Music Hometown keytar heroes Freezepop have returned from touring the world (okay, Florida, and the Rust Belt) to once again rock Cambridge, with the help of the The Information, The Main Drag, and Michael Hensley. Middle East Downstairs, 8 pm, 18+, $14. Beer Harpoon will hold its St. Patrick's Festival at the brewery on 306 Northern Avenue. Wear galoshes because the floor may well be slick with beer. Harpoon Brewery, 5:30 to 11:00 pm,......

Something special happens when you turn 21. You can go out by yourself and pick up a six pack without awkwardly searching for excuses as to why you don't have your ID with you. What happens when a brewery turns 21? They have an even bigger party than you did on your 21st. This year Harpoon Brewery is turning 21 and the annual Brewstock festival will be part of the celebration. Big top tents......

The annual St. Patrick's Day celebration by Harpoon Brewery is almost upon us. On Friday and Saturday, March 9 and 10, the heated tents will be set up and the beer will be flowing at 306 Northern Avenue. The festival costs $15 for admission, a souvenir glass, and all the music and dancing you can handle. It runs from just after work lets out on Friday, and gets rolling again in the early afternoon on......

Today most of the MBTA system will be running on a Saturday schedule anticipating lighter rider-ship on the Martin Luther King holiday. Of course there's to "advisory" posted on the website, it's just a press release. The Saturday Schedule might be better for a T rider looking to get to Jamaica Plain than, say, a Friday Schedule. A tip to the blog Charlie on the MBTA indicates that the T’s Trip Planning website is having......

Beer is good. Cheese is good. There is a real problem with combining a really great beer with really good cheese: we're not going to eat less cheese or drink less beer. In fact, it's likely that consumption of both will increase. Harpoon Brewery and Cabot Creamery have teamed up and created a new cheese. What goes better with Harpoon IPA than when eating some co-branded Cabot Harpoon IPA Cheddar? The cheddar is soaked in......

People in Boston have gotten pretty good at finding new and innovative ways to clear up the rainy day blues. Still in our collective memory is a two-week long wash out that had everyone wondering if we would ever see summer – or just have to build an ark real quick. With gray skies all day today and a weekend looking like it will be another washout, there is a never fail way to......

Springtime is on the horizon, the days are getting longer, and that means (in addition to baseball, and a young man's fancy lightly turning to thoughts of love) bicycles. Bostonist, of course, persists with the bicycle, without respite, through the punishing winter months, but soon the narrow lanes of Cambridge streets will be practically choked with two-wheelers, and bike ticket revenues will once again skyrocket. Perhaps in recognition of this perennial reawakening, the Boston Bicycle......

It’s in these bleak days of March when you realize that winter is far from over. So, like most Bostonians, Bostonist takes to the local pubs to warm up and forget that there is a snowstorm on the way. Our Gothamist friends might be talking about a mysterious maple syrup scent in the city, but you might be wondering why a berry smell is wafting in from the waterfront. Well, the folks over at our......

Bostonist is an advocate of the bicycling life, but we know that it can sometimes be a lonely endeavor - just today, as we suited up in our baggy blue rain pants and slicker, preparing to leave work and brave the torrential downpour, we had to endure the curious/incredulous stares of our co-workers (and we weren't even wearing (nor do we ever) the dreaded spandex shorts so popular with the cycling set). Wouldn't it be......

July is National Beer Month and Bostonist is always up for some good, cheap beer during these summer months. Prices in bars in Boston range from a low $1.50 for 16oz at Sissy K's to a ridiculously high $6.00 dollars for 16 oz at Fenway Park. We want to recommend a few spots to make the paycheck go further, since we hate spending more just to have the same amount of beer. Bostonist recently took......

Bostonist would like to think that spring/summer has arrived now that the temperature has risen above 45 degrees and the sun is actually shining this week. So the first thing you do when it gets warm out is start enjoying the great outdoors with a beverage in hand, right? Well, Bostonist has been indulging in more beers than usual now that the summer ales are out for the season. One of Bostonist's favorite, Sam Adams......