Last Saturday we chipped in at 826 Boston's grand opening. There was leech ballet and giant crab wrestling and an auction led by MC Eugene Mirman of Flight of the Conchords fame. Mirman also joined cryptozoologist Loren Coleman, author Jim Shepard, and writer Josh Bearman for a debate covering such vexing questions as "Bigfoot: friend or foe?" and "Is Bigfoot an alien?" San Francisco-based DJ Ripley contributed the beats.

The assembled

DJ Ripley

Lizardman hatchlings, obviously

Loren Coleman, with his book

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