The Spanish tall ship, Juan Sebastian De Elcano, arrived on a rainy Monday through Boston Harbor. The four-mast topsail schooner is the 3rd largest Tall Ship in the world. It will make its way to Charlestown Navy Yard for public tours starting Tuesday and throughout the week. Soon to follow on July 10th will be the Portuguese Navy ship, Sagres, Read More…
The North End Music and Performing Arts Center (NEMPAC) Opera Project is returning to the Great Hall in Boston’s historic Faneuil Hall with the production of La Bohème. This Puccini masterpiece promises its audience an indelible experience through the majestic setting of the Great Hall, its rich musical score, and timeless love story. What is Read More…
The official 2015 guide is out for Summer on the Waterfront! You can download the digital version in pdf form here or scroll through the page images below. SOTW fun has already started in June and runs through September. NorthEndWaterfront.com is a proud media sponsor of North End Neighborhood Week starting on page 37 for the week of August Read More…
NEMPAC’s inaugural Summer Soirée on the Prado Thursday night was a huge success! It was a beautiful evening to support the North End Music and Performing Arts Center (NEMPAC). Under the tree canopy of the Paul Revere Mall, neighbors joined with arts lovers for an evening of music, food and drinks! The event was held on the doorstep of Read More…
The first phase of a new mural has been installed on the trash enclosure at Union Wharf as part of a beautification project by the condo association. North End artist Nathan Swain was commissioned to design the surrounding wrap and will be painting the 16′ tall x 20′ wide roll down door in the next phase (simulated in the Read More…
Please join The North End Music & Performing Arts Center (NEMPAC) for a Summer Soirée on Thursday, June 4th from 6 to 9 pm. Under the tree canopy in the Prado, join neighbors, arts lovers and our supporters for an evening of music, food and drinks! We are excited to host this event on the doorstep of the Read More…
Boston Bruin and North End resident, Milan Lucic, visited the Boston Barber and Tattoo Co. this week and had three tattoos done in one night! Enjoy these photos of Milan under the tattoo gun of artist Lauchie MacDonald. With several Boston Bruin players living in the neighborhood, they are always supporting local causes and businesses. We covered Read More…
Noah’s New Americans, the colonial youth history club at the Noah Webster House in West Hartford, Connecticut, presented their shadow play, Paul Revere’s Ride written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in 1860 at Old North Church on May 20, 2015. Shadow plays are an ancient entertainment art form in existence for at least 2000 years, beginning Read More…
On Monday evening May 18th, the Nazzaro Center, North End Against Drugs and North End Waterfront Health all came together at the center for a true community collaboration. Traditionally, the Nazzaro Dance Program holds their year-end recital as a table setter for North End Against Drugs to select and present their yearly scholarship awards to North End students enrolled in Read More…
Robert Allison, Suffolk University History Department Professor and Chair, answers the question, “How did the Old North Church become Old North?” Christ Church was built in 1723 when there already was an “Old North,” the venerable Puritan Meeting House over which the Mathers presided. How did the upstart Anglican congregation become the Old North of Boston Read More…
A message from the Chairman of the North End Columbus Day Parade to be held in October 2015. This parade was started back in the early 50’s by the V.F.W of our neighborhood. Every year they would celebrate their Italian American Heritage with a Grand Parade through this great North End neighborhood, our “little Italy”. Through the Read More…
Following up on the success of his fiction thriller, Necessary Assets, longtime North End Boston resident James Ring has released his second book titled 784 Broadway. Taking a different path this time, the new book recounts Ring’s own immigrant Italian heritage and recounts summer visits to his family’s small greengrocer store in New York’s Hudson Valley. The book release of 784 Read More…