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Good Will Hunting – The Southie Factor
Good Will Hunting put us on the map. South Boston was always an under-the-radar, sometimes misunderstood, Irish Catholic working-class neighborhood of Boston. After Good Will [...]
CIS Book Review: 3 Books to Give as Gifts
It’s a Co-Ho-Ho Christmas! And a completely different type of book is down below! Colleen Hoover is known as the romance author with a flair [...]
Remembering Bailey’s Ice Cream Shop
When I was kid, going to Bailey’s Ice Cream Shop was always a special treat. I remember going after visiting the Enchanted Village at Jordan [...]
Old School Southie: Gillette encourages property damage to prove the strength of its razors
Stronger than glass Way back in 1932, Gillette encouraged people to use their razors to cut window panes to show just how strong the edges [...]
Election Roundup: Ballot Positioning Drawing
Hello, Southie & Dot! If you are following Boston’s Election Season super closely, you will know that tomorrow is a big day for our candidates. [...]
Fed Girl Summer – Heather shares some thoughts
A couple weeks ago (it could be months; time has lost all its meaning) I shared a post on Instagram stories and got more responses [...]
Southie Love Letter: Parking like a jerk
or in this case a "dickhead" One Southie resident on O Street had it up to here with this person's parking - so much so [...]
Election Roundup: And then there were five
And just like that “The Big Six” is down to five! State Representative Jon Santiago has dropped out of the Boston Mayoral Race with less [...]
Election Roundup: City Council At-Large Candidates
It’s officially summer! We made it! It’s also less than 100 days until September’s Preliminary Election; we are right in the heart of what is [...]
Seaport Feature: Helly Hansen
Come Sail Away! Since its founding by a sea captain in 1877, Helly Hansen has been the official outfitter of professional sailors across the globe. [...]
The Return of the Frog Pond spray pool
See Press Release Below: Mayor Kim Janey, Boston Parks Commissioner Ryan Woods, and The Skating Club of Boston are pleased to welcome children and guests [...]
Two Jakes – a special poem on this Father’s Day
Happy Father’s Day to all the dads out there including my husband Peter and his father Peter - just a couple Boston jakes! Enjoy this [...]
Hey Pop Sugar – Showtime’s Shameless is not set in Southie!
The lovable and degenerate Gallagher family is the subject of the wildly popular Showtime's series Shameless. The show is set in Chicago so when this [...]
311 Report: South Boston is Fed Up with neighbors
What is going on? 311 was abuzz with activity this weekend. There were the everyday reports of illegal parking, littering, and the like but then [...]
Sorry, Southie – but you’re cheugy!
Websters Dictionary defines “cheugy” as…JK Webster’s Dictionary is not wasting its perfectly good time defining “cheugy”. If you have any interactions with the TikTok generation, [...]
Love Letter in Southie – you can’t park here!
One Southie resident shared this note with Caught in Southie. Evidently his roommate parked in someone's paid parking spot thinking that it was a lot [...]
