Boston Bold On Climate Change BioCycle December 2011, Vol. 52, No. 12, p. 38 Boston’s Chief of Environmental Energy Services talks with BioCycle about how sustainability is guiding the City’s actions to reduce GHG emissions, dramatically increase energy efficiency and adapt to impacts from sea level rise. Nora Goldstein IN February 2005, Jim Hunt was appointed to fill a new position in the Cabinet of City of Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino — Chief of Environmental Energy Services. The position was created to address the “intensifying synergy between environmental, energy and Continue reading >>>

Godsmack singer/guitarist (and solo artist) Sully Erna was the featured guest of this week’s episode of "That Metal Show", along with Jackyl's Jesse James Dupree. Erna, a proud Bostonian, was wearing a Boston t-shirt (the city, not the band!) and spoke about the tricks that Godsmack have planned for 2012, as well as his solo project, Avalon. He revealed that he actually started out in a different role, as a drummer. But he abandoned manning the kit all because of a photo. "I started playing when I was three-and-a-half years old. My bloodlines goes into the history of Continue reading >>>

Ethan Miller, Getty Images Godsmack singer/guitarist (and solo artist) Sully Erna was the featured guest of this week’s episode of ‘That Metal Show,’ along with Jackyl’s Jesse James Dupree. Erna, a proud Bostonian, was wearing a Boston t-shirt (the city, not the band!) and spoke about the tricks that Godsmack have planned for 2012, as well as his solo project, Avalon. He revealed that he actually started out in a different role, as a drummer. But he abandoned manning the kit all because of a photo. “I started playing when I was three-and-a-half years old. My bloodlines goes into the Continue reading >>>

Stephin Merritt and his fellow Bostonian musicians return in 2012 with the final part of their “synth free trilogy”, new album Love At The Bottom Of The Sea, the follow-up to last year’s Realism.

Coming hot on the heels of that record’s March release, The Magnetic Fields will be rolling into Dublin. The band play a show in the Olympia Theatre on April 28. Tickets are priced from €27.50 including booking fee and are onsale now from Ticketmaster outlets and Ticketmaster.ie.

It's Christmas time, which means the basketball teams are ready to have their annual "Secret Santa" exchange. Jeremy Lamb and Alex Oriakhi get each other so they just exchange snapbacks. DeAndre Daniels pulls Jim Calhoun's name out of the hat and makes a freshman mistake. The Los Angeles native gives the Bostonian a Lakers shirt for a present. Calhoun tosses it in the trash, only to have Enosch Wolf find it in the bowels of Gampel Pavilion and keep it. Wolf gives Roscoe Smith a new Oriole fitted hat with the cartoon bird on it. Smith draws Niels Giffey and makes him delicious Maryland Continue reading >>>

Craig Finn has decided not to hold steady, but to add a bunch of dates around the East Coast to his solo tour schedule instead. Finn will release his first solo album, Clear Heart Full Eyes, on January 24 with Vagrant Records. To promote the album, Finn is heading on tour on February 1. His previously scheduled dates last until February 24 and include shows around the South, Midwest, and East Coast with Mount Moriah. Now the Bostonian has scheduled shows in New Jersey, Massachusetts, New York, DC, North Carolina, and Georgia. Instead of Mount Moriah, Marcellus Continue reading >>>

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CYBERSPACE—The transsexual genre has seen a burst of young, fresh talent come and go over the years and the current "It" girl is a striking Bostonian beauty named Tiffany Starr.  Once Starr debuted on ShemaleYum she became an instant hit. It wasn't long before she began to appear on sites including Shemale-Club, TgirlPinUps, WendyWilliamsXXX and ShemaleStrokers.  Confident in her popularity, Starr recently booked a flight to LA and shot for DVD producers Devils Film and Evil Angel.  In the last two months she has appeared in Transsexual Prostitutes 68 and She-Male Idol: The Auditions 3.  Continue reading >>>

Kristin Bauer van Straten just might have the best job in the world. Not only does she get to play the snarkalicious Pam on True Blood, she gets to see a certain fellow vampire naked."It’s a nice perk," she says of seeing Alexander Skarsgard (Eric Northman) in his birthday suit in an interview with The Improper Bostonian. Oh, would that we could all get perks like that at work!But as hot as a nude Alex is, there's another guy that all the girls on the True Blood set have a crush on — Chris Bauer (Andy Bellefleur)!"This is the sexiest cast. Whatever your type, he’s there," she notes. "But Continue reading >>>

If there’s one girl who knows her way around the role of brash party girl, it’s 28-year-old Bostonian Ari Graynor. As a severely inebriated best pal in “Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist” and more recently as a “friend with benefits” to Jonah Hill’s character in “The Sitter,” Graynor’s got the formula for chemically enhanced flake down to a science. But this time around, with “Pineapple Express” director David Gordon Green at the helm and Hill carrying the film, Graynor got to improvise her way through what was already a solid script. “When you’re working Continue reading >>>