You know why the world won’t end on the 21st?
The Mayans made one devastating mistake not taking into account the 20+ online columns that live only on the web version of DigBoston. Some things to consider: The Dig is the only website in Boston with electronic music coverage that doesn’t suck. In fact, it’s some of the best in the country. Re: In the Mix + DJ Set of the Week. Despite what Menino says, we also have the best-looking map of every food truck in the city: Grand Chef Auto, bitches! Furious rants about landlords? We’ve got them. Netflix show reviews? Ask @melgotserved and pee your pants laughing at her How You Queuin’ column. Then two-step over to our hip-hop column, Five Elements, written by a damn good freestyler. And dear heathen-sex-god, if you don’t read our Thursday #SEXDAY advice from English majors, you will never get laid.
Here’s the easiest way to keep up: Follow @DigBoston.
And here’s the Top 10 of Digboston.com of 2012 (out of WAY TOO MANY) that I sweated and cried over having to choose.
TOP 10
BEST THINGS ON DIGBOSTON.COM
AFI 100
Two years. 104 weeks. 100 classic movies. Your life changed after reading Kris Jenson’s meditations on film and life. Every single time.
HONEST PINT: BLOOD, SWEAT, AND BEERS
It’s not just about beer. It’s about love. And Honest Pint knows how to get to the heart of craft brewers. Best beer column in New England right here.
BACK TO SCHOOL SPECIAL: BOSTON SUCKS*
Resist the urge to smack Boston undergrads across the face when they say this city sucks, and hit them with this guide to why they’re wrong. Ft. Dex MF Ter and Scumbag Steve. *DOESN’T.
TOGETHER 2012: ONGOING COVERAGE
If only someone would have documented the glory and the madness! … oh wait. We have more than 40 pieces about it. #ReportingLive #4eva. | Photo by Nick Minieri // beantownboogiedown.com
EARTH PRIME TIME: INTERVIEW WITH J.H. WILLIAMS III
The cryptic mystery surrounding the artist behind Batwoman and his latest project Apocryphon is unveiled. From an “undisclosed location.” To our weekly comics columnist and League Podcast member, Clay Fernald (@ClayNFerno). Natch!
MARIA MENOUNOS: HOMETOWN HOTTIE
In which Medford’s starlet invites the ever-sassy Chris Carpenter down to ABC studios to host Survivor.
DEAR READER: WHY YOU SHOULD CARE ABOUT WFNX GOING OFF THE AIR
@HILMONSTAH WILL TELL YOU. #BOSTONMUSIC #F33L1NGZ *sniff x 25,000*
REGAL CAFÉ PIZZERIA: Y U STILL OPEN?
Top Tirade of the year: Lyssa Goldberg (@discolyssa) vs. the scumbags that send $120 bills to unsuspecting orderers of greasy, repulsive, uneatable food.
TOUCH THE WONDER: BEST DRIVER’S LICENSE PIC EVER
You have to see it to believe it—McMillen’s got the world’s single greatest driver’s license photo—living only on Digboston.com because the evil Mass. RMV snatched it away.
INTERVIEW: SCUMBAG STEVE
Scumbag Steve may have bummed our last cigarette on the worst fucking day of our life—but he’s still our boy. Forever. Show some fucking respect and read his feelings about being the physical incarnation of “viral.”
