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[71] More free booze. In church. [72] Life is breathed into all lawn ornaments. [73] More Boston dive bars. [74] More Boston dive bars staffed by toothless women named Flo. [75] Dollar drafts at Maison Robert. [76] A shield law passed at the state and federal levels allows journalists to protect their anonymous sources without being thrown into the hoosegrow by prosecutors and self-righteous judges. [77] Mitt Romney is kicked out of the Mormon church when he’s photographed outside Ramrod in leather chaps, a cowboy hat, and nothing else. [78] Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and Bill O’Reilly do belly shots in a new Girls Gone Wild hosted by Snoop Dogg. [79] "Face-shaving Night" at Allston’s Great Scott. [80] More 24-hour restaurants. [81] Charlize Theron drops her phony self-depreciation and proclaims — while Charlie Rose grovels at her feet — that she’s smarter and better-looking than anyone else in Hollywood. [82] A federal tax on outsourcing customer-relations jobs so we can straighten out our cell-phone bills without dealing with a guy in India named Poont-pi. [83] Men’s cologne is permanently outlawed. [84] Voters nationwide give the Republican Congress the heave-ho in November. [85] Nick and Jessica reunite on Pay-Per-View. [86] President Bush sits down for gumbo with local residents at a New Orleans restaurant. [87] Bush falls off the wagon, shows up at a state dinner smashed, and screams at his mother, "You always loved Jebbie more!" [88] Former staffers from the now-departed Atlantic Monthly assume editorial responsibilities at the Boston Metro. Story lengths immediately increase from three paragraphs to 10,000 monosyllabic words. [89] A woman is elected to the US Congress from Massachusetts. [90] Archbishop Sean O’Malley discloses plans to open a gay nightclub. Oh wait; Paul Shanley already did that. [91] A speck of green on the Rose Kennedy Greenway. [92] More naked people. Everywhere. Except the supermarket freezer section. [93] No more anti-gay-marriage amendments. [94] International crowds mob the Institute of Contemporary Arts when its new facility opens. [95] Maurice and Barry back behind the bar at the Plough & Stars. [96] A major motion picture shot in Boston by a world-class director that’s not sabotaged by greedy unions and bickering bureaucrats. [97] A cure for cancer, AIDS, and unsightly stretch marks. [98] A James Ivory remake of Godzilla. [99] A substantive, articulate, compelling national Democratic platform. [100] Howard Dean gets some tact. And a neck. [101] Tom Brady drops a wallet loaded with cash in a restaurant parking lot — and the person who finds it keeps it! [102] More readers with your patience. [103] More people named Assman. [104] A Papas Fritas reunion show. In their day, they were bigger than ... Certainly, Sir. [105] The survival of the Brattle Theatre. [106] Peace on Earth Goodwill to Men. Oh yeah, and to women, too. page 1 page 2 page 3 |
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