I’ve heard of grocery chains having wine & beer licenses depending on the feelings of the town/municipality, and there are certainly no shortages of convenience stores with beer/wine licenses in the parts of MA I frequent, but I think a liquor license on top of that is limited to three locations in a chain. That would…

I assume it’s the Cambridge-area TJ’s that you patronize? I’ve been out to the one in Peabody only once with beer-purchasey intentions, and very regrettably only purchased their own-brand gold rum, which is essentially just rum-flavored surface cleaner, rather than beer.

I’ll definitely add this bomber to my shortlist…

The best jorts, and really, the only ones I can excuse, are the ones made on your own by converting a pair of jeans.

Cargo jorts are a no-go, though. Right off the bat. Non-starter.

Oh, my god. I love the opening two paragraphs on this column. Positively vicious without ever openly brandishing the knives.

This probably isn’t a special case, but the Anna Karenina principle probably applies to unhappy beer, too: I need help figuring out what to shandy a specific bad beer with, or otherwise modify it with one of the tips on this list (besides drinking it on a boat). A friend gave me a bunch of free Shock Top “Shockolate”…

It’s weird how, pretty much since the Wells report was handed down from whatever tasteless chair Goodell thinks of in some corner of his psyche as the NFL’s “Mercy Seat”, this affair has really been about preserving the absoluteness of Goodell’s authority, but discussed using the terms of the deflation scandal, and…

This sounds like a delicious, delicious cousin food to aioli (which I make in bulk just for fun sometimes)

My favorite derivative of the word "dildo" for any purpose has to be the name for operating sexual instruments remotely: "teledildometry".

The “Chrisis” is finally beginning to reach the scope of the Alexocalpyse. Meanwhile, I know at least three separate Jacksons and Dakotas, each (all men), which is a crisis in of itself for slightly-less-demographically-popular names. God have mercy when we hit peak Harrison.

For everyone rooting against the Patriots, let me, as a Pats stalwart, let you feel justified: The Superbowl win has already faded from my memory and imagination, less than two months on from the win. The Patriots are a competent team and not particularly un-deserving, but we, their fans, were very much undeserving.…

I'd love to try this, it sounds great. I'm still picking up steam on the "knowing anything about what I like about beer" front, let alone the "knowing anything about general categories of beer (that I may or may not like)" one; I make up for this by following three principles:

To my recollection, Gansett is trying to bring more of its production back to New England as it releases specialty beers like its Autocrat Milk Stout (delicious!) or its upcoming H.P. Lovecraft-inspired line of beers, the first of which will be a honey ale.

Near your old Amherst stomping grounds, UMass's otherwise-wonderful UPub recently had a brief difficulty with its multi-keg tap refrigeration unit, and had to rely on tall boys (not a bad thing!) while it only had an older, one-keg capacity refrigerator in service. Narragansetts were briefly priced on par with PBR,…

I got a 12-pack sampler of GLB beers from Cleveland area family as a Christmas gift, plus a sixer of the Christmas Ale. The sampler is (was) three bottles per variety, as follows: Edmund Fitzgerald Porter, Burning River IPA, Eliot Ness Amber Lager, and Dortmunder Gold. Delicious, all of them. In keeping with the love…

One of my favorite things to prepare w/r/t relative simplicity, longevity, flexible ingredient requirements, and lots of product for a little effort is aioli. Frigging delicious even on its own, and a viable condiment for all kinds of flavor tweaks.

I love how you refer to it as Tacos De (not in a patronizing way, my college town had plenty of nicknames for its steadfast student-oriented establishments). Like it's a brother organization to Opus Dei, but for tacos.

Does anyone have recommendations for earbuds that don't come with the playback control bar?

Does anyone have recommendations for earbuds that don't come with the playback control bar?

This is an article that pretty neatly lays out the stuff discussed by Musk, and gives context in a supplementary but not stifling way, so my only quibble is this:

In the entire 96-page report, in which Mueller brags openly about his team's access to the email and hard drives of Goodell and NFL head of security Jeff Miller, there isn't a single email or other correspondence from Goodell. He's a totally unaccounted-for actor throughout the investigation, and we're asked to…

Where do college bars fall into this equation? I mean bars with a strong pull on collegiate drinkers, but if you've ever been to any bars run by colleges, like the UPub at UMass Amherst, I'd be curious to hear your thoughts on those too.