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{{quote|''"Down by the river, down by the banks of the River Charles (aww that's where it's happening baby)''
''That's where ye'll find me, along with the lovers, muggers and thieves (aww, but they're cool people really)''
''Oh I love that dirty water, oh, Boston, you're my home"''
|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}SVVCOjr8fQc Dirty Water]'' by The Standells<ref>Ironically enough, The Standells were actually from [[Los Angeles]].</ref>}}
'''Boston''' is the largest city in Massachusetts and New England, the capital city of MA, and one of the oldest cities in North America. Along with [[New York City]], [[
Infamous for [[Drives Like Crazy|aggressive drivers]], but you can't blame us really as the streets are [[The Maze|currently a mess]]. You see, the "Big Dig" ''really'' seemed like a great idea at the time ("We'll swap all those ugly overpasses out for underground tunnels where we won't have to look at them! And where the overpasses were, we will plant trees and have big parks for the kids!")
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 [[Disney Theme Parks|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 [[Hollywood Winter|pretty as fiction depicts]].
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Expect to see more of Boston and suburbs in the years to come. Massachusetts has been aggressively courting filmmakers for years, which has paid off big time in the last five years or so under governors Romney and Patrick. We confidently expect the "Hollywood East" (officially, Plymouth Rock) movie studio to open any decade now.
Nicknamed "the Hub", as in "the hub of the universe", which gives you an idea what Bostonians think of <s> themselves</s> their city; or "the hub of the New England road network", which anyone who's ever tried to plot the least [[Buffy-Speak|zigzag-y]] course between Burlington, Vermont and Portland, Maine will attest to.
See also [[Southies]] and [[Hollywood New England]] for more information. The latter is [[Reality Is Unrealistic|more often than not]] averted in real life.
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== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[The Departed]]''
* ''[[Fever Pitch]]''
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* ''[[Boondock Saints]]''
* ''[[Gone Baby Gone]]''
** And also by [[Ben Affleck]], ''[[
* ''[[Good Will Hunting]]''
* ''[[Mystic River]]''
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* Most of the action in ''[[The Social Network]]'' takes place in and around Harvard University -- although many of the scenes in question were filmed at another school.
== [[Literature]] ==
* The [[Evie Scelan]] novels are set in Boston, with enough name drops that you could probably map the city from the narrative in ''[[Spiral Hunt]]''
* Robert B. Parker's [[Spenser]] and [[Sunny Randall]] novels are largely set in Boston, with many real life locations featured.
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** There was a MA town called Enfield, but it was in the Western part of the state. It was one of several town flooded to make the Quabbin Resevoir. There is also an Enfield in Connecticut, but that one is not particularly near Boston either.
* The based-on-a-true-story courtroom drama about a cancer cluster in Woburn, MA, ''[[A Civil Action]]''.
* [[Neal Stephenson]]'s ''[[Zodiac (
* {{spoiler|The fantastic city of Kadath Randolph Carter dreams about in ''[[The Dream Quest Of Unknown Kadath]]'' is actually Boston.}}
* Lovecraft's story ''Pickman's Model'' is set in the North End of Boston.
* Charles Stross's ''[[The Merchant Princes Series|Merchant Princes]]'' series is set hereabouts (with an interdimensional mob headquartered in Belmont), as well as in an alternate Boston and an alternate New York.
* William Dean Howells' classic ''[[The Rise Of Silas Lapham]]'' is set in 19th century Boston.
* ''[[
* The second half of ''The Fortune of War'', sixth of the [[Aubrey-Maturin]] series, is set in Boston during the War of 1812.
== [[Live
* Most everything David E. Kelly had anything to do with, including:
** ''[[Ally McBeal]]''
** ''[[Boston Public]]''
** ''[[Boston Legal]]''
* ''[[Cheers]]''
* ''[[Crossing Jordan]]''
* ''[[Fetch!
* ''[[Fringe]]''
* ''[[St. Elsewhere]]''
* ''[[Spenser For Hire]]''
* Soap opera ''[[Days of Our Lives]]'''s Salem was originally explicitly set in the infamous [[Lovecraft Country|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.
* ''[[Power Rangers RPM]]'' takes place in a Boston rechristened as "Corinth", the last remaining city in a post-apocalyptic world. However, it suffers from [[California Doubling|New Zealand Doubling]].
* So far, two reality shows: "Boston Medical", which is [[Exactly What It Says
* We would be remiss not to mention the Jimmy the Cabdriver interstitials that ran on [[MTV]] in 1994.
** He was almost copied wholecloth by the current Olympia Sports ad campaign.
* ''[[Rizzoli and Isles]]''
* ''[[Leverage]]'' isn't only set in Boston, but it's where the team is based.
* Boston's [[PBS|WGBH-TV]] is the largest producer of original programming for the [[PBS|Public Broadcasting Service]], the national non-commercial educational network.
** Many of the properties renovated on the home improvement show ''[[This Old House]]'' are in Boston, because of the show's former ties to WGBH.
== [[Music]] ==
* [[
* [[Anal Cunt]] (from Allston, which is a Boston neighborhood)
* [[Boston (
* [[
* [[Dropkick Murphys]] - founded in nearby Quincy, perform in Boston each St. Patrick's Day; parts of the 2002 and 2010 concerts were released as live albums.
* [[New Kids
* [[The Dresden Dolls]]
* [[The Pixies]]
* Famous hardcore band [[Gang Green]]
* Ska-punk bands [[The Mighty Mighty Bosstones]] and the Allstonians
* [[Dinosaur Jr.]] (actually from Amherst, but moved to Boston when their career began)
* Augustana isn't from Boston, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLluvXi5nOs but they wrote a song about going there to start a new life.]
** If they count, then, for great justice, so do the Standells. They love "da rivuh Chawlz" after all.
* [[The J. Geils Band]]
* [[James Taylor]]
* [[Mission of Burma]]
* [[New Edition]]
* [[They Might Be Giants (
== [[
* ''[[Mage: The Awakening]]'' 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. ▼
* NPR's ''[[Car Talk]]'', one of the rare [[Real Life]](ish) items that does ''not'' avert [[Hahvahd Yahd in My Cah]]. This is especially funny, given that their studio is right near Harvard!
==
▲* ''[[Mage: The Awakening]]'' 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.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* The 21st-century parts of ''[[The Dreamer]]'' are in Boston.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[
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