On Sunday July 29, I coordinated another Tour of the Month with Boston By Foot at the very familiar location of Harvard Yard. While it may look like a patch of shady grass surrounded by many, many brick buildings and a few stone buildings, there are some secrets and stories that made the tour [...]
Last night at the Brattle Theatre I saw Punk’s Not Dead (2007) a fun documentary about the music, the lifestyle and the culture that is punk. Starting with a history lesson, the movie takes us back to the birth of punk - the Clash, the Sex Pistols, the Ramones and many, many others. [...]
A unique Belgian-style Witbier courtesy of Charlie’s Kitchen.
Beer: Blanche de Bruxelles
Brewer: Brasserie Lefebvre
Source: Draught
Rating: * (5.9 of 10)
This beer is unfiltered so it is very cloudy in the glass. The beer takes on a bright, almost florescent yellow color that make one really want to not think about the Manikin Pis boy on the tap [...]
I love this post on Universal Hub called Shut Storrow Drive! I’ve long thought that the Esplanade and the Paul Dudley White Bikepath are shining stars in the galaxy of beautiful sites in Boston. And yet they are pressed into a small piece of riverfront by the glaring eyesore of Storrow Drive. [...]
Somerville News: Planes flying over Somerville believed to have tripled: Residents on hills feel it most by George P. Hassett.
I’m well acquainted with planes taking off from Logan and buzzing the rooftops of Somerville. Oddly, had I been asked I would have said it doesn’t happen quite as often as it used to, maybe 4-7 [...]
I’m feeling macabre today so here’s The Gashlycrumb Tinies by Edward Gorey (with Spanish translation no less!).
Believe it or not, I’ve never read The Call of the Wild (1903) by Jack London, which one would think is a requirement of being a kid in America. And I still haven’t read it, although on a whim I listened to my library’s audiobook copy, albeit not very carefully. Narrated in an appropriately macho [...]
Recently articles in two New York City newspapers have set the library world abuzz with their coverage of hipsters who happen to be librarians. Or librarians who happen to be hipsters. Either way it seems that everyone has an opinion ranging from “it’s cool to be getting positive media attention” to”this is [...]
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (2007) by J.K. Rowling ends the series on a satisfactory note. I won’t say much in way of spoilers — although probably everyone has read the book by now — but it was as good as I could expect it to be and maybe a little [...]
With great anticipation I’ve awaited the next book in a series of imaginative fantasy-science fiction books set in England. You’re probably thinking I’m talking about Harry Potter, but you’re wrong. Today I’m celebrating the US release date of Jasper Fforde’s First Among Sequels. This book is the fifth installment in the Thursday [...]
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