The 19th Annual Boston Jewish Film Festival Now through November 11 At almost every theater in town Official site Sometimes film festivals aim to achieve a specific tone each year, or they provide selections that fit neatly into certain genres. This year's Boston Jewish Film Festival selections are unruly. They won't be boxed in. Even when it comes to their screenings, specific movies might be hard to find because they are popping up all over......

New England Film and Video Festival Thursday, October 4, through Monday, October 8 Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline All tickets $10 Official Site Full Schedule What with the Red Sox savoring victory and rallies raging at City Hall Plaza, the New England Film and Video Festival planned the opening night for its 32nd year perfectly. On Thursday, the NEFVF will kick off with the documentary Play-by-Play Men and the Art of the Perfect Call, which begins......

This week, Phillyist saw the waters of a landmark fountain run red for a Showtime marketing stunt, the Phils pull ahead, and some serious nostalgia. They also got a chance to review an awesome tribute album, reminded folks to see the King and appreciated their beautiful skyline. Chicagoist knows what it's like to like the Cubs. But naming your kid Wrigley Fields? At least they can breathe a little easier now that Grossman's out and......

There was very little else for Londonist to be concerned with when the threat of a Tube strike became a very unpleasant reality. The inconvenience was extreme: there aren't many alternatives to the Tube in London despite the best efforts of the Londonist team to get everyone from A to B. Brighter news came in the form of the first ever female Yeoman Warder, or Beefeater as the position is more commonly known, and......

Happy first weekend of September - and happy Labor Day weekend, too, for our American cities! Let's take a look at what's been happening around the Ist-a-verse. The deaths of two firefighters shook Bostonist this week. Boston's firefighters bent over backwards all week long - first, they fought flames pouring from the Boston Tea Party museum, and then a restaurant fire killed two and injured many more. Their efforts make everything else - like Tom......

With unseasonable weather descending upon much of North America, schools getting ready to reconvene, and sports seasons getting exciting, it's a busy time of year for us here in the Ist-A-Verse. Luckily, even with all the things we have to do, we still managed to get together to let you know what we've all been up to. After cooling down from a hot weekend of many badass Sunset Junction Street Fair photo dispatches, LAist asked......

The Italian festival runs the rest of the day, Saturday, July 21, in Central Square in East Boston. The sausage-eating contest starts at 6:00 pm, and Frank Stallone performs at 7:30. Visit Italia Unita's website for the full schedule. East Boston is holding its Italian festival today. The experience will include a competitive-eating contest starring sausage, and the headliner is a Stallone - not Sly, but Frank. Regarding the sausage, this isn't some namby-pamby......

All across the Ist-A-Verse (or at least the American parts thereof), writers and editors are in the midst of enjoying their three-day weekend. But after the week we've all had, we feel like the break is not only needed, but deserved. Just look at everything we've been doing! Gothamist headed into the Memorial Day weekend with a number of tasks accomplished. They worried about Long Islanders giving New Yorkers a bad name. They tried......

Many great cities across these lands of ours are excited and happy to boast when they have one arts festival ready to go for its citizens and visitors. But Boston? An arts festival? That's too easy. What we do is plan a whole slew of 'em and work them all into the same weekend. Take THAT, other so-called culture centers! Bostonist will be telling you over the next couple of days about some of the......

If you're looking to be touched, warmed and uplifted by a movie these days, don't go to the multiplex. You know this already, of course. Instead, make sure you live in a city where they host a film festival, where you might run into something as special as Dave McLaughlin's On Broadway, which premiered this weekend at the Independent Film Festival of Boston. It's the story of blue-collar Jack O'Toole (played by, yes, that Joseph......

We don't know about where you are, but it seems like spring can't decide whether or not to happen. Some days are warm, some days are cold, and sometimes you aren't sure which. Baseball may have started up (and soccer/football winding down) but it still seems cold out there. Unless it's not. Anyways, onto the -ists. Austinist happily anticipated fall's Austin City Limits, even though they're not fully recovered from South By Southwest. In......

With the sun out, the temperatures high, one can only think of one thing-- what's going on in the World of the -ist's? Bostonist dug deep to uncover Barack Obama's unpaid parking tickets, their Governor's latest ethical lapse, and a plagarizing sports writer. Chicagoist had everything in twos: two views on having the Olympics, losing two members of their Super Bowl team, and two music festivals. DCist put their noses in legal books as......

