When we last discussed the continuing drama over the B-Side Lounge in Cambridge, the city’s licensing commission and the former bar’s neighbors were raking new owner Daniel Lanigan over the coals about a series of issues, including the new bar’s projected food-to-alcohol sales ratio and how the new owners would minimize noise and annoyance to [...]
Continue reading about An Update on the B-Side/Lord Hobo Drama in Cambridge…
I’ve written here and elsewhere about the continuing troubles and sordid history of the popular B-Side Lounge here in Cambridge. The coverage has even made it into the Boston Herald and the Boston Globe’s online editions. One of the last local pubs to be integrated into the neighborhood, the B-Side reminded me of the many [...]
Continue reading about Cambridge’s B-Side Lounge To Become the Lord Hobo, Licensing Problems Ensue…
Rumors have been swirling around the future of the B-Side Lounge since it closed on November 2, 2008. Some said it would be razed to build condos, others said it would remain vacant, and Daniel Lanigan, owner of The Moan and Dove of Amherst and formerly of The Dirty Truth of Northampton, said his months [...]
What follows is a host of smaller news items that I haven’t been able to fit into any particular place so I’ve decided to place this here until I can offer further follow-up and detail. One Shelton Gets High and Mighty Word is that one of the founders of Shelton Brothers has left his day [...]
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