Image by EandJsFilmCrew from photos tagged “Bostonist” on Flickr . The city of Newton inaugurated Setti Warren as Mayor on Friday. Warren is the first black man to be elected mayor in Massachusetts. [ WCVB ] Approximately 600 swimmers plunged into South Boston’s frigid waters today...

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 sw_awesometown from photos tagged “Bostonist” on Flickr Senator John Kerry is in Copenhagen trying to reach an international agreement on dealing with global warming. [ Boston Globe ] Despite the efforts of Senator Kerry and President Obama to battle global warming, conservatives...

Image by Mike Cialowicz from photos tagged “Bostonist” on Flickr. Dartmouth apologizes to Harvard after for some extreme heckling at a squash match. [ The Dartmouth ] UMass is another step closer to creating the state’s first public law school. [ Boston Globe ] With massive debt and...

Image by Paul Keleher from photos tagged “Bostonist” on Flickr . It’s Brown vs. Coakley for Teddy’s job. Scott Brown launched the first volley in the general election by taking a no-tax pledge. George H.W. Bush is proud. [ Boston Globe ] Winter made its presence known in the...

Image by Phillip Jones Photography from photos tagged “Bostonist” on Flickr . Voters appear disinterested in today’s special primary election as the turnout is reportedly very light. [ Boston Globe ] Vicki Kennedy is now on the board of the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., thanks...