Adding even more legitimacy to those fears about potentially harassing Lyft drivers in San Francisco, a Boston woman was sexually assaulted after getting into what she assumed was a real cab early Sunday morning, the second such attack in the city in recent weeks.
Neil Diamond, the greatest songwriter of this or any generation, took a redeye flight from Los Angeles to Boston so he could sing “Sweet Caroline” for the good people gathered yesterday at Fenway Park for the first Red Sox game since the Boston Marathon bombings on Monday.
From the Moscow bureau of the New York Times' interview with the Boston Marathon bombers' father Anzor Tsarnaev, on his elder son Tamarlan's 2009 domestic abuse arrest:
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So I'm crying now. Cool.
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(Above) The scene on the streets of Boston's Fenway neighborhood, where 200 people came out to celebrate Dzhokhar Tsarnev's capture.
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Today, obviously, is completely awful, and celebrity news seems like the most frivolous shit ever right now. But, for the sake of routine, here it is. New Kid on the Block Joey McIntyre ran in the Boston marathon today—he says he finished about five minutes before the explosion. Also in the race was Survivor winner …
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It's too soon to tell what the hell is happening at the Boston Marathon — Reuters has a live blog for breaking news — but you can discuss the explosions down below. If you're in the area, please stay safe.
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Minutes after two bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston Marathon at 2:50 p.m., reports started rolling in. We began this post soon after, with chronological updates continuing through the evening. Some photos might be graphic.
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Most of America (save for the always righteous Pacific Northwest) totally fell down on the job when it came to plastering their cities with KONY-related materials for Invisible Children's "Cover the Night" event this weekend. But it appears Boston may have taken the mission to heart. A tipster reports that the city was…
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After a stranger exposed himself to her on her trolley ride home from work last week, a 24-year-old Boston woman confronted her wrongdoer in exactly the righteous sort of way that most us only ever have the opportunity to rehearse angrily in front of a bathroom mirror — she forced him to his feet and shamed him in…
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A red panda, that is. And the presidency she's seeking is that of Boston's Franklin Park Zoo. In honor of Presidents' Day, the Zoo has been holding a "PreZOOdential Election" since 2006 (when a gorilla named Kiki won). This year, Stella Luna the red panda faces off against another gorilla, a lion, an ocelot, an anteater, …
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If you want evidence of how out of control sexual harassment laws have gotten, look no further than the story of a 7-year-old Boston boy who's been accused of sexual assault for kicking a bully in the groin after he choked him and stole his gloves. This ridiculous tale provides a great opportunity to unleash a hearty…
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If Breaking Bad's central conceit — that a harried high school chemistry teacher and his former student team up to enter the lucrative world of methamphetamine production — seems too outlandish to you, here's a strange case that demonstrates just how life can mirror art.
A Boston bicycle shop worker named Kate Middleton was kicked off Facebook when administrators assumed she was running a fake account in the princess-to-be's name. Luckily, she convinced them she was a real person and they reinstated her. But now her bike shop is mobbed with media folks. Apparently she has "steadfastly…
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According to a new poll, LA is the rudest city in the country. I don't buy it — after the jump, a breakdown of rudeness across the country, and my pick for the real rudest place ever.
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New York Magazine asked Rachel Dratch to share her opinion of the many Boston accents in pop culture last year, from The Town to Julianne Moore on 30 Rock. Unsurprisingly, she finds most of them "wicked pissah."
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The shut-down of a party for black Harvard and Yale alums — allegedly out of fear that "local gangbangers" were infiltrating — is now being investigated by the civil rights division of the Massachusetts Attorney General's office.
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This July, a man snapped a picture of an unsuspecting woman's cleavage while they rode the Boston subway. Now, experts are divided over whether he committed a crime.
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[Boston, June 10. Image via Getty]
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[Boston, June 8. Image via Getty]
