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| 3 | ->''"Down by the river, down by the banks of the River Charles (aww that's where it's happening baby)''\ |
| 4 | ''That's where ye'll find me, along with the lovers, muggers, and thieves (aww, but they're cool people really)''\ |
| 5 | ''Oh I love that dirty water, oh, Boston, you're my home"'' |
| 6 | -->-- "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVVCOjr8fQc Dirty Water]]" by '''The Standells'''[[note]]{{Iron|y}}ically, The Standells were actually from UsefulNotes/LosAngeles. This however has become an anthem for certain Boston bands, covered particularly in the punk scene[[/note]] |
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| 8 | Boston is the largest city in UsefulNotes/{{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. |
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| 10 | Boston played a critical, perhaps the key, role in getting UsefulNotes/TheAmericanRevolution off the ground. Boston spent the better part of a decade forming mobs against British authorities, first to protest various taxes, then to protest the presence of British forces sent to enforce said taxes (the Boston Massacre, Boston Tea Party, etc.), eventually culminating in the forming of militias and the start of all-out warfare before any of the other colonies had signed on to the whole "independence" thing. (The city is still littered with memorials and tourist attractions based around the colonial/Revolution era to this day.) After independence, Boston was the third-largest city in the new nation and remained one of the biggest for the next two centuries. Today, it ranks #21 in population among American cities, though that's a bit misleading--its metro area is #11. |
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| 12 | Boston is infamous for [[DrivesLikeCrazy aggressive drivers]] and a multitude of twisty one-way streets that make no sense in navigating (see [[https://i.imgur.com/KSKInZ7.jpg here]]), as well as numerous low-clearance bridges that are so frequently struck by trucks that "Storrowing" (after Storrow Drive, the most notorious of them) is a well-known colloquialism to refer to the act of hitting one[[note]]It's such a pervasive issue that Waze will tell drivers who are on roads with low bridges that if they are driving a box truck, they cannot go down that road and need to find another route, while rental truck fleet employees in Greater Boston will usually tell customers who are new to the area to avoid certain roads, and variable-message signs in the city will also display messages to that effect on August 31 and September 1, which are traditionally major moving days[[/note]]. The first is less true than the second, although the difficulty of getting around does encourage aggressive driving. The irregular street patterns can be blamed in part on the fact that Boston was originally built on a multi-lobed peninsula, with land gradually reclaimed all around it: in the colonial era, the only way out by land was through what is now known as Washington Street (not to be confused with two other streets in outlying parts of Boston with the same name), and the Back Bay (one of the few neighborhoods designed around a rectangular street grid) wasn't filled in until the mid-19th century. (Charlestown and South Boston were likewise peninsulas, while East Boston was a group of islands.) "Interesting" road design notwithstanding, Boston's streets are still easier to navigate than London's. The third one often goes hand-in-hand with "Allston Christmas", another colloquialism referring to the abundance of free furniture and appliances placed out on the curb by people who are downsizing on major moving days (possibly with a complimentary bedbug and/or cockroach infestation - celebrate at your own peril). |
