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Slideshow: St. Patrick's Day Parade in Southie

Photos of the St. Patrick's Day Parade in South Boston, March 15, 2009.

By GREG COOK | March 19, 2009

The 2009 St. Patrickâ€™s Day Parade in South Boston featured Â bagpipes, Fox commentator Bill Oâ€™Reilly, Star Wars storm troopers, gunplay and St. Patty himself.

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Wish-fulfillment for a burning world
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Fanboys
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Wish-fulfillment for a burning world
From the shining big-screen debut of Iron Man to the large amounts of green produced by the Incredible Hulk, this was the year the public couldn't get enough of their favorite heroes.
Fanboys
Bonus points to director Kyle Newman for upping Kristen Bell's already solid geek cred (and for squeezing her into Princess Leia's gold bikini).
Interview: Ken Casey of Dropkick Murphys
"I think I would have thrown a little more venom behind the lyrics [of The Meanest of Times ] if I'd known it was gonna get this bad."
The Milky Way takes it to the streets
Nobody likes gentrification, but everyone loves a parade.
Pride at 39
Not to downplay this year's Pride Week or anything, but the annual weeklong mÃ©lange of events geared toward New England's lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community is just one year shy of its 40th anniversary. Which makes it sort of like the night before Christmas.
Right-wing terror
Conservatives scoffed in April when the Department of Homeland Security warned that the United States could face another wave of homegrown attacks.
Avoiding a border war
It's a matter of moments before the likes of Lou Dobbs and Bill O'Reilly scapegoat the believed-to-be-illegal-immigrant suspects in last week's Brookline rape case for every problem in America.
Where was everybody on St. Patrick's Day?
We piled into a car, we three intrepid journalists, and set out from the Back Bay Sunday morning to find our way to Royal Bollingâ€™s party. â€œRoxburyâ€™s Salute to St. Patrickâ€™s Day,â€ as Bolling called it, should be easy to find, we reasoned. After all, the Prince Hall Grand Lodge. A.F. & M., was located at 18 Washington Street. All we had to do was follow Washington Street, right?
Menino's junked mail
Two years ago, when I wrote a column griping about the Boston media's apathy-inducing disinterest in city politics, Boston Globe metro editor Brian McGrory told me his paper had given the lackluster 2007 elections as much coverage as they deserved, but hinted that things would be different in 2009.
Photos: Comic Con 2009 at Back Bay Events Center
Photos from the Boston comic book convention
Whalin' on Palin
Give Sarah Palin this: she isnâ€™t driven by polls. If she wanted to improve her chances at political success, she would have used her book and promotional tour to convince America that she has substance and gravitas .
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