Book events were dwindling pretty sadly in December, but 2010 sees them back in full force, with everyone from Joseph Stiglitz to Raj Patel unleashing brainpower on Boston. Gear up for the new year by hitting the books… and then the bookstores… to spark some new ideas. Innovative events...

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...

Oprah Winfrey’s interview with Victoria Reggie Kennedy, her first television appearence since Sen. Edward M. Kennedy died in August, airs nationally on Wednesday. Vicki Kennedy reportedly discusses the Senator’s final days and behind-the-scenes details on his support of President Obama’s...

Image from Congressman Frank’s Web Site The woman Barney Frank famously compared to a dining room table at a health care forum in Dartmouth over the summer is back in circulation and she brought her Lyndon LaRouche loving, President Obama hating, health care reform opposition with her. The woman,...

Winslow Townson / Associated Press Some time this winter, you’ll no doubt read about a storm that dumps an inch of snow on some Southern locale and sends the entire town to hell in a handbasket. It happens every year; when you don’t see it much, you don’t know what to do with it, and...

Image by Chris Devers from photos tagged “Bostonist” on Flickr . Puppy surgeons will operate on the brain of an abandoned 8-month-old Chihuahua to save his life. [ WCVB ] The MBTA is paying $1.9 million to Robert and Barbara Davenport of Cohasset in order to the last eminent domain case...

Torontoist checked out the weird and wonderful sights on their city’s newly launched version of Google Street View , including this keeper . Gothamist was part amazed and part horrified by this crazed fight between a taxi driver and pedicab driver . Shanghaiist rolled their eyes as Jackie Chan...

Jeff Larson, the president of Safe Roads Alliance , has been offering drivers cash to hang up their cell phones in Dorchester at the Columbia Road exit from I-93. The earnest endeavor cost Larson just $100, with most drivers shaking their heads, driving off, or even giving him the finger instead of...

AP Photo . If there was any question in your mind about whether an individual game matters at this point in 2009, just think of Melky Cabrera lining the baseball off of Jon Lester’s knee. You’ll see plenty of replays of the third-inning nightmare in the next few days. Lester went down on...

Image by MackayPhotography from photos tagged “Bostonist” on Flickr . Boston-based 9/11 families are comforted that President Obama has declared September 11 as a National Day of Service and Remembrance. [ Boston Herald ] The National Sept. 11 Memorial & Museum is collecting hundreds...