The Life and Times of Sooz

photo of the Interactive Playpen (aka huge pile of LEGO blocks) at SXSW Interactive 2006. The Interactive Playpen was something Ryan Gantz and I schemed with festival director Hugh Forrest that has happened at the fest since 2006

Here's another one of those mega deluxe understatements of the year: I'm really excited about heading down to ...

The past few weeks have zoomed by super fast and the 1st Annual Soozapalooza is coming up this Saturday, January 23rd at Precinct (70 Union Square, Somerville). Grab a couple MP3s on the Soozapalooza website from Good Night, States who are traveling from Pittsburgh to Boston to play at Soozapalooza. Prizes include an 8GB iPod ...

I'm hosting the 1st Annual Soozapalooza at Precint on Saturday, January 23rd, 2010 in my neighborhood of Union Square, Somerville. It's a few parts birthday party (I turn 37 on January 20th) and a celebration of my favorite music. And there will be bourbon. A lot of bourbon.

Some of my favorite Boston bands will be joining the ...

My Google Calendar of recommended events and happenings around Boston has a new spot on sooz.com. You can also subscribe to it if you use Gmail. The calendar includes my picks for Boston concerts, networking events, tech events and other interesting happenings around town.

My Free Agent Jungle project took a little break over the summer plus an extra month or two. The monthly Boston networking lunch for freelancers is back with the next event on Thursday, November 19th at Tavern In The Square (Porter Square, Cambridge.) If you work on your own as a freelancer, free agent ...

Photo by Paul Janovitz, 2009

I was an instant fan of Avi & Celia the first time I saw them at the Lizard Lounge a few years ago, sitting in with the always amazing Session Americana. Since then I've seen them a few times playing their duo show of sexy, soulful, rock and roll. They've ...

Michael Oh from Tech Superpowers clued me into

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[Aloud at Arlington Regent Theater, April 2009, photo by Annie Burns]

I go out to see a lot of live music and it's always more fun to share it with other people. Annie Burns and I started up a new group called The Rock Out Boston Club on Facebook. The first concert outing is for Aloud ...

Free Shakespeare, the annual summertime project hosted by the Citi Performing Arts Center is back again at the Parkman Bandstand on Boston Common, July 18 through August 3, 2008. I've organized a get together for the Sunday, July 27th performance of As You Like It, at 7pm. We're meeting up at 6pm to grab a ...