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2013 summer season in Ptown comes to a close
Sergio and I will likely continue to visit Provincetown off-season, but it is always sad to say good-bye to summer. Make your plans for 2014 early, Provincetown will book up quickly.
Hand Taste Collective comes to BoMA
The Hand Taste Collective is a Cambridge-based group that has previously hosted two pop-up dinners at Somerville restaurants, Daddy Jones and Spoke Wine Bar. Next Monday they will cross over the Charles River to take over BoMA Restaurant and Bar.
Monday, Sept-9 Hand Taste Collective Pop Up hits BoMA
According to Scott Kearnan’s article on Zagat.com, the menu will fuse “southeast Asian flavors with a New England sensibility”.
Kearnan writes, “Expect a “surf ‘n’ turf” of liberated marrow and snails, pickled mackerel and roasted maitake; sweetbread banh mi with liver mousse and carrot pickles; and “campfire veggies” served with guanciale and soy-cured yolk.” I’ll be honest, I have no idea what half of those ingredients are but photos from the Hand Taste Collective facebook page look scrumptious.
It sounds like the food will be paired with equally exotic libations including natural wines, tiki drinks and beer. If you have an adventurous palate and are looking for something different to try, make reservations for September 9th at BoMA in the South End via OpenTable.
BoMA is located at 1415 Washington St. in Boston’s South End.
Monday blues
Normally this wouldn’t be such a happy photo, but then again this isn’t a typical Monday. Most Americans (me included) have the day off. I hope you too can enjoy Labor Day.
Tawkin’ like yer from Bawstin
Although many of the college students returning to Boston this week are upper class men who are familiar with this town’s idiosyncrasies, thousands of Freshmen and transfer students are walking the streets asking for directions and doing their best to settle into their new home.
Let me be among the first to welcome you and defer you to this wiki on Boston slang. The list while somewhat old in that it references older pop culture terminology is still spot on and includes helpful definitions of words like the following.
Dawchestahh: Dorchester, Massachusetts NOTE: If you are gay and a student you are either a) likely living here; or b) get familiar with Dorchester (sometimes called Dot) because you’ll be going to a lot of parties here.
Leather District: A downtown neighborhood surrounding South Street in Boston, east of Chinatown. NOTE: The only thing gay about the Leather District is the LGBT bookstore, Calamus, and the porn shop, Marquis de Sade – both happen to be on South Street.
Wicked: very; or occasionally cool. Used indiscriminately, can modify anything (e.g.: especially “Wicked pissa.”). Almost always used as an adverb.
Yiz: Plural form of “you.” As in, “All a yiz bettah be in the cah by the time I count to fou-ah”.
Boston’s local theater scene
While there are many great national touring shows coming to Boston, there is a vibrant local theater scene too often overlooked. I’d like to encourage you to check out one of the performances listed below. Since tickets to these performances are much less than those national touring companies you can even afford to go out for drinks after the show.
The A.R.T. at The Oberon: The Donkey Show Every Saturday this show – inspired by A Midsummer Night’s Dream – takes audiences on what is described as the ultimate disco experience. Come party on the dance floor to 70s disco hits as the show unfolds around you. The Oberon is located at 2 Arrow Street just outside Harvard Square. Get Your Tickets Here
The Lyric Stage Company: One Man, Two Guvnors This award-winning British comedy makes its New England premiere when it opens on Thursday, Sept. 6. The production runs through October 12, but tickets will sell quickly.
The Lyric Stage Co. is located at 14o Clarendon Street in the Back Bay. Get Your Tickets Here
The Huntington Theatre Company: The Jungle Book Still riding high after receiving the 2013 Regional Theatre Tony Award, The Huntington opens their 2013-14 season with a world premiere on Sept. 7 that runs through Oct. 13. Curious to find out more about the performance? Watch their promotional video. The Huntington Theatre is located at 264 Huntington Ave in the Fenway. Get Your Tickets Here
New Rep Theatre: Elephant Man The Tony award-winning drama opens on Saturday, Sept. 7 and runs through Sept. 29. The 2-hour and 15 minute play tells a deeply poignant story that addresses issues of faith, charity and asks what it means to live in a civilized society. The New Rep is located at the Arsenal Center for the Arts in Watertown. Get Your Tickets Here
Bridge Rep of Boston: The Libertine Boston’s newest theater company opens with their first full season on Saturday, Sept. 7 that runs for two-weeks through Sunday, Sept. 22. The Bridge Rep performance will take place at the Calderwood Pavilion in the South End. Get Your Tickets Here
SpeakEasy Stage: Tribes The New England premiere of this play about a deaf man who struggles to assimilate into the hearing world until he meets a woman who introduces him to the deaf community opens on Sept. 13 and runs through Oct. 12.
Performances from the SpeakEasy Stage will take place at the Calderwood Pavilion in the South End. Get Your Tickets Here
Welcome back college students
September 1st is known as move-in day here in Boston. With 60+ universities in the metropolitan area, most apartments have a September 1 lease to accommodate the massive student population.
Allston, Brighton, Fenway, Kenmore as well as parts of Back Bay and Beacon Hill are most significantly impacted but really there is no safe neighborhood. Double parked UHaul trucks and discarded furnishings lining the curbside can be seen nearly everywhere.
Although the summer officially does not end until the third week of September, the influx of students moving into their apartments revives Boston and signals that autumn has arrived.
Scruffy Sunday
Seems like a very pleasant way to pass a Sunday morning. Stay in bed and relax. It is crazy here in Boston because so many renters in this city have September 1 apartment leases.
How much does a beer cost at your ballpark
Anyone who has attended a Red Sox game at Fenway Park will not be surprised to see that the price of a beer is more here than anywhere else. I think the only surprise in this graphic is that it is so expensive to buy a beer in St. Louis – the home city of Budweiser.
For those of you attending tonight’s game at Fenway Park against the Chicago White Sox, don’t say you weren’t warned.
Boston Comedy Arts Festival
The fifth Boston Comedy Arts Festival, starts next week and runs from Tuesday, September 3rd thru Sunday, September 8th. The event will include Kevin McDonald (from Kids in the Hall) as well as Cambridge’s own Jimmy Tingle.
Need a good laugh and want to find out more details about this festival? Check out the Boston Comedy Festival website, www.bostoncomedyarts.com
Time to do the laundry
What to do when you have no towels? I suppose its time to do laundry.
Have a great weekend
If you happen to live in the United States you are probably excited about the holiday weekend – or maybe I’m just projecting. Although summer technically continues, the season ends with Labor Day this Monday so make the most of the last weekend of summer.
Gay ol’ Philadelphia
Last week The Greater Philadelphia Tourism Corp shared their second commercial targeting the LGBT community to celebrate their 10th anniversary of their award-winning campaign, “Philadelphia Get Your History Straight and Your Nightlife Gay”
The humorous video features the ever so popular, Miss Richfield 1981 taking selfie’s in places of interest in Philadelphia. I’d love to see Boston create something like this to welcome LGBT travelers.
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