North EndItalian Feasts & ProcessionsSummer 2018 June 3, 2018 – Santa Maria Di Anzano Procession1:00 pm Procession only – Starts at St. Leonard Church, Hanover & Prince Streets(First Sunday of June)AnzanoBoston.com June 13, 2018 (Wed.) – Saint Anthony of Padua Procession5:00 pm Mass at the St. Leonard Church6:00 pm Candelit Procession – Starts at St. Read More…
Arts & Culture
Paul Revere House Education & Visitor Center Receives Historical Preservation Award
For its success at restoring and preserving the historic Lathrop Place at North Square, The Paul Revere House Education & Visitor Center has received a 2018 Massachusetts Historical Commission Preservation Award. The Paul Revere property is more than just the iconic Paul Revere House that brings many tourists along the Freedom Trail to the North Read More…
Occupational Hazards: The Rev. Stephen Ayres, 20 Years as Old North’s Leader [Video]
Presiding over Old North Church for the past twenty years has been Rev. Stephen T. Ayres, playing the role of Vicar and spiritual leader of the North End congregation while also managing of one of the most famous historical sites in the nation. Last fall, the Old North patrons and friends celebrated Steve’s two decades at Read More…
Nazzaro Center Theater Group Performs “Lend Me a Tenor” [Photos]
The Nazzaro Center theater group performed Lend Me a Tenor, a nine-time Tony Award nominated comedy, at the North End Improv Asylum on Friday, May 4th. Performing in the group were Jackie Gallarelli, Elena D’Elia, Daniel Scibelli, Giulia Genatossio, Trinity Martignetti, John Gray, Emma Perez, Isabella Morales and Atticus Duck. The play is set in 1934, in a hotel suite in Cleveland, Ohio. The set has a sitting room with chairs on Read More…
NEMPAC Youth Entertain Audiences with Their Version of “Sound of Music” [Photos]
Youth performers of the North End Music & Performing Arts Center’s (NEMPAC) Music Theatre Troupe performed Getting to Know…The Sound of Music at the Improv Asylum on May 17th and 19th. Both shows had a sold-out full house of 150 attendees! This spring production of The Sound of Music, stage directed by Allie Meek, music directed Read More…
Baraat, Groom’s Wedding Procession, Held in Columbus Park
The promenade in Columbus Park was the scene of a festive Baraat, which is a groom’s wedding procession that is traditional in North India, West India and Pakistan. The bridegroom, Michael O’Donnell, traveled to the wedding venue on a mare, accompanied by his family members. The baraat procession was accompanied by the rhythm of the dho (Indian drum). The wedding guests stopped along Read More…
Nazzaro Seniors Attend The Sound of Music
Thanks to the Citi Boch Center who so generously donated ten theater tickets to the Nazzaro Center! Laurie D’Elia loaded up the van full of senior citizens for an evening of excitement to a fabulous performance of The Sound of Music. A fun time was had by all and the seniors are looking forward to Read More…
North End Resident, Francine LaChance, and the Grolier Poetry Festival – Rescheduled for June 2nd
Update: Due to rain, the Grolier Poetry Festival has been rescheduled to June 2, 2018, 12pm – 8pm in Harvard Square outside as a street fair on Plympton Street. Frequently seen working in neighborhood coffee shops, North End resident Francine LaChance is producing the Grolier Poetry Book Shop Festival. The festival will take place in Harvard Read More…
Mae West Takes Over the North End Library
W.C. Fields and Mae West recently came to life at a North End Branch Library event sponsored by the Friends of the North End Library and a generous grant from the City Wide Friends of the Boston Public Library. The cozy library event space became Mae West’s dressing room complete with props including fans and Read More…
New Mural “Carving Out Fresh Options” to be Featured at Dewey Square Park
Artist Shara Hughes’ landscape Carving Out Fresh Options will join the Greenway later this month as the sixth mural to be featured on the building at Dewey Square Park across from South Station. Brooklyn-based artist Shara Hughes paints imagined landscapes rendered in vivid, hallucinatory colors. Her paintings combine elements of landscape, still life, and figuration to Read More…
North End’s Skating Rink Transformed for the Opera
The North End’s Steriti Skating Rink was transformed into a cabaret theater for the Boston Lyric Opera performances of Trouble in Tahiti and Arias & Barcarolles, works of Leonard Bernstein. BLO’s Production & Technical Director Anna Labykina discussed the unconventional venue choice in a BLO article, Opera in an Ice Rink? The Boston Lyric Opera previously used the Steriti Read More…
200th Anniversary of Paul Revere’s Death Commemorated at Granary Burying Ground
Boston locals and curious bystanders alike corralled into the elm tree enclosed Granary Burying Ground in Downtown Boston on May 10th to commemorate Massachusetts hero and industrialist Paul Revere, 200 years after his death on May 10, 1818. Born in the North End and renowned for his midnight ride to signal to the American militia Read More…