• Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
  • HOME
  • NEWS+OPINIONS
    • NEWS TO US
    • COLUMNS
      • APPARENT HORIZON
      • DEAR READER
      • Close
    • LONGFORM FEATURES
    • OPINIONS
    • EDITORIAL
    • Close
  • ARTS+ENTERTAINMENT
    • FILM
    • MUSIC
    • COMEDY
    • PERFORMING ARTS
    • VISUAL ARTS
    • Close
  • DINING+DRINKING
    • EATS
    • SIPS
    • BOSTON BETTER BEER BUREAU
    • Close
  • LIFESTYLE
    • CANNABIS
      • TALKING JOINTS MEMO
      • Close
    • WELLNESS
    • GTFO
    • Close
  • STUFF TO DO
  • TICKETS
  • ABOUT US
    • ABOUT
    • MASTHEAD
    • ADVERTISE
    • Close
  • BECOME A MEMBER

Dig Bos

The Dig - Greater Boston's Alternative News Source

drinking

’TIS THE SEASON TO BEHAVE: HOW TO NOT BE A DICK AT YOUR COMPANY PARTY

Written by HALEY HAMILTON Posted December 6, 2017 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Drinks, LIFESTYLE, Terms of Service

People who think it’s okay to tip badly also generally behave like assholes, and not tipping at an open bar, where you are drinking whatever you want for free, says loud and clear that you, my friend, are just that.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Drinks, LIFESTYLE, Terms of Service Tagged With: drinking, etiquette, Haley Hamilton, holidays, Parties, Terms of Service

TERMS OF SERVICE: THE ART OF THE CUT-OFF

Written by HALEY HAMILTON Posted March 21, 2017 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Drinks, LIFESTYLE

A sobering PSA from behind the bar

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Drinks, LIFESTYLE Tagged With: Bars, Boston, cut-off, drinking, Drunks, Haley Hamilton, St. Patrick's Day, Terms of Service

FIRST LOOK: THE ELLIS ROOM IN BROOKLINE

Written by MARC HURWITZ Posted January 29, 2017 Filed Under: Drinks, Eats, LIFESTYLE

To find it, you have to walk into the Magnolia Smokehouse and look for a staircase in the middle of the place ...

Filed Under: Drinks, Eats, LIFESTYLE Tagged With: Bars, Brookline Village, drinking, Hidden Boston, Marc Hurwitz, nightlife, speakeasies, The Ellis Room

WHAT’S FOR BREAKFAST? INTERVENTION

Written by PATT KELLEY Posted October 23, 2016 Filed Under: Comics

Filed Under: Comics Tagged With: alcohol, Bars, drinking, Patt Kelley, What's for Breakfast

Free food and drinks, plus career & financial advice from experts? We’re listening…

Written by SPONSORED POST Posted October 14, 2015 Filed Under: Calendar, Drinks, Eats, Shop

Have you ever daydreamed about your money?

Filed Under: Calendar, Drinks, Eats, Shop Tagged With: Advice, Back Bay, back bay cafe, banking, banks, beer events, calendar, capital one, career, career advice, drinking, event, finance, tuesday oct 20, wifi

BAR HAVOC: GAME TIME

Written by ddevelop Posted January 21, 2015 Filed Under: Bar Havoc, COLUMNS

There are people who want to get as drunk as I had the night before and it’s my job to get them there.

Filed Under: Bar Havoc, COLUMNS Tagged With: Allston, Booze, Boston, drinking, drunk, Hangover, lizzie havoc, winter

BAR HAVOC: JUST ANOTHER NIGHT

Written by ddevelop Posted December 31, 2014 Filed Under: Bar Havoc, COLUMNS, LIFESTYLE

For bartenders the appeal and general concept of New Year’s Eve is completely lost. It’s certainly more than just another night, but we don’t get to enjoy it the way the rest of the world does. I can’t remember any champagne toasts, no glitzy dresses, and I certainly don’t remember any ...  read more

Filed Under: Bar Havoc, COLUMNS, LIFESTYLE Tagged With: Allston, Bartending, drinking, lizzie havoc, new years eve, Partying

BEING SNOTTY

Written by ddevelop Posted December 19, 2014 Filed Under: Bar Havoc

The DJ hadn’t even started, so I thought I had some time before amateur hour began. I was wrong.

Filed Under: Bar Havoc Tagged With: Bars, Bartending, Booze, Boston, drinking, Fireball, Whiskey

BOOZING ABROAD: SOUTHIE NATIVE DRINKS GLOBALLY IN NEW TRAVEL CHANNEL SHOW

Written by DAN MCCARTHY Posted November 24, 2014 Filed Under: Drinks, Eats

An actor by trade who lives in LA, Jack Maxwell has been preparing for a gig that involves bouncing around the globe to share exotic (and sometimes ceremonial or religious) hooch amid colorful stories with locals since boyhood.

 

Maxwell, a Boston native who grew up in the Southie projects as an ...  read more

Filed Under: Drinks, Eats Tagged With: Amazon, anise, booze traveler, boozing, bullfrog, ceremonial, Dig Boston, DigBoston, drinking, fruit, Iceland, molassess, mongolia, moonshine, ouzo, poison dart, projects, raki, rotten shark, sambuca, shoe shine, south africa, South Boston, Southie, spit beer, ST. PETER'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH, travel channel, turkey

BAR HAVOC: OF BOOZE AND BARF

Written by ddevelop Posted October 21, 2014 Filed Under: Drinks, Eats, Uncategorized

There are a handful of sounds that exist in the universe that only bartenders understand. Our ears are trained to pick these things up from just a few feet off to entire rooms away. Say, the tap-slap of a credit card being placed down after a meal, or the clunk-splash of a 16oz glass being knocked over and spilling. And, of course, the unmistakable sploosh-splat of vomit.

Filed Under: Drinks, Eats, Uncategorized Tagged With: Allston, Bartending, Booze, boys, Dig Boston, DigBoston, drinking, puking, Students, the avenue, vomit

Primary Sidebar

LOCAL EVENTS

AAN Wire


Most Popular

  • Does Massachusetts Underestimate Its Greenhouse Gas Emissions?
  • The Most Expensive Massachusetts City For Car Insurance (No, It’s Not Boston)
  • If You Find A Mini Felted Animal Around Boston, This Is Where It Came From
  • Photo Dispatch: “Ukraine Day” Rally In Boston’s Copley Square
  • As Prices Soar, Fossil Fuel Industry Looks After Its Interests On Beacon Hill

Footer

Social Buttons

DigBoston facebook DigBoston Twitter DigBoston Instagram

Masthead

About

Advertise

Customer Service

About Us

DigBoston is a one-stop nexus for everything worth doing or knowing in the Boston area. It's an alt-weekly, it's a website, it's an email blast, it's a twitter account, it's that cool party that you were at last night ... hey, you're reading it, so it's gotta be good. For advertising inquiries: sales@digboston.com To reach editorial (and for inquiries about internship opportunities): editorial@digboston.com