FALL PREVIEW: FOOD AND DRINK EVENTS
SCIENCE AND COOKING LECTURE SERIES AT HARVARD Because you can pile on just one more this semester, right? This lecture series is for the foodie nerd within all of us. Hey, it’s better than watching 14...
View ArticlePREVIEW: CRASH SAFELY
A benefit for the National MS Society that doesn’t want your sympathy. Multiple sclerosis (MS) fucking sucks. More specifically, it’s a disease that occurs when the immune system attacks the central...
View ArticlePREVIEW: BOSTON FESTIVAL OF INDIE GAMES
The Boston Festival of Indie Games, or BFIG, is hard to embody in just one word. It’s a convention, a showcase, a game jam, a concert, an art exhibit, a seminar, a LARPing event, and best of all, it’s...
View ArticlePREVIEW: SPEAKEASY STAGE’S TRIBES
Everybody has a tribe. After a successful run in London and off-Broadway, Tribes is now bringing its critically acclaimed story of Deaf culture to Boston. Penned by British playwright Nina Raine and...
View ArticleMAYORMAGEDDON: AT-LARGE, AT A GLANCE
You probably [Definitely. –Ed.] don’t know it, but the at-large City Council race is the second most important race among this fall’s city elections. While the mayor’s race is busy determining which of...
View ArticleBEER ALERT: BLUE HILLS BREWERY OKTOBERFEST @ IRISH CULTURAL CENTER
Try a brew or two at the Blue Hills Brewery Oktoberfest on September 14. Decamp to Canton’s Irish Cultural Center across from Blue Hills Brewery for live bands and games. You’ll even score a souvenir...
View ArticleDEAR READER: AN HONEST PINT GOODBYE
“It’s hard to look back at those two years and figure out what I’ve learned because I’ve learned everything,” Chris Tkach of Idle Hands said to me when I asked him what he’s learned in two years of...
View ArticleFALL PREVIEW: TIME TO EARTH TONE IT UP
Ah, Autumn in New England. Time to earth tone it up in here. If you’re new to the area, allow us to break it to you ever so gently—weather and general quality-of-life-wise, it’s all downhill from here....
View ArticleHONEST PINT: IDLE HANDS EXPANDS
On August 29, 2011, Christopher Tkach brewed a 1.5-barrel batch of beer at his nanobrewery in Everett, Idle Hands Craft Ales. The beer was Patriarch, a Belgian-style Single also known as a Patersbier...
View ArticleSHOP: FOLLAIN
Going skin deep in the South End Photos by Larissa Burgess | @larisnessmnstr You know when you look at the back of your cleanser and there’s a massive list of chemicals you don’t recognize, and...
View ArticleEATS: LATE NIGHT MUNCHIES
Where to go when the cravings come nigh BOSTON COLLEGE: BLUESTONE BISTRO This ain’t your average greasy, cheap-o pizza pie joint. At Bluestone, you can get a delectable gourmet pizza that is a...
View ArticleDRINKS: CARRIE NATION
Seated in the shadow of the State House is the new bar and restaurant Carrie Nation, named ironically for the temperance enthusiast of the late 19th, early 20th century who used to attack drinking...
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