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THIS IS REALLY A LOVE STORY

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted February 12, 2019 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dear Reader

Every line I enter into my computer about the Hub is also part of a love story, because like a parent in the 1950s (or today, I guess) attempting to rationalize smacking their kids, I truly love the objects of my animosity. Oftentimes, it hurts me more than it hurts Boston to level such relentless criticism.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dear Reader Tagged With: 1369, 21st Amendment, 50's Diner, Aeronaut, Amrhein's, bay State Banner, Biddy Early's Bikes Not Bombs, Blanchard's, Blue Hills Ski Area, BNN, boston calling, Boston Compass, Boston Hassle, BPL, Brooklyn Boulders, Bukowski Tavern, CCTV, charlie's sandwich shoppe, Concepts, Corrib Pub, Courtside Karaoke, CREATE Boston, Deep Thoughts, Dewey Square, Doyle's, Edgar Allan Poe, Eire Pub, El Planeta, encuentro 5, Ernesto's, Franklin Park Zoo, Galway House, George Howell Coffee, Golden Temple, Good Life, Good Vibrations, great scott, green side up, Green Street, Haley House, Harpoon Brewery, Harvard Book Store, henrietta's Table, Improv Asylum, J.J. Foley’s, Jeveli's, Kelly's Roast Beef, KillerBoomBox, KMHudson, kush groove, L Street Tavern, Larz Anderson, Lawn on D, lord hobo, machine, Makeshift Boston, Maverick Marketplace, Merengue, Midway Cafe, Mount Vernon Restaurant, Oberon, Orchard, People's Republik, plough and stars, ReMARKable Cleanouts, Ron's Ice Cream, Rosebud Diner, Sam LaGrassa's, SCATV, Shay's Silhouette Lounge, Simco's, Skippy White's, Spontaneous Celebrations, Sportsmen's, sugar daddy's, Sully's, Sunset Cantina, Sweetree Ink, The Burren, The Clam Box, the dance complex, The Democracy Center, The Lizard Lounge, The Middle East, The Sevens, The Sinclair, The Wilbur, Tutto Italiano, Vanyaland, Victoria's Diner, Warren Tavern, West End Museum, WMBR

VALENTINE’S DAY SPECIAL: ‘TIL DEATH DO US PART

Written by DIG STAFF Posted February 7, 2017 Filed Under: FEATURES, Specials

It goes without saying that this a seriously subjective roundup, compiled by our brain trust and the interjectors who barged into our discussions at the coffee shops and bars where our list blossomed.

Filed Under: FEATURES, Specials Tagged With: 1369, 21st Amendment, 50's Diner, Aeronaut, Amrhein's, bay State Banner, Biddy Early's Bikes Not Bombs, Blanchard's, Blue Hills Ski Area, BNN, boston calling, Boston Compass, Boston Hassle, BPL, Brooklyn Boulders, Bukowski Tavern, CCTV, charlie's sandwich shoppe, Concepts, Corrib Pub, Courtside Karaoke, CREATE Boston, Deep Thoughts, Dewey Square, Doyle's, Edgar Allan Poe, Eire Pub, El Planeta, encuentro 5, Ernesto's, Franklin Park Zoo, Galway House, George Howell Coffee, Golden Temple, Good Life, Good Vibrations, great scott, green side up, Green Street, Haley House, Harpoon Brewery, Harvard Book Store, henrietta's Table, Improv Asylum, J.J. Foley’s, Jeveli's, Kelly's Roast Beef, KillerBoomBox, KMHudson, kush groove, L Street Tavern, Larz Anderson, Lawn on D, lord hobo, machine, Makeshift Boston, Maverick Marketplace, Merengue, Midway Cafe, Mount Vernon Restaurant, Oberon, Orchard, People's Republik, plough and stars, ReMARKable Cleanouts, Ron's Ice Cream, Rosebud Diner, Sam LaGrassa's, SCATV, Shay's Silhouette Lounge, Simco's, Skippy White's, Spontaneous Celebrations, Sportsmen's, sugar daddy's, Sully's, Sunset Cantina, Sweetree Ink, The Burren, The Clam Box, the dance complex, The Democracy Center, The Lizard Lounge, The Middle East, The Sevens, The Sinclair, The Wilbur, Tutto Italiano, Vanyaland, Victoria's Diner, Warren Tavern, West End Museum, WMBR

