When you show up at the door of the Whitehaus, you won’t find anyone there to X your hands or see your ID, you won’t find anyone there looking to charge you a 7 dollar convenience fee and, if it wasn’t already obvious, you won’t find Barack Obama. But you might find someone like Morgan Shaker who, despite never meeting you before, will let you in, offer you a beer, and start chatting with you about bands and upcoming events that he and his buddies are planning.

TeaParty recently caught up with artist Cary Hulbert at her home in Jamaica Plain. I got to see some of her new work which is influenced by her personal studies of ancient mysteries and theories. The artistic process seems to be a method of philosophizing for Hulbert. The end product then serving as starting point for the viewers own cogitative journey.

Music: there’s lots of it this weekend. Whether you want to listen to it in clubs stuffy or spacious, from sources live or digital, in a house or with a mouse, you are in luck.

We hope you got to usher out the Oughts with a bang, but that was, like, a whole week ago. No one cares what you did in 2009, man. It’s 2010. Clean up the empty Champagne (of Beers) bottles and scrape the confetti off the soles of your party shoes– you’ve got a whole new decade to debauch.

After twelve years in the business, Poor Little Rich Girl’s Meredith Byam knows her consignment. She’d been learning the ropes for years at Second Time Around when her parents pressed her to get her own shop. Surprised that she hadn’t thought of it herself, she did just that—taking over the space in Davis Square now occupied by Magpie, with not even enough money to make change on the first day. After three years, her fledgling flagship shop had outgrown the small store and Meredith moved it to the larger location on Elm Street. Soon, she was able to open up a store on Newbury Street and, most recently, near Inman Square in Cambridge.

We’re not sure what’s cooler: being a member of the X-Men, or being a member of LUPEC (Ladies United for the Preservation of Endangered Cocktails). The badass bartenders who belong to the Boston chapter of this national organization have mad skills and huge hearts, and their fall fundraiser was one of this year’s most hotly-anticipated events for Boston’s cocktail-loving crowd.

Thursday morning, Jessie, Gab and I will pack up the car, book it down to Brooklyn, drop off our bags at the loft in Williamsburg that we’ll be crashing at and promptly cross the bridge with cameras and laptop in hand(s) to document the CMJ Music Marathon through Sunday evening.  Though we’re falling all over [...]

The title pretty much says it all.   This weekend is long for a reason and it has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that Columbus totally screwed up trying to find India and wound up with us instead.  With Boston bands headlining shows in Cambridge, Allston and Somerville on Friday, Saturday and Sunday night, [...]

The Beatings have been around the block for sure: Since forming over ten years ago, Eldridge, Erin, Tony, Dennis and most recently acquired member Greg have been bouncing ideas off each other, getting songs down on tape and playing their music from the East Coast to the West Coast and back again.  Though based in [...]

Rarely at TeaParty Boston do we have the opportunity to document a band’s formation and its subsequent first shows, but that’s exactly the case with The Future Everybody.  After watching them deliver a set drippin’ with pop sugar and nerd rock sweat Upstairs at the Middle East back in August, one thing became very clear: [...]