Posted in Boston, North End on April 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Um………………we would like to enter a Not Guilty plea, your honor.
PS: But seriously, we hope she’s OK.
From today’s Boston Globe:
BOSTON
A 36-year-old woman was hit on the forehead by a falling street sign yesterday at the corner of Hanover and Prince streets in the North End as a busy Easter church service was getting out about [...]
Posted in North End on January 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »
And for good measure, so our picks are not influenced by the Golden Globe winners, here are our predictions for most of the 2009 Academy Award nominations(yes, we make predictions of predictions. )
We kind of like movies.
Enjoy!
Best Picture:
>The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
>Frost/Nixon
>Slumdog Millionaire
>The Dark Knight
>Milk
Best Director:
>Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire
>David Fincher, [...]
Posted in Entertainment, North End on January 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »
We’re going to the Golden Globes tomorrow night!
Well, not really. We’ll be watching them on television, just like you.
Anyway, we’re the biggest movie buffs you will find over here in the North End (TV shows aren’t too bad either), and we’re pumped for the awards.
Here are our picks! Agree or disagree, let us know what [...]
Posted in Boston, Food, North End on September 18, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Casey Ross reports some good news in the Globe this morning. The recently beleaguered Battery Wharf project is bringing in Fairmont Hotels & Resorts to manage its hotel. As we wrote about back in June, Regent Hotels backed out of the project over on Commercial St., leaving developers without a marquee hotel named attached to [...]
Posted in North End on August 24, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Count us among the curious who have walked past the storefront of 146 Salem St. in the past couple weeks and wondered aloud what is going on there.
The new window display indicates that a store called “Whaddya Need?” will be opening sometime soon. The promotional materials in the window indicate that the business will offer [...]
Posted in Boston, North End on August 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The approaching storm last night from our roof. If you look closely on the second and third one, behind the Harbor Towers, you can see a torrential downpour off the coast.
Posted in Boston, North End on June 23, 2008 | 4 Comments »
In our ever-evolving attempt to become wizened old coots who repair to our stoop with broom in hand at the very notion of noise or excitement, we would like to report that we just survived a 10-minute fireworks attack over Boston Harbor.
You will remember that back in January we were quite confused by random massive [...]
Posted in Boston, Food, North End on June 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Boston Globe brought us sad news this morning that Regent Hotels & Resorts is backing out of the massive Battery Wharf project. Since we have neither the interest or the financial means to purchase one of Battery Wharf’s gleaming new multi-million dollar condos, we (along with many other young North Enders) were mostly excited [...]
Posted in Boston, North End on June 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Channel 5 reported last night that a group of street toughs went all Manny Ramirez on a bunch of cars on Charter Street early Sunday morning.
Funniest part of the story, though, is this quote:
“This happens all the time with these young kids that are coming over. They have a beer or two after a game, [...]
Posted in Boston, North End on May 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Jon Keller reporting on Thursday Night’s 11PM News.
