Boston's newest nickname

"The Hub?" Pfft, you're dating yourself. "Athens of America?" Oh, please, how old are you, anyway? "Land of the bean and the cod?" Don't even get me started.

Boston today is also known as Three Stripes or Three for the Stripes, as Notorious Nate Dogg explains:

It's a rap thing, rappers from Boston talk about the three stripes a lot. That's why people in hoods in Boston wear Adidas a lot more than people elsewhere. I've heard that it's because, when you make a lower-case B (as in "Boston") with your hands, your middle, ring and pinky fingers come together in three stripes.