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| 14 | That said, Boston's city center is quite walkable and perhaps best enjoyed on foot or bike; downtown is really not that large and there are many wide tree-lined sidewalks. If you can walk across [[Ride/DisneyThemeParks EPCOT Center]], you can handle the Freedom Trail, the city's most popular walking tour. Just a warning though, you will probably want to visit in summer. Real Life New England winters aren't always as [[HollywoodWinter pretty as fiction depicts]], though there are mild years as well as bad ones. They also aggravate the driving problem by causing lots of potholes. Alternatively, if you want to avoid both the snow and the muggy summer heat, late spring or autumn would be your best bet. If you're trying to find parking in the winter and you head down a residential street, and you see a lawn chair sitting in an empty spot, ''do not touch it'', let alone park in that spot. You ''[[TemptingFate can]]'', but best-case scenario is having to pay Safelite $400 to come out and replace your windshield after Sully or Fitzy puts a cinderblock through it - worst-case scenario is having every single window smashed, your tires slashed, or your car illegally towed by someone's high school buddy who drives a tow truck and owes them a favor. |
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| 16 | [[UsefulNotes/TheT Public transportation mostly works]][[note]]It's officially called the MBTA, or Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. [[OlderThanTheyThink Believe it or not]], the "T" signs were inspired by the ones from the Stockholm Metro, which is called the ''Stockholms tunnelbana'', hence the letter T.[[/note]], but it's also very old and under a lot of debt (due to politics, mismanagement, etc.), so breakdowns occasionally happen. There is also the caveat that the last trains run at sometime between half past midnight and 1 am on weekdays, which is a problem because last call is at 2, though weekend hours go to 3 am. |
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| 18 | 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. And, whatever you do, never '''ever''' bring up [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Stuart_(murderer) Charles Stuart]]...) Boston is a devout sports city, with major and historic teams in all four major sports... sort of. [[UsefulNotes/MajorLeagueBaseball 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). |
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| 20 | 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 (part of which is, appropriately, called "heartbreak hill"). 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. |
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| 22 | 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 MGM Music Hall, Roadrunner, House of Blues, the Paradise, the Sinclair, and the Royale (for larger locations) and the Brighton Music Hall, the Middle East, Sammy's, 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 Fuming Mouth), and a small but dedicated hip-hop scene (namely Gang Starr, Ed O.G., 7L & Esoteric, Mr. Lif, and Slaine). |
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| 24 | Nicknamed "the Hub", as in "The Hub of the Universe", which gives you an idea what Bostonians think of their city. You can find a large metal plaque literally engraved with Hub of the Universe in Downtown Crossing, or at least you could. Currently fruit vendors' trucks cover it up.[[note]]There is also still visible a to-scale model of the solar system with the Museum of Science's planetarium as the sun, and Pluto at the end of the "D Riverside" line of the T.[[/note]] It is also sometimes called the hub of the New England road network, as anyone who's ever tried to plot the least [[BuffySpeak zigzaggy]] course between Providence, Rhode Island and Portland, Maine can attest.[[note]]Big Hint: take Route 495, which makes a wide loop around the city.[[/note]] Trying to figure out how to make the same trip by train is even more mind-bending, because the train tracks going northward begin at North Station, while the tracks going Everywhere Else begin/end at South Station, and the two sections of track ''don't physically meet'',[[note]]though there have been [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%E2%80%93South_Rail_Link plans to link the two stations]] currently in DevelopmentHell[[/note]] which means you're stuck using the T to get from one station to the other[[note]]North station is easy to find, at least. It's directly under the TD Garden (home to the [[UsefulNotes/NationalBasketballAssociation Celtics]] and [[UsefulNotes/NationalHockeyLeague Bruins]]). If you're trying to do this while there's a game on, good luck. If you're trying this while there's a ''playoff game'' on, you're either completely unhinged, or well on the way.[[/note]] |
