Package-free shopping comes to Boston Sixty-five Fenway Parks’ worth. That’s how much garbage the state of Massachusetts disposes of each year. And Cleenland, a store that opened this June in Central Square, is betting on your willingness to prevent at least a few ballparks’ worth of waste—not just from going to landfill, but […]
OUR ARBITRARY INDIE GIFT GUIDE
From yule, to fuel, to cool, to school, here’s our first random rhyming list of gifts
REMIXED AND UPCYCLED: HOW NICOLE LYONS OF LOLA’S URBAN VINTAGE CREATES AND SELLS IN BOSTON
“I want Lola’s to be the place to go if you want something that makes you stand out from the crowd and feel fierce,” Lyons said. “It’s an experience store that gives you the feeling of something tangible.”
DUDLEY ROOTS: KAI GRANT OF BLACK MARKET IN ROXBURY ON CREATING, SHOPPING, AND SELLING WITH A PURPOSE
“We are trying to eradicate that wealth gap, Boston is number one in wealth inequality in the country. But our second mission is to really lend our platform for arts and culture. There’s a lot of innovation going on here, in particular with black artists who don’t have a lot of platforms to make and create and also showcase and sell.”
FLEA SCENE: A NEAR-DEFINITIVE LIST OF HOLIDAY MARKETS
Boston has a great flea market set and, next to the summertime, December is when it especially thrives in the name of holiday shopping and treat yo’ self fever.
CHEAP THRILLS: SMALL BIZ SATURDAY IS ANOTHER EXCUSE TO EXPLORE THIS HIDDEN VINYL MINE
In racks, bins, and crates and on tall shelves, customers are greeted with the exciting near-certainty that they’ll find some gems to ogle over and bring back home for their own players since there’s so much—affordable!—vinyl to choose from.
SPECIAL FEATURE: THE 2015 DIGBOSTON STUDENT GUIDE
Keep this bookmarked through the school year, and, in the words of the patron saint of getting wild, Andrew W.K.: “Party till you puke.”
FRESH MARKET: LOCALVORES AND GUARDIANS OF LOCAL HISTORICAL MARKETS CAN REJOICE
“But I will say to you what I said to my board and the commission: If we succeed and Haymarket doesn’t, we [will] have failed.”
DIGTHIS AWARDS 2015: THE WINNERS
Your votes for Boston’s best of the best have been tallied and assembled to bask in their glory. Congrats to all the winners.
SHINE ON: NEW CENTRAL SQUARE SHOP BRINGS QUIRKY AWESOMENESS
King hoped to make her store “colorful and quirky and dynamic and poppy, and well-curated, hopefully.” And she’s succeeded.
