There's been interesting discussion prompted in New England these days: that we're the center of the sports universe. We don't know what will come of our shiny and new Celtics lineup, but it sure looks pretty. The Patriots have suggested thus far this season that they are as close to unstoppable as a team that has to play on any given Sunday (or Monday) can be. The Bruins have decided to stop lurking in the......

--Police are searching for a man who stabbed two people at Park Street Station after the Red Sox Rally at 11:45 on Monday night. According to MBTA police, the stabber just lost his temper after bumping into the victims and "exchanging words." Surveillance video depicts another man and a woman who were somehow involved in the fight but took off. All three escaped, and the stabber jumped on the tracks and ran out using an......

While SFist cringed at the fatal dose of crime littering the Bay Area, it found solace in Hillary Clinton's San Francisco campaign headquarters opening, which featured loads of exposed mammary glands. In other news, SF Taxi Commission ruled that Satan's cab must keep its (in)famous medallion number, 666; and in an un-fashion-forward frenzy, San Francisco Fashion Week (chortle) bars bloggers from covering and getting smashed at their shows and parties, respectively. Also, they found a......

A warning to everyone who likes to occasionally sneak a subtle nose-pick, crotch-adjustment or stabbing on the T: Charlie Cam is watching you! The MBTA has released a surveillance video of a heavy, bald (but well-dressed and not entirely unattractive) man breaking through the fare gates at Science Park Station. It’s posted on thebostonchannel.com. At the start of the video, Big Guy looks around. He unsuccessfully tries to force the gates apart with this......

Rescue Dawn is screening at several theaters in the area. Check the Brattle calendar for showtimes ofThe Mystery of Kaspar Hauser and Aguirre, the Wrath of God. The last two movies run through Monday. In a recent post, we suggested that summer wasn't the right time for heavy film fare. But Boston won't be able to ignore the physically and mentally demanding work of Werner Herzog, whose movies old and new are showing throughout the......

Switchblade Sisters is running as part of Coolidge Corner's "Ladies of the Grindhouse" special and will screen tonight, Friday, July 13, and tomorrow, Saturday, July 14, at midnight. Troll 2 will screen at the Brattle tomorrow, Saturday, July 14, at 9:30 pm. Hot summer weather turns moviegoers' brains to mush. This season is not the time for heavy, Bergman-esque fare. But, this weekend, Coolidge Corner and the Brattle are serving up heaping portions of bad-movie......

There's a little trick we've picked up. Walk a little bit and shave $5 off your cab fare. Not only are you more likely to find an empty cab on Tremont Street at 2 a.m. but there will be less navigating one way streets than if you try and pick it up from Faneuil Hall af bar close (when everyone else is looking for a ride). Of course it's not foolproof, luckily most of......

Holy smokes! Giant fish on the MTA, Paris Hilton in jail, then out, then in again, Al Gore, goatses, blumpkins, Matt Damon, and baby art critics! It's been a busy week across the Ist-A-Verse, and here's a smattering of what's been going on. In Gothamist's neck of the woods, they found out that many things are possible: A man caught a 40+ pound fish off the Rockaways and took it home on the subway. Graffiti......

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......

So we've now had a whole 24 hours to get used to the new $.41 postal rate. And we're more confused about how much it will take to drop something in the mail than we were when we tried using a CharlieTicket CharlieCard for the first time. We dropped in to mail the letter that we'd promised to send to Grandpa Bostonist back in March – marched up to the fare vending machines stamp vending......

Chanel 5's Cindy and Jeff have a blog. It's about traffic. Today it was about grabbing a Taxi. When Bostonist has a flight to catch we've been known to walk ourselves to the nearest hotel so that we can grab the flat rate to Logan because it's almost always cheaper than a ride with the meter running. As fast as the Big Dig has made an airport run, traffic usually slows us down enough to......

The big news in this mornings papers and airwaves was that a report from the Transportation Finance Commission has released a report that pretty much every state transit authority (including the MBTA, DCR, Turnpike Authority, and Highway Department) is in deficit spending and working to just keep up what they've got going. The deficit spending will result in a projected $19 billion deficit over the next 20 years according to the report. That's just for......

The cost of doing business usually accounts for the stolen pencils and office supplies that employees will pocket and take home with them. Some staples here, tape there, or a couple of personal Xeroxes now and again are par for the course. News came out today that the MBTA police have uncovered one employee taking home a little more than that. A 69 year old retired electrician for the T had been taking home tokens......

Simple math challenge in making change: what's the largest amount of change you can have and still not make exact change for a dollar? $1.19 – four dimes, four pennies, and three quarters. Simple math challenge Charlie style: what's the largest amount of change (number of coins and value) you can have and still not get a full fare ride on the subway? $1.97. At least we're pretty sure. Technically, value-wise, you can get up......

A dead body turned up in Dorchester yesterday afternoon. While they hadn't confirmed it as of this posting, the BPD thinks the body may be that of Warren Daniel Hairston, whose family had reported him missing. The Coast Guard is searching for a missing boat and the four fishermen on board in Nantucket Sound. The "Lady of Grace" didn't arrive when expected, all communications with the boat dried up, and the Coast Guard found an......