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| 26 | In recent years, due to generous tax credits offered by the city and the state of Massachusetts after most of ''Film/TheDeparted'' was filmed in New York City, many more major-studio movies have been set and produced in and around Boston. These films have given rise to their own clichés, which Seth Meyers adroitly parodies in his 2016 fake trailer, ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLwbzGyC6t4 Boston Accents]]''. |
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| 28 | See also {{Southies}} and HollywoodNewEngland for more information. The latter is [[RealityIsUnrealistic more often than not]] averted in real life. |
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| 31 | |
| 32 | !!Notable Pop Culture Things From or Set in Boston |
| 33 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 34 | |
| 35 | [[folder: Advertising]] |
| 36 | * Your cousin...from Boston. Representing Sam Adams beer, and basically the embodiment of every negative stereotype of Boston. |
| 37 | [[/folder]] |
| 38 | |
| 39 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 40 | |
| 41 | * Post-''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'', this was Franchise/WonderWoman's stomping grounds for about seven or eight years, under the tenure of George Perez and William Messner-Loebs in ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987''. An incomplete discussion of how it stacks up to the real Boston can be found [[http://classiccomics.boards.net/thread/396/great-wonder-woman-readathon-crisis here]]. |
| 42 | * This is the birthplace of Marvel superheroine [[ComicBook/MsMarvel Carol Danvers]], currently known as Captain Marvel. |
| 43 | * ComicBook/{{Beast|MarvelComics}} 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). |
| 44 | [[/folder]] |
| 45 | |
| 46 | [[folder: Comic Strips]] |
| 47 | * ''ComicStrip/GetFuzzy'' takes place in Boston. |
| 48 | [[/folder]] |
| 49 | |
| 50 | [[folder: Film - Live-Action]] |
| 51 | * ''Film/TwentyOne'' had scenes filmed at Harvard Medical School and the Christian Science Center. MIT, where the main characters attend school, doesn't allow filming on campus, so Boston University stood in for it. |
| 52 | * ''Film/BlackMass'' |
| 53 | * ''Film/BlownAway'' |
| 54 | * ''Film/TheBoondockSaints'' |
| 55 | * ''Film/TheBostonians'' was, not surprisingly, filmed mostly in Boston and Harvard University. Some footage of an organist playing at length was filmed in England. A second segment featuring a pipe organ nearer to the end of the movie was filmed in Troy, NY, but the organ heard playing was actually the one in Mechanics Hall, Worcester. |
| 56 | * ''Film/TheDeparted'' |
| 57 | * ''Film/TheEqualizer'' |
| 58 | * ''Film/FeverPitch'': This was an Americanization of a British movie about [[UsefulNotes/AssociationFootball football]], which itself was a fictionalization of an autobiographical book relating to the Arsenal Football Club. |
| 59 | * The (largely unnecessary) modern-day BookEnds in the otherwise terrific ''Film/TheForbiddenKingdom'' are set in a wildly inaccurate version of Boston. Probably because they had a list of American cities with a sizable Chinese-American population, and Boston is where the dart landed. |
| 60 | * ''Film/TheFriendsOfEddieCoyle'' is an adaptation of [[Literature/TheFriendsOfEddieCoyle a novel]] written by a Boston lawyer and shot entirely in the city. |
