A tropical storm is laying some serious wood to the Bean. The horror. The horror. Photos after the jump.

Yes, this post consists of Tweets you could easily get by starting at Twitter. But if the Globe can do it and pretend it's news, so can we. Irene already ruined our weekend plans, so we're holed up in the deluxe Boston Phoenix emergency bunker with a bottle of vodka and the iPad glued to #MAIrene. We'll be posting the best photos via Storify in yet another post with "blow" and "Irene" in the headline, because that's what newspapers do on a day like today.

If Hurricane Irene were a woman, she'd be a real handful. We're just going to say it. She's a bitch. The kind of woman who shows up unannounced and uninvited to Poker Night with a couple of her loudest gal pals and an axe to grind. The kind of woman who goes through her boyfriend's email searching for addresses with female handles.

Welcome to "Meet the Mayor," a segment in which we interview local Foursquare Mayors in their natural habitats.

Allston
Thom Martin

Does this mean you've taken over for Mr. Butch?
He's still the mayor and always will be. I don't believe Foursquare existed when he was alive.

Dirty Dishes are at the Middle East upstairs Thursday, Aug 25

Vice Magazine + Vitamin Water present Uncapped LIVE | Raveonette curated show featuring Dirty Dishes + Lord Jeff + Turtle Ambulance @ the Middle East upstairs on Thursday, August 25 @ 8 pm | viceland.com/uncappedlive/boston.php

Undaunted by today's harrowing events, Yelpers across the Hub dashed to their laptops to do what they do best: speak their minds.

Here at the Phoenix, we try and walk the walk. Call it advocacy journalism if you want, but we find it important to connect with the communities we cover.

With that said, the summer brings some amazing events - events that are, in some cases, fun enough to make you feel guilty for having such a good time in the name of social justice.

24 hour party, people?

Seriously, what is the Globe arts staff smoking?

On Tuesday, the broadsheet published a piece by Geoff Edgers -- the Globe's designated arts troll -- in which the author manufactured some petit outrage around a misleading claim that the Museum of Fine Arts was charging an outrageous amount of money to view Christian Marclay's 24-hour film "The Clock," which is sort of the Lady Gaga of contemporary art pieces.

Welcome to "Meet the Mayor," a segment in which we interview local Foursquare Mayors in their natural habitats.

The Video Underground foursquare.com/venue/203224

James Lau foursquare.com/james_lau

So Blockbuster is totally fucked, but this cool indie place is still here. Why did Blockbuster fail?

Sweatshop play the JP Music Fest on Saturday

"One Night Only Volume 2" | Showcase featuring area artists, rappers, bands, dancers, comics and more @ the Strand Theatre on Friday, August 19 @ 6 pm | articulationworld.com

1st Annual JP Music Festival | Jamaica Plain's first free music fest with 21 local acts including Tallahassee, Sweatshop, Shepherdess, Lenny Lashley, and more @ the Pinebank Field on Saturday, August 20 @ 1 pm (until 7 pm) | jpmusicfestival.

UGG, which is actually known as UGG Australia (so that's who makes these things), has finally deigned itself to open a store on Newbury Sreet. For the boots most popular with high school girls in the more popular cliques what could be better to celebrate the grand opening than an ironic cocktail party co-hosted by GQ

Welcome to "Meet the Mayor," a segment in which we interview local Foursquare Mayors in their natural habitats.

Flann O'Brien's
Mike Gildea

Do you and your friends win at Tuesday trivia night often?
Kind of often. I guess that's why we keep coming.

What's your trivia team name?

Bodega Girls are at "Cook'n With Trash" @ Middlesex on Sunday, Aug 14

"Cook'n With Trash: Rock n' Roll Art Show" | Art by Shane Jones (a/k/a L!L L!L!) and music by DJ Paul Foley, Headband, Doomstar! and DJ Nolskie. With members of Bodega Girls- tarot raffle reading by Carmen O'Connor and Evan Kenney emcees | Chinatown, Boston | Sunday, August 14 @ 7 pm | middlesexlounge.