Historically speaking, 54 percent of questions put to Bay State voters have been approved since 1990. This time, after much speculation and signature wrangling—and in one case a court intervention—four initiatives remain from an initial field of 33. So there are really only two questions left: Which ones will pass, and which will flame out?
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FALL PREVIEW 2014: PLAYS AND PLATES
Great theater is wont to incite rapid-fire debate and discussion. And—not to sound like a silence-your-cell phones and shut-the-fuck up announcement—everyone appreciates it when you save your insightful banter until after the thespians have taken their final bow. There’s nothing worse than being ...
FALL PREVIEW 2014: OKTOBERFESTS
Contrary to widely held beliefs, the beer bash was not invented by college fraternities. No, it’s the good lederhosen-clad OGs of Munich who’ve been manhandling hefty steins of foam for nearly two centuries at the annual Bavarian beer binge that is Oktoberfest. The glorious gatherings and consumptions of suds has become understandably popular stateside, especially here in the Bay State. Here’s a selection to clear your calendar for.
OLDE MAGOUN’S SALOON OKTOBERFEST | SEPT. 3-OCT. 29
The massive two-month Oktoberfest blowout kicked off on September 3 with a ceremonial keg tapping. And through October, drafts of Paulaner brews (try the Oktoberfest Wiesn) will fill authentic beer steins in their massive makeshift biergarten. On Wednesday nights Oktoberfest beer promotions from German powerhouses Hofbrau, Spaten, and Warsteiner will appear before you, along with plates of obatzda, a Bavarian cheese spread invented to pair with good German beer.
[OLDE MAGOUN’S SALOON, 518 MEDFORD ST., SOMERVILLE. MAGOUNSSALOON.COM]
IDLE HANDS CRAFT ALES OKTOBERFEST & THIRD ANNIVERSARY
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SOCIAL MEDIA FARM DIGFOGRAPHIC: THE #BOSTON HASHTAG TREE
Infographic by Tak Toyoshima, Concept by Chris Faraone, Analytics by Pandemic Labs
Additional research by Jenna Tramonti, Christine Young, and Rachael Blanchard
There’s a simple explanation for the eye candy before you: We wanted to identify the most popular hashtags in every facet of life around Boston. With that lofty goal in mind, we crowd-sourced and combed the web to compile a draft list, then handed that to the social media senseis at Pandemic Labs on Summer Street. They ran those picks through several search engines, normalized the data by analyzing 30-day snapshots of local trends, and finally conducted a seven-day audit of the worthy hashtags. Using Pandemic’s tweet and impression counts (listed below), we dropped the non-starters and hung the rest on our Twitter tree. Climb on up.
DOWNLOAD A PDF OF THE HASHTAG TREE
BOSTON PRIDE
#bostonpride – 67 tweets (T), 113,466 impressions (I)
#boston – 400 T, 2.4m I
#onlyinboston – 20 T, 12,987 I
#bostonrocks – 21 T, 11,749 I
#prayforboston – 100 T, 34,619 I
MBTA
#mbta – 506 T, 4.8m I
#greenline – 100 T, 320k I
#silverline – 300 T, 1m I
#redline – 200 T, 235k I
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