Image: BluEyedA73 Spring break for American college students is defined by the following: drink specials, beach parties, booze cruises, dancing all night long, beer bongs, random hookups, wet t-shirt contests and Joe Francis filming girls with low self-esteem, all set in beachy destinations like Cancun, Mazatlan, Jamaica and Panama City Beach. I never had a […]
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I love living in Boston, but I’m not a fan of the weather here: a six-month winter followed by two days of of spring, then an intense, all-too-brief summer, during which the city turns into a sweatbox. Then came the nonsummer of 2009, when it rained nearly every day in June and July. I had
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There’s no question about it: Boston is the best place in American to celebrate the Fourth of July. Boston is home to one of the most famous celebrations in the country: Pops Goes the Fourth, featuring the Boston Pops in concert, followed by some amazing fireworks. As a Bostonian, I’ve done the concert, I’ve done
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Lake Quannapowitt, located 10 miles north of Boston in the town of Wakefield, is the see-and-be-seen place of the suburbs. I grew up down the street in Reading, and to this day, I can’t walk the lake without running into someone I know. Usually, someone’s mom. The lake measures a perfect three and a quarter
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My biggest gripe about Boston is that everything shuts down so early. You can’t get a drink anywhere — anywhere — after 2:00 AM. Even the after-hours club, Rise, only stocks Diet Coke and Red Bull. [Edit: Rise closed for good in 2015.] So, if the night is young, you could do what most people
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