| 61 | * ''Film/{{Glory}}'', as it deals with the historically accurate 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment. |
| 62 | * ''Film/{{Godmothered}}'' |
| 63 | * ''Film/GoneBabyGone'' |
| 64 | ** And also by Creator/BenAffleck, ''Film/TheTown''. |
| 65 | * ''Film/TheFirm'' opens with a montage of Boston; appropriate since the main character has just graduated from Harvard Law School. |
| 66 | * ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'': The climactic BehemothBattle between Godzilla, Ghidorah, Rodan and Mothra is taking place within the city, with many of its landmarks such as Fenway Park stadium and 200 Clarendon Street building are either damaged or destroyed during the battle. |
| 67 | * ''Film/GoodWillHunting'' |
| 68 | * ''Film/TheGreatDebaters'', starring Denzel Washington, was partly filmed at Harvard's Sanders Hall. |
| 69 | * ''Film/HocusPocus'' takes place in the infamous Boston suburb of Salem, fitting its witchcraft theme. |
| 70 | * ''Film/TheLastHurrah'' starring Spencer Tracy as Mayor Frank Skeffington, a fictionalized version of Mayor Curley. Though it takes place in 'a large New England town,' it was filmed in California. |
| 71 | * ''Film/LegallyBlonde'' takes place mostly at Harvard Law School in Cambridge and other parts of the Boston area. |
| 72 | * ''Film/MysticRiver'' |
| 73 | * Film/OneFlightDown was filmed in FilenesBasement in 1921. A documentary film, Film/VoicesFromTheBasement was also taped there in 2004, and aired on local PBS outlet WGBH in 2010. |
| 74 | * ''Film/PatriotsDay'' |
| 75 | * ''Film/ProudMary'' |
| 76 | * ''Film/{{RIPD}}'' |
| 77 | * ''Film/ShutterIsland'' was filmed in many towns neighboring Boston (including Taunton, Medford, and Nahant). Some of the island scenes were filmed on Peddocks Island, part of the Boston Harbor Island system, albeit with a healthy dose of CGI. |
| 78 | * ''Film/SixBridgesToCross'', which itself was based on a multi-million dollar robbery in Boston's North End (at the time, the greatest robbery in American history). |
| 79 | * Most of the action in ''Film/TheSocialNetwork'' takes place in and around Harvard University -- although the scenes in question were filmed at Johns Hopkins University in UsefulNotes/{{Baltimore}}. (Harvard has generally not allowed movies to film on-campus since ''Film/LoveStory'' in the 1970s.) |
| 80 | * ''Film/{{Spotlight}}'' |
| 81 | * ''Film/{{Surrogates}}'' is set in a near-future (but still very recognizable) Boston. |
| 82 | * ''Film/{{Ted}}'' |
| 83 | * ''Film/TheThomasCrownAffair1968'' |
| 84 | * ''Film/TheVerdict'' |
| 85 | * ''Theatre/TheWomen'' -- No, wait, that was ''filmed'' in Boston but took place in [[BigApplesauce New York]]. |
| 86 | ** Ditto ''Film/Ghostbusters2016'' |
| 87 | [[/folder]] |
| 88 | |
| 89 | [[folder: Literature]] |
| 90 | * The ''Literature/EvieScelan'' novels are set in Boston, with enough name drops that you could probably map the city from the narrative in ''Literature/SpiralHunt'' |
| 91 | * Creator/RobertBParker's Literature/{{Spenser}} and ''Literature/SunnyRandall'' novels are largely set in Boston, with many real life locations featured. |
| 92 | * Creator/DennisLehane (author of ''Literature/MysticRiver'' above) sets many of his works in and around Boston. ''Literature/TheGivenDay'' is historical fiction revolving around the Boston Police Strike in the 1910s and ''Literature/ShutterIsland'' also takes place on one of the Boston Harbor Islands. |
| 93 | * Creator/DavidFosterWallace's epic {{doorstopper}} ''Literature/InfiniteJest'' is mostly set in Metro Boston, and most of that is in the fictional suburb of Enfield (it's fairly obviously a FictionalCounterpart to Brighton). |
| 94 | ** There was a MA town called Enfield -- where the famous "sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" sermon was spoken in 1741, but it was in the Western part of the state on the Connecticut border, and later became part of Connecticut in 1749. Another Enfield was founded in 1816, but it was one of several town flooded to make the Quabbin Reservoir in 1938. Neither Enfield is within an hour's drive of Boston. |
