Iranian Film Festival The Red Card (Carte ghermez) Mahnaz Afzali, 74 minutes, documentary, Persian with subtitles Saturday, November 17, 3:15 pm Remis Auditorium, MFA, Boston $10, Tickets and More Info While Iran's culture seems largely shut off from the United States or represented by the face of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the culture shares two strong similarities with that of America--celebrity worship and an attraction to bizarre crimes. The documentary The Red Card is like the OJ......

According the MBTA inspector we stalked into the Dunkin' Donuts at Haymarket Station, the Orange Line was shut down from Back Bay to North Station all morning because "a car tipped over at Chinatown." When pressed for more info, the inspector only added, "everything's cleared up now." Offers to trade him a donut for more scoop nearly resulted in a Star Simpson style escort out of the area. Sorry. We're not cute enough to......

Below is a photo of a person being a total T-bag on the MBTA. Today we present a well-dressed, handsome young man who has achieved what was heretofore considered impossible: taking up three seats on a very crowded OJ line train at 5:15 PM without getting his acid-washed tookis kicked by teen hoods packing hot bags of Wendy's. How the hey-all did he pull this off?!! After careful analysis, it appears that the key......

My bloody orange line... Sweet, bloody orange line... We just composed that little ditty right this second to commemorate the news that crime on the Orange Line was up 25% in the last 6 months. Wow. What a shock. (Ironic yawn). MBTA police say that the OJ Line crime stats rose because of a "wave of robberies involving young people stealing iPods in the evenings during the spring". Um, yeah. Now that you mention......

Ah….. summer in Boston: Lobster rolls, ice-cold Sam Adams, and teen-agers shooting each other on the subway. Boston.com issued a breaking news alert today at 2:44 PM: “Police Search for 2 Suspects after Teen Shot on Orange Line Train.” According to the story by Mac Daniel, at about 1 p.m. a teenager exited the outbound train at Ruggles and pulled a gun on another “18 to-19 year old” male, who was still on the train.......

The Hoax could have been a terrific movie. Whether or not you know anything about Howard "The Aviator" Hughes or Clifford Irving, the man who tried to pass off a fake autobiography of Hughes, the plot is riveting and familiar. In the light of recent publishing and journalism faux-pas, ranging from Jayson Blair to the sudden squelching of OJ Simpson's "confession," Clifford Irving's desperate drive for fame makes sense. Richard Gere stars as Clifford Irving,......

Bridie Clark will be reading at the Harvard Coop Thursday, March 8, at 7:00 pm. Bridie Clark is one brave woman. The Harvard alum recently released the chick-lit book Because She Can. It's a Devil Wears Prada-esque tale of a good-hearted but ambitious young woman who falls into the claws of a ruthless exec. The ruthless exec in Bridie Clark's debut novel might seem awfully familiar to book fans. Vivian Grant is the head of......

Building #19 has long been one of Bostonist's favorite discount outlets. From weight-loss shakes to OJ Simpson trivia to remote control holsters and more, we have turned to the store for all our discontinued product needs. Though age and reliability is sometimes in questions with goods purchased there, Bostonist has never been as skeptical as we are with the new Charles River bottled water many of the store locations are now stocking. Sure, the Charles......