Live DJs, multiple rooms, and a mural by Problack
New Bar-Restaurant-Venue Hue Open In Copley Square Hotel
Back Bay
Inbox: “Chef Michael Serpa Set to Open New Seafood Concept Little Whale Oyster Bar”
“New dining concept will feature approachable yet chef-driven New England-style seafood on Newbury Street”
Dig This: Wine-Around: Rosé Edition
"Enjoy an evening of select rosé tastings, all hosted by sommeliers and our Italian wine experts."
Inbox: Harvard Book Store To Open New Branch At … the Pru!?!
"We envision it as an important addition to the literary life in the city and a welcoming space serving the many communities of Boston."
Dig This: Graphic Artist Yenny Hernandez’s Prudential Center Mural
"The 2,500-foot bright, vibrantly colored printed mural opens June 30"
Patio Alert: Café Sauvage In Back Bay Now Serving Beer, Wine, Some Spirits
"New liquor license, new patio, new hours"
Area Sommelier Asks: “What If The Avengers Were Wines?”
“Maybe I am being Tony Stark and tinkering where I have no good reason to, but I just can’t help myself”
INBOX: BARTENDER TODD MAUL OPENING LTD BAR AT CUSSER’S IN BACK BAY
“Todd has only one of six Snap Chiller Machines and the other five are in coffee houses.”
EVA BOSTON SOON TO OPEN IN FORMER CAFETERIA SPOT ON NEWBURY
“After 13 amazing years and the pandemic it felt like the perfect time for a change,”
THERE’S STILL TIME TO ENJOY A FABULOUS (SOCIALLY DISTANT) FALL
There’s a heated patio waiting for you.
BACK AT BUTTERMILK & BOURBON: MORE NOLA FARE FOR NORTHERNERS
The honey biscuits were reason alone to come back.
LATEST LOOK: FRIENDLY TOAST, CAMBRIDGE
It’s nice to see such places as the Friendly Toast in Cambridge’s Kendall Square (and several other locations) take a light-hearted attitude toward all this, realizing that sometimes, you just want to have a decent meal, a drink or two, and a few laughs while enjoying a funky vibe that’s missing from so many other spots.
HALLOWEEN READ: ROOM WITH A BOO
New England’s hotels where guests check in… but don’t check out?
TACOS ON TOUR
Biking is practical, tacos are practical. Practical people like practical things. Bikes and tacos were made for one another.
THE SOMERVILLE LANE … AND THE LONG ROAD TO A BIKEABLE BEACON STREET
"The Beacon-Hampshire corridor is the single busiest bike corridor in Massachusetts, and that’s why Somerville is building a protected bike like along a stretch of Beacon Street. That’s where the bike lane is raised a few inches off the street and separated from vehicles by a curb."
THE BALLAD OF BIKING IN BOSTON
Dispatches from my daily dance with death en route to work
GETTING TO BIKE
Urban multimodal network needed to make bicycles a viable alternative in the ’burbs
VIDEO DISPATCH: RUSH HOUR CHALLENGE 2017 AFTERPARTY
How fast can you get from Downtown Boston to Davis Square?
VICIOUS CYCLE (DATA EDITION): BOSTON’S UGLIEST INTERSECTIONS FOR CYCLISTS
Despite apparently enthusiastic planning by the City of Boston in a few token places, by certain measures nil has changed in the past four years when it comes to bike safety.
I LIKE BIKE: A COLUMN THAT SOME OF MY FELLOW DRIVERS WILL HATE ME FOR, BUT THAT THEY SHOULD PROBABLY READ ANYWAY
The reaction to my advocacy is often like when ignoramus bigots question why white people would back the Black Lives Matter movement.
INTERSECTIONAL POLITICS (A CRASH-NOT-ACCIDENT REPORT)
When it comes to bike safety and infrastructure in Greater Boston, there’s a dangerous gap between the promises that cities make and the reality where rubber meets the road
ONE OF THE MOST IDIOTIC VOICEMAIL MESSAGES WE’VE EVER HEARD
It’s painful to imagine the absolute horror faced by these people, clientele and management alike, still we must do our best if there is to be any sense of sanity restored to the downtown area.
THE VERIZON SHUFFLE
Why the telecom company’s FiOS promise to Boston is a bait-and-switch
Free food and drinks, plus career & financial advice from experts? We’re listening…
Have you ever daydreamed about your money?
ASIAN REFUGE: YOUR PREVIEW OF BANYAN BAR + REFUGE OPENING IN JULY
The team has enlisted Phillip Tang of East by Northeast in Cambridge to help usher in a new era of Asian gastropub glory to a now-legendary corner of the South End’s dining scene.
WORD OF ART: APRIL DAMMANN’S BOOK ABOUT CORITA KENT IS A MASTERPIECE
It's true that Warhol was beginning to exploit commercialism and to show irony in our everyday life, but Corita really influenced many more people than she was influenced by ...
SPECIAL EXCERPT: ‘CORITA KENT. ART AND SOUL. THE BIOGRAPHY.’
Image via Angel City Press
OUT OF THE DARKNESS
The following is an excerpt from Corita Kent. Art and Soul. The Biography. by April Dammann. Published by Angel City Press, 2015.
In the summer of 1968, Sister Corita takes what might be a lifesaving sabbatical in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, staying with her friend and East Coast gallerist, Celia Hubbard (a Catholic convert) of the Botolph Gallery, where Sister Corita’s work is a centerpiece ...
SUMMER DINING: A DELICIOUS PHOTO ESSAY
Here’s to eating your feelings around the Hub all summer long.
UNDERLING: CHECKING IN WITH THE GROUND-FLOOR REVAMP TO FIRE + ICE
A round of drinks and food won’t completely break the bank here, either
SELECTION PROCESS: SELECT OYSTER BAR IS THE OPENING THE BACK BAY NEEDED
"I just want people to want to come hang here, have fun, and come back.”