| 95 | * The based-on-a-true-story courtroom drama about a cancer cluster in Woburn, MA, ''Literature/ACivilAction''. |
| 96 | * Creator/NealStephenson's ''Literature/{{Zodiac|1988}}'' |
| 97 | * Lovecraft's story ''Pickman's Model'' is set in the North End of Boston. |
| 98 | ** In fact, many of Creator/HPLovecraft's stories feature Boston, since it's the closest major city to LovecraftCountry. |
| 99 | * Charles Stross's ''Literature/TheMerchantPrincesSeries'' is set hereabouts (with an interdimensional mob headquartered in Belmont), as well as in an alternate Boston and an alternate New York. |
| 100 | * William Dean Howells' classic ''Literature/TheRiseOfSilasLapham'' is set in 19th century Boston. |
| 101 | * ''Literature/StrongMotion'' by Creator/JonathanFranzen is set in Boston and refers to several real institutions and locations. |
| 102 | * ''Literature/MakeWayForDucklings'' |
| 103 | * The backdrop for the YA UrbanFantasy series ''Literature/MagnusChaseAndTheGodsOfAsgard''. |
| 104 | [[/folder]] |
| 105 | |
| 106 | [[folder: Live-Action TV]] |
| 107 | * Most everything Creator/DavidEKelley had anything to do with, including: |
| 108 | ** ''Series/AllyMcBeal'' |
| 109 | ** ''Series/BostonPublic'' |
| 110 | ** ''Series/ThePractice'' |
| 111 | ** ''Series/BostonLegal'' |
| 112 | * ''Series/{{Cheers}}''. While the original ''Series/{{Frasier}}'', a spinoff featuring the title character of Frasier Crane, would see Frasier move to UsefulNotes/{{Seattle}}, [[Series/Frasier2023 the revival]] would see him return to Boston. |
| 113 | * ''Series/CityOnAHill'' |
| 114 | * ''Series/CrossingJordan'' |
| 115 | * ''WesternAnimation/FetchWithRuffRuffman'' |
| 116 | * ''Series/{{Fringe}}'' |
| 117 | * ''Series/BeingHumanUS'' is set in Boston, but filmed in Montreal...and it shows. Or rather, ''doesn't'' show; Montreal looks ''nothing'' like Boston. |
| 118 | * 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. |
| 119 | * ''Series/PhantomGourmet'' a foodie show featuring Dan and Dave Andelman, and highlighting restaurants throughout the New England region (but most an hour or so drive from Boston.) |
| 120 | * ''Series/PowerRangersRPM'' takes place in a Boston (maybe, [[WhereTheHellIsSpringfield the hints given are inconsistent]]) rechristened as "Corinth", the last remaining city in a post-apocalyptic world. However, it suffers from [[CaliforniaDoubling New Zealand Doubling]]. |
| 121 | * ''Series/RizzoliAndIsles'', the rather obvious CaliforniaDoubling in which makes it something of a target for scorn in Boston. |
| 122 | * ''Series/StElsewhere'' |
| 123 | * ''Series/SpenserForHire'' |
| 124 | * Soap opera ''Series/DaysOfOurLives'''s Salem was originally explicitly set in the infamous [[LovecraftCountry suburb north of Boston]]; however, given the extreme flakiness of the setting, the only thing it has in common with Salem, MA now is that the TV Salem is predominantly Catholic like much of southern New England. |
| 125 | * So far, three reality shows: ''Boston Medical'' and ''Boston EMS'', which are ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin, and the inevitable ''Series/TheRealWorld'' season. |
| 126 | * We would be remiss not to mention the Jimmy the Cabdriver interstitials that ran on Creator/{{MTV}} in 1994. He was almost copied wholecloth by the current Olympia Sports ad campaign. |
| 127 | * ''Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody'' |
| 128 | * ''Series/ThirtyRock'' is set in [[BigApplesauce New York]], but Jack Donaghy is proudly Boston Irish. He often gets into city-pride matches with his [[UsefulNotes/{{Philadelphia}} Philadelphian]] subordinate Liz Lemon. |
| 129 | ** The episode "Winter Madness" is set in Boston on account of Jack's [[ExecutiveMeddling desire to see Nancy Donovan]]. This annoys Liz and Pete, who had proposed a road episode as an excuse to take the cast and crew to Miami. |
| 130 | * ''ThisIsARobbery,'' a Netflix docuseries about the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum art heist in 1990. |
