History UsefulNotes / Boston

* Creator/SteveCarrell

* Creator/NeilCicierga

* Creator/FredAllen

* ''Film/TheVerdict''.

* Film/TheGreatDebaters, starring Denzel Washington, was partly filmed at Harvard's Sanders Hall.

* ''Film/{{Ted}}''.

Boston is the largest city in Massachusetts and New England, the capital city of Massachusetts, and one of the oldest cities in North America, having been founded by John Winthrop in 1630. Along with UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity, UsefulNotes/{{Philadelphia}}, UsefulNotes/{{Baltimore}}, and UsefulNotes/WashingtonDC, it is one of the five major cities of the Northeastern United States. Ironically, named in honour of a bucolic country town in Lincolnshire, England, which has long been outstripped by its far more famous colony in terms of size, familiarity, and global importance. Boston, England, now only appears on TV (regularly) in "cops-with-cameras" shows as an example of English lawlessness and bad driving.

* Wrestling/MattTaven. Born in Derry, New Hampshire, and started his wrestling career in Boston. At one point, he was billed from Los Angeles, UsefulNotes/{{California}} in his early ROH and independent circuit years before going with his real-life residence as well.

* Wrestling/MikeBennett was born in Carver, but moved to Boston, lives there and is currently billed from since then.

* Wrestling/MattTaven. Born in Derry, New Hampshire, and started his wrestling career in Boston. At one point, he was billed from Los Angeles, UsefulNotes/{{Califorina}} in his early ROH and independent circuit years before going with his real-life residence as well.

* Wrestling/MikeBennett was born in Carver, but moved to Boston and lives there since then.

* Wrestling/MattTaven. Born in Derry, New Hampshire, and started his wrestling career in Boston. At one point, he was billed from Los Angeles, Califorina in his early ROH years before going with his real-life residence as well.

Another item of note is that Boston contains more colleges and universities than any other city in the world, and even more if you include Cambridge, its neighbor on the other side of the Charles River and the oldest college town in the United States, home to both Harvard University and MIT. Word to the wise: do NOT mix up Boston University and Boston College. [[BerserkButton It will not end well]].[[note]]For a start, BU is Episcopalian and BC is Catholic. The list of differences and sore points goes trundling on from there. About the only connection between BU and BC is Commonwealth Avenue.[[/note]] Also note that those colleges include the Berklee College of Music and the New England Conservatory; as a result Boston has a disproportionate number of musicians with a connection to the city across a surprising number of genres. It is also home to a wide variety of world-famous live music venues, namely the Paradise, the Sinclair, the Royale, the Brighton Music Hall, and the Middle East (for larger locations) and P.A.'s Lounge, Great Scott, ONCE, and O'Brien's (for smaller locations). Musically, its calling cards include indie rock, street punk (famously shown by the Dropkick Murphys, but the Street Dogs, the Ducky Boys, and the ska-punk Mighty Mighty Bosstones definitely represent Boston), post-punk, and new wave (namely The Cars, Pixies, Mission of Burma, and Galaxie 500), hardcore (namely Slapshot, Sam Black Church, Converge, Overcast, and Vein), and a small but dedicated hip-hop scene (namely Gang Starr, Ed O.G., 7L & Esoteric, Mr. Lif, and Slaine).

* Creator/NealStephenson's ''Literature/{{Zodiac}}''

* ''WesternAnimation/UltimateSpiderMan'': Spider-Man moves to Boston and becomes its premier superhero, when he has enough of New York chasing him when Jameson offered $10 million to whoever can unmask him.

* Creator/DonnaSummer

* President JohnFKennedy was born in Brookline, a suburb of Boston, and attended schools in Boston.
* MartinLutherKingJr. attended college at Boston University.

* Creator/MalcolmX spent his formative teenage years in Boston, during which time he converted to Islam.

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* ''Theatre/HackPuntTool'' is a play set at MIT, written by MIT students.

* ''Film/TheLastHurrah'' starring Spencer Tracy as Mayor Frank Skeffington, a fictionalized version of Mayor Curley. Though it takes place in 'a large New England toen,' it was filmed in California.

* ComicBook/{{Beast}} has taken to living in the Boston area as a lecturer at Harvard, and notably sang the praises of Veggie Galaxy (which [[https://www.veggiegalaxy.com/ is very much a real place]], and is a revered Cambridge institution among vegetarians and vegans).

Outside of the professional sports-team rivalries, Boston is still noteworthy in sport, for hosting the oldest annually raced marathon '''on Earth''', the notorious 26.3-mile Boston Marathon. Why notorious? In a word, '''topography'''. Although the race is generally downhill, the point at which most runners are just about to "hit the wall" (run out of stamina) is right at the start of a ''long'' uphill stretch. This is quite possibly the origin of the phrase "Boston Strong", a phrase which gained new meaning after the 2013 bombing near the finish line.

* ''Series/FetchWithRuffRuffman''

* The picture book ''Make Way for Ducklings'' by Robert [=McCloskey=].

Speaking of locals, [[{{Southies}} Hollywood depictions to the contrary]], they are generally very nice people. Just remember [[ArchEnemy not to bring up]] the UsefulNotes/{{New York|City}} Yankees, the UsefulNotes/LosAngeles Lakers, the UsefulNotes/{{Montreal}} Canadiens, the UsefulNotes/{{Detroit}} Red Wings and Pistons, or UsefulNotes/LeBronJames. Otherwise, thou shalt know the true meaning of SeriousBusiness. (It's also [[BerserkButton not advisable]] to talk about paahking one's caah in Haahvahd Yaahd, let alone actually try to park there, which is a good way to get arrested or at least towed.) Boston is a devout sports city, with major and historic teams in all four major sports... sort of. [[UsefulNotes/MLBTeams The Red Sox]] were a strong team in the early 20th century (including winning the first World Series), went through an 86-year championship drought, and rose to become a dominant team in the early 21st century. [[UsefulNotes/NationalBasketballAssociation The Celtics]] are tied for the most titles in NBA history, most coming from a truly absurd ''eight-year championship streak'' in the '60s. [[UsefulNotes/NationalHockeyLeague The Bruins]] are the oldest American hockey team and are consistent contenders. Finally, [[UsefulNotes/NationalFootballLeague the Patriots]] started out in the city before moving to Foxborough, which is ''slightly'' closer to Providence than Boston, and the team represents the New England area as a whole (not that it stops Bostonites from claiming all of the team's Super Bowl wins).

* ''Series/PowerRangersRPM'' takes place in a Boston rechristened as "Corinth", the last remaining city in a post-apocalyptic world. However, it suffers from [[CaliforniaDoubling New Zealand Doubling]].

* ''Series/RizzoliAndIsles'', the rather obvious CaliforniaDoubling in which makes it something of a target for scorn in Boston.
* For a while, ''Series/{{Leverage}}'' was not only set in Boston, but the city was the team's headquarters. However, the filming location, and later the setting itself, moved to UsefulNotes/{{Portland}}, OR.

* ''Series/BeingHumanUS'' is set in Boston, but filmed in Montreal...and it shows. Or rather, ''doesn't'' show; Montreal looks ''nothing'' like Boston.
* ''Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody''