The Boston Traveler

Since Boston is a college town, bookstores abound wherever you go, some even housing convenient cafes where customers can grab a cup of coffee or tea to go along with their reading distraction of choice. Coming Up: Ten Boston-area bookstores worth visiting, in alphabetical order.
Borders
Helpful staff; nice prices with ample bargains; occasional events; good selection of books, movies, and music; one of those aforementioned cafes; and located near several subway and bus lines, not to mention directly down the street from the central Downtown Crossing shopping area. It’s not the only Borders in town, of course, but it …read more

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Thank goodness!
The renowned downtown Boston branch of Filene’s Basement might have closed last year, following in the footsteps of the flagship Filene’s department store in the Downtown Crossing area, but that’s not going to stop one of its most popular events. If you’ve been wondering what would become of the twice annual Running of the Brides wedding gown sale, wonder no more, because the savings sprint will go on.
Filene’s Basement has made arrangements to hold 2008’s first installment of the legendary event at Hynes Convention Center (900 Boylston Street, Boston) this Friday, February 22. As usual, doors …read more

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If you’re unable to make today’s lunchtime Chinese New Year celebration at Macy’s Downtown Crossing or even Paris Hilton’s Harvard Lampoon ceremony over in Cambridge, Macy’s just might have something more appropriate for you later in the evening.
At 6pm, the Downtown Crossing branch of the retailer will welcome Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Artistic Director Judith Jamison and dancers Renee Robinson and Kirven J. Boyd for a Black History Month-related event on the Main Level.
Although the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater is scheduled to perform at the City Performing Arts Center Wang Theatre from February 7–10, tonight’s event will be …read more

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