While it’s no secret that our favorite professional athletes happen to be your typical “bro” in a much more expensive version of the bro uniform, it’s always kind of a bummer to be reminded just how deep the bro roots run. Especially when it’s the Patriots. More
While it may look a little unseemly to be picking on a group of college freshman, now is probably as good a time as any to prepare Harvard’s “Fifteen Hottest Freshmen,” named in the Harvard Crimson’s magazine Fifteen Minutes and jabbed by Gawker, for their lives of inevitably frustrating disappointment and struggle. Also, it’s never too early for Harvard students to learn just how much the rest of the city dislikes you. More
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The tweet-vacuuming outrage-bait Storify listicle has become one of the most tired and lazy crutches of online media. You’re familiar with them from sites like: every site. After something notable happens on Twitter, enterprising young content miners run a simple Twitter search, cherry pick a dozen or two tweets corresponding to the subject at hand, then embed them into a post. Voila! Research.
One recent example on BuzzFeed, somewhat hyperbolically titled “Coca-Cola’s Multilingual Super Bowl Ad Inspired A Complete Meltdown Online,” picked through reactions to the Coca-Cola Super Bowl ad for jingoistic reactions. Really hard-hitting stuff. Sucked into the meat grinder was Twitter user @seanfrederick, a fella that I’m friends with on Twitter and through the Boston bar world. His tweet, as anyone who follows him online would have instantly known, was ironically echoing the type of knee-jerk Americanism reactions that were flying around at the time. More
When it comes to cocktails, summertime gets all the attention. There’s never a shortage of “cocktails to cool down with” or whatever other excuse people use to cobble together a list of juleps and swizzles and complicated tiki concoctions. But for the drab, miserable winter months, hot cocktails are harder to come by. Everyone has heard of Irish Coffee and the Hot Toddy, and then there’s, uh, mulled, spiced wines, if we’re around Christmastime, but that’s about it. There is, of course, room to play with as many variations on warming cocktails as far as your imagination will take you, but for one reason or another, they don’t tend to get as much shine as their beach-weather counterparts. More
It’s the Big Game today, making this sports New Year’s, a.k.a. sports St. Patrick’s Day, a.k.a. a birthday party for sports where you invited 40 people to sit down for dinner at a restaurant and you’re all splitting the check. That means everyone is scrambling to lock down their plans for watching the televised monstrosity that is the epitome of everything aggressively banal about consumerist American culture. But how can you figure out the best way to actually enjoy the experience yourself? Here are a few questions you need to ask yourself beforehand to figure where you should watch the game. More
I just listened to all 75 songs eligible for consideration for an Oscar nomination in the best song category, and I no longer want to have anything to do with either music or films anymore. Considering the pool of overly sentimental, try-hard bellowing and melodramatic hambone sparkling the Academy had to choose from this year, these songs below, while still almost universally bad, are downright genius by comparison. Seriously, go pick five of these at random, and then when you’re done cleaning up your lunch from all over the floor, you can turn in your ears on my desk on the way out. More
Considering I tend to have awful taste in hip-hop, I’m somewhat hesitant to be overly enthusiastic about Joey Bada$$ for fear of jinxing it — like acknowledging a no-hitter in progress. Last night at the Converse Rubber Tracks series at The Sinclair, the ascendant Brooklyn rapper seemed to have lost a little off his fast ball -– a hoarse vocal kept him leaning back for the second half of his set, letting members of his Pro Era collective take most of the leads -– but what might normally be an easy point of criticism actually worked to his advantage, paradoxically. More
Representing your favorite musicians in t-shirt form is nothing new, and Boston in particular has always had a proud sense of its musical history. But Good Roads Goods, a new line of apparel from longtime Boston music fixture Brian Coleman, takes iconic photographic moments from throughout music history and immortalizes them on fabric. His latest design is a well-known image from the Boston hardcore scene of 1980. Coleman, who has been around in Boston for the past 25 years doing PR work in the music scene (jazz, rock) and writing a couple hip-hop books, “Rakim Told Me” and “Check the Technique,” spoke to us about his line. More
It used to be the only way to advertise to the world that you were a person of refined taste, and therefore a suitable mating partner for other members of your highly-specific demographic with similar taste, was to alert people that you didn’t watch TV. Then, whoops, TV got too good for anyone to buy that lie anymore, and that whole thing sort of got pulled out from under our feet. Fortunately, pop music is still around for those of us jockeying for positioning in the crowded personal brand marketplace to exhibit disdain. More
Great news today for people who believe in the existence of a shadowy homosexual cabal trying to undermine the sanctity of America’s dining institutions through media hoaxes (trust me, they exist): The party alleged to have left a $0 tip and an offensive message for a gay server in New Jersey earlier this month have come forward to say that the widely circulated receipt was forged. The receipt in question, which read, “I’m sorry but I cannot tip because I do not agree with your lifestyle & the way you live your life,” was posted on the Have a Gay Day page and quickly went viral. More