| 131 | * ''Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place'' (or more commonly "Two Guys and a Girl"). |
| 132 | [[/folder]] |
| 133 | |
| 134 | [[folder: Magazines]] |
| 135 | * The ''Annals of Improbable Research'' are published in Cambridge. One of their classic articles, [[http://www.improbable.com/airchives/classical/articles/peanut_butter_rotation.html "The Effects of Peanut Butter on the Rotation of the Earth,"]] contains an excessive number of Bostonian in-jokes. |
| 136 | [[/folder]] |
| 137 | |
| 138 | [[folder: Music]] |
| 139 | * 7L & Esoteric |
| 140 | * Abiotic (originally from Florida, and Matt Mendez still lives there, but John Matos and Kilian Duarte live in Greater Boston, while Anthony Lusk-Simone lives less than an hour away in Fitchburg and owns a studio there; like Job for a Cowboy, they have essentially become a transplant to New England) |
| 141 | * Music/{{Abnormality}} (from Marlborough, but everyone accepts them as a Boston band) |
| 142 | * Music/{{Aerosmith}} (still known today as "the Bad Boys from Boston") |
| 143 | * All Pigs Must Die |
| 144 | * Music/AnalCunt (from Allston, which is a Boston neighborhood) |
| 145 | * Music/{{Arsis}} (technically from Virginia, but James Malone and Mike van Dyne are Berklee alumni and formed the band while on Christmas vacation, and a lot of their early shows were in the Boston area) |
| 146 | * Bane (technically from Worcester, but no one in the Boston hardcore scene really cares) |
| 147 | * Big Shug |
| 148 | * Blood for Blood |
| 149 | * Music/{{Boston}} (natch) |
| 150 | * Music/TheCars (technically started by two guys from UsefulNotes/{{Cleveland}}, but embraced as Boston's own) |
| 151 | * Music/{{Converge}} (Salem, but got famous in Boston) |
| 152 | * Death Ray Vision (also see Overcast; the members are scattered throughout Mass, but they are generally considered a Boston band) |
| 153 | * Music/DonnaSummer |
| 154 | * Music/DreamTheater (formed in Boston when Petrucci, Myung, and Portnoy were all attending Berklee, and Mike Mangini was a longtime faculty member at Berklee) |
| 155 | * Music/DropkickMurphys - founded in nearby Quincy, perform in Boston each St. Patrick's Day; parts of the 2002 and 2010 concerts were released as live albums. |
| 156 | ** They have also performed on floats in the victory parades of all the Boston-based sports teams (the Patriots, Bruins, Celtics, and Red Sox). |
| 157 | * Dysentery (Waltham) |
| 158 | * Ed O.G. |
| 159 | * Music/{{Extreme}} (Malden) |
| 160 | * Gang Green |
| 161 | * [[Music/{{Gangstarr}} Gang Starr]] |
| 162 | * Great American Ghost |
| 163 | * Grief |
| 164 | * Have Heart wrote a song about the city, called 'Bostons'. They're from New Bedford (and played their reunion shows in Worcester, which we will talk about in a minute), but they're considered part of the Boston hardcore scene, and rather famously played the ''biggest hardcore show '''of all time''''' when they managed to draw over ten thousand people in one day to just one of their two reunion shows in 2019. |
| 165 | * Hivesmasher (Lowell) |
| 166 | * Jerry's Kids (Braintree) |
| 167 | * Kreators |
| 168 | * Music/LemonDemon (creator Creator/NeilCicierega grew up in Plymouth, but currently lives in Somerville) |
| 169 | * Mr. Lif |
| 170 | * Music/NewKidsOnTheBlock |
| 171 | * Only Living Witness |
| 172 | * [[Music/AmandaPalmer The Dresden Dolls]] |
| 173 | * Parasitic Extirpation (Originally based mostly out of New Hampshire, now based out of Woburn) |
| 174 | * Music/ThePixies |
| 175 | * Ska-punk bands Music/TheMightyMightyBosstones and the Allstonians |
| 176 | * Music/DinosaurJr (actually from Amherst, but moved to Boston when their career began) |
| 177 | * Augustana isn't from Boston, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLluvXi5nOs but they wrote a song about going there to start a new life.]] |
| 178 | ** If they count, then, for great justice, so do the Standells. They love "da rivuh Chawlz" after all. |
| 179 | * Music/TheJGeilsBand |
| 180 | * James Taylor |
