Published August 12, 2010

A Naragansett is the Boston hipster's answer to Pabst Blue Ribbon, Zezima reports. (one light/Flickr)

New York Times reporter Katie Zezima recently documented 36 hours of good times in Boston. It’s an impossibly ambitious guide for the tourist or the local — where to stay, where to eat, what to do. The Beehive, the ICA, the Greenway, 75 Chestnut, Drink, the Ames Hotel and the Charles River all get love.

Zezima is our guest today for Radio Boston’s Thursday arts roundup. She joins Hubbub immediately afterward for a live Web chat.

Of course, when a New York newspaper tells America what to do in Boston, Bostonians inevitably take offense. Consider the comment thread at Universal Hub:

Commenter Roslindalian writes:

I have to say, this was actually a pretty standard format and tone for these NYT “36 hours in ___” and was genrally free of offensive invectives and derision. This is, of course, with the exception of every New Yorker’s inability to make reference to any marginally Italian neighborhood as anything other than “Little Italy” and its mention of the gastronomic “inferiority complex” that apparently exists in The HUB. I was able to brush off those slights by imagining what nose-look-donwery might be found in one of these pieces on (gasp) Chicago, or other western frontier villiages. Heavens, what would cause you to leave Manhattan for one of THOSE areas?!

But Katie (who is a friend) is no carpetbagger; she lives and works here in Boston. The article focuses on the new and novel, and I’ll admit, I hadn’t tried (or heard of) a lot of her discoveries. It’s a good read.

Surely you have suggestions of your own. How would you kill 36 hours in Boston? Dish it out in the comments, and join us for the live Web chat at about 3:45 p.m.