The Best of Boston in Popular Culture

Watch:
21 (oh yes.)
The Boondock Saints
The Departed
Gone Baby Gone
Legally Blonde
Mystic River (Sean Penn drool)
TV: The Practice, Boston Legal, Boston Public, Ally McBeal
Read: Zadie Smith’s “On Beauty”, Matthew Pearl’s “The Dante Club” or Neal Stephenson’s “Zodiac”. Dennis Lehane’s “Mystic River”, if you don’t want to go straight to the Penn goodness.