THE WEEK AHEAD
Après, Après, Après.

MONDAY 2/19:

• Curling at Snowport

  • 3pm - 8pm

• Free admission at the Boston ICA for President’s Day

  • 10am - 5pm

TUESDAY 2/20:

• BFD Tuesdays ($7 tickets) at Alamo Drafthouse

  • 11am - 11pm

• Slopeside at Harpoon Brewery

  • 4pm - 8pm

WEDNESDAY 2/21:

• Workout Wednesday at Tonal

  • 3pm - 7pm

THURSDAY 2/22:

• Après Thursday at Stio (Ski Gear Pop-up)

  • 3pm - 6pm

• Betty the Yeti Cocktail Crawl

  • Until February 29th

FRIDAY 2/23:

• Loud Luxury performs at The Grand

  • 10pm - 2am

CULTURE
The Round Up

Media

• Amazon will air an NFL playoff game next season. Colin Jost will headline the White House Correspondent's Dinner. A new Adam Sandler comedy special is coming soon. ESPN & CFP are close to a $1.3b extension. Draymond Green will be on TNT's All-Star weekend alternative cast. Check out the Super Bowl ad that changed the world.

• Immediately after Penn Entertainment's non-compete with Barstool Sports expired after the NFL season, Dave Portnoy announced their new eight-figure deal with DraftKings. X is partnering with BetMGM to become their exclusive live odds betting partner.

Music

• Sony Music acquired Michael Jackson's music catalog for $600m at a $1.2b valuation. Here's why artists like Bruce Springsteen, Katy Perry and Justin Bieber have sold their music rights. MJ's nephew will play him in an upcoming biopic.

• Quick Hits: AC/DC is going on tour. Kanye West and Ty Dolla $ign’s ‘Vultures 1’ dropped. The top 50 love songs of all time. Pearl Jam announced a new album. Eminem is set to co-produce a documentary on fanatical fans.

Style

• ManU partnered with British band 'The Stone Roses' on an adidas clothing collab as a tribute to the 'Madchester' music scene. Last year, ManU & adidas signed a record $1.2b sponsorship extension. In other adidas news, the Mahomes 2 was unvieled.

• Check out the new Air Jordan 11 cleats. The most important part of a suit are the shoulders. Athleta's new line is designed for high-intensity movement. Kai Cenat is partnering with Nike. Donald Trump dropped his signature sneakers and they sold out. How a Super Bowl champ is reigniting an iconic brand.

TSJ DEEP DIVE
Are you inkspired yet?

We’re willing to bet you did not know our lovely little Seaport neighborhood had its very own badass tattoo shop. Why are we willing to bet that? Because we didn’t know it either - and Seaport is kind of our thing. A mere eight minutes away from The Grand (lol) is Seaport Tattoo, a 4.6 star-rated tattoo shop right in our backyard.

Seaport Tattoo was established in 2017 by owner and operator Jimmy Johnson. Johnson is a legend in the tattoo game, holding the first-ever issued tattoo license in the state of Massachusetts: #001.

In an interview with The Boston Voyager, Johnson described the permitting process he went through before opening up Seaport Tattoo as “painful.” We don’t often get political, but if a tattoo artist is referring to a permitting process as “painful,” maybe we should look into that…? Mayor Wu?

So if you’re already planning your Seaport Journal-inspired tattoo, head on over to Seaport Tattoo during these bitterly cold winter months. One of the (few) benefits of this time of year: tattoos heal better in the cold! We’ll wrap things up with a few trivia questions…

1. Which nation in the world has the population with the highest percentage of tattooed citizens?

2. What percentage of Americans have a tattoo?

3. What is the most commonly tattooed body part?

4. How many tattoo parlors exist in the world?

Answers below…