I promote a lot of tours on this blog, but if there’s one tour you must take this summer it’s the Exploring the Charles River Basin tour offered by Boston By Foot guides (including myself). The tour steps off at 2 pm on Sunday, July 26th from Nashua Street Park just opposite the exit from [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Cambridge’
26 Apr
Walk for Hunger 2009
It’s time again for one of my favorite events of the year, Project Bread’s Walk for Hunger. I’ll be walking with my wife Susan and son Peter. At least one of us has participated every year since 2004. This year will be the first time all three of us will walk together as family. It [...]
31 Mar
Commuting with kids in Boston
I’ve hesitated to write anything on this blog from a parenting perspective since I’m such a novice parent, but after 17 months as Daddy I think there’s one issue I can write about and maybe actually be helpful: commuting with kids. Or one child at least. My son Peter has been riding the T since [...]
4 Feb
Beer Review: Cambridge Amber
Beer: Cambridge Amber
Brewer: Cambridge Brewing Company
Source: Draught
Rating: * (5.9 of 10)
Comments: Drank a pint of Cambridge Amber with my mac and cheese on a recent visit to Grendel’s Den in Harvard Square. Despite the name it’s not really amber in color, but more of coppery-brown. It looked pretty good in the glass with a nice [...]
14 Jan
Best laugh I’ve had all day
Walking across the Weeks Footbridge on Tuesday night, I witnessed a man (or a woman with heavy overcoat & shoulder pads, it was dark) setting up a tripod on the edge of the frozen Charles River. This person then proceeded to film himself standing on the banks of the river while spinning a hula [...]
13 Jan
Riding Big Red
Last month, Boston’s transit authority the MBTA introduced a new “high-capacity car” on the Red Line which they call Big Red. Basically during rush hours a couple of car without any seats are placed at the center of the train. As an experienced commuter, I’ve long become accustomed to the limited circulation within [...]
24 Oct
Where the Monkey Craps in the Buckwheat (concert review)
Last night I was fortunate to see folk singer/songwriter Peter Mulvey play a set at the Passim Folk Music and Cultural Center. Apparently, the last time I went to a concert it was also Peter Mulvey as reviewed on this blog a year ago (before the baby was born, but not before I [...]
23 Sep
Random Jots & Musings
For Sept. 23:
I saw a woman in Harvard Square wearing a McCain/Palin t-shirt. I immediately assumed she was wearing it ironically, but after a few moments it occurred to me that she may be for real.
There was a massive line at Boloco. Later I learned it was free burrito day. What does it say about [...]
28 Jul
Boston By Foot Tour of the Month: Tory Row
Boston by Foot’s Tour of the Month took us to Cambridge and the venerable neighborhood of mansions along Brattle Street known as Tory Row. The name is due to the number of wealthy Loyalists who either sold their houses before departing the rebellious colony or had their property seized. Of course, Cambridge moved on so [...]
16 May
Pub Sing
Last night the wife, son, and I went to the Revels’ Pub Sing at Doyle’s Cafe in Jamaica Plain. I just have to say that a pub sing is one of the greatest things ever. What could be better than gathering in a bar and belting out songs while swigging down beers? [...]
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