Matt Frank took in the Revere Sand Castle Festival tonight, which included a performance by Blue Man Group in front of an angry King Kong made of sand.
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By adamg - 7/26/23 - 8:30 am
Brookline.News reports the Coolidge Corner Theatre, which is showing both "Oppenheimer" and "Barbie," sold more tickets their opening weekend than on any other weekend in history.
By adamg - 7/7/23 - 10:27 am
Brooks Payne took in Miguel Ángel y La Selección at O'Day Playground in the South End yesterday - the start of the Tito Puente Latin Music Series, which will host Thursday-evening performances at different parks across Boston this summer.
By adamg - 6/29/23 - 1:09 pm
The Boston Licensing Board voted unanimously today to suspend the Legacy's liquor license for three days because the Warrenton Street club didn't immediately fire a bouncer who is shown on the club's own video cold cocking one of three visiting gay Texans who had been yelling transphobic insults at a drag performer and a transsexual regular at closing time. Read more.
By adamg - 6/8/23 - 9:34 am
As part of Pride month, the Downtown Boston Business Improvement District and Men of Melanin Magic are hosting a free drag, dance and music show with local queer performers, on Summer Street at Washington Street, between 5 and 8 p.m. on Friday. Read more.
By adamg - 5/29/23 - 12:32 pm
Scott Fybush reports at Northeast Radio Watch, that WJIB in Cambridge, and its sister stations on the Cape and in Maine, are staying on the air for now, using owner, program manager and DJ Bob Bittner's pre-recorded programs "with Bob’s Maine engineer Bob Perry adding an hourly announcement about Bob’s death to the station automation." Read more.
By adamg - 5/23/23 - 6:08 pm
Joe Curnane caught a performance by John Davidson on Boylston Street outside the BPL today.
Davidson, now 81, who was both an actor and a musician, and who guest hosted the Johnny Carson Show 87 times, came down from Sandwich, NH, where he runs a summertime music venue.
By adamg - 5/10/23 - 11:39 am
IQHQ, which forced musicians out of the Sound Museum space at 155 North Beacon St. so it could put up a three-building life-sciences complex, said today it will give a warehouse just up the street to Boston to create a new home for musician studios. Read more.
By adamg - 5/6/23 - 11:21 am
Among the singers at this morning's coronation was Jamaica Plain's Reginald Mobley, a countertenor singing with a choir at Westminster Abbey. Mobley, who has an album of spirituals coming out later this month, now tours the country and world, but he's also performed locally.
By adamg - 4/17/23 - 10:16 am
The Huntington News walks among the LPs at Music Research Library, the first record store to open on Beacon Hill in four decades, after moving up from Providence.
By adamg - 4/5/23 - 4:55 pm
State Rep. David Linsky (D-Natick) and state Sen. Bruce Tarrr (R-Gloucester) have both filed bills, again, to get "Roadrunner" declared the state's official rock song. Read more.
By adamg - 3/25/23 - 12:13 pm
Matt Shuman, who's been showing movies inside his Wenham Street garage for a few years, has posted this year's schedule for his Wenham Street Cinema. Note: The June 10 movie has yet to be set: The Cinema and City Councilor Julia Mejia are conducting a poll on whether to show "Pretty Woman," "Total Recall" or "Catch Me If You Can."
Screenings are free but are BYOP&C (Bring your own popcorn and chair).
By adamg - 3/24/23 - 11:36 am
Adam Castiglioni couldn't help but manage the destroyed city pickup outside City Hall today, near the banners urging you to re-elect Mayor Mark Choi: Read more.
By adamg - 3/22/23 - 2:35 pm
Matt Damon and Casey Affleck and crews have taken over Bova's in the North End to film scenes from a movie in which they play thieves whose robbery attempt goes awry. Read more.
By adamg - 3/8/23 - 2:32 pm
The Boston Licensing Board today approved plans by Darryl's Corner Bar owner Nia Grace to open what her attorney called "a supper club and speakeasy with a full menu" in the Seaport Square complex. Read more.
By adamg - 3/1/23 - 11:36 pm
The Simmons Voice reports that LGBTQ Nightlife Events, which has been running queer nights at local clubs over the last few years, is getting ready to settle down with a permanent home on Boylston Street in the Back Bay - in a town that has mostly seen gay and queer venues disappear over the past decade. Read more.
By adamg - 3/1/23 - 5:53 pm
Boston Restaurant Talk reports the Cambridge Street restaurant, bar and music tavern closes for good on March 31.
By adamg - 2/22/23 - 6:09 pm
Mayor Wu today announced her pick as Boston's inaugural director of nightlife economy: Corean Reynolds, whose job will include figuring out how to make Boston more enticing for both long-time residents and the post-graduate set deciding whether to stay here through a more vibrant, diverse nightlife - in a city where neighborhood groups, even downtown, often do their darndest to resist anything that might interfere with rolling up the sidewalks when their members are ready for bed. Read more.
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