Sexual Health Education & Advocacy throughout Harvard College otherwise known as SHEATH will be hosting the 2015 Fall Sex Week November 8 -14, 2015.
What is Sex Week you ask? Sex Week at Harvard promotes a week of programming that is interdisciplinary, thought-provoking, scholastic, innovative and applicable to student experiences in order to promote a holistic understanding of sex and sexuality.
Discussions are free and open to the public.
For more information, visit their website, www.hsexweek.org.
Earlier today Boston’s much celebrated chef, Ken Oringer, and his team announced that his signature restaurant, Clio, which first opened 19 years ago in the Eliot Hotel in the Back Bay will close on New Year’s Eve. Make your reservations today before the restaurant closes permanently in approximately seven weeks.
“Clio has seen so much success and I feel beyond blessed to have been able to grow and evolve alongside my flagship,” said Oringer.
According to the release issued, the restaurant will “reemerge as a new Japanese concept where Oringer and Chef Tony Messina from Uni will continue to showcase the best of today’s innovative dining culture,” in 2016 – although no date has been provided as yet.
Earlier this week I shared a post about Movember (or to be more precise (HO)MOvember, which is an annual month-long fundraiser dedicated to raising awareness and money for men’s health issues. I saw this video posted on Accidental Bear and thought it would also be good to share.
Testicular cancer is most common in men between the ages of 15-30 years. This video of seven men performing a routine self-exam shows how easy it can be. When detected early, testicular cancer is extremely curable. I hope that this funny – and very safe for work – video will remind people to perform a self-exam.
Last March I wrote about a small Herb Ritts exhibit opening at the MFA. The exhibit which spans two rooms includes some of the photos included in the MFA’s 1996 retrospective “Herb Ritts: WORK”, which remains one of the museum’s most popular exhibitions to date. If you’ve not had a chance to stop by and see the exhibit at the MFA Boston, I’d suggest you hurry since it closes on Sunday, November 8, 2015.
EaterBoston last week mentioned that a new Italian restaurant will open in the Ink Block’s Sepia Building in the spring of 2016 at 360 Harrison Avenue, adding another Italian dining option to the neighborhood.
According to the article, Bar Mezzana will seat approximately 130 and have a 40-seat outdoor patio. The team behind the forthcoming restaurant includes the married couple Colin Lynch and Heather Kennaway Lynch and Jefferson Macklin, who according to EaterBoston, “have put in lots of time within Barbara Lynch’s empire“; great pedigree for a Boston restaurant team.
Follow news about Bar Mezzana on their Facebook page, here.
This is great news for residents of the Ink Block and the neighborhood. With additional residents moving into SoWa and more development expected, it is important to have businesses that remain open later at night to avoid creating blocks that go dark after business hours like we currently see in some of the larger residential buildings in SoWa (e.g. Rollins Square and Wilkes Passage).
This summer I posted a similar video 100 years of men’s swimsuits in 3 minutes, which I thought was pretty cool. If you liked that video then I bet you’ll find this also pretty cool to watch.
Each Wednesday morning I post a photograph that gives me pause. I’ll get you started with a possible caption that hopefully inspires you to share a few of your own in the comments section below.
Stay still and maybe nobody will notice
For those who cannot get enough of Provincetown, Men’s Weekend which starts this Friday is a good enough excuse to justify a drive down for a visit. The weekend starts with a 70’s themed disco party at Purgatory and includes an underwear party and leather party also hosted at Purgatory on Saturday and Sunday.
Link here for more information about Ptown’s Men’s Weekend.
The Boston Jewish Film Festival starts tomorrow, Wednesday, November 4th and will run through Monday, November 16th. Of particular interest to gay audiences is the drama, Those People, which will play Sunday, November 8 at 9:00 PM at the ICA Boston.
About Those People: On Manhattan’s gilded Upper East Side, a young painter, Charlie, finds the man of his dreams in an older pianist from across the globe. If only Charlie weren’t secretly in love with his own manipulative best friend, Sebastian, who is embroiled in a financial scandal. In the wake of Sebastian’s notoriety, their tight-knit group of friends must confront the new realities of adulthood. Watch the full trailer on YouTube here.
Purchase your tickets to this movie here.
Learn more about this year’s Boston Jewish Film Festival here.
Last week my post New Greek restaurant coming to South End caught a lot of readers by surprise. The restaurant’s over sized windows overlooking Shawmut Avenue in the South End now proudly proclaim that the name of the restaurant, targeting an early 2016 opening will be called, Kava Neo-Taverna.
According to my friend Michael C who grew up in Greece, Kava means ‘wine cellar’, which sounds wonderful to my ear. The more I learn about this space the happier and more excited I am that this previously empty restaurant will be opening soon to serve the South End.
Did you know there is a Gay Men’s Book Club that meets each month in the Back Bay at Trident Bookseller’s Cafe? The next meet up is in two weeks on November 16th and they will be discussing Very Recent History.
The following is a partial description of the book from Amazon.com: Very Recent History by Choire Sicha is an elegant narrative that follows a handful of young men in New York City as they navigate the ruins of money and power—in search of love and connection.
If you’d like to learn more about this group or possibly attend their meet up on Monday, November 16th link here.
Australian Olympian Simon Dunn models his ‘stache for (HO)MOvember
You may start to notice more men with some upper lip hair over the course of the next few weeks as Movember kicks off for its 9th year here in the US. Australian Olympic bobsledder, Simon Dunn, put a twist on this annual month-long fundraiser that is used to raise awareness and money for men’s health issues, with his (HO)MOvember video which you can watch here.
Through a cruel twist of fate, I have no ability to grow more than a few wisps of facial hair so I thought the way I would participate this year was by helping to remind everyone about the event and if you live in Boston to encourage you to join the Movember Team Boston.
What to do this week: November 2nd – November 8th
Geek Trivia is hosted every Tuesday night at Club Cafe. Come over and show off your grasp of useless information on Tuesday, November 3 in Boston
Boston Jewish Film Festival opens this week and runs through November 16; opening night is Wednesday, November 4 in Boston
ICA Boston every Thursday from 4PM – 9PM admission is free to the public. Visit the museum’s exhibits at no cost on Thursday, November 5 in Boston
SoWa First Friday will have more than 60 artist studios open from 5-9PM at 450 Harrison Avenue in the South End, Friday, November 6 in Boston
Guerilla Queer Bar The Welcoming Committee’s monthly take over of a traditionally straight bar is tonight Friday, November 6 in Boston
Men’s Weekend is this weekend in Provincetown, starting Friday, November 6 in Provincetown.
Twisted Tea Dance from 4-10PM at Murphy’s on the North Shore at 300 Derby Street, Saturday, November 7 in Salem
Underbear monthly party is back at the Pi Alley in Downtown Crossing. Saturday, November 7 in Boston
Dance for LIFE is a weekend full of dance events at Mainestreet to benefit HIV / AIDS services in Maine Friday November 6 / Saturday, November 7 in Ogunquit
For the Love of Beer Festival lets you try over 50 different Sam Adams beers on Saturday, November 7 in Boston
I’ve started posting a weekly listing of upcoming activities. Send me information about your upcoming programs and events in my blog’s comment section or message me the details on Facebook.
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