Image courtesy of zig. Torontoist took issue with an ad campaign treating homeless people like billboards, especially after the ad agency's creative director proved he maybe didn't know what "exploitive" means.LAist found it to be a sad and grim week with a major train collision leaving over 20 dead (photos), a serial killer on the loose and a deeper look into Skid Row.DCist snapped some shots of the Pentagon Memorial opening.Phillyist was all about......

[ The people of Massachusetts memorialize the victims of the September 11 attacks. [Boston Globe] A baby was left on the doorstep of a 81 year-old Newton man. Nice job, Mom! [Boston Herald] A New Bedford firefighter really loves animals, but he only got to first base... [The Standard-Times] While Teddy Kennedy has been with cancer treatment, Cape Wind has been issued another permit towards the project. [Cape Cod Times] When you're in a crowded......

Steve Garfield shows us how to make ATM deposits more fun. Have you always wished for a baby monkey? Now you can get a fake one instead! [Jezebel] Many people took their time evacuating the World Trade Center seven years ago. [Guardian] And many people attended the unveiling of the 9/11 memorial at Logan. [Globe] The Brits are delighted about Brady's season-ending surgery. [Guardian] Even though Brady's lost his job (temporarily), others here have......

The Globe reports that Jason Robo, a Humboldt State student from Worcester, slapped a "911 was an inside job" sticker on an airline restroom, then fled, leaving another Alex Jones' Prison Planet sticker on his seat and causing a 3-hour delay for Salt Lake City passengers. The flyers who didn't flee were taken from the plane and made to wait while it was searched thoroughly by bomb-sniffing dogs. The flight eventually left three hours behind......

--Boston 911 operators are under scrutiny again because a call taker's error led to a delay in the arrival of police as a 76-year-old man was being beaten. [Boston Globe] --Smokers aren't too happy about the Senate's approval of a $1 rise in cigarette taxes. [Boston Herald] --Speaking of tax increases, Brookline voters approved a tax override. [Boston Globe] --In the "brass balls" department, the mayor of Newton, David Cohen, wants a pay raise.......

--A fire on Blue Hill Avenue in Mattapan injured 13 people, but a firefighter managed to save a baby. --Apparently the Pope ain't a Sox Fan. We dig visiting the 9/11 site, but mass at Yankee Stadium? C'mon... --At least Dustin showed the Yanks who's boss. Or if not boss, then Rookie of the Year. --One man lends a new meaning to meat salesman. --Women can't win, even in Starbucks lines. Give us a......

Magner's Boston Irish Film Festival November 9-11, 2007 Brattle Theatre and Harvard Film Archive $8-10 If you haven't got enough Irish in your everyday slang, be sure to check out the 2007 Boston Irish Film Festival (BIFF) for a strong shot of Irish flavor. This year focuses on four strong feature films: The Front Line, On Broadway, Short Order, and The Tiger's Tale, but features several other Irish films as well. View the trailers and......

Southland Tales Directed by Richard Kelly With Dwayne Johnson, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Seann William Scott Tonight, 9:15 p.m. Harvard Film Archives, Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge Tickets $8 for general public More information Tricky, Harvard, tricky! We've had Richard Kelly on the brain this week, thanks to A.R.T.'s world premiere of the stage adaptation of Kelly's 2001 flick "Donnie Darko." The Harvard Film Archive is ready to provide even more of the director's work......

That's right. Former New York City mayor and Republican presidential aspirant Rudy Giuliani has come out-- as a Red Sox fan. Giuliani said in public that he was backing the Red Sox in the World Series. Of course, he said it while he was in Boston and asking for votes, and a politician will do anything for a vote. But Mr. New York, Mayor of the Nation, 9/11 Every Other Word said he's rooting for......

Authorial Intent spotlights readings throughout the area. All events are free unless otherwise noted. Michelle Wildgen, You're Not You, Wednesday, October 3, 7:00 pm, Brookline Booksmith. In Wildgen's debut novel, which is enjoying glowing reviews, Bec, a drifting college student, takes care of Kate, an older, sophisticated woman dying from ALS. The two grow close, and soon Bec is taking care of business for Kate - such as carrying out a clever little way to......

