The OG Beanpot VIP
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The OG Beanpot VIP
Four college programs. Undergrads with literal knives attached to their feet. Good old Boston tradition. It’s time for the Beanpot. What started in 1952 has blossomed into a beautiful rivalry as BU, BC, Harvard, and Northeastern are reunited on the ice to determine the best hockey program in our little university town. The women’s first meeting took place in 1979, six years after Title IX was considered effective, and resulted in our favorite college hockey picture yet. That’s Diane DerBoghosian, 1979 MVP, cooling the whole damn rink with iconic tinted shades after successfully defending the goal even in the midst of the lights in the arena cutting out. The men and women skate for the trophy tonight and tomorrow night, respectively. And despite nearly 40 years of women's teams continuing to kill it on the ice, men’s tickets are $98 on average. Women’s tickets are $10 flat. Hm. Interesting.
Today: Men’s Beanpot Tournament: Consolation Game 4:30 p.m., Championship Game 7:30 p.m. // sold out but your couch is a seat with streaming.
Tomorrow: Women’s Beanpot Tournament: Consolation Game 5 p.m., Championship Game 8 p.m. //$10 or streaming
The latest and greatest in MBTA repair closures
If you’ve already adjusted to parts of the Red Line becoming bus service on weekends this winter, fear not: more MBTA repairs are coming. Sections of the Green Line’s C and E branches will be shut down for a month this summer, and there will be weekend and night closures on every line. Will these shuttle buses get the dedicated lanes they deserve? tbd: MBTA General Manager Steve Poftak says they’re "actively discussing" the idea, but that’s no promise. And for all the griping, the work is all in service of a better MBTA and should be done before it’s overdue! It’s certainly better than derailments and fires and ghost trains.
DO THIS.
Today
It’s 2020, and the gender pay gap is still here. While the burden to fix this shouldn’t rest solely on women, in the meantime you can head to Rebel Rebel for a glass of natural wine and gender/financial literacy workshop. 6 p.m.//$30
Alexis Coe, presidential profiler extraordinaire, is at the Cambridge Public Library to talk about her latest bio of George Washington, “You Never Forget Your First.” 6:30 p.m.//free
Tomorrow
Don’t write off tap dancing as just Fred Astaire territory: Radcliffe fellow Ayodele Casel is giving a lecture on her theatrical work, “Diary of a Tap Dancer,” that centers the unnamed women of the dance form. 4:15 p.m.//free
Get up close and personal with some flowers: you’ll sketch em, dissect em, and microscope stare at em at this Arboretum winter workshop. 6:15 p.m.//free but register
HellaBlack is back with a special hip hop edition featuring Boston’s most fire female emcees. 7:30 p.m.//$25
Plan ahead!
Wednesday
Share a glass, a laugh, and a creative space with local maker and shaker Courtney White, next up in Zone 3’s Drinking and Drawing series. 5:30-8:30 p.m.//free with RSVP
Got opinions about the lighting along the Chinatown section of the Greenway? This community meeting is your time to, erm, shine. Translations services and snacks provided. 6 p.m.//free
The Booksellers doc trailer just dropped and we cannot stop thinking about musty old-book smelling, incandescent bulb lit, overstuffed and under-trafficked book shelves. Uncertain if this was coordinated, but Boston’s resident proprietor and owner of Brattle Books Ken Gloss is giving a lecture this week on what it’s actually like to get paid to do this at the Cambridge Public Library. 6:30-8 p.m.//free
The Poetry Brothel is visiting Boston for one night only with acrobatics, poetry, and champagne tasting at Sonia in Cambridge. Prices range from spectators to the featured Poetry Whore, who will perform their own work alongside the traveling cast. 8 p.m. - 12 a.m.//$25-250
Thursday
Get crafty with a Collage + Mixed Media Workshop at Niche Plant Shop led by the lovely Paige Lindsey. Ticket price includes materials, frames, and a couple glasses of liquid courage. 6:30-8:30 p.m.//$65
Tim and Eric are here. If you don’t know what that means here are some GIFs of Tim. Here’s a GIF of Eric. 8 p.m.//$35-55
Friday
Love demands a chic all-black ensemble, a snappy introductory line that lets you know who has been killed and who will be killed, Andre the Giant, and a grandpa who’s doing his best. The MFA is presenting it all with two free showings of the Princess Bride to pump your holiday full of the nostalgia you crave. 6 p.m. and 8 p.m.//free
Take part in a tasty interactive piece of performance art where you can trade a secret for a chocolate. 7 p.m.//$10
Still wistful for simpler times? Take a more cringe-inducing approach with Mortified, a live-reading of people’s teenage journals and diaries for a healthy balance of ‘awws’ and ‘yikes.’ 7 p.m. and 10 p.m.//$15
Saturday
Peek into colonial-era love with a live reading of The Letters of John and Abigail Adams at the Boston Tea Party Ship & Museum with fruit, cheese, and drinks as you stare wistfully out to the Atlantic holding only a passion for revolution in your heart. 7 p.m.// $39 per person; $69 per couple
Scoot and scat on down to the latest ZUMIX Big Worlds concert, focused on experimental jazz. 7-10 p.m.//$16
Sunday
Kick your Sunday blues to the edge of the ring with BLOWW’s Nether Regionals tournament, an athletic showcase of “empowered queer consensual skin to skin punchies.” 7 p.m.//$20