39,327
edits
Boston (useful notes): Difference between revisions
m
Mass update links
m (Mass update links) |
m (Mass update links) |
||
Line 33:
* ''[[Boondock Saints]]''
* ''[[Gone Baby Gone]]''
** And also by [[Ben Affleck]], ''[[
* ''[[Good Will Hunting]]''
* ''[[Mystic River]]''
Line 50:
** 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.
* ''[[
== [[Live Action Television]] ==
Line 64:
* ''[[Cheers]]''
* ''[[Crossing Jordan]]''
* ''[[Fetch!
* ''[[Fringe]]''
* ''[[St Elsewhere]]''
Line 70:
* 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.
Line 77:
== 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 (
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
Line 106:
== Western Animation ==
* ''[[
{{reflist}}
| |||