College Basketball Coaches vs. Cancer Classic 3rd Place Game/Ohio State vs. Cal – ESPN2, 5 p.m. Championship/Syracuse vs. North Carolina – ESPN2, 7:20 p.m. Puerto Rico Tip-Off Consolation/Georgia Tech vs. George Mason – ESPNU, 1 p.m. Sem...

College Basketball Coaches vs. Cancer Classic 3rd Place Game/Ohio State vs. Cal – ESPN2, 5 p.m. Championship/Syracuse vs. North Carolina – ESPN2, 7:20 p.m. Puerto Rico Tip-Off Consolation/Georgia Tech vs. George Mason – ESPNU, 1 p.m. Sem...

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So I read this article in the Globe about the demise of Brigham’s. It’s very sad. Basically, it looks like the last private equity owner decided that the value was in the grocery store ice cream brand, which they sold to Hood, but that the r...

So another Friday is finally here (was it me, or was this a LONG week?) and I’ve got another edition of the top ten from this morning’s sports stories. Consider this one a periodic credit report - Chad Finn is going positive this morning, giv...

So another Friday is finally here (was it me, or was this a LONG week?) and I’ve got another edition of the top ten from this morning’s sports stories. Consider this one a periodic credit report - Chad Finn is going positive this morning, giv...

The gloves have come off a bit in the Senate race.  Steve Pagliuca held a presser yesterday in which he went after Martha Coakley and Mike Capuano by name over their positions that, on final passage, they would vote "no" on the House's health care bi...

I was in Target the other day and walked by this Star Trek Blu-ray disk. It was on an end cap. The perfect position for an impulse buy.I've got a Panasonic Blu-ray player that I got as part of the Panasonic Living in HD program, but haven't watched that...

The Globe has some fundraising numbers for the home stretch.  The second column refers to the amount raised over the last 7 weeks, not the total amount raised. Candidate -- $ Raised -- $ on hand Coakley -- $1.9 million -- $1.9 million Capuano -- $1.8...

When I saw Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI) on Fox News Sunday explaining why the trial was a good idea, his logic went much like this, and my thought pattern mirrored Krauthammer’s below: So why is Attorney General Eric Holder doing this? Ostensibly, to demon...

Outraged Liberal is all over the brewing battle between the governor and lawmakers. ... They don't trust the governor to make non-executive-branch cuts? What types of cuts? OL has three examples. ......

Time is short this morning - jury duty continues - so I'm simply going to give you the press release direct from the Boston Symphony Orchestra with all the plans for next summer's Tanglewood season, including the return of Seiji Ozawa, the jazz f...

Hey political junkie. Yeah you. Bored by the lack of real action in the Senate race? Well, I've got the cure for your blues.That initial skirmish between Deval Patrick and House Speaker Robert DeLeo is starting to really percolate. And no, not over why la...

View of the corner of Charles Street and Mt. Vernon Street. Other Skywatch Friday photos can be viewed here....

You know what? I just realized that I've never been to the ballet. I've been to musicals, plays, operas, the symphony. Just about everything you could think of. But I've never been to the ballet. I was just reminded of that when I got this email abou...

Are you in good shape? Like really, really good shape? Stuff Magazine is now taking submissions for their annual Bodies by Boston contest.We love bodies. All kinds — hard or soft, tall or short. (And a little ink only makes them more fun.) We like to ...

John Mayer isn't really my cup of tea, but I know LOTS of people who love him. For some reason, there are just a couple of pretty popular performers that I can't get into. DMB is one of them and John Mayer is one of the others. Other than that, I'm a huge...

Greg at BuBikes spotted the crews out painting today, hurray new bike lane day! Related Posts:New Bike Lanes Everywhere!Boston Getting It's Very First Official Bike LanesBike Lane Enforcement, Real And HilariousBusted!Bikes Lanes On Com. Ave. Meeting Ton...

The folks at Masterpiece Rentals asked me to take a look at their site and see what I thought about their Florida luxury rentals. And it couldn't have come at a better time. It's starting to get chilly out and worst of all, it's starting to get really d...