One thing you can say for certain about the Bostonian singer Amanda Palmer is that she isn't crippled by shyness. The brick walls of the London venue Village Underground are adorned with dozens of artworks commissioned to accompany her new album, Theatre Is Evil. There is Palmer as comic-book character, Palmer as vampiric Tudor monarch, Palmer as skeleton with antlers, Palmer photographed nude by her husband, the British writer Neil Gaiman. It's a lot of Amanda Palmer. Buy it from Buy the CD Download as MP3 Amanda Continue reading >>>

Print this Article Email this Article They had me at the lobster-shaped Adirondack chairs. Or maybe it was the totally random bathtub in the corner, guarded over quasi-menacingly by a bouncer, or the marked-up bar (complete with several dozen proclamations of highly questionable love featuring even more questionable grammar).Bottom line is, The Improper Bostonian in Dennisport is darn fun, darn quirky and definitely a place I plan to hit a few more times before the sweet strains of summer fade away entirely. One Continue reading >>>

(Photo : RETUERS/Piotr Sikora/VH1/Handout) Chad "Ochocinco" Johnson and wife Evelyn Lozada are shown in this undated publicity photograph from the now-cancelled VH1 reality TV series "Ev Ocho" released to Reuters August 13, 2012. Chad "Ochocinco" Johnson has been getting a lot of attention these days but not for good reasons. The former Miami Dolphins wide receiver was fired from the team in the wake of his arrest for allegedly head-butting Evelyn Lozada, her new spouse. Although the team announced that the reason Johnson got fired had nothing to do with his arrest but rather with not Continue reading >>>

The Bostonian trio of Statik Selektah, Termanology, and Ea$y Money hit the interwebs to drop their latest track “Something Special”, and that it is. The track has a dope throwback appeal, as its driven by a smooth guitar riff that is backed by some interesting sounds and a mellowed out drum line that is hard to pull away from. Statik gets on the board and drops a dope gem for the fellas to do their lyrical toe taps on, and the two MC’s do not disappoint. Check out “Something Special” after the jump and let us know what you think. Signed, Jesse Ja mes Continue reading >>>

Right now, a hungry Bostonian can order a large Papa John’s chicken parmesan pizza for 10 bucks. But watch out: the pizza chain’s founder, John Schnatter, is warning customers that to accommodate President Obama’s health care law, they may have to shell out $10.14. Schnatter, a fundraiser for Mitt Romney, may be accurate in explaining how some fast-food chains will cover the costs of new provisions in the law — by slightly raising prices. But he is wrong to complain. Schnatter’s comments were made to shareholders. According to Politico, his intention was to alleviate their concerns about Continue reading >>>

As part of the jobs bill the Massachusetts Legislature approved last week, lawmakers passed a two-day tax holiday. The 115-page bill, passed on Tuesday, included a two-day holiday on the weekend of Aug. 11 and 12 from the state's 6.25 percent sales tax, according to the Boston Globe.  Excluded from the tax holiday are restaurant meals, cars, motorboats, tobacco and any item that costs more than $2,500. To offset the loss of revenue, Gov. Deval Patrick set aside $20 million in a supplemental budget he filed early last month. So, where will you be shopping in Newton? Tell us in the comments below! With Continue reading >>>

Burn Notice “Unchained” Season 6 Episode 8 airs Thursday August 9 at 9 pm on USA. Episode Synopsis: Michael allows himself to be arrested by the FBI in order to bring down a vicious Bostonian mobster. Meanwhile, Jesse and Pearce are forced to blackmail a weapons manufacturer to get information on an important gun sale… but things don’t go as smoothly as planned. Show Summary: Season six of this summer favorite picks up after Fiona (Gabrielle Anwar) turned herself in on charges of terrorism to save Michael (Jeffrey Donovan) from an extreme case of blackmail. With Fiona in federal custody, Continue reading >>>

I have already tweeted all about it, but now that I have had a couple days to think, I wanted to put a few words down on my experience at Fenway Park last week and what I believe the future holds for Liverpool F.C.. Fenway Park, became Anfield West for the day. I have lived in the United States for 20 years now and have never been to a baseball game, even though I spent a summer in Chicago just a block from Wrigley Field. And so, last week I entered a ball park for the first time, though “ball park” Continue reading >>>

Sunday's Yankees/Red Sox tilt featured a 10th-inning go-ahead single by Pedro Ciriaco. There's been only one other go-ahead hit by a Bostonian, in extra innings, in the Bronx, over the past eight years: Jacoby Ellsbury's 14th-inning homer on Sept. 25.And it was the first non-home run version of such a hit since April 22, 2001, when Jason Varitek singled off Mariano Rivera in the 10th, driving in Trot Nixon from second. Continue reading >>>

Annie Springer, Bodega's plein air painter. (Kent Porter / PD) By ANDREA GRANAHAN / West County Correspondent Annie Murphy Springer is not a typical Bostonian, although that is where she was born and she still tends to call a car a “cah.” With blonde braids and bright purple clothing, she wasn’t a typical fire chief, nor was she your typical management consultant, although that was her career for years. (A bank executive once told her, “They look at you funny when you come in, Annie, but not when you go out.”) At 77, you would Continue reading >>>