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Photos: Solstice Circus welcome winter at Plough & Stars

Solstice Circus | Plough & Stars | December 22, 2011
Solstice Circus celebrated this year's winter solstice at Plough & Stars in Cambridge on December 22, 2011.
By DEREK KOUYOUMJIAN | December 30, 2011

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Photos: One Night in Boston 2010

Fifteen photographers. Nine hours.
STUFF Magazine presents photos taken in Boston's streets over nine hours on the night of August 22, 2010; here are a few of our favorites
By STUFF BOSTON | August 15, 2010

Drinking stories

How Boston's best barkeeps survived five days of around-the-clock cocktails
Twenty-five thousand members of the Lutheran Youth Congress are leaving New Orleans. Replacing them are another kind of faithful, equally dedicated in their way to their calling: 15,000 eager bartenders.
By LIZA WEISSTUCH | August 11, 2010

Ramping up safe-drinking strategies

Summer Nights
It'll come as no surprise to anyone who was out and about during the long, hot, holiday weekend that Portland's drinking and nightlife scenes get a little bit more . . . intense during the summer months.
By DEIRDRE FULTON | July 07, 2010

Ghana baby Ghana

A Letter from South Africa
Florida Road is a crowded strip of bars and clubs in Durban, a city on the eastern coast of South Africa.
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN | June 30, 2010

Vanessa Torres + Snack Cakes over Gay Pride Weekend

Music Seen
Among Pride Weekend's magic was a simply delicious moment at the Dyke March After-Party, when Vanessa Torres and the "Lady GayGays" did a cover of GaGa's "Bad Romance," with Torres on guitar, a cello, a violin, and a trombone.
By KATIE DIAMOND | June 24, 2010

Where the girls are

Prime places to track down all the single ladies
While Boston does have a few conventional — some might say uninteresting — gay bars, it doesn’t have a designated hotspot for queer women.
By ASHLEY RIGAZIO | June 03, 2010

Smith Hill weighs a ban on the under-21 crowd

The Fun Police
Seasoned partiers will recall that about a decade ago our august legislature considered barring anyone under age 21 from Rhode Island night clubs in a bid to curb underage drinking.
By DAVID SCHARFENBERG | March 31, 2010

Flashback: Art After Hours

A review of Man Ray nightclub
There’s no shortage of nightclubs and bars in Boston, but the sheer magnitude of offerings has been no guarantee of quality. Between the scruffy rock clubs, gay discos, and often pretentious singles bars, there hasn’t been much of a middle ground.
By ROBIN VAUGHN | March 25, 2010

Flashback: Art After Hours

Hot spots in an instant

Real-Time Clubbing
Cologne on, dress pants clean, and IDs ready — your Friday night is in full swing. But before you take a step behind the bouncer-guarded pearly gates, check your cell phone. It may just save you the cover charge.
By MARIANNA FAYNSHTEYN | February 24, 2010

Review: Out on the town

Music Seen
Bars and clubs everywhere, 2009
By JEFF INGLIS | December 22, 2009

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Brave new world

Styxx’s management sets an oddly pleasant menu
How many marriages are born or nursed in our city’s bars?
By BRIAN DUFF | October 28, 2009

Pints And Blood On A Saturday Night

The undead
The Reverend Al Zombie, organizer of the Providence Zombie Pub Crawl, climbed on the bar at Fatty McGee’s as the event kicked off Saturday night to offer a disclaimer.
By ABIGAIL CROCKER | October 07, 2010

Knight of night life

Taking on Boston’s biggest bully
The most feared man in Boston isn’t a crazy-eyed killer or a brutal street thug — he’s an elected official. Evidence? When was the last time you heard a disgruntled Boston businessperson publicly criticize Mayor Tom Menino?
By CHRIS FARAONE | October 26, 2009

Last call; open season

Venue Watch
Over the course of its short lifetime, the White Heart bar and lounge made its mark on Portland's nightlife scene.
By DEIRDRE FULTON | October 07, 2009

Where everybody knows its name

J.J. Foley's Celebrates its 100th
In describing the changes that have shaped the South End since Jeremiah J. Foley poured his first glass of whiskey there one century ago this month, one need not look far for metaphors.
By CHRIS FARAONE | September 09, 2009

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High dives

It's harder than ever to find a bar with soul in town these days. But it's not impossible.
Dive bars. Where the drinks are cold and stiff. Where the air wafts with the unmistakable but not-altogether-unpleasant tang of suds long since spilled. Where the neon shines bright and true and the jukebox plays good and loud.
By MIKE MILIARD | August 31, 2009

Wild nights

For better or worse, gay life is ditching the bars
I don't need to break this news to you returning LGTBTQ-folk, but for those of you just joining us in Boston, a bitter little amuse bouche to start off this otherwise super-tasty survey of our current gay-nightlife situation: our gay bars kind of suck.
By MICHAEL BRODEUR | August 31, 2009

Maria's Taqueria

Fast, fresh Mexican in a neighborhood that needs it
Apple's ubiquitous iPhone ads would have you believe there's a portable application for every possible problem. How about this one: finding good, inexpensive chow in culinary dead zones at odd hours of the day?
By MC SLIM JB | July 08, 2009

Go back in time

Gay and lesbian Mainers revisit the last 25 years
Last weekend was Pride weekend here in Portland, and though rain made its own appearances occasionally, it didn't stop hundreds — even thousands — of people from, well, coming out and celebrating.
By PORTLAND PHOENIX STAFF | June 24, 2009

Celebrating Ralph's

A Worcester Icon at 30
Having survived the temporary loss of its coolness factor at the turn of the century, and the death of namesake Ralph Moberly last year, Ralph's Chadwick Square Diner, the 400-seat Worcester night-life landmark that's showcased several decades worth of local, Boston, and regional bands (plus some national headliners), celebrates its 30th anniversary.
By BRIAN GOSLOW | May 06, 2009

54. Tom Daschle and Bill Richardson

ALL-AMERICAN REJECTS
This could-have-been didactic duo of powerful cabinet players was stopped in their tracks by their own oversize egos and inability to marshal simple personal ethics. As Democratic Party insiders who knew better, their stumbling and bumbling greatly embarrassed the Obama presidency in its infancy — and therefore almost crushed hope as badly as it would have been crushed had Richardson sat on it.
By Boston Phoenix Staff | March 25, 2009

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Dry days are over for PCMH

Booze or bust
It's an all-too-common scene here in Portland: A local music venue is ready to rock, but liquor inspectors (or fire inspectors, or some kind of inspectors) haven't yet signed some important piece of paperwork.
By SAM PFEIFLE | January 28, 2009