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{{Useful Notes}}
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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]], [[Philadelphia (useful notes)|Philadelphia]], and [[Washington DC]], it is one of the four major cities of the northeastern United States.
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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* 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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* 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.
* ''[[Strong Motion]]'' by [[Jonathan Franzen]] is set in Boston and refers to several real institutions and locations.
* 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! with Ruff Ruffman]]''
* ''[[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.
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* ''[[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]] ==
* [[Aerosmith]]
* [[Anal Cunt]] (from Allston, which is a Boston neighborhood)
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* [[They Might Be Giants (band)|They Might Be Giants]] - 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").
== [[
* ''[[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!
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▲* ''[[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]] ==
* ''[[Aqua Teen Hunger Force]]'' 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 [[Real Life]] bomb scare in the city with a bizarre ad campaign. Said campaign involved planting Lite-Brites bearing the image of a Mooninite in odd places in major cities--one of these was spotted under a highway overpass in Boston and mistaken for a bomb.
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