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......

Congratulations, Sox fans! You made it through approximately three minutes of the Red Sox Rally Monday festivities at City Hall Plaza before the first chants of "Yankees Suck" filled the air. New record! Well done! A few thousand fans descended upon the plaza early Monday afternoon to cheer on their hometown baseball team (and decry the arch rivals) for the Boston version of the shindigs going on across the country. Rally Monday was a tradition......

If you believe the worst of the rumors, the members of the Police spend most of their downtime on the tour bus smashing bottles and going after one another with the jagged glass. But whatever happens offstage, it doesn't seem to affect the show. The Police reunion tour hit Fenway Park Saturday for the first of two nights, and they've hardly lost a step. The best part of a reunion that nobody thought would ever......

Think about it: Josh Beckett's been out of the Boston Red Sox lineup for a couple of weeks. He missed two starts and generated some genuine worry over the cut on his finger that taught a few million baseball fans what "avulsion" meant. One couldn't expect a super top-notch showing from a guy just getting back into the groove, right? Seven innings, seven strikeouts, one walk, three hits. Oh, and he's the first Red Sox......

The Red Sox are making their way through a series with Tampa Bay before they come back home to take on the Yanks. It is still a long haul until we start getting nervous about every time they lose a game (which they’ve been doing a lot of lately). There have been a few items of Red Sox news this past week that don’t actually relate to baseball: Big Papi was apparently profiting. He spent......