| 181 | * Music/JimsBigEgo. They even have a song about it called "Boston Band", a commentary on the Boston music scene in general. |
| 182 | * Music/MissionOfBurma |
| 183 | * Music/{{Morphine}} (Cambridge) |
| 184 | * Music/NewEdition |
| 185 | * Overcast (also see Death Ray Vision, their SpiritualSuccessor) |
| 186 | * Pathogenic (Lowell) |
| 187 | * Music/PassionPit (also Berklee alumni) |
| 188 | * Music/Powerman5000 ([[Music/RobZombie Spider's family is from Haverhill]]) |
| 189 | * Ramming Speed (now based out of Richmond, VA) |
| 190 | * Razormaze (now based out of Austin, TX) |
| 191 | * Music/TheRedChord (Revere, later based out of New Hampshire) |
| 192 | * Music/{{Revocation}} (Dave Davidson is a Berklee alumnus and was born and raised there, but currently lives in Brooklyn) |
| 193 | * Sam Black Church |
| 194 | * Scalpel (Attleboro) |
| 195 | * Scaphism |
| 196 | * Music/{{Sexcrement}} (Framingham) |
| 197 | * Siege (Weymouth) |
| 198 | * Slaine |
| 199 | * Slapshot |
| 200 | * Soul Remnants (Littleton) |
| 201 | * Special Teamz (consists of Ed O.G., Slaine, and Jaysaun of Kreators) |
| 202 | * Billy Squier (yet another Berklee alumnus) |
| 203 | * Music/DonnaSummer was born and raised in Boston. |
| 204 | * Music/TheyMightBeGiants - Founding members John Flansburgh and John Linnell are both originally from nearby Lincoln, and they still occasionally lapse into the accent (for example, "A Self Called Nowhere" and "Wicked Little Critta"). |
| 205 | * TilTuesday -- As a matter of fact, the video for "Voices Carry" was filmed in the Strand Theater in Dorchester, one of the many Boston neighborhoods |
| 206 | * Music/{{Unearth}} (Wakefield) |
| 207 | * Vanna |
| 208 | * Vein |
| 209 | * Wargasm |
| 210 | * Music/AWarmPuppy -- Psychedelic band from the 1960s |
| 211 | [[/folder]] |
| 212 | |
| 213 | [[folder: Professional Wrestling]] |
| 214 | * Wrestling/SashaBanks was born in Fairfield, California and has lived in UsefulNotes/{{Minnesota}} for a while, but she's raised mainly (and is mostly billed from) Boston. |
| 215 | * Wrestling/MikeBennett was born in Carver, but moved to, lives in and is currently billed from Boston since then. |
| 216 | * Wrestling/JohnCena is from West Newbury, 34 miles north. |
| 217 | * Wrestling/TommasoCiampa |
| 218 | * Wrestling/EddieEdwards |
| 219 | * Wrestling/KofiKingston was born in Ghana and was eventually[[note]]He was infamously a [[FakeNationality Fake Jamaican]] for a few years[[/note]] billed from there, but he actually lives in Boston when his family immigrated in the US. |
| 220 | * Wrestling/PerrySaturn. Born in UsefulNotes/{{Cleveland}}, started his career in Boston and was billed from there. |
| 221 | * Wrestling/KevinSullivan |
| 222 | * 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 his billed place as well. |
| 223 | * Wrestling/EveTorres, though she was raised in, and billed from, UsefulNotes/{{Denver}}. |
| 224 | [[/folder]] |
| 225 | |
| 226 | [[folder: Radio]] |
| 227 | * NPR's ''Radio/CarTalk'', one of the rare RealLife(ish) items that does ''not'' avert HahvahdYahdInMyCah. This is especially funny, given that their studio is right near Harvard! And is about cars! (The Magliozzi brothers are actually MIT grads.) |
| 228 | [[/folder]] |
| 229 | |
| 230 | [[folder: Tabletop Games]] |
| 231 | * ''TabletopGame/MageTheAwakening'' uses Boston (and the rest of Massachusetts) as a sample city for gameplay, complete with a strong historical power base in Salem, some horrible things happening up in the abandoned Danvers asylum, and a small cabal that watches over Northampton and is keen to do their own thing. |
| 232 | [[/folder]] |
| 233 | |
| 234 | [[folder: Theatre]] |
| 235 | * ''Theatre/HackPuntTool'' is a play set at MIT, written by MIT students. |
| 236 | [[/folder]] |
| 237 | |
| 238 | [[folder: Video Games]] |
| 239 | * ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIII'' has a large section set in American Revolution-era Boston. |
| 240 | * ''VideoGame/TonyHawksUnderground 2'' has Boston as the first stop on the World Destruction Tour. |
