain bacon Do you like bacon? How about some bacon-flavored beer… with a side of chocolate-covered bacon? Watch City Brewing Company in Waltham’s got what you need, in the form of “Smokey Joe Brown.” This cask Rauchbier (smoked beer) is flavored with Benton’s bacon...

Image by AntyDiluvian from photos tagged “Bostonist” on Flickr. Anything flammable from Yemen is getting closer scrutiny, as a LNG shipment is about to reach Boston Harbor. [ Boston Globe ] The daughter of the murdered Tedeschi’s clerk will be allowed into the country for his funeral....

Image by EandJsFilmCrew from photos tagged “Bostonist” on Flickr . A student at WPI successfully solved three Rubik’s Cubes in less time than it took Mike Lynch to explain the NFL playoff picture. [ WCVB ] Two Boston firefighters were injured in a Jamaica Plain fire. [ Boston Globe...

As our lovely commenters never tire of telling us, Bostonist is a blog written by cranks. We hate, well, practically everything. As the young Bostonists’ elder, I have been given the not indistinct pleasure of chronicling the things we hated during 2009, one of the crappiest years of my long life....

Image by historygradguy from photos tagged “Bostonist” on Flickr . Boston’s public works crews are out and about searching for items being used to save spaces. Space savers get confiscated and often include chairs, cones, toilets, grills and shopping carts. Trash barrels reportedly...

Political commentator, television personality, and classic cocktail enthusiast Rachel Maddow is now utilizing her varied interests to engage in investigative cocktail journalism. She has obtained a grainy spy photo of bartenders (Derek Brown and Adam Bernbach) and bottles (Luxardo maraschino, Old Tom...

Image by historygradguy from photos tagged “Bostonist” on Flickr . The three candidates for US Senate staged their first debate of the special election last night. Democrat Martha Coakley explained how she was against health care reform before she was for it and Republican Scott Brown proclaimed...

— Garrison Keillor spoke at First Parish in Cambridge last week, and the Unitarians got his flannel panties in a bunch. [ That Hottness ] — A JP woman thinks she can save her snow spot by appealing for sympathy. She is so funny. [ Universal Hub ] — Where did John Lackey ate in his...