Business Food & Drink

Globe Travel: North End vs. Federal Hill

This week’s Boston Globe travel section compares the offerings found in the Little Italy section of Boston versus Providence. Yes, it’s the North End against Federal Hill.  These competition articles are interesting, but like the endless cannoli debates, there is no rule saying you can’t have more than one! Here is the headline rundown: Parking: Read More…

Arts & Culture Business

Improv Asylum Gears Up For “No Rest for the Wicked Funny” Benefiting Globe Santa

  No Rest for the Wicked Funny is a 24-hour improvised performance held at Improv Asylum at 216 Hanover Street in Boston’s North End. This amazing event is filled with celebrity guests, live auctions and the best part… all monies generated go directly to GLOBE SANTA. If you can’t make the event, you can still Read More…

Arts & Culture Event Notices

24-Hour Globe Santa Benefit at Improv Asylum, “No Rest for the Wicked Funny”

About 200 people crowded into the Improv Asylum’s North End theater on Hanover Street for a 24-hour non-stop benefit show this weekend. The Improv Asylum’s co-owners Norm Laviolette and Chet Harding hosted this year’s Globe Santa benefit, “No Rest for the Wicked Funny” sponsored by the Boston Globe. This was the 6th year for the Read More…

Community Event Notices

NEAD Back to School Party Featuring Improv Asylum Show

Once again, North End Against Drugs has teamed up with The Improv Asylum to offer the Annual Back To School Party! The party will take place on Sunday October 17, 2010 from 2 to 4pm. There will be free pizza, soft drinks and other snacks.  The Improv’s talented actors and actress will perform a 1 Read More…

Arts & Culture Government

Scott Brown Sees “You’re a Good Man, Scott Brown” at North End Improv Asylum

Returning to the North End, Senator Scott Brown (R-MA) and his wife WCVB-TV reporter, Gail Huff were at the Improv Asylum last week to enjoy the new comedy musical, You‘re A Good Man, Scott Brown. Apparently, the highlight of the evening was when the stage Scott Brown (played by Evan Kaufman) did an exotic dance Read More…

Event Notices

North End’s Improv Asylum Event to Benefit “Globe Santa”

From Boston.com: “The Improv Asylum in Boston’s North End has built a national reputation for the side-splitting improvisational and sketch comedy it has been churning out six nights a week for nearly 12 years. But the professional actors and comedians who call The Asylum home are deadly serious about “No Rest for the Wicked Funny,’’ Read More…