BOSTON, Aug. 15, 2013 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Boosting its 30th anniversary celebrations, City Sports was crowned as Boston's top sporting goods retailer for 2013 by several local media outlets in their prestigious annual awards this summer. City Sports was honored Continue reading >>>

Brian Coveney of Somerville is the happy winner of “The Bruins Cruiser.” Brian purchased his winning ticket at Bostonian Florist on Highland Ave. in Somerville during the “Seize the Summer” event on July 28. Pictured here is the lucky winner with Ada Tauro, owner of Bostonian Florist, and Matthew Madden, a resident of Auburndale, MA, and a member of the Boston Bruins Foundation Pan-Mass Challenge Team. All proceeds from the raffle went to the Boston Bruins Foundation/Pan- Mass Challenge team. The Pan-Mass Challenge is a bike-a-thon that travels through 46 towns across Massachusetts. Continue reading >>>

Alexis de Tocqueville is often regarded as the keenest observer of American democracy, but a new article explains that he had a lot of help along the way—especially from one of Massachusetts’s leading lights. In 1831 Tocqueville, a young, French aristocrat, journeyed across the Atlantic to observe life in America. The result of his two years here was the famous, “Democracy in America,” published in two volumes between 1835 and 1840, which is still considered arguably the very best analysis of American democratic life ever produced. Tocqueville’s incisive observations seem nearly miraculous, Continue reading >>>

Sarah Pascarella moved to Boston for grad school in the summer of 2000, and has been a Bostonian ever since. The city's literary community, spectacular autumns, indie rock scene, and passionate sports fans keep her here, along with the diverse demographics – she loves that it's not unusual to see a fifth-generation Bostonian brushing elbows with visiting students or scholars from Myanmar, Ghana, or Brazil on the T. This mix of old-guard and constant new arrivals may be her favorite part of living in Boston: For a local, the city is always-interesting and ever-changing, and offers a truly global Continue reading >>>

Published: July 31, 2013 02:59 PM

On a national platform, Bostonians can receive a bad rap. Just look at Southie Rules. Or actually, don’t. It’s probably best not to look at that. And what about when we hear the beaten horse I’m gonna pahk my cah in the Hahvahd yahd? Ugh. We get it, Boston accent, lol. It’s overdone, considering how few people here actually talk like that. But for some reason, the Dish Network decided to build an entire ad campaign surrounding that absent ‘R’ sound and other Bostonisms. ‘Talk Boston’ is meant to promote the Hopper, which, if you didn’t notice, ends in -er, so why not take Continue reading >>>

ENGLEWOOD, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--DISH (NASDAQ: DISH) invites people nationwide to learn how to “Talk Boston” – or as a Boston native might say, “Tack Bahstin.” The company today launched a campaign reminding Americans to take advantage of DISH’s iPad 2 offer available this summer. “After nearly a decade in New England, I’m proud to be Bostonian. But the accent was a little tough for me to understand. Learning how to talk Boston with DISH has made me more comfortable than ever before at the place I call home” Continue reading >>>

Boston is not a crap town. However, it is being made crap by a small percentage of the population who have a distorted sense of entitlement and total disregard for their own actions. I have personally witnessed native Bostonians dropping litter two feet away from litter bins, throwing fag ends down wherever they like, collecting their dog poo into bags and throwing them into the nearest bush or not even bothering to collect it in the first place. Bostonians who urinate in public places including children’s playground areas and sit in those same playgrounds drinking Continue reading >>>

SEATTLE -- Officers advised a reportedly very drunk Bostonian not to seek vigilante justice against the group of eight men who attacked and robbed him early Tuesday in downtown Seattle. According to the Seattle Police Department's report for the incident, the victim, a man from Boston who is currently traveling across the country, was walking in the 100 block of Pine Street around 4 a.m. when a group of men asked him for a cigarette. He told officers he ignored the men because he didn't know them and didn't want any trouble. The men then asked if the victim wanted any pot. When he said no, they Continue reading >>>

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