Wins and wines at the WooSox

I declared it 'wine night' at the WooSox last week when I found myself hankering for enough greasy food to raise the Tin Man from the dead. My husband agreed to join me under the condition I wouldn’t scale any surfaces and lead a passionate Taylor Swift singalong for the crowd...

'I took a bat to a big screen and it felt so, so good'

“Just plain www.smashit.com cost two grand on GoDaddy,” he explains, “Turns out it’s owned by an adult film company.” The Smashit2 URL, on the other hand, came in at a cool $12. Ceccarelli was sold.

Rage rooms like Smashit2 have grown in popularity across the country to help alleviate the stress of a global pandemic. Guests are invited to book sessions ranging from 15 minutes to an hour and destroy the contents of an industrial-looking room by wielding sledgehammers and baseball bats…

The Plastic Surgery ‘Zoom Boom’

It turned out, the sheer number of hours Dr. Fechner’s patients had spent staring themselves down on Zoom during the spring of 2020 had left some feeling insecure, or at the very least, self-reflective. They wanted a quick fix. A "Zoom Boom" ensued…

Worcester’s Charlie Slatkin vies for Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos’ attention.

“Did you know Bezos even gave one of his sons the middle name ‘Goddard’?” Slatkin asked me. I did not. “This is such low-hanging fruit for Worcester.”

Slatkin is right. If the richest men in the world idolize the father of modern rocketry, why doesn’t his hometown? Where is Worcester’s sense of wonder? Where are the show-stopping space-focused community experiences? Where are the immersive space “Virtualariums” to inspire the next Robert Goddard among us? And honestly, who can afford it? Bezos and Musk — that’s who….

Choosing the right Tequila on Cinco De Mayo (or whenever)

I couldn’t make it through our tasting without asking about Turtle from “Entourage,” the fictional HBO character credited with the rise of Avión Tequila. “Obviously it has become more problematic lately because celebrities are trying to get in on the booming spirit category…”

Worcester’s underground roller skate scene won’t laugh if you fall.

A few months ago, when Skylight Roller Skating Center announced it was closing up shop, I bought myself a pair of their signature skates with every intention of practicing. I finally dusted them off this week and headed to an undisclosed open-air meetup with Worcester’s roller girls, fully prepared to publicly humiliate myself…