‘Audacity of Hops’ author talks Tuesday to explain how craft beer conquered all
With a White House brewing its own small-batch honey ale and honey porter, a history of craft beer called “The Audacity of Hops” is more than just clever.
‘Gangsters of Boston’ author among readers at tonight’s Dire Literary Series
As the James “Whitey” Bulger trial churns on in U.S. District Court in Boston, this is the ideal time to catch up on the history behind it – all three centuries of it.
Klosterman brings his latest, ‘I Wear the Black Hat,’ to Porter Square on Thursday
The essayist’s newest work looks at who we decide is a villain, with individual pieces putting microscopes on phenomena ranging from Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky to “Star Wars,” Bernhard Goetz and Batman, the Eagles and O.J. Simpson., Muhammad Ali and Joe Paterno.
Joan Parker, famous for role in husband’s ‘Spenser’ and her own charity, dead at 80
Joan H. Parker, of Ash Street, educator, charity fundraiser and widow of mystery writer Robert B. Parker, is dead at 80.
Hank Phillippi Ryan coming to share secrets of ‘Other Woman,’ ‘Wrong Girl’
Three acclaimed suspense novelists, including Boston reporter and award-winning author Hank Phillippi Ryan comes to the Cambridge Main Library next week.
Cambridge celebs: Who is Spencer Affleck? Why do we hate Dane Cook? (Also, good news for Mindy Kaling)
Kaling’s sitcom gets renewed for a second season and she’s writing a second book. And John Malkovich gets good reviews for a movie you’ve never heard of and may never see.
Five things to do this weekend: March 2-3
Go see sketch comedy … in movie form. Receive artist Marissa Falco at her “Love Letters :: Messages Received” exhibit. Relive the Iranian hostage crisis, or at least the Oscars, with “Argo.” Go classical with the Blue Heron Renaissance Choir. And hear Jennifer Haigh reads from her new book of short stories.
Between gigs as poet, actor and hip-hop star, Jade Sylvan find publisher for book
If her candidacy for Best Poet in a Boston Phoenix poll and performance tonight at T.T. the Bear’s Place or at the Feb. 28 performance of Beck’s “Song Reader” wasn’t enough for Jade Sylvan to be excited about, her book “Kissing Oscar Wilde” has found a publisher.
Lorem Ipsum crowdfunding campaign ends in hours, and so may the bookstore (update)
An attempt to crowdfund more life for Inman Square’s Lorem Ipsum bookstore expires in a little more than a day, and it‘s not clear if the store will last much longer at 1299 Cambridge St.
Five things to do this weekend: Jan. 5-6
Start your winter farmers market shopping. Turn yourself or your kid into an action movie star. Take in some art – well, a hell of a lot of art – free. Get your fill of singer-songwriters. Or fulfill your Cambridge destiny with a fiction and poetry reading.
