Tomorrow night at the Paradise Lounge
The show I booked at the Paradise Lounge featuring three of my favorite Boston-ish area bands is tomorrow night (Tuesday, January 31, 2006)! Doors open at 8pm, it's 18+ and $7. If you mention that you heard about the show from sooz.com, you'll save two bucks. The bands that will be playing include Uncle Shaker,...
Party Like It’s 1999
Web startup Top 10 Sources hosted a launch party on Tuesday in their new Harvard Square office. Dan Bricklin wandered around the room recording interviews with the Top 10 Sources crew and other party goers. Listen up! I can't remember the last time I went to a launch party for a web business. It's been...
Dim Sum Brunch on Sunday at Chau Chau City
Frances and I are meeting up on Sunday for our birthday dim sum brunch at Chau Chau City in Chinatown. If you'd like to join us, please do! The official gathering time is 12noon but I'm going to get there a little early in case there's a line. Mention you'll be there in this entry...
Boston Rocks at Squidoo
I finally had a chance to spend some time at Squidoo this week. One of the lenses I set up is called "Boston Rocks" featuring Boston area bands, weblogs, podcasts, etcetera. Photos that are tagged Boston Rocks at flickr will appear on the lens, too. About Squidoo: Squidoo is a co-op run on behalf of...
Three Favorites at the Paradise Lounge on the 31st
Three of my favorite Boston(ish) area bands are playing a show at the Paradise Lounge on Tuesday, January 31st. It's part of my "Exploit Boston Presents" collection o' happenings. Doors open at 8pm with the first band, Uncle Shaker, going on at 9pm. Then it's The Curtain Society from Worcester who will be playing tunes...
Exploit Boston Game Night Photos
We had an awesome turnout at Monday's Exploit Boston Game Night on January 9th. The tables were full plus two groups were playing games on the floor of the lounge stage and a few more small groups gathered along the bar for card games. It looks like we'll have a regular (monthly) spot on the Paradise Lounge...
Web Innovators Group @ The Blue Room on January 30th
David Beisel is hosting the third Web Innovators Group meetup at 6:30 PM on Monday, January 30th at The Blue Room. The restaurant is at One Kendall Square in Cambridge. You can RSVP on the group's wiki: www.webinnovatorsgroup.com. Here are photos I took at the November gathering.
HeyLetsGo
HeyLetsGo is a new social networking and event calendar website in Boston that I found out about at the November Web Innovators Meetup. I set up a "Sooz Events" group that you can join if you'd like to receive invitations to my events and share info about other events, too. I still have my email...
Game Night Noted as Boston Globe Pick of the Week
Sarah Tomlinson noted Exploit Boston's (Monday, January 9th) game night as a pick of the week in The Boston Globe. I was pleased to see there's even a link to Exploit Boston at the online version of the story on boston.com. From past experience, they don't always do a lot of linking within stories. Kudos...
Structured Blogging
When Pete Caputa wrote about the new Structured Blogging plugins for WordPress and Movable Type, I was very excited to try them out. If you've been reading sooz.com for a while you have probably noticed that I've had an event calendar/guide called Exploit Boston percolating since 2002. Inspired by friends who set up Exploit Seattle...
First Night Fireworks
Sunday night Michael and I went to our favorite spot to watch the midnight fireworks over Boston harbor after First Night festivities. The view is great and the big crowds are on the other side of the harbor. I'm always surprised that there aren't more people on our side. Last year the television crews found...
