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...

I’m thrilled that the Globe finally gave Charles P. Pierce a home deserving of his wit and literary talent: Namely, his own blog . But I was bummed to see that the first thing Pierce does with it is ape one of my favorite writers: Charles P. Pierce. In his initial post (which includes HTML glitches...

Image by Mike Cialowicz from photos tagged “Bostonist” on Flickr. The days are getting longer now. [ Boston Globe ] The “Annoying Dorm Resident of the Year” award goes to a freshman at Green Mountain College who is suing to change the bathrooms. [ Burlington Free Press ] Football...

Image by historygradguy from photos tagged “Bostonist” on Flickr. Menino has been less visible than Waldo since he injured his knee last month. [ Boston Herald ] More than $1 billion per year is spent on the Commonwealth’s correctional expenses, and it’s rising. [ Boston Globe...

You wouldn’t have known it from the brief torrential downpour that hit exactly as this Bostonist was walking into work this morning, but you probably noticed it sometime today: it’s freaking nice outside. We broke a temperature record established in 1932 by hitting 67 degrees at 5 in the...

In a semi-surprising move, the Boston Globe endorses Alan Khazei in the Democratic primary for Senate. The Globe calls the City Year founder “Massachusetts’ best chance to produce another great senator,” citing Khazei’s strong vision, collaborative talents, and forward-thinking...

Image by teenytinyturkey from photos tagged “Bostonist” on Flickr. Danvers High principal may be the most uptight administrator in country; bans the usage of a non-word from “The Muppet Show.” [ Salem News ] The skydiver who died in California yesterday was a Boston resident....

Two Native American tribes from Massachusetts are objecting to the Cape Wind wind-turbine project, citing the potential damage to “spiritual sun greetings and submerged ancestral burying grounds.” According to the Globe, the Aquinnah and Mashpee Wampanoag tribes want to add Nantucket Sound...

Federal agents arrested Tarek Mehanna, 27, in Sudbury today on charges of conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists. Mehanna is an American-born citizen who attended the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy on Longwood Avenue in Boston, where his father is currently a faculty member. Mehanna...