By Seth Daniel It’s never easy on the cutting edge, or else it wouldn’t be the cutting edge. But at the same time, when it comes to the cutting edge and fringe small theatre companies in Boston, it also shouldn’t…
Month: April 2016
Officials Announce Five Goals for Cultural Plan
By Seth Daniel The Boston Creates team held its final Town Hall meeting at Bunker Hill Community College on Monday night, March 28, and revealed five goals that will be used to form the upcoming Boston Cultural Plan – due…
Walsh Announces the Opening of Boston’s Two Municipal Golf Courses for 2016
Mayor Martin J. Walsh has announced that the City of Boston’s two municipal golf courses – the William J. Devine Golf Course at Franklin Park in Dorchester and the George Wright Golf Course in Hyde Park – are now open…
Police Briefs 04-05-2016
BEACON HILL BEAT From Boston Police Area A-1 Larceny – Shoplifting 03/28/16 – A Charles Street sporting-goods-store clerk reported an unknown male suspect came into the store at around 4:50 p.m. and stole a pair of Power Beats headphones before…
Get Out and Vote
Next Tuesday, seven candidates will be seeking the Democratic nomination for the Senate seat of the First Suffolk and Middlesex District that was held for the last nine years by Anthony Petrucelli of East Boston. These candidates, including our own…
Preliminary Design for Proposed Leverett Circle Pedestrian Bridge
By Dan Murphy Members of the design team unveiled preliminary plans for the Leverett Circle Pedestrian Bridge at the West End Museum last Tuesday The concrete, curved footbridge conceived by Miguel Rosales, the Boston architect who designed the Leonard P.…
New Parking Plan Set for Charles Street
By Dan Murphy Based on recommendations from the Beacon Hill Civic Association and the Beacon Hill Business Association, the city has reconfigured parking on Charles Street. The changes, made in conjunction with the Civic Association Traffic and Parking Committee and…
Nominations are sought for Beacon Award
As part of the Diamond Jubilee Year (1922-1997), The Beacon Hill Civic Association instituted an annual Beacon Award to honor those people or groups deserving of particular recognition for significant and sustained contribution to the Beacon Hill community. Such a…
A Kitchen for the Whole Family
by Suzanne Besser When they were house hunting several years ago, a young couple living on Charles Street knew exactly what they were looking for. It took them a year to find it. And when they did, they remodeled it…
Downtown View:Gobsmacked by the English Language
By Karen Cord Taylor “Gobsmacked” came to America at just the right time. We needed a word that called to mind being unexpectedly socked in the head with a fistful of some disgusting, muddy substance. It’s what most of us…