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If you plan to book a trip to Croatia soon then renting an apartment may be one option that you may like to take. Aside from incurring savings, renting an apartment will allow you to experience the real ambiance of Croatia since you stay away from the tourist areas. Croatia is Not Kansas However, if you are a western country tourist note that renting out apartments and homes in foreign land like Croatia can be a different experience. Read more ... More ...

Sheila Jaffe is the casting director that's doing the casting for "War of 04" or "Madso's War" - the new pilot that's filming in Boston and the Globe interviewed her this past Monday. In addition to casting for The Sopranos and Entourage, she also did a handful of movies including The Italian Job. Saturday, Jaffe is teaching a day-long master class for experienced Boston actors. (Before you get all excited, we're told the session at the InterContinental Hotel is just about sold out.) Q. How m... More ...

I got an email early yesterday morning from my friend Missy. She was sad that a couple of her favorite restaurants had fallen victim to a fire in Fenway. According to the latest article that I could find, a total of 7 shops were affected by the fire. A four-alarm fire tore through a block of shops early this morning near Fenway Park, destroying six restaurants and a dry cleaner as it caused an estimated $5 million in damage. Affected restaurants include: El Pelon, Thornton's Fenway Grille, Gr... More ...

Time to whip out the cigars? Cambridge homeboy Ben Affleck and wife Jennifer Garner delivered their second daughter on Tuesday, Jan. 6. Baby No. 2 is a welcomed nursery mate to her three-year-old sister Violet. The couple has yet to announce the name of their healthy baby girl. Garner's rep confirms to People that "Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck gave birth to a healthy baby girl." Affleck, last seen accompanying his very pregnant wife Garner to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Beverly Hills on Su... More ...

With the “Head-to-Head Hip-Hop Challenge" show filmed at the Lynn Memorial Auditorium on Thursday, Nov. 20, three hip-hop hopefuls plucked from Winthrop High School--Abby, Eddie and Christine--are vying for the top prize after being coached by Boston native Cedric Crowe as well as CiCi Kelley and Sam Renzetti. The back-to-back "Made" episode shot in Lynn and Winthrop will air on MTV this Saturday, Jan. 10 from noon to 5 p.m. Who's gonna win--Abby the goofy tomboy, Eddie the pop culture fanatic... More ...

First thing I want to say is, if you aren't a cook that prepares a mise en place before you cook, I suggest you do so for this recipe. There is a lot of preparation and switching off plates, bowls, and frying pans. It's not hard to cook, but it's kind of big on prepping. Just a warning. We made this dish tonight, a few days later than we had originally planned. The Boy LOVED it. I thought it was ... More ...

Dr. T, who muses about anesthesia and oboes and topics in between, is a finalist in the 2008 Medical Weblog Awards' "Best Literary Medical Blog" category. Help her win. Read more ... More ...

I just received my copy of the January/February issue of Boston Spirit Magazine. As previously reported in Loaded Gun, WHDH-TV's Ryan Schulteis does come out in Scott Kearnan's nicely crafted feature "News Flash! They're gay!" focusing on the slew of openly gay media professionals in Boston. In the story's opening section, Schulteis admits that he was hesistant about doing the story. "I was thinking,'This could be online,'" he spills to Kearnan. "Someone back home, a cousin or something, could G... More ...

Tues. Jan. 13 One of the weird things about meeting celebrities - in the course of doing my job - is relating stories about them that don't sound self-serving or self-important. Neither, do I want to go, Aw shucks, it was nothing. Spending an hour with Pete Townshend in his New York hotel room discussing music, art and heroin addiction. Yeah, that was all right. But I will tell you of the one celebrity intro where I fumbled the conversational football - and if you follow this tale to the e... More ...

I've been looking for a point of entry to comment on the recent cutbacks at WBZ Radio (AM 1030), which have claimed talk-show hosts Lovell Dyett, Steve LeVeille and Pat Desmarais, as well as sports reporter Tom Cuddy. It looks like Scott Fybush's blistering commentary ought to do the trick. Unfortunately, I never got to hear those shows, as they were on during a time when I simply never listen to talk radio. Sorry to give fuel to CBS's fire — no doubt the company's research showed that I was p... More ...

In my latest for the Guardian, I wonder why it took so long for the New York Times to accept front-page display ads. ... More ...

I found this video via Y!Buzz and yumsugar. President-elect Obama loves the restaurant Dixie Kitchen and he talks about it on the show Check, Please! How fun is that? And there was even a Boston connection on the show. One of the people at the table was wearing a Boston Fire T-shirt. Now after watching that video, I'm thinking about peach cobbler. Anali's First Amendment © 2006-2009. All rights reserved. This Post's Link ... More ...

Something tells me this is a bad sign. Help! Sent via BlackBerry by AT&THelp support my 2009 Boston Marathon Charity: Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary. Visit www.firstgiving.com/got2trotlibrarian to make a donation. ... More ...

Paging Rob Walker: I think I’ve found one of the most obscure, elaborate viral ads ever. It’s the slickly-produced website advertising something called the Pomegranate Phone, an impossibly sophisticated, impossibly small, do-it-all mobile device. Each of the various features of the device come with a dramatic video illustration of how they’re used - phone GPS, web browser, automatic voice translator, coffeemaker, shaver, harmonica… Of course it’s not real. The site... More ...

I think it will come as no surprise that I'm pretty much preoccupied with the Israel/Gaza war. It's pretty much all I think about and I've spent a lot of time finding new blogs, as well as reading my stalwart favorites, that are just as focused as I am. So I'm giving you some links to check out. These links are pro-Israel. I'm not going to try and lie and say that I'd present any anti-Israel ... More ...

By David Scott Boston Sports Media Watch Shots is heading back into the Seaside Shanty’s Sabbatical Seclusion room, but before we do we wanted to pass along further explanation of NESN’s end of game disaster with Boston College’s huge upset of previously-No. 1 and undefeated North Carolina on Sunday night. FOX SportsNet’s Director of Corporate Communications, Chris Bellitti, had been looking into the matter at the request of Shots since Monday afternoon and on Tuesday jus... More ...

There will be a short film about Metro Pedal Power made by a Harvard Grad student being screened TONIGHT. For those of you not in the know, Metro Pedal Power is the new name (to go with the new ownership) of the New Amsterdam Project. They are the really cool people who deliver stuff in those massive and awesome cargo bikes. The screening will be at the Carpenter Center (Harvard Film Archive bldg on Quincy st in Cambridge) at 7pm along with other student film shorts. should be fun. 7pm tonight... More ...

The economy may be in terrible shape and cultural groups taking it in the shorts everywhere - just scroll down to see - but I'd still suggest you get your tickets early for "If I Loved You - A Reprise" at Sculler's Feb. 11 at 8. Local cabaret stalwarts Bobbi Carrey and Will McMillan sold out the original performances five years ago, and they are updating for the times. "We've been fascinated by how songs can take on different layers of meaning as time goes by,&quo... More ...

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I can't decide if the subhed should be "Kids, let's put on a show!" or "They shoot non-profits, don't they?" But the struggling-to-survive North Shore Music Theatre in Beverly will benefit from three cabaret performances this week by the young cast of "High School Musical 2." Wednesday at 9:45 and Saturday at 10:15 the cast will hit Overtures restaurant at the theater, after their regular "HSM2" duties, to perform Broadway standards and po... More ...