Archive for May, 2008



Bicycle Safety

God bless America’s secularized public school system for teaching generations of students the proper habits of good citizenship, public safety and personal hygiene. But don’t count out the scores of church schools who had their heavy hands in the game as well. Sure, they had a lock on the materials devoted strictly to religious instruction, [...]

Sure, here at Bostworld, we’re all about the fetish objects — the scrapbook items, the out-of-print vinyl, the odd junk found in the back of the closet. This is the very meat of our little weekly visits. But (for me, anyway) these things are nothing without the accompanying line or two of snarky commentary. [...]

I’ll buy just about any album with Michael Lloyd’s name on it. I first grew to love his work via his productions for the Osmond family and other 70s teen idols like Leif Garrett and Shawn Cassidy. But his credits appear on dozens and dozens of album from the period. Like other great producers of [...]

Downtown Encroaches

What kind of developer are you? When you encounter that dilapidated old wooden hovel on an otherwise empty lot, do you think “MacDonalds!!” or do the wheels inside your head begin to spin with all the ways you could retrofit it into a popular night spot, replete with hot fusion cuisine and perhaps a deejay [...]