The Bruins won! Sure, they gave up a 2-0 first-period lead, and they allowed Atlanta to tie the game again, 3-3, in the final minute. But Patrice Bergeron beat Ondrej Pavelec in the shootout to give the B’s their first win in like forever. They got that 2-0 lead on goals by Marco Sturm and Michael...

Last night, Barack Obama’s campaign manager David Plouffe came to the First Parish Church to preach to the Cambridge choir about the great 2008 presidential campaign (and to promote his new book, The Audacity to Win , which covers the campaign process). While the evening progressed mostly as expected...

The inaugural Boston Book Festival takes place in Copley Square this Saturday, October 24, with Orhan Pamuk as the keynote speaker. A launch party called ” Boston Out Loud ” bill be held at Trinity Church on Friday the 23rd. All Book Festival events are free, but some are ticketed , so plan...

Stephen Senne / Associated Press It’s been a tough few weeks (months) for the Red Sox. That’s always a good time to see the Baltimore Orioles appear on the schedule. And right on cue, the Birds showed up and served up six home run balls to a grateful Sox lineup. Pedroia and Youk started...

Too sweaty to read? Enjoy air conditioning at an indoor book event this week. Wednesday, August 26 7pm at Brookline Booksmitih
 Ellen J. Langer,
Counterclockwise: Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility Thursday, August 27 6:30pm at BPL Jamaica Plain Branch Adam Pachter, Fenway Fiction and Further...

Eat crow. It’s an English idiom that means humiliation by admitting wrongness or having been proven wrong after taking a strong position. I recently had to eat crow with a certain player you might know- John Smoltz. You might remember the stance I took on  John Smoltz’s Fantasy Value  before...

Eunice Kennedy Shriver died this morning at Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis. Shriver, 88, founded the Special Olympics. She had been in the intensive care unit for the past week and was with her family when she died. In a statement released by the family , Shriver was described as “a living prayer,...

Image of a humpback whale by sekbaavi from photos tagged “Bostonist” on Flickr . Plankton Power of Wellfleet is working with government, corporate and research groups to build an algae farm/biorefinery on Cape Cod to turn pond scum into fuel. [ Boston Herald ] A123Systems Inc. of Watertown...

Monday, August 3 7pm at Brookline Booksmith Lydia Peelle, Reasons For and Advantages of Breathing Tuesday, August 4 7pm at Porter Square Books Anthony Flint, Wrestling with Moses 7pm
at Brookline Booksmith Efrem Sigel,
The Disappearance Wednesday, August 5 6pm at BPL Central Branch Brian Herbert...

Some days you win, some days you lose, some days you can’t buy a hit off a guy suffering from the flu. Tommy Hanson, who started for the Braves and shut down the Red Sox 2-1, told his roommate/carpool friend Kris Medlen to be ready to start, because he wasn’t sure he’d be able to make...