The Silhouette, a cash-only dive bar with a dart room and free popcorn that’s just west of Fenway Park in the long-time blue-collar neighborhood of Allston, has been open for 53 years. Irene Davis has been behind the bar for 34 of them — and more impressively, she’s...
The holidays can be a trying time for anyone trying to maintain a strict diet and fitness regimen. Every event is centered around drinking booze and overeating, and the sheer number of events makes it nearly impossible to keep a steady gym schedule. But for many people,...
We’re closing in on Christmas, which means your winter beard — if you grew one — has probably reached peak fluffiness. But that’s just the first step towards achieving your desired look: Now that you have a beard, you have to put together outfits that suit it....
So it begins — the start of office holiday party season. (Even the movies say so.) To help you navigate yours, we’ve enlisted HR expert Terry Petracca. She’s answering holiday party-specific questions to ensure that your festive office gathering results in harmless fun instead of a never-ending nightmare...
Drowning yourself in spiked eggnog is one way to survive the holidays, and you wouldn’t be alone in doing so: Americans consume a whopping 135 million pounds of eggnog each year, most of which we can only assume has a decent helping of rum in it. Sadly,...
Being a good uncle is tricky: Uncles can be that cool, fun guy who gets to spoil the kids by bringing them to a theme park and letting them eat churros as a meal, then lets them stay up late to watch movies deemed too violent by...
Most of us work more than we live, which is to say we spend considerably more time at the office and with our coworkers than we do with the human beings we actually want in our lives. It also means that the stressors and anxieties of work...
Shocking news! Drinking too much makes you fat. Who knew??? Yes, we all know that alcohol leads to obesity. But many of us assume that the biggest offender is beer. In fact, though, any kind of alcohol is going to help pad out that spare tire. And...
It’s flu season, and you know what that means: You finally have an excuse to take a few sick days. But how sick do you have to be to stay home? And how well do you have to be before returning to work? Primary care physician Dr....
Music triggers people in plenty of weird ways: It can calm you; it can make you happy; it can help you eat less; it can improve your driving. And it’s not always as simple as the tone or lyrics — studies show there’s even a specific number...
You don’t need to drink very much, or even often, to see that alcohol gives with one hand and takes away with the other. Whatever booze offers in easy laughs, false bravado and unforgettable stunts will soon enough be offset by beer poops, hangovers and inexplicable drunk purchases. But we press on and...
We get asked a lot of shaving questions here at Dollar Shave Club (who’d have thought?), from how to shave with the grain to the tricky business of edging under the nose. Because it’s important, here’s how to shave with the grain: Pull the razor in the...
