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Passenger Steals $300 From Flight Attendant's Purse

Seth Abramovitch · 11/13/11 11:13PM

"Gott kvöld and good evening. We are now making our final descent into Boston Logan International Airport. Please put your tray tables up, return your seats to the upright position, and could the passenger who took $300 out of Chief Purser Dagbjört's purse please return it? Once again, thank you for choosing Icelandair for all your mile-high pickpocketing needs."

To Occupy Harvard, You Need a Valid Harvard ID

Maureen O'Connor · 11/10/11 12:02PM

Updated. Three hundred protesters marched through Cambridge, Massachusetts last night. Their goal: Occupying Harvard Yard. Arriving at the edge of campus, the protesters found the University's gates locked and guarded by a phalanx of campus police. Boston's CBS affiliate reports:

Zebras Escape from Zoo Enclosure to Terrify Boston

Max Read · 10/15/11 01:10PM

Two zebras escaped from their exhibit at the Franklin Park Zoo in Boston on Saturday, forcing the evacuation of the zoo and briefly sending the city into paroxysms of fear until zookeepers managed to return one to its enclosure and "confine" the other to a "non-public area."

Andrew Breitbart on a Second U.S. Civil War: 'Bring It On'

Lauri Apple · 09/18/11 01:12PM

Ranting Weiner fetishist and far-right blog mogul Andrew Breitbart is so tired of "vicious" Twitter leftists and liberals calling him gay—which they do for no reason—that sometimes, during "unclear moments" of addled thinking and high emotions, he thinks about how cool it would be if America had another civil war. Then he might finally fulfill his promise of taking down America's Left, and also end his own victimization. "Major-named" people in the military has his back on this!

Mark Wahlberg's New Restaurant: Wahlburgers

Maureen O'Connor · 08/25/11 04:10PM

Beefcake brothers create beef cake cafe! Hotties to hawk hamburgers in Hingham. Mark and Donnie Wahlberg recently secured the trademarked name Wahlburgers, which is what they plan to call their 4300-square-foot restaurant in Boston's Hingham Shipyard, where they already have an Italian restaurant called Alma Nove. Well done. [Boston Herald, Wahlberg brothers at a Lakers game via Splash]

Sarah Palin Explains Paul Revere's Midnight Ride

Jim Newell · 06/03/11 11:31AM

It's been at least a few seconds since we last checked in on Sarah Palin's Tour de Grift, which stopped yesterday in Olde Boston Towne. Her bus visited such historical sights as Paul Revere's old shack, where Palin explained the colonist's famous "midnight ride" before the 1775 battles at Lexington and Concord.

The Oscar Winning Boston Movie

Madeleine Davies · 02/25/11 11:20AM

From Good Will Hunting to The Departed to The Fighter, the Oscars can't stop giving love to the City on the Hill. This parody trailer summing up the award-winning Boston film genre is wicked perfect.

Cat Summoned for Jury Duty

Maureen O'Connor · 01/17/11 05:42PM

A lady in Boston listed her cat on her Census form, and now the cat has been summoned for jury duty.

Ringing Church Bell Ruins Al Roker's Weather Forecast

Whitney Jefferson · 01/12/11 11:30AM

How much do you think Al Roker hates his co-hosts during this broadcast? He's stuck in Boston during a storm that's still going strong. When he goes live, Natalie and Matt can't stop giggling about the bells in the background.

Do You Live in One of America's Drunkest Cities?

Richard Lawson · 12/29/10 02:37PM

The fearsome news Voltron that is the Daily News Beastweek has compiled a list of the 40 Drunkest Cities in the US, using the average number of drinks consumed per person in a month. So how did your city fare?

Is Boston Really Gonzo?

Hamilton Nolan · 11/22/10 03:23PM

Where did Hunter S. Thompson get the word "gonzo?" The accepted story's always been that it was a bit of Boston slang that a Boston newspaper editor first hung on Thompson. But—suck it Boston—that may be a myth!