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OUR FAVORITE PLACES TO CRY IN BOSTON

Written by DIG STAFF Posted October 9, 2019 Filed Under: FEATURES, GTFO, Guides, LIFESTYLE, Lulz, Non-fiction

Since many of our friends in other cities have included lists of the best places to cry on campus in their back-to-school guides, we thought it would be fun—if not a bit depressing, in a shameless click-whorey kind of way—to expand such a survey to an entire metro region.

Filed Under: FEATURES, GTFO, Guides, LIFESTYLE, Lulz, Non-fiction Tagged With: Beacon Hill, best places to cry, Boston, Downtown Crossing, I-93, MBTA, places to cry, public garden, red line, state library, traffic

AN ORAL HISTORY OF THE DIG: VOL. II, EPISODE 4

Written by BARRY THOMPSON Posted September 5, 2019 Filed Under: FEATURES, Lulz

He made up a fictitious ideal reader named Spike. The memo read, “Spike works in advertising, but he goes to punk clubs at night,” and this and that. Fuck you and die.

Filed Under: FEATURES, Lulz Tagged With: AAN, alt media, Boston, Boston Magazine, Deadpool, DigBoston, Fight Club, joe keohane, Luke O'Neil, media, Metrocorp, Weekly Dig

THE DENTAL CONSPIRACY

Written by ddevelop Posted June 27, 2019 Filed Under: Comedy, Lulz

A former anti-dentite opens up his mouth and mind

Filed Under: Comedy, Lulz Tagged With: dentist, Will Noonan

SPECIAL READ-ALONG: BOY’S ON THE HOOD

Written by DIG STAFF Posted February 20, 2019 Filed Under: FEATURES, Fiction, Lulz

Inspired by those utterly insane events, a few of us here at the Dig hatched the idea to write a two-man play about this greatest recent road rage ruination.

Filed Under: FEATURES, Fiction, Lulz Tagged With: mass pike, Massachusetts, road rage

MEET THE HEAVY LEATHER TOPLESS DANCE PARTY

Written by BARRY THOMPSON Posted September 19, 2018 Filed Under: A+E, Comedy, FEATURES, Lulz, Non-fiction, Performing Arts

On the cable set in Somerville in August, Elsa Riot is doing her damndest to sync up an impromptu rendition of the herky-jerky Beach Blanket Bingo routine with a ruthless sonic pummeling by way of a group of apparent Motörhead adherents.

Filed Under: A+E, Comedy, FEATURES, Lulz, Non-fiction, Performing Arts Tagged With: arts, Boston, cable access, Cambridge, Heavy Leather Topless Dance Party, heavy metal, SMC, SOMERVILLE, Somerville Media Center

WHEN IT COMES TO DATING, WE’RE ALL JUST STAND-UP COMICS TRYING TO AVOID BOMBING ON STAGE

Written by WILL NOONAN Posted June 10, 2018 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Comedy, Lulz

From there, you can trade phone numbers and info, or most likely never chat at all and simply sit in one another’s matches for eternity, our avatars an ongoing reminder of an alternate universe where we may have met, fallen in love, and perhaps co-authored a series of racially sensitive flip books for children.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Comedy, Lulz Tagged With: Boston, dating, tinder, Will Noonan

IN WHICH A KITTY LEGEND INTERVIEWS THE ACRO-CATS

Written by DIG STAFF Posted August 28, 2017 Filed Under: A+E, Comedy, Lulz, Performing Arts

We really do know Keyboard Cat by proxy, and the interview below is absolutely the closest thing you are going to get to an actual celebrity cat-on-cat interview.

Filed Under: A+E, Comedy, Lulz, Performing Arts Tagged With: Acro-cats, arlington, cats, Charlie Schmidt, keyboard cat, kittens, Samantha Martin, Tuna and the Rock Cats

A FEW WORDS ABOUT PEOPLE WHO SAY THEY ‘LOVE TRAVELING’

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted August 8, 2017 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dear Reader, Lulz

When you say that you “are addicted to traveling,” or something comparably thoughtless and privileged, you are essentially saying that you can’t for the life of you understand why everyone else isn’t as interested in globe-trotting as you are.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dear Reader, Lulz

PINCH MINI!

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted July 24, 2017 Filed Under: A+E, Lulz

Boston’s Alternative to Punch Buggy

 

So you’re tooling around town on a summer evening with nothing to do, but you’re sick of playing Punch Buggy—the ancient game where you shout “PUNCH BUGGY” and the color of any Volkswagen Beetle you see… followed by a (mock) punch to whatever part ...  read more

Filed Under: A+E, Lulz Tagged With: auto, Beetle, BMW, Boston, bug, car, fun, game, humor, lulz, Massachusetts, Mini, pinch, punch buggy, usa, Volkswagen

SPIN GOOD COMPANY

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted May 16, 2017 Filed Under: FEATURES, LIFESTYLE, Lulz, Non-fiction

Our editor picks up the hot new toy habit, predicts the fidget spinner’s here to stay

Filed Under: FEATURES, LIFESTYLE, Lulz, Non-fiction Tagged With: Boston, Donald Trump, fidget spinners, fidget spinning, Gizmodo, New York City, NPR, toys, Toys R Us, viral videos, youtube

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