Today the Globe ran a piece on Jackson Square. Void from the coverage was any mention of "cultural center," ample coverage was given to "crime stricken area." Jackson Square a precarious area between Roxbury and Jamaica Plain has been discussed as the anchor to the stretch of Centre Street to be renamed "Avenue de las Americas." Though we haven't heard much about the renaming initiative since it was first floated back in August. Avenue de......

Apparently we're supposed to go to work this week. It's the first full week in July. We're not counting last week – there was enough time spent on various roof decks that it can't be called anything but lazy. This week the grind is back, but the music isn't taking a break. An eclectic mix make up this week's picks from indie rock to Elvis Costello to the Boston Typewriter Orchestra, they're not playing......

DCist is screwed in the event of an oil crisis. Not that we're not all screwed in the event of an oil crisis, just D.C. is more screwed. Don't sell your car yet, District resident, a cabbie can kick you to the curb if he doesn't like your address. Not even Metro can save you now. Londonist experiences the London of the future through the wonders of 3D modeling, but while the 3D guys are......

Bostonist likes movies and we like when people from our neck of the woods make movies, and we really like when those movies get screened in Boston and we get tickets. So we're excited, because Georgia Lee, a Harvard grad who dropped out of Harvard Business School to apprentice with Martin Scorcese in making "Gangs of New York," has made a movie of her own and we have five pairs of tickets for lucky Bostonist......

Bostonist will check out the much-hyped (UK: festival appearances/ US: The OC appearance), small-town band The Subways from Britain trying to make the world their garage in the young group’s first stateside tour. Forgoing current angular, dance rock motifs (Franz Ferdinand) and pre-empting the American arrival of their debut album Young for Eternity with a live serving of one-foot-in-the-gutter three-piece pop in Allston, The Subways will face the gauntlet set by a city ravenously devouring......

Pinehills Homes is offering a very unique and luxurious event this weekend on Saturday from 5-9p.m. Join some of Boston's best chefs like Michael Schlow of Radius, Barbara Lynch of Number 9 Park, Marc Orfaly, and pastry chef Joanne Chang, for a hybrid charity/sales dinner in down in Plymouth. You will eat some of the best food money can buy, while dining in a Pinehill million dollar home; you of course can take a......

In the past few years, Bostonist has seen some pretty spectacular documentaries: "Spellbound", "DIG!", "Paper Clips", "Mad Hot Ballroom", "Murderball"; the list could go on but we think you get the idea. None of these compares to "Rhythm Is It!" – an incredible movie that documents the work of choreographer Roysten Maldoom and his team as they create a dance company in less than two months with 250 "at-risk youths" (their terminology not ours)......

Sure. That and a pair of testicles. Lace up your bowling shoes! Tonight Coolidge Corner Theater is having a screening of the oddball Coen Brothers' bowling hit The Big Lebowski. It's a nine dollar entrance fee, unfortunately that doesn't come with a White Russian, but there will be a pre-screening bowling match, along with Lebowski trivia and Lewbowski themed rewards for the best bowling shirt in the crowd. Expect to see some interesting folks at......

There are many activities for which summer is ideally suited: Listening to the rock music, sitting outside drinking beer and watching celebrities, escaping from the heat to a cool, dark, overly-air-conditioned movie theatre, and, of course, kvetching about local politics. But lately, Bostonist has been getting reacquainted with that simplest and best of summer pastimes: exploring and enjoying the little, sometimes hidden pleasures of our own neighborhood. Having undertaken a project that requires us to......

This weekend Boston celebrates the 35th annual Gay Pride Festival -- billed as the largest event of its type in New England. By the organizers' accounts, over 400,000 individuals have participated in Boston Pride events in recent years. Held in many major cities throughout the United States and across the globe, Pride festivals began in the early 70's as a political consciousness raising event as the Gay Rights movement accelerated after the 1969 Stonewall riots......

Bostonist would like to think that spring/summer has arrived now that the temperature has risen above 45 degrees and the sun is actually shining this week. So the first thing you do when it gets warm out is start enjoying the great outdoors with a beverage in hand, right? Well, Bostonist has been indulging in more beers than usual now that the summer ales are out for the season. One of Bostonist's favorite, Sam Adams......