"Authorial Intent" is Bostonist's attempt to bring you the best readings in the area, all tied up with a shiny bow. Diane Ackerman, Wednesday, September 19, 7:00 pm, Harvard Book Store. More info. In The Zookeeper's Wife, fiction writer, nonfiction writer, and poet Ackerman returns with the true story of zookeepers in Poland during World War II who hid Jews from the Nazis. The LA Times calls the novel "a shining book beyond category." Jonathan......

The Joiner is a newcomer to Boston and a compulsive joiner of clubs and organizations. He shares his experience joining Boston area groups weekly at Bostonist. The scene at Downtown Crossing's Alley Bar the afternoon of Saturday, September 1, should have been more somber, considering New England's only gay rugby squad had lost its first match of the season by a score too embarrassing to relate. But that's not how rugby works. After the match......

As easy as it is to forget in the bustle of going back to school, going back to work, and Labor Day hangovers, the 5th district primary election is going on today. Five democrats and two republicans are battling it out to see who will fill the empty space that Marty "Daddy Warbucks" Meehan left when he became chancellor at UMass-Lowell. The 5th Congressional district covers Lowell, Methuen, and Lawrence. The Democrats who are running......

Let's have a little fun- let's try to review Sicko and leave Michael Moore out of it. Sure, cutting him out of the review would leave a gaping, man-sized hole, but why not? Sicko will make anyone who hasn't gotten sick feel very, very lucky. The movie follows several people who actually had insurance, but their insurance providers tried to weasel out of paying for their care. Several individuals suffer from cancer, and their insurance......

Last night, author Dave Zirin said that when sports radio tries to tackle politics, the results are so ugly that "it's like imagining Mitt Romney wearing cornrows." Something's just not right. Zirin spoke at Brookline Booksmith last night about his fruitless experiences debating sports-radio chatterboxes. When Zirin tried to delve deeper into why people just love to hate on San Francisco Giant Barry Bonds, the host kept asking Zirin if he'd ever measured Bonds' head......

Sherman Alexie will read Thursday, June 7, at 6:00 PM at the Brattle Theatre. Tickets are $2 and available at Porter Square Books. Now - this event is sold out - but do what you gotta do. Novelist, poet, blogger, and serious NBA fan Sherman Alexie's latest book went straight to paperback. That's not a big deal, but it became a big deal to Alexie when Jenny Shank, a reviewer, wondered if the book went......

--Sean Stevens and Peter Berdvosky can breathe a sigh of relief now that they are officially off the blotter with a slap on the wrist. The artists who were hired by the Cartoon Network and Interference, Inc., to hang the Mooninites throughout Boston will do community service. Instead of offering the public another '70s hair comedy routine, the two had more substantial things to say this time around. The Herald quoted Stevens as saying, "I......

Mike Daisey was the first to note that there were a few messy spots in his Tuesday night performance of "Tongues Will Wag," the monologue workshopped before a rapt American Repertory Theatre audience at the Zero Arrow. He remarked upon that fact as soon as the standing ovation applause subsided. He was right. "Tongues Will Wag" has a few rough patches - an overly used reference here, a missed identification there. But for a monologue......

How do you measure, measure a year evacuation route? Self-described new media artist, kanarinka is undertaking a project to evacuate Boston and count every breath taken. She's up to 20,271 to date over the combined eight runs. Each leg is mapped out on a Google map and recorded as a podcast you can listen to. She's estimated that by the time she's done with the project she'll have taken 154,000 breaths while running the entire......

--Three separate stabbing incidents tied up the BPD last night. Later in the evening, a man was found in the South End with stab wounds. He's in stable condition. Then another man was found stabbed in the back in the South End and was taken to the hospital. A man was found stabbed early this morning in Mattapan, and he later died of his injuries. --Citizens of Medford and Somerville must be relieved. Police arrested......

