Brewers, distributors, beer writers, and other industry types are getting ready to descend on Boston next week for the annual Craft Brewers Conference, hosted by the Brewers Association. After the conference lets out and folks have finished attending the various industry events, they’re going to be headed out on the town to visit some of [...]
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
It’s kind of like having an old friend who claims to be going away on a long trip but who you know is never coming back… Raising a Sazerac to soon-to-be-departed friends. Andy P.S. Welcome readers from the Boston Globe, the Boston Herald, and Chowhound.
Continue reading about So I’m Headed to the B-Side this Weekend…
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