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00000“I didn’t like the idea when I first heard it”, he said. Making fun of your traditional Bostonian accents is not something I do every day.There’s a scene in Ted 2 that so perfectly encapsulates what people detest about Seth MacFarlane that you’d swear he stuck it in there just to mess with the haters.Still, it’s very rare for a MacFarlane venture to be completely unfunny. “The truth is I cried so hard, he was like, ‘Ah, you know what?” Rather than being a treasured Christmas plush toy, Ted 2 begins and ends much like those cheaper, year-round lines of Hallmark holiday bears. Continue reading >>>

Ted and Johnny are back for another Bostonian adventure, and they’re bringing Amanda Seyfried along for the ride. ‘Ted 2′ is finally hitting theaters, and it’s even more star-studded and absurd than the first. Seth MacFarlane‘s ode to a talking teddy bear and his best friend/thunder buddy (Mark Wahlberg) continues after Ted’s beautiful and elaborate wedding to Tami-Lynn (Jessica Barth), when the couple runs into a little trouble.  Ted’s embroiled in a massive civil rights case when the state tries to argue he’s not an actual person, but personal property. What’s a bear Continue reading >>>

By Chris Lotsbom, @ChrisLotsbom (c) 2015 Race Results Weekly, all rights reservedBOSTON (20-Jun) — Standing in front of a large, 50-person crowd yesterday with a microphone in his hand, 26-year-old Stephen Sambu looked incredibly comfortable. The University of Arizona alum showed no sign of any nerves, at ease speaking to a room full of runners at the Boston Marathon adidas RunBase on Boylston Street, steps from the Boston Marathon finish line. In roughly 36 hours time, he’ll be racing the fifth annual B.A.A. 10-K here, aiming for his third consecutive title.“It’s like home, man,” he Continue reading >>>

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Live in Boston? If you are the average student debt carrying Bostonian you have a balance $11,382.67 larger than the average student debt carrying New Yorker. That’s because at $43,398.48 Boston is the U.S. metro-area with the highest average student loan debt. The average in New York, which ranks 21st, is $32,015.81. Joining Boston in the top five slots are: Washington D.C. with $41,394.45 in average student debt, San Francisco with $39,914.56, Durham, NC with $38,461.68 and Atlanta with $37,945.66. To find the cities with the highest average debt loads credit monitoring Continue reading >>>

Live in Boston? If you are the average student debt carrying Bostonian you have a balance $11,382.67 larger than the average student debt carrying New Yorker. That’s because at $43,398.48 Boston is the U.S. metro-area with the highest average student loan debt. The average in New York, which ranks 21st, is $32,015.81. Joining Boston in the top five slots are: Washington D.C. with $41,394.45 in average student debt, San Francisco with $39,914.56, Durham, NC with $38,461.68 and Atlanta with $37,945.66. To find the cities with the highest average debt loads credit monitoring Continue reading >>>

Kyoto became Boston’s sister city in 1959. As a longtime resident of the latter and a frequent visitor to the former, I know why it’s true today that a Bostonian can still feel more at home in Kyoto than in any other city in Japan. Being centuries older, Kyoto is Boston’s big sister.It’s not just that both are university towns steeped in tradition. They have a lot more in common than being packed with students. Boston’s downtown, harbor, and Fort Point are undergoing the biggest real estate boom in the city’s history. In Kyoto, artists from around the Continue reading >>>

“I have family members who are bipolar, and there’s mental illness in my family, and depression as well, so I felt like I knew that part,” Ruffalo said. “But what was more difficult for me was the Brahmin, blue-blood Bostonian. Maya’s family came over in the Mayflower a couple hundred years ago, and my family basically rode a boat here like four years ago, so that part was really different for me.”

For May, National Salad Month, we pay tribute to my maternal grandfather, who so hated single-note salads, he’d make a public scene. This forced my proper Bostonian grandmother to discreetly slip a tomato in her purse when they dined out. She wouldn’t have to carry contraband with the new, whimsical rake-and-hoe garden salad at Barton G. in South Beach. It comprises seasonal, local greens from mache to mizuna plus shaved fennel, carrots, beets and so much more. The restaurant serves it in a miniature wheelbarrow (and charges a major $18). More modestly priced yet equally delicious is the Continue reading >>>