DIG THIS: SHUT IT DOWN!, CINCO DE MAYO, AND MOTHER’S DAY BRUNCH

Written by DIG STAFF Posted May 4, 2016 Filed Under: DigThis

Your to do list for the week

Filed Under: DigThis Tagged With: 3rd Street Blackout, Atlantic Beer Garden, Ben Folds, Black Lives Matter, Brunch, cinco de mayo, Harriet Tubman Gallery, Lone Star Taco Bar, Major League Bocce, MOther's Day, orpheum theatre, Shut it Down!, Somerville Theater, The Burren

DIG THIS: SAINT PATRICK’S DAY PUB CRAWL!

Written by DIG STAFF Posted March 16, 2016 Filed Under: DigThis

A veritable obstacle course of enjoyment

Filed Under: DigThis Tagged With: Emmet's Irish Pub, House of Pain, JJ Foley's Cafe, McGreevy's Boston, pub crawl, RF O'Sullivan and Son, River Gods, royale, Saint Patrick's Day, stoddard's fine food and ale, The Burren, The Phoenix Landing

DIG THIS: SLAUGHTERHOUSE SWEETHEARTS, CHINESE ANIMATION, AND BLACK MARKET

Written by DIG STAFF Posted April 21, 2015 Filed Under: DigThis

A packed week of things to do around town.

Filed Under: DigThis Tagged With: Black Market, Bo Petran, Boston Hassle, Daragh Carville, East Boston Artists, ICA, Jesse Kahn, Lei Lei, Make Shift Boston, Mission Gallery, Neil Wyatt, Oberon, Slaughterhouse Sweethearts, The Burren, This Other City

HOT TICKET: ALL THE WORLD’S A STAGE, AND NOW YOU CAN AFFORD IT

Written by SUSANNA JACKSON Posted November 20, 2014 Filed Under: Performing Arts

There are a couple hundred performing arts organizations in the area, and while we’d like to comb through the fine print of each and spotlight the ways to make them all accessible, well, we’d need a bigger boat. We also know you don’t have the attention ...  read more

Filed Under: Performing Arts Tagged With: 35 Below Wrap Parties, A.R.T., Access The Arts, affordable arts, All Cramped Up, american repertory theater, Bad Habit Productions, Boston, Boston Symphony Orchestra, BSO, BSO 101: Are You Listening? Variations on Variations, BSO For Dummies, Burlesque, Camberville, Cambridge, Cheap Seats, Company One Theater, Dig Boston, DigBoston, Dinah DeVille, Dinah DeVille and The Bloodstains, drama, Eve Ensler, Facebook, huntington theatre company, John Kuntz, Lowell, Lyric Stage Company, Merrimack, middle east downstairs, Midway, Necessary Monsters, O.P.C., Olivia Thirlby, Punk Rockin’ + Pastie Poppin’, Shockheaded Peter, Slainte!, SOMERVILLE, SpeakEasy Stage, student deals, Student Rush, The Burren, The Hub Theater Co. of Boston, THE REAL THING, The Tale of The Allergist’s Wife, theater, theatre, Tom Stoppard, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, veteran discounts

A GUY NAMED JASON WALKS INTO A BAR…

Written by SUSANNA JACKSON Posted November 20, 2014 Filed Under: Performing Arts

“People come in expecting leprechauns and rainbows, the sort of American and phony version of Irish culture,” says McCool on the misconceptions surrounding Irish theater. “Instead, they get a piece set in a meat plant in Belfast with prostitutes and drug dealers. Very gritty and very real.”