| 241 | * ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 4}}'' takes place in Boston, showcasing notable landmarks such as Fenway Park, the Bunker Hill Memorial and State House in their [[RagnarokProofing post-apocalyptic splendor]]. It's also sports a noticeable amount of (mostly) intact sky-scrapers due to the fact that the one bomb that was ''suppose'' to hit it flew off course. |
| 242 | * ''VideoGame/TheLastOfUs''[='=] second chapter takes place in Boston, and is especially notable for taking a path through the city that's logical on foot. |
| 243 | [[/folder]] |
| 244 | |
| 245 | [[folder: Webcomics]] |
| 246 | * The 21st-century parts of ''Webcomic/TheDreamer'' are in Boston. |
| 247 | [[/folder]] |
| 248 | |
| 249 | [[folder: Western Animation]] |
| 250 | * ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'' is worth a mention here. Though the series itself is set in New Jersey and has nothing to do with Boston, it's notorious for being indirectly involved in a RealLife bomb scare in the city with a bizarre ad campaign. Said campaign involved planting Lite-Brites bearing the image of the Mooninintes in odd places in major cities--one of these was spotted under a highway overpass in Boston and mistaken for a bomb. Said bomb scare is '''[[BerserkButton not]]''' to be confused with the ''actual'' Boston Marathon bombing that occurred in 2013. |
| 251 | * ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'': In "Tale Of The Demon Tail", the portal of Hsi Wu, the Sky Demon, was discovered at Fenway Park. |
| 252 | * ''WesternAnimation/UltimateSpiderMan2012'': 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. |
| 253 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Underdog}}'': While not having the original series take place in Boston (the live-action movie was filmed in Providence, RI, though), a one-off radio adaption in 1999 (produced by co-creator W. Watts Biggers, helping to promote his "Victory over Violence" campaign, with Tom Ellis, longtime Boston newscaster narrating) had Simon Bar Sinister develop a new "Switchpitch" baseball to turn positive people negative and become king of Boston; his plans are foiled as usual by Underdog and Sweet Polly Purebred. |
| 254 | [[/folder]] |
| 255 | |
| 256 | [[folder: Famous Bostonians]] |
| 257 | * Creator/UzoAduba |
| 258 | * Creator/BenAffleck |
| 259 | * Creator/CaseyAffleck |
| 260 | * Creator/MichaelBeach |
| 261 | * Creator/RayBolger |
| 262 | * Creator/BillBurr |
| 263 | * Creator/LouisCK |
| 264 | * Creator/SteveCarell |
| 265 | * Creator/JohnCazale |
| 266 | * Creator/NeilCicierega |
| 267 | * Creator/MishaCollins |
| 268 | * Creator/JenniferCoolidge |
| 269 | * Creator/JaneCurtin |
| 270 | * Creator/MattDamon |
| 271 | * Creator/BetteDavis |
| 272 | * Creator/GeenaDavis |
| 273 | * Creator/ElizaDushku |
| 274 | * Creator/AyoEdebiri |
| 275 | * Creator/ChrisEvans |
| 276 | * Creator/ClarkGregg |
| 277 | * Creator/DianeGuerrero |
| 278 | * Creator/AnthonyMichaelHall |
| 279 | * Creator/MadelineKahn |
| 280 | * Creator/MindyKaling |
| 281 | * UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy was born in Brookline, a suburb of Boston, and attended schools in Boston. |
| 282 | * Creator/MattLeblanc |
| 283 | * Creator/JohnKrasinski |
| 284 | * Creator/JackLemmon |
| 285 | * Creator/JayLeno |
| 286 | * Creator/LeonardNimoy |
| 287 | * Creator/EdwardNorton |
| 288 | * Creator/ConanOBrien was born and raised in Brookline, a suburb of Boston. |
| 289 | * Creator/JohnPinette |
| 290 | * Creator/AmyPoehler |
| 291 | * Creator/EllenPompeo |
| 292 | * Creator/EliRoth was born and raised in Newton, directly adjacent to Boston. |
| 293 | * Creator/TaylorSchilling |
| 294 | * Creator/JamesSpader |
| 295 | * Creator/MarkWahlberg |
| 296 | * Creator/BillyWest |
| 297 | * Creator/BrianWhite |
| 298 | * UsefulNotes/MalcolmX spent his formative teenage years in Boston, during which time he converted to Islam. |
| 299 | * Creator/DonnieYen (born in Mainland China but spent some of his formative years in Boston) |
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