noizemagazine - Index

noizemagazine - noiZe Magazine Issue 58 October 2008 - Index

the hottest mash-up of old and new
music, and lots and lots of hot guys.
The Estate
1 Boylston Place
617-351-7000
www.theestateboston.com
Rounding out his trio of Boston
dance institutions is Chris Harris’s
Glamlife, Thursdays at the Estate.
Machine
1254 Boylston Street
617-536-1950
www.machine-boston.com
Machine is a Boston institution,
known for go-go boys and twinks—
and those who love them. If you get
sick of dancing, just step into the
adjoining Video Lounge, with half a
dozen pool tables, and on Sundays,
a piano bar. There’s always something
going on, including Dirty Sexy
Mondays, Karaoke Thursdays, and
Disco Diva Club Classics on Sunday.
Rise
306 Stuart Street
617-423-7473
www.riseclub.us
Boston’s biggest after-hours club,
this is home to some of the best
DJs in the city. Rise is a membersonly
club, so you need to be “sponsored”
by a current member to join
(memberships start at $50/year), or
brought in by one as a guest ($20
entrance fee).
Venu
100 Warrenton Street
617-338-8061
www.venuboston.com
A straight bar most of the week, Venu
turns queer on Wednesdays with the
popular Latin Club. It’s Boston’s longestrunning
gay night, and brings a good
crowd of hot papis, banji boys and their
admirers.
Paradise
180 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
617-868-3000
www.paradisecambridge.com
This is where the college crowd hangs
out, in part because of the cheap drink
prices; of course, strippers 7 nights a
week doesn’t hurt either. Saturdays are
especially popular.
WHERE TO SHOP
The South End
www.southend.org
Although it has become much more
gentrified in the last decade, the South
End is still Boston’s gayest neighborhood—and
therefore one of the most
exclusive and expensive. The two main
thoroughfares, Columbus Avenue and
Tremont Street, are lined with gayola restaurants,
cafés, and shops. Further south,
Shawmut Avenue and Washington Street
have become the latest “in” spots, with
lofts, galleries, shi-shi restaurants and
bars.
Motley
623 Tremont Street
617-247-6969
www.shopmotley.com
Clothing for men, women, and kids, and
the best gifts and tchotchkes you’ve ever
seen. If there’s something that you don’t
yet know that you need, it’s here.
Retro piggy banks from Aunt Sadie's
Aunt Sadie’s
18 Union Park Street
617-357-7117
www.auntsadiesinc.com
With so much more than their famous
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Happy Am I! Healthy Am I! holy Am I!