After going virtual last year due to the pandemic, First Night Boston – the largest New Year’s Eve celebration in New England – returned as an in-person gathering to usher in 2022. Copley Square was again center stage for the…
Author: Dan Murphy
2021 Year in Review
While the pandemic continued to dominate the news in 2021, it also proved to be a watershed year as the City of Boston elected former City Councilor Michelle Wu as the first female, as well as the first woman of…
City Considering Making Changes to Five Intersections Around Public Garden
After making changes to walk signals and creating separated bike lanes on the streets around the Public Garden last year via its multi-phase Connect Downtown project, the city is now considering making permanent design changes at five intersections near the…
Chestnut Street Residents Featured in Ongoing Art Exhibit
As one of the three artists featured in “Messaging Nature” – an exhibit on display through Dec. 29 at Fort Point Arts Community Gallery in the Seaport that looks at human nature both in terms of how people relate to…
BHAC Denies Application for New Front Door at Future Home of Beacon Hill Books and Café
The Beacon Hill Architectural Commission voted three to one to deny an application to replace the existing front door at 71 Charles St. – the future home of Beacon Hill Books and Café – “with an exact replica in mahogany…
Beacon Hill Books and Café Lands Chef Colleen Suhanosky
When the highly anticipated Beacon Hill Books and Café opens at 71 Charles St., (tentatively set for May), Colleen Suhanosky will be at the helm of its garden level café, marking a return to the neighborhood where the head chef…
Civic Association Unanimously Votes to Support Motion to Make Amendments to Beacon Hill Historic District Language
At its Dec. 13 meeting at the Boston Athenaeum – their first in-person gathering since the pandemic struck – the Beacon Hill Civic Association board of directors voted unanimously on a motion to support the enactment of a Home Rule…
At Boston Premier Dentistry, Patients Are Like Family
What sets Boston Premier Dentistry, PC (formerly Ficociello and Ficociello D.D.S, PC) apart from the competition, according to Dr. Kourosh Asha, DMD, the owner of and one of the practitioners at the longstanding downtown dental office, is the warm, familial…
Chestnut Street Teen to Perform Alongside Tony Award-Winner
As one of the Boston Children’s Chorus members performing in the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T) production of “WILD: A Musical Becoming” at Harvard University, Julia Sax gets to share the stage Tony Award-winner Idina Menzel – an experience which has…
Survey Suggests Residents Would Consider Change in Trash and Recycling Collection Days, With Conditions
A recent survey administered by the Beacon Hill Civic Association suggests that the majority of neighborhood residents polled would be willing to accept a change in pickup days, which the city is now considering, if it would mean a later…