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The Off Beat Live Blog (opens the original)
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We’ve had our share of bear sightings here in Massachusetts — surely you remember the fine specimen who was draining hummingbird feeders throughout southeastern Mass. this past July — but at least they have the good manners to remain outside unless invited in. That’s not the case in Connecticut, apparently — while Massachusetts homes saw five bear break-ins all of last year, the Constitution State has had 60 this year already, according to that state’s Department of Energy and Environmental Prot
The Off Beat Live Blog (opens the original)
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Add Boston.com as your preferred source on Google to see more of our stories. Off Beat is Boston.com’s collection of oddities, absurdities, and other only-in-New-England news. Sign up for the free weekly newsletter. In further proof that We Are Not Maine, a northern Maine eatery is offering free pizza to the first person to show up with a giant dead moose. And not just today — they’re going to do this every day until the state runs out of moose, or they run out of pizza, whichever comes first. (
What do cats, Krampus, and lobster ice cream have in common? (opens the original)
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You’re reading Off Beat, Boston.com’s collection of oddities, absurdities, and other only-in-New-England news. Sign up for the free weekly newsletter. Welcome to the first edition of the Boston.com Off Beat Newsletter! What is “Off Beat,” you may ask. The answer is: Nobody knows. But let’s just say, we know it when we see it. I’m Peter Chianca, Boston.com’s general assignment editor since 2019. I’m a longtime news editor, columnist, and music writer in the Greater Boston area. I’m also the autho
There are 34 Spirit Halloween locations in Mass. this year, in case you were wondering (opens the original)
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There are certain ways to tell that Halloween season is fast approaching. One is that they’ve already issued a recall on the Chocolatey Eyeballs they sell in TJ Maxx. The other is that Spirit Halloween is, well, everywhere. You know Spirit Halloween — referred to by NPR as “the grim reaper of retail,” it’s become the go-to punchline when you’re talking about empty storefronts and what might pop up in them. It’s been a meme, a gag in the recent “Naked Gun” reboot, turned up on SNL, and even brief
Here is every concert coming to The Big E this year (opens the original)
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Yes, it’s true that The Big E in West Springfield has BBQ/brisket sundaes, deep-fried apple fries, and giant sculptures made entirely of butter. (Please don’t eat those.) But it also has something else: Music! Almost 130 concerts by dozens of artists, to be specific. You can pretty much spend all day, every day at the massive multi-state fair — which runs from Friday, Sept. 18 through Sunday, Oct. 3 — checking out the musical acts. And if you’d rather not shell out extra dough (not the fried kin
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