For tickets, please purchase online at www.nempacboston.org or contact us at 617-227-2270 Performance features local Boston Opera Singers, including NEMPAC instructors Sherri Snow, Alexandra Dietrich, and Rebecca Rapoport-Cole, and a 35 seat orchestra. The June 29th performance will be a staged production. The July 1st Community Performance will be a concertized version outdoors at the Park. Pack Read More…
The Saint Anthony of Padua procession took place on Sunday, June 10, 2012, with the statue leaving from Saint Leonard Church to be blessed throughout the streets of Boston’s North End. For four hours, the statue of Saint Anthony was carried on the shoulders of dedicated worshipers accompanied by the music of the North End Read More…
After the unfortunate passing of Tobie V., his legacy will live on with two new additions, Chico and Montie. They are both Certified Therapy Dogs and are already visiting the North End Spaulding Rehab and Nursing Home on a regular basis, where the folks there already love them. Thanks to DonnaMarie V. for sharing the Read More…
The North End Music and Performing Arts Center, NEMPAC, held its Annual Spring Music Student Recital on Saturday, June 9, 2012 to a large and enthusiastic audience gathered on the Prado, also known as the Paul Revere Mall. The musicians that performed were students of NEMPAC instructors Sarah Glenn, Rachel Carpenter, Rebecca Rapoport-Cole, Jeremy Sarzana, Read More…
Summer today turns Boston Harbor into a bustling place of recreational fun, but local North End researcher Anne M. Pistorio reminds us of how foreign the harbor was to the newly arrived Pilgrims in the New World. It was September 1621, about a year after the arrival in Plymouth that the Pilgrims decided to explore Read More…
The four-day Flash Forward Festival drew thousands to the free public exhibitions, lectures and parties at the Fairmont Battery Wharf Hotel on the North End waterfront. The outdoor Harborwalk installations will be up all summer (See Flash Forward Festival Photography Exhibitions on Harborwalk.) Due to popular demand, the exhibitions at Two Battery Wharf will remain Read More…
Sunday, June 10, 2012 is National Firemen’s Day and commemorated by Bob Shure’s Boston Monument sculpture. Massachusetts Fallen Firefighters Memorial 2007 Outside Beacon Hill State/ Bowdoin St. and Ashburton PL. Robert Shure, Sculptor Bronze In this strong bronze pyramid, the artist depicts the constant war between man and fire as three firemen are positioned to Read More…
This was the third month in a row (#1 and #2) where a large number of residents showed up to complain about a lack of police response to noise, partying and quality of life crime issues in the North End. This was also the third meeting for Captain Lee, new to District A-1, who took Read More…
The surface pavement for the Big Dig is crumbling about 20 years earlier than expected, according to state officials and reported in the Boston Globe. The repairs could cost $1 million, adding to the Central Artery project’s $22 billion price tag. The work will cause weekend and night lane closures at the tunnel openings where Read More…
Brian Brandt from the Neighborhood Watch sends in this sign cooperatively designed by Artu Trattoria on little Prince Street. “Wonderful and Unique describes our Neighborhood, Residents & Merchants. Please show consideration to all by keeping your voices low during the late evening hours.”
In a strongly worded recommendation, the Haymarket Pushcart Association (HPA) has come out firmly behind the “Blackstone Market” proposal by the Cresset Group and DeNormandie Companies for the Parcel 9 development project along the Greenway. The members of the HPA – themselves representing nationalities and languages from all over the globe – are proud of Read More…
Reported incidents from this week’s Boston Police Journal Log, courtesy of District A-1: Assault & Battery 06/05/12 2:30pm Male victim walked into Area A-1 to report he was punched in the face by a known male victim on Fulton Street. Victim advised to seek complaints in court.