Jun
27
Another potential customer for the feline rental service.
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The jackhammering is getting on other people’s nerves but that’s just a pretext for validating my new business model.
There’s been somethings lately that have suck beyond the realm of normal Allston quirks. And I aint talking bout the mouse who ran over my foot at 1:30 am.
Jun
25
Redneck’s
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Periscope Depth distills the essence that is Redneck’s.
…who follow a business model that really should get more play:
1. Sell fried food; and
2. Stay open 30-45 minutes after the bars close.
Although they forgot point 3) charge 5x(!) more for fries than is remotely reasonable on the correct presumption that anyone there is desperate enough for sobering grease to not notice/care.
Jun
24
Patio time
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Whenever it stops storming and decides to act like summer again, Gareth says the Deep Ellum patio is finally open.
Jun
23
The Really Really Free Market
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This Saturday in Ringer Park. For more information… And yes, the typo in our city name below is pretty amusing but JUDGE NOT because that’ll come around to bite you some day.
Jun
23
Lest they bite you first
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A great set from the Super 88, patterns, colors and repetition. From rpkrajweski.
Jun
22
nine out of ten
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ameadowlark turns one of the most critical fashion failures of our time and place into a hipster GPS.
Jun
18
Behind the curtain at Finale
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From Sarah Gatzke, a brief documentary on Finale Dessert Company’s’s new pastry kitchen in Allston. Be forewarned: do NOT watch while hungry. Unfortunately, you still have to get thyself to Coolidge Corner or Harvard Square to actually buy something.
Jun
17
Great moments in cash acquisition
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They don’t call it your moneymaker for nothing. Massive score at the Pill.
So I was shaking my booty on Friday hoping to avoid those flailing dancefloor boneheads who think The Pill is Thunderdome Jr, when I spied a small piece of green and white paper on the floor. Eureka! The Shoegazer’s dry streak is over, and just in time – The Shoegazer found himself freed of the shackles of full-time employment this very week.
Jun
16
Allston, 1973
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Archival shot from Ringer Park in 1973. The urge to defile rock outcroppings with spray paint has been around for at least 35 years. Ok fine, somewhat longer than that.
Jun
14
Weight, Height, HSPH
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Harry Mattison has some constructive hopes surrounding our Harvard overlords.
Harvard’s School of Public Health is expected to relocate to Allston at some point and there has been ongoing brainstorming about what type of partnerships might benefit both the HSPH and the local community. Many people at HSPH, specifically in its Department of Nutrition, are actively interested the connection between weight and health. (…) Even though A/B residents have one of the lowest obesity rates in Boston, our rate of 37% means that 25,000 people here are obese! Think of the potential for improved quality of life and reduced medical costs!
Somehow I don’t think this would work without a city-wide tax on beer and curly fries, but then again I’m a pessimist.