Depending on who you ask today, Boston might be better than New York, or New York might have totally trounced Boston (again). One study says that Boston is way more "innovative" than NY, while another says Boston's business sucks.

He's done it! He's gone and done it. He edged out buzzed-about teen comedy Easy A, and handily trounced the latest project cooked up (in a producing, story-writing sense) by M. Night Shyamalan. The Cambridge boy comes home.

Here's a trailer for David O. Russell's boxing drama The Fighter, a modern Cinderella Man, the based-on-a-true-story tale of a scrappy, over-the-hill boxer who beats the odds. It seems full of that Boston blue collar-gawking that's gotten a bit old.

Here's a trailer for The Town, Ben Affleck's second directorial effort. Like Gone Baby Gone, it's a Boston-set crime drama based on a novel and is about gritty men doing gritty things, grittily. Only this one has more shooting.

Already devastated by a decades-long shortage of the letter "R," residents of Boston are now forced to boil their water in the aftermath of "catastrophic and unprecedented pipe rupture" that's left the area without clean tap water for two days.

"The Boston 'No R' Accent that is heard throughout New England is more than an accent, and more than an attitude; it's a way of life." It's also something you can buy on a t-shirt. Fuck the Red Sox. [NoRLifestyle.com]

Conservative savior Sarah Palin swooped into liberal Massachusetts yesterday for a rally on the Boston Common. There were lots of old white people, some stupid signs, and a bunch of boring speeches. We mingled. Here's what we saw.

Oh, Harvard kid bullshit. It never fails to disappoint in the ridiculousness department, does it? Today we have an adventuring group of students who journeyed to nearby Tufts for a party and reported their findings. It's a tale of enlightenment.

WHDH Boston's Pete Bouchard was discussing the total amount of snowfall (in inches) during a broadcast and he made quite a startling comparison. We'll let you figure it out on your own.

Things cannot stop going wrong for Martha Coakley! Now the Boston Globe accidentally declared her the victor in today's special election hours before the polls closed.

Last Friday night a drunk woman in Boston fell on the tracks of an oncoming T Train and nearly died. According to the train conductor, panicked Bostonians are completely indistinguishable from Boston sports fans.

Seriously, we cannot actually imagine watching this and cheering on the shrieking old white man. Even if we agreed that ACORN was a terrible criminal organization bent on helping all the prostitutes in the world fill out their taxes while registering illegal immigrant cartoon characters to vote, we would still be incredibly uncomfortable watching Tim Jones scream at a couple fucking kids (one of whom he definitely calls "boy" in his charming Boston accent) and their mother.

Boston-area idiot racist police officer Justin Barrett wrote an email to a reporter repeatedly calling Henry Louis Gates a "banana eating jungle monkey," and now he is suing Boston for suspending him.

Fox anchor and car chase aficionado Shepard Smith is probably the best anchor on TV right now, both for pure entertainment value and for his genuinely non-partisan commitment to telling the truth as he sees it. Also he hates Boston.

In your salvation-drenched Thursday media column: Media career ascension! An available media job! People buying newspapers! People saving newspapers! People saving Paste magazine! Huzzah!

Shepard "OBEY Obama" Fairey has pleaded guilty to vandalism charges in Boston, and he's getting off easy. Boston, on the other hand...

In San Francisco, citizens complain to the city over Twitter. Bostonians have it even better: they got an iPhone application just for carping at City Hall. It's never been easier to funnel your complaint into a Kafkaesque black hole!

Gambling, gangsters, celebrities, creeps—Las Vegas is "journalism heaven," says this guy. OH? We know a few cities that would dispute that. Newspapers may be dying, but news is alive and well. Where are America's Best Stories? Candidates below!

Tionna Smalls is back! Such good news. Also: Law & Order: SVU will keep solving sex crimes, Amy Adams will embarrass herself, and strange casting good make for good television.

If there's a reason your town reeks of oversweat Birkenstocks, patchouli, and politically unaddressed body odors, it's because seminal jam band Phish begins their reunion tour tonight. The biggest perk, naturally, will be the influx of high-grade marijuana in your town. But the 5-0 ain't havin' it.