Meet Stephen Puleo, historian and author who will be signing books at the USS Constitution Museum on April 15th from 1:30-3:30 pm. Sunday, April 15, 2012 1:30 – 3:30 pm USS Constitution Museum Charlestown Navy Yard Puleo is the author of A City So Grand: The Rise of an American Metropolis, Boston 1850-1900; The Read More…
In doing some backup computer work, I came across some feast videos from last summer that I had never posted. It feels like feast weather too, so here is one featuring the Acappella doo wop group, Street Magic, performing at the 2011 Fisherman’s Feast.
Frankie Imbergamo, North End native, appears on this month’s front cover of Imagine Magazine with an inside article on his acting career. See the excerpts below, including some of Frankie’s best recipes.
A new monument commemorates a continuing flow of different peoples immigrating to Boston, to America. Their struggles captured using the mediums of sculpture and landscape designs currently being constructed on our Greenway at the corner of Cross/Atlantic Ave, Boston. This monument celebrates all immigrants who have entered Boston hoping and working to make a better Read More…
How many of us have a bucket list? Similar to a new years resolution but lasts longer than 14 days and is more achievement based rather than a specific lifestyle change. For North End resident Kaitlyn Greeley, 2012 is the year to cross off a good handful of her bucket list items. The biggest so Read More…
The following notice comes from Blind Decker Productions for planned filming on March 24, 2012 on Sheafe St. during the day. There are no actors, just a car with a camera. Accommodations are expected for the one day loss of 20 parking spots. Dear Neighbors: Blind Decker Productions is filming a pilot entitled “Ray Donovan”. Read More…
The North End’s own Michael Dean is featured in video profile about his love for painting and the neighborhood. The production is from an Emerson blog article: The painter is one of only a few left in the North End, with a continuing decrease in artistic interest in the area. Four galleries have closed within Read More…
“The Preservation Movement Then and Now” (February 21 – May 12) Historical Preservation Speaker Series Features Award-Winning Authors The West End Museum presents a series of lectures and discussions in connection with The Preservation Movement Then and Now, an exhibit running at the Museum through May 12 in partnership with Historic New England. The five Read More…
“The Rock,” Dwayne Johnson made some quick video stops today in the North End at Puopolo Park and on the Prado in front of Cyrus E. Dallin’s Paul Revere statue. The videos were primarily to hype the upcoming WWE WrestleMania and “The Rock’s” rivalry with wrestler John Cena. Johnson is shown in the video throwing Read More…
This video features Alexandra Dietrich in a solo performance of “Frondi tenere…Ombra mal fu” from Serse. The Italian Opera Concert was held in February 2012 at the Old North Church, sponsored by NEMPAC, the North End Music & Performing Arts Center. View more performances from the 2012 NEMPAC Italian Opera Concert.
There are many Boston blogs with pretty streetscape photos. The new blog by North End-based artist Nathan Swain is not like that. By now, you probably know Nate’s work. He did the Salem St. powerhouse building windows, the greenery walls in St. Leonard’s Peace Garden and Polcari’s rolldown door, just to name a few. Last Read More…
The first Made-in-America sculpture is housed in the Old North Church. Boston not Philadelphia, nor New York, nor Washington D.C. can say it has the first American-made Carrara bust of George Washington, Father of our Country. Had the American Revolution not intervened, more London-made memorials might have come to Boston to join the Scheemakers, Cheere, Read More…