Update: WBZ has pictures of an SUV crashing into the bus. Another car plowed into the back of the car that hit the bus. The people involved were lucky--only three people on the bus and four in the SUV were hit. --A car hit an MBTA bus this afternoon while the bus was on American Legion Highway and Mount Hope Road. Three people on the bus went to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. [Boston......

--This week, Spatch revealed that he has been living with a celebrity and has been hiding it from the world all this time. [Derspatchel] --Joel Brown is puzzled over the Attorney General's decision that the Citi Center was "generally consistent" with other charities when it came to the money it gave to its CEO. [HubArts] --Men will soon have access to Manolos. And the leopard-print sandals are insane! [On Common Ground] --Carrying your own bag......

--The violence that has plagued the city all last week will not stop. A 17-year-old was shot early this morning in Mattapan, according to the Globe. He was shot in the jaw. And it could have been worse. He was shot in front of his home, where a daycare is located. He hasn't been named, but WCVB is reporting that neighbors said he was a "star athlete." --The DA's Office sent out a release announcing......

State legislators are debating whether or not to ban the use of cell phones while driving. Last Tuesday, the Transportation Committee discussed a bill that would ban the use of all handheld phones in cars while permitting hands-free phones for grownups. Anyone under 18 caught with a cell phone, handheld or otherwise, would have his or her permit or license suspended for a year. State Senator Steven Baddour opposes the ban for adults, but he......

This should be fun. The best team in the American League against the best team in the National League. Two of the greatest pitching matchups we'll see all season. A glimpse of old friend David Wells. It's not that crazy to say the Red Sox and Padres will be eyeing each other with visions of an October rematch dancing in their heads. Daisuke Matsuzaka goes tonight in the first game. So this will be his......

You play until the late hours against your fiercest rival, then fly six hours cross-country to face one of the toughest pitchers out there. How would you fare? If you're the Red Sox, you'd fare badly for a while, then really well, then disappointed. Oakland starter Danny Haren was fantastic, shutting the Sox down with 9 strikeouts through the eighth. So Boston did what they do best, which is bide their time until the bullpen......

A blogger was doing his thang, writing about his life and whatnot. Only what was going on in his life was a court case, and his blog had an effect on the outcome. The Globe ran a front-page story about pediatrician Robert P. Lindeman who was embroiled in a malpractice suit. The suit regarded the death of a 12-year-old from complications from diabetes. The prosecution did its homework and found a blog that described the......

Just wondering. Someone had to fall on the sword, and Mayor Tom Menino sure did seem happy when the head of Cartoon Network, Jim Samples, took the plunge and resigned from his post after the Aqua Teen Hunger Force Incident. Mayor Menino told the Globe, "Somebody had to pay…. He's the one who made all the decisions, and he didn't do anything to react to the concerns. The resignation should really serve as a message......

A truck crashed through the storefront of the Ultra Beauty Shop in Jamaica Plain yesterday afternoon. A Cobra Central Systems truck plowed so deep into the shop that it struck a support post. Six people were hurt, and the neighborhing Milky Way Lounge & Lanes had to shut down for the night because of the damage. However, Bostonist called, and they will be open tonight. Another truck incident had a tragic ending in New York......

A coastal city, Boston has no shortage of waterfront dining. Meritage, Sal de la Terre, Anthony’s Pier 4, all these are spectacular restaurants boasting five-star meals at five-star prices. But where to go when it’s the day before payday? When all you need to complete your week is an ocean view and a cup of chowder, but all you’ve got is a couple fivers? The answer, friends, lies under a yellow-and-red striped tarp on Sleeper......

Boy, oh boy. Bostonist has been watching too much of the reality TV these days. We got hooked on this season's Real World one Saturday in the early afternoon when we just sat down to kill some time, 2 hours later and we've got to know what frat boy John is going to do to piss off Svits this week, or why Paula's a bitch for being a lesbian. Don't even get us started on......

At first thought it doesn't sound like such a bad idea to spend a dozen (or so) summers in Alaska. Cooler temps, longer daylight hours, mukluks (by the way - Mukluks are SO in for the fall; Uggz are SO out!), whale blubber ... could it possibly get any better? Maybe it can if stalking grizzly bears is your cup of tea. If you're just warming up to the idea and need to think about......

Bostonist loves innovative thinking in government, but we know that not every proposed change is a good idea. Take the new study, released yesterday and reliably embraced by the governor, suggesting that it would be a good idea to privatize the Massachusetts Turnpike. "But Bostonist," you protest, "privatization and deregulation create competition, which increases efficiency and drives down costs!" Well, we say, sometimes. In the telecommunications industry, privatization works because, well, competition is possible.......

Yesterday Bostonist was stuck on Mass Ave for a long long time. Traveling through South Bay to Dorchester at 6:30 p.m. didn’t seem like such a bad idea, but apparently everyone in Boston thought the same thing -- it was trouble. Perhaps it was just the fact that we were actually in our car at a time normally called rush-hour, perhaps it is because we never drive that way during normal hours, or maybe......