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Flashbacks: Boston chess champ squares off against a computer, the painful musical pairing of Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson, and the squabble over the Boston Tea Party Bicentennial festivities

 

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Celtics complete sweep of Texas Triangle

Andrew D. Bernstein/NBAE via Getty Images, ganked from ESPN.com I'll come totally clean on this: as much as I was enjoying this season, it wasn't until this week that I thought the Celtics were a real NBA Championship contender. Much like everyone...

About last night...

Back when the Celtics were dominating the easier part of their schedule in November, the skeptics - somewhat justifiably - had trouble taking them seriously as a title contender. "Let's see how they do against the best of the west." Maybe...

Flashbacks: The Pope as human shield, the Tarantino touch, and a hermit goes to heaven

HOLY PURPOSE 5 years ago March 14, 2003 | Michael Bronski talked to a peace activist with the idea of sending the Pope to Iraq in order to stop the impending war. “Renowned peace and anti-nuke activist Helen Caldicott thinks she has a way to stop the...

UPDATE: El Pelon is open again

Judging from the lunchtime crowd there just now, it seems the word is already out, but it bears mentioning anyway: El Pelon is back open for business. The place looks great, too.