The Garment District (for Halloween)
We’ve reached the ominous-sounding episode 13 of the show just in time for Halloween! And to celebrate Halloween, I paid a visit to the Garment District: a huge clothing and costume store in Kendall Square.
Every year right before Halloween, you start to see posters on the T for the Garment District. Then you start to see tons of people carrying pink bags with the store’s logo and all sorts of fun stuff inside.
For the last 20 years, this former rag factory has been selling the clothes they used to cut up — and not just for Halloween costumes. Every day, they have more than 40,000 pieces of vintage and contemporary clothing on display on two floors of the old factory.
To find out what it is like to be at the epicenter of Boston’s Halloween, I stopped by last week for a chat with the manager.
A Boston Astronaut
This time, I’ve got a different kind of behind the scenes interview for you: rather than visiting a place everyone knows about or talking to a famous Bostonian, every once in a while I’d like to introduce you to someone or something exciting who really is behind the scenes.
So today, we’ll go inside MIT to find a real, live astronaut who works right here in the Boston area. My guest has done something many of us dreamed of as a kid: ridden a rocket into space. And not just once, but five times.
Photo Credit: NASA
Samuel Adams Brewery Tour
We’ve got a new episode on tap that I just recorded this morning at the Samuel Adams Brewery in Boston’s Jamaica Plain.
Boston is home what could be considered the Boston Beer Company’s “research lab” brewery, where they develop the new beers you see from the Samuel Adams Brand. Most of the large-scale brewing is done in Ohio, but everything starts right here in Boston.
I wanted to learn about what it takes to brew fine beer in the city of Boston, so I went down to Jamaica Plain to get a tour from one Samuel Adams’ brewers.
Every city should have a podcast like Boston Behind the Scenes.
This one is a no brainer; add it to your rotation right away.