Filed Under: Performing Arts Tagged With: Access The Arts, affordable arts, Boston, boston arts, boston university, Brockton, D.C., Dennis Houlihan, Dig Boston, DigBoston, Dublin, Fishamble Theatre, Great Artists Steal, Guinness, Hatem Addel, Irish arts, Jason McCool, Jim O’Hanlon, Marina Carr, McCool, Nationals, nonprofit, Owen McCafferty, Scenes from The Big Picture, Seamus Collins, Sean Maguire, Solas Nua, stage readings, The Buddhist of Castleknock, The Burren, tweed, Washington

ACCESS THE ARTS: ENJOY ALL THE SCENE HAS TO OFFER

Written by SUSANNA JACKSON Posted November 20, 2014 Filed Under: Visual Arts

If you're a student who blew through your semester’s savings by the end of September, someone who hands over each paycheck directly to their landlord, or someone busy working to find work, sneezing next to one of greater Boston's many arts institutions can feel like an overdraft threat to your bank account. That should’t be the case, and in many instances, it’s not.

Filed Under: Visual Arts Tagged With: 35 Below Wrap Parties, A.R.T., Access The Arts, affordable arts, Ai Weiwei, All Cramped Up, american repertory theater, artist, Bad Habit Productions, BCA, Boston, boston arts, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston Public Library, Boston Symphony Orchestra, boston university, Brockton, BSO, BSO 101: Are You Listening? Variations on Variations, BSO For Dummies, Burlesque, Busch-Reisinger, cantab, Cheap Seats, Chinese jade, Columbus Park, Company One Theater, Contemporary Art, Contemporary Art Museum, Copley square, courtyard, D.C., Dennis Houlihan, Dig Boston, DigBoston, Dinah DeVille, Dinah DeVille and The Bloodstains, Dublin, Dudley Square, Eve Ensler, Facebook, Fishamble Theatre, Flying Books Under Black Rain Painting, Fogg, fort point, Free, Gauguin, Great Artists Steal, Guinness, Haley House, Haley House Bakery café, Harvard Art Museums, harvard square, Hatem Addel, homophobia, House Slam, huntington theatre company, Irish arts, Janae JOhnson, Jason McCool, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Jim O’Hanlon, John Kuntz, lizard lounge, Lowell, Lyric Stage Company, Marina Carr, McCool, Merrimack, middle east downstairs, Midway, Nationals, Necessary Monsters, nonprofit, O.P.C., O’Keefe, Olivia Thirlby, Owen McCafferty, Pat Falco, piazza, poetry, poets, Porsha Olayiwola, public art, Punk Rockin’ + Pastie Poppin’, racism, Rebecca Horn, Renzo Piano, residency, Roxbury, Scenes from The Big Picture, Seamus Collins, Sean Maguire, sexism, Shephard Fairey, Shockheaded Peter, Slainte!, Solas Nua, south end, SpeakEasy Stage, spoken word, stage readings, student deals, Student Rush, subversive art, The Buddhist of Castleknock, The Burren, The Hub Theater Co. of Boston, THE REAL THING, the Sackler, The Tale of The Allergist’s Wife, Tom Stoppard, transphobia, tweed, Untitled November, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, veteran discounts, Vincent van Gogh, visual art, Washington

DIG THIS: NEWBURY STREET SHUTDOWN + ELECTRIC MASQUERADE + SCENES FROM THE BIG PICTURE

Written by DIG INTERN Posted October 21, 2014 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts, Visual Arts

What to do, where to do it.

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts, Visual Arts Tagged With: Aditi Brennan Kapil, ARCH Gallery, Art Spiegelman, Black Lives Matter Boston, Brahma, Cirque of the Dead, CompanyOne, Electric Masquerade, Graphic Novel, Guinness, Halloween, James Joyce, Michael Brown, Newbury, Newbury Street Shutdown, Oberon, Owen McCafferty, Phillip Johnston, Ringley Brothers, Scenes from The Big Picture, Shiva, Solas Nua, SOMERVILLE, the brain trust, The Burren, The Displaced Hindu Gods Trilogy, The ICA, The Walking Dead, Vishnu, wonder bar, Wordless

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