A local posted his phone number on YouTube, just offering to listen for free, and 5,000 people responded. In an age of voice mail and phone menus, clearly people are interested in talking to a warm body. Watch the YouTube video. The fact that Ryan Fitzgerald wasn't offering sexy services or anything associated with a paid party line makes the response unusual. Then again, anything can happen on YouTube. He said he was inspired by......

Poet and spoken-word artist Sekou Sundiata will be speaking as part of the ICA's "What New Is" series on Wednesday, April 18, at 6:30 pm. Tickets are available online on icaboston.org. When you read his biography and hear his work, you realize that Sekou Sundiata has done everything and writes about everything. He's a big player in multimedia art, which makes him a perfect fit to speak as part of the ICA's "What New Is"......

Forget small talk or introductions. Mike Daisey hasn't the time. There are 90 minutes available to him to weave New York, subways, family, borscht and 9/11 into "Invincible Summer," the monologue now making its New England premiere at the Zero Arrow, and he's bursting at the seams with information. So, instead, he immediately begins to tell American Repertory Theatre patrons about his wedding. With this comes Daisey's assumption that his audience -- presented with Daisey,......

Mike Daisey is a monologuist. It’s a term that can be broken down into the act of telling stories to an audience through the uses of narrative structure and spontaneity. The Mainer-turned-Brooklynite has a table, glass of water and rough story outline available to him to weave together elements of his life, history and surroundings. "Invincible Summer," currently in a run at the American Repertory Theatre's Zero Arrow in Cambridge, touches upon Daisey's adaptation......

On Monday the Globe reported that "Antiterror cameras capturing crime on T" and Boston is safe. On Wednesday the Globe reported that " T's searches turn up only false alarms" and Boston is safe. Wednesday afternoon pretty much every media outlet reported on the breaking story that "Holy f*ing sh*t lite-brite is going to blow up our city." Mac Daniel's article on Monday touted the cameras installed in T stations as crime solving machines that......

Given that VH1 is kicking off a new season of "Celebreality," featuring ex-child star Danny Bonaduce running amok all over LA, we at Bostonist would like to check up on our own city's most famous boybanders to see if they have matured into responsible citizens. Alas, Donnie Wahlberg, one of the few boybanders to mature somewhat gracefully, just took a knock this week. The former member of New Kids on the Block has transformed......

We watched and giggled when MIT hacked the voting system and elected their school as the college destination for Alex Doonesbury. Not as hard, maybe, as when we read the strips back in April as the acceptance letters were coming in and Harvard was dismissed with a "whatever" from Mike. We're not sure if Alex has made a Cambridge appearance in the strip – following Doonesbury requires us to actually pick up the sidekick visit......

Bostonist had the pleasure of attending a performance of (I Am) Nobody's Lunch at the A.R.T's Zero Arrow theatre last night. We weren't entirely certain of what to expect, as the show's subtitle ("a cabaret about how we know what we know when nobody knows if everyone else is lying and when someone or something wants to have you for lunch") is a bit opaque. We were a little bit afraid that we'd be......

While waiting in the bathroom line at the Diesel, Bostonist caught zombie overlord Alli Auldridge putting up a poster for Zombie March 2006. When cornered, Ms. Auldridge revealed her plans: on Saturday, April 29th, the local undead will walk from Davis Square to Harvard Square in search of a decent brain to eat. How long do you expect Zombie March 2006 to last? Are we talking about traditional, slowly-lurching Dawn of the Dead zombies,......

Seattlest saw a house party get senselessly attacked with a shotgun and end in seven dead. A local senator is debated and their version of the big dig is investigated. To truly get to the bottom of it they interview the writer Jonathan Raban. Bostonist has its first birthday party and investigates how to attach more gambling dollars to the Red Sox. Benjamin Franklin is celebrated and Johnny Damon is not. Image by Ethan Bagley......