Rachel and Maureen Shea of the Episcopal Public Policy Network in DC carry two lanterns up the aisle in Old North Church.
Today, Rachel lit one of the two lanterns that will shine in Old North Church
(best known for the midnight ride of Paul Revere) throughout the week in
honor of the DNC as well as the [...]
The Opera House offers an open door
The
Boston Opera House re-opened its doors today, and natty yuppies
and families will be swarming these once-quiet streets around 7pm every night.
It’s
quite a change for the
neighborhood near my office, whether you call it the Theater District,
Downtown Crossing, the Ladder District, or even the Combat Zone.
(Currently, the streetlamp banners proclaim it [...]
It might be prettier,
and the gates are indeed wider and easier to maneuver your luggage
through, but boy, the fact that the new Airport stop on the Blue Line
is on ground level sure was an unpleasant surprise. Now when you’re heading inbound,
you have to go UP the escalaters, OVER the tracks, and back DOWN again.
OTOH, it’s [...]
Here’s
a picture of workers hanging up flags around the Hatchshell I took last
night on the Fiedler Footbridge while biking home.
Boston, IMHO, has the classiest and best Fourth of July celebration in
the country. We don’t do the schmaltz that DC specializes in, and we have a real sense of history here. (We are the home of [...]
I do it just about every day. Of course, I’m only 4 miles from work
by foot. I hope people who choose this option will find out just how
pleasant it is to bike to and from work. (And if they don’t, maybe next
time they’re driving a car they’ll be more careful and aware of
cyclists!)
Boston Commons has dutifully gathered up all the local bloggas about the random MBTA search policy (including this general information guide), and one of them
caught my attention in calling the president of the National Lawyers
Guild an “anti-American terror apologist” (and an idiot). Without
addressing the characterization, it seems
to me NLG’s Michael Avery quote poorly worded his [...]
Took
this picture Monday, the summer solstice, on my bike ride home, which
takes me through Boston Common. This view, looking out over the Common
to Back Bay, always enchants me. (I’ve also found that the later the
sun sets, the later I tend to stay in the office. Kind of perverse.)
Karma forbid that anyone caricature the 1960s and 70s as an era of
self-indulgent hedonism. But Ty Burr, defending the honor of helpless
hippies everywhere, is here to remind us
of the 10th anniversary of an insipid, hack-art, feel-good movie and
resurrect it from post-Oscar obscurity. Because Forrest is part of some
vast right-wing conspiracy to make us all Think [...]
Boston sure has a lot of patriotic holidays: Patriot’s Day (otherwise
known for the Boston Marathon), Evacuation Day, and today, Bunker Hill
Day — a holiday well-known for wreaking havoc on the Boston school
schedule. (Giving kids a holiday their last week of class is a recipe
for chaos). It’s an official holiday and unofficial work day here at
the [...]
Considering that the Big Dig was initiated on the whim of politically
powerful friends of the North End, for the relatively trivial purpose
of reconnecting that neighborhood with the rest of Boston, is it any
surprise that the likely result will be a “disparate set of
neighborhood parks, shaped and constrained by nearby residents who
regard the space as their [...]
