Stephan Savoia / Associated Press The Patriots, we learned last week, call these "Hats and Shirts Day". They’re the days when the team clinches something, in this case finally locking down the AFC East, and everyone on the club gets commemorative hats and T-shirts proclaiming them division...

Post contributed by Cat Mooney, cross-posted at Boston Budget Nightlife . The floor and balconies were spilling over with fans at the House of Blues this past Sunday, December 13, all excited to listen to young musical sensations The Arctic Monkeys . The sold-out show packed in 2400 fan, literally of...

While Celtics owner Steve Pagliuca didn’t get the win he was hoping for yesterday, he can at least take solace in the fact that his day job is going well, as the C’s won their eight straight last night, slamming on the defensive clamps in the 4th quarter to finish off Milwaukee, 98-89. The...

Sean Hafferty photos courtesy Ryan’s Smashing Life After a Friday night of feeling really old , Bostonist’s friend Jimmy Mac managed to attend a show where he fit right in. Here, according to Jim, is how Ted Leo and the Pharmacists rocked it at the Middle East on Saturday, December 5. Also,...

We already knew he had The Audacity to Win , now he also has the audacity to take on an Alaskan. Just for today, David Plouffe is asking folks to buy his book, The Audacity to Win, which details Barack Obama’s Presidential campaign. By focusing purchases today, Plouffe hopes his tome can temporarily...

Did you spend all day yesterday watching the rain pour down and hoping that at least things would end well with a Celtic/Bruin doubleheader? If you did, you probably wished you’d gone out and stood in the rain all day instead; you’d feel about the same. We’ll start with the Bruins,...

Sunday, October 25 Webcast of Kate DiCamillo reading The Magician’s Elephant, Porter Square Books , 4:00 pm Submit questions to webcast@candlewick.com. 7:00 PM, First Parish Church Meetinghouse (sponsored by Harvard Book Store ), $25 *Margaret Atwood, The Year of the Flood Monday, October 26 6:00...

Jack DeJohnette in 2006, http://www.flickr.com/photos/imjackhandy/ / CC BY-SA 2.0 Last week, the legendary jazz drummer Jack DeJohnette graced the stage of the Berklee Performance Center to present a program charting the past and future directions of his music. The show was divided into two sets—the...

Chocolate and beer. What would the world do without the Belgians? To celebrate their accomplishments in at least one of those categories, people will be flocking to The Return of the Belgian Beer Fest next weekend, October 16th and 17th. Unfortunately for those of us slow on the draw, Night of the Funk...

Photo by flickr user uzi978 From his place before the Boston Pops in the perfect acoustics of Symphony Hall, Ben Folds sported the face of a man who thought he’d committed the perfect crime. Folds was showing a crowd of Pops sophisticates that the tall hipster piano guy before them came armed...