Reprinted with permission from the new book by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore (Arsenal Pulp Press 2018)
BOSTON BETTER BEER BUREAU: VARIETY PACK
There’s always way more news brewing inside the beer world than we can dream of digesting. Let alone writing about. So before these notes from our past couple of weeks of imbibing go stale, here they are, barely smoothed over and in no recognizable order…
HERE ARE YOUR 2018 BOSTON MUSIC AWARDS NOMINEES
Check below for all the BMA noms for this year, and don’t forget to check the BMA site for voting, more info on preparties, and tickets to the announcement bash at the House of Blues on December 12. Major props to Dig Music Editor Nina Corcoran, not only for her great ear and for having written about more than half of the nominees over the past couple of years, but also for being one of this year’s noms in the first-ever Music Journalist of the Year category. Also congrats to Dig contributors Arielle Gray and G. Valentino Ball on their nominations, as well as to ace photographer Tim Bugbee. Oh, and to us, since we are up for Music Publication of the Year. Go vote!
MYSTIC BREWERY: TROPICAL MAGIC, WEEKLY RELEASES, AND TABLE BEERS IN CHELSEA
If you’re a beer nerd in the Greater Boston region, then you may have made a pilgrimage to Mystic Brewing on a Friday afternoon or evening. The place can get quite nuts …
DEEPLY INVOLVED: A CAMPUS-BORN ENGAGEMENT STARTUP GRADUATES AND EXPANDS
When officials in Newton want to engage their constituents, they have an easy way to connect. Using tools and software from the Boston startup Involved, they’re able to, for example, gauge how much more money ratepayers are willing to spend to bring in more renewable energy.
ARE YOU BUYING? A CONVERSATION ABOUT A PERFORMANCE ABOUT ADVERTISING
“For every ad promoting the positive, transformative power of beauty and fashion, many others reinforce gender stereotypes or objectify women’s bodies.”
DRINKING IN THE RAIN: MEET THE GUY WHO MAKES THOSE UMBRELLAS WITH THE BEER TAP HANDLES
“I made a couple of prototypes with taps from MGD and Wachusett when I was figuring out the design. The one that I used when I finally had a fully working umbrella design was a tap from Goose Island.”
BBBB: LIQUID EQUITY IN DOWNTOWN CROSSING FOR THE BEER-MONGERING SET
We’ll be back to cover new brews as our friends at Democracy keep cranking them out, but last time, in addition to the Consummates, we washed down a hamburger the size of two fists with a seasonal brown IPA chased by a Workers Pint, their trademark basic.
POLITICAL GAMESMANSHIP: WHO SAID IT BEST?
The most accurate way to determine which of their hearts is closer to one’s own, it seems, is to cast aside whatever prejudicial love or hate one has for either candidate, and evaluate them without attribution. So we extracted these quotes, categorized below, for you to peruse blindly and thus perhaps determine who you agree with more.
AIN’T NOTHIN’ NORMAL: NIGHT SHIFT + DESTIHL = BOYSENBERRY BLISS
This limited exclusive number is so consummately tart that we’ve been cracking cans and sipping water between gulps, trying to preserve as much of a terrific tongue rush as we got on our first tilt…
