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Archive for March 2008

March 12th, 2008

A Slice of Boston: Breakin’ on the T

Well, I’ve heard of dancers bustin’ some moves on train station platforms. But, I think this is the first time I’ve seen any this big do their thing inside an actual subway car.
Someone happened to be carrying their video camera or cellphone when a couple of B-boys caught a Red Line T train at [...]

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March 12th, 2008

Boston in Pretty Pictures: Boston Photo Mob

It really does pay to set aside a little time every now and then to explore this thing called the World Wide Web.
While leisurely “flipping” through the webpages on the deservedly popular photo-sharing website flickr, I came across a group dedicated to visually documenting the very city I blog about regularly.
The band of talented photographers [...]

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March 10th, 2008

Dee Dee Myers: White House History Comes to Town

Let’s talk politics.
When Dee Dee Myers served as White House Press Secretary from January 1993 to December 1994, the first two years of then-U.S. President Bill Clinton’s administration, she was not only the first woman to hold that position, but also the second youngest person ever, male or female, to function in that capacity. [...]

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March 9th, 2008

Shear Madness: Murderously Funny Comedy

When Marilyn Abrams and Bruce Jordan acquired the worldwide rights to Swiss playwright Paul Portner’s murder mystery Scherenschnitt, they couldn’t have known that the renamed and reformed work Shear Madness would become the phenomenal global success it has.
Now some 28 years after its January 1980 premiere and, according to the website, over 11,000 performances, the [...]

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March 7th, 2008

Boston Hospital Gets First U.S. Go-Ahead for Face Transplants

File this under FASCINATING.
Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston has once again made history. In December 1954, future Nobel Prize winner Dr. Joseph Murray performed the world’s first successful human organ transplant there when he transplanted a kidney from 23-year-old Ronald Herrick to his seriously ill identical twin brother Richard Herrick. The Harvard [...]

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March 6th, 2008

A Cinematic Celebration of International Women’s Day

Saturday, March 8, is International Women’s Day, a globally recognized day set aside to spotlight the diverse achievements of diverse women from diverse places, while simultaneously reminding everyone that there is still more work to be done.
Thanks to Hostelling International, Boston will hold its first annual International Women’s Day Film Festival this year to add [...]

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March 5th, 2008

Join Boston for Gaelic Gourmet Week

Yummy!
The Boston Irish Tourism Association and Tourism Ireland are certainly doing everything in their power to ensure that the Bay State has the most impressive St. Patrick’s Week possible. In that spirit, coming up next weekend for aficionados of all things Irish is the scrumptious-sounding Gaelic Gourmet Week, which coincides with Boston’s annual Winter [...]

By Chandra -- 2 comments

March 4th, 2008

All Aboard the White Elephant!

No — I’m not talking about going on a safari or visiting a zoo. Who needs to travel all the way to a jungle or a crowded public park when the city has its very own White Elephant anchored at India Wharf Marina on Boston’s historic waterfront?
The “elephant” in question happens to be the [...]

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March 3rd, 2008

Eat Well During Restaurant Week

An annual tradition is just around the corner for those who enjoy eating great food at great prices. The occasion is Restaurant Week in Boston, which is set to run Sunday through Friday during the weeks of March 9–14 and March 16–21.
This tasty event sponsored by the Greater Boston Convention & Visitors Bureau and [...]

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March 2nd, 2008

Audition for NBC’s ‘I Can Do That’

Do you like reality TV? Do you like the genre so much you’ve always dreamed of appearing on camera and in front of the entire nation, completing whatever odd task is set before you?
If the answer to both questions is yes and you’re in the Boston area, this Saturday you’ll have the ability to [...]

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