The mercury hit 70 three weeks ago, didn't it? Overnight tonight forecasters are calling for single digit temperatures, tomorrow they'll barely break into the double digits. Wind chill temps will make it seem like the temps are actually below freezing. These bitter cold temperatures will combine with sustained northwest winds of 15 to 20 mph to produce below zero wind chills. Wind chills will drop to between 5 and 15 below zero late tonight... and......

More standing room "seats" at Fenway are a fitting addition after the 2006 season. In 2004 the curse was broken. The oldest and smallest MLB park was outfitted with a new drainage system. In 2005 when the boys failed to repeat the 2004 feat the season was followed by a overhaul of the .406 club creating the open air posh seating now called the EMC club for a corporate sponsor (rather than to honor Ted......

The sweet beater vehicle? The bitchin' soundtrack? The ridiculously large bag of blow? The now vintage pre-Charlie turnstiles? The proposition that MBTA police would go beyond the call of duty? If this is Episode One of Vendetta Gunn we can only imagine what's in store for the duo. Stay tuned. A public service announcement from Bostonist: monthly passes for February are now on sale (the eight day window around the first has been extended thanks......

Today most of the MBTA system will be running on a Saturday schedule anticipating lighter rider-ship on the Martin Luther King holiday. Of course there's to "advisory" posted on the website, it's just a press release. The Saturday Schedule might be better for a T rider looking to get to Jamaica Plain than, say, a Friday Schedule. A tip to the blog Charlie on the MBTA indicates that the T’s Trip Planning website is having......

Just two days after the fatal commuter rail accident in Woburn, a Green D Line trolley ran into a man on the tracks. WHDH is reporting that Brookline police are looking into the incident which happened in a tunnel. The trolley reportedly struck a homeless man who was walking along the tracks. He is expected to be ok, though no specifics were given on his condition. We heard few complaints from people that there was......

There's been a lot of press for some of the changes that have come to the restructured fares and associated increases on the MBTA system. It costs more for the buses and the trains on per ride fares, more if you use cash or a CharlieTicket. The Green Line above ground outbound rides are no longer free. The inner and outer express buses cost more, as does the commuter rail. Of course the MBTA is......

Sunday. Usually, a quiet, contemplative day in the Blogosphere. But not here in the Ist-a-Verse. Nonono! Just look below and see all of the wild and crazy stuff our staffs are up to. In Austin, bands are beginning to confirm for SXSW and the rumor mill is up and running. Good thing, too, because we all know how much Austinites love live performances. Austin also found itself in the national spotlight, with Longhorn Legend......

When the MBTA rolls the first trains at the start of service on Monday morning it will be on a Sunday schedule for the holiday and the 2007 fare increase will be in full effect. There's still a lot of confusion as to how the changes will effect riders and we're going to attempt to run down the most significant changes below. CharlieTicket and Cash: Both these methods will cost the most. $1.50 for a......

Bars, clubs, and restaurants will be taking on a premium for celebrating the coming of the New Year with them. There is, however, a free ride available to get you home. The MBTA has announced that again this year the T will be free for riders from 8 pm to 2 am on New Years Eve and into the early morning of New Year's Day. We could go on for hours about how we miss......

While you were waiting in line for the CharlieGate to open the MBTA has been hard at work. Fixing escalators? No. Running busses on schedule? Of course not. Giving their website a complete overhaul? You got it. This morning browsing over to the MBTA.com website brings up a whole new page. Compared to the last 2002-esque design of the T website of yesterday the new implementation is in the flashy web 2.0 vein. For......

The MBTA made a bold marketing move in branding the new fare cards. Bold, but perhaps brilliant. Before the CharlieCard, before the CharlieTicket, all passengers have is the MBTA to blame. Now riders simply raise their fists and curse Charlie (think Shatner screaming "Khaaan!") the MBTA isn't scapegoat - it's the new cartooned mascot. A mascot who was taken from the verse of a song about a guy who was stuck on the T because......

If you’re hiking, consider charging up your iPod, as Seattlest finds out that a man lost during a hike was found by the glow of his iPod. That cleverness seems to be devoid in cops who were using police cruiser instant messaging clients - although we imagine IMs “so are you nakie” to be included in cop shows, just for realism. If only the cops were busting the Hummer-driving jerk who made a poor......

Bostonist has gotten countless emails from our local HR department and forwards from friends whose benefits specialists have issued missives regarding the changes in the fare structure and how it will affect your monthly pre-tax transit order. The basic fact of the matter is that those $44 T passes are on the way out. The December monthly pass will be the last time a monthly subway-only pass is issued. In January the LinkPass – which......

Governor Romney, only weeks away from being a lame duck, announced that the MBTA would resume random bag searches of transit system passengers. We thought at first they'd be riffling through our bags trying to find any tokens we still have in our possession, though really they are indeed looking for bombs. The announced plan will deploy portable machines outside of stations that will test baggage for bomb residue, and, with probable cause, police can......

Torontoist visits the site of a new Frank Gehry structure, stalks "the elusive Bahamas streetcar", and watches Tom Green get surgery. Phillyist rejoices in the Phillies' wild card chances, mourns the injuries sustained by Eagles defensive end Jevon Kearse, and goes pirate on our asses. SFist notes that Guns and Roses were in town, that San Franciscans are taking over reality TV, and that the San Francisco Chronicle's skills of original nomenclature could use some......