MSPCA-Angell Walk for Animals Sunday, September 9, 11am-2pm Boston Common (also in Springfield, Brockton, Cape Cod, and Martha's Vineyard) Sign Up! If you like a little woof or meow (or chirp or neigh) in your life from time to time, consider heading to Boston Common tomorrow morning to participate in the MSPCA-Angell Walk for Animals. The walk around the Common starts at noon and will be about 1.5 miles long, beginning and ending on Tremont......

The Return of the Belgian Beer Fest Cyclorama @ Boston Center for the Arts September 26 & 27 [Tickets, $40-50] There's a saying in the world of beer-fanatics about how to tell a true beer-lover from someone who just thinks they are. Goes like this: if you think Stella is a Belgian, you aren't a beer-lover. Simple enough. If you think Stella is a skunky as all the people who snicker knowingly at this joke,......

We’d just like to remind you of how lucky you are to be living in New England. Why, you ask? If it’s not the weather, the traffic, or the football team, whatever could it be? Well, the beer, naturally. For whatever reason—possibly the weather and the traffic—New England has a high concentration of amazing breweries and brew pubs. You can hardly finish a drunken stagger without falling over one. Pardon the blasphemy, but forget Sam......

The Weekly Dig just unveiled its new website design. Anything would have been an improvement over the crappy, sluggish site the Weekly Dig had before. You could go make a grilled-cheese sandwich and eat it in the time it took for a page to load. The new site is far more sprightly in terms of performance and design. However, we didn't pay as much attention to the design as we should have because of the......

On the heels of the Boston 375 Colonial Ale, brewed in the tradition of beers crafted back when Boston was founded the Boston Beer Company, maker of Samuel Adams beer, will soon launch a new pack of beers called the Brewer Patriot Collection. The four included are the Traditional Ginger Honey Ale, James Madison Dark Wheat Ale (we've also heard described as a red wheat), George Washington Porter, and the 1790 Root Beer Brew. The......

"I keep seeing the word 'hoppy' and misreading it as 'happy,'" says one of our drinking companions, leafing through the NERAX beer list. "You're not misreading," Bostonist replies, between sips of Bishop's Farewell. Our first pint at the New England Real Ale Exhibition is golden, fruity, and, in the end, bitter. Held in Davis Square's Dilboy Post, NERAX feels like a cozy neighborhood pub with too much light and not enough seating. Those familiar with......