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 [...]
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Posted in Boston, Food, North End on June 11, 2008 | No Comments »
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 [...]
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Posted in Boston, North End on June 2, 2008 | No Comments »
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, [...]
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Posted in Boston, North End on May 16, 2008 | No Comments »
Jon Keller reporting on Thursday Night’s 11PM News.
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Posted in Boston, North End on May 2, 2008 | No Comments »
I guess we’ll have to be very specific when uttering the phrase,”Meet you at Boston Common!” from now on.
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Posted in Boston, North End on April 29, 2008 | No Comments »
We’ve been deluged with calls, emails and texts asking if we still have hot water after this weekend’s water main break and gas outage in the Financial District and North End.
We are happy to report that we never lost service, and have been ensconsed in hot showers ever since.
Carry on.
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Posted in Boston, North End on April 23, 2008 | No Comments »
Much thanks to tipster “Amy”.
http://boston.craigslist.org/gbs/mis/645070926.html
SALEM STREET HOTTIE - m4w - 28 (North End)
Reply to: pers-645070926@craigslist.org
Date: 2008-04-16, 7:50PM EDTI saw you walking down Salem around 7:00pm carrying a BIG bag of laundry, we exchanged smiles… I was busy talking on my cell… would of said hello!
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Posted in Boston, North End, Seen on April 13, 2008 | No Comments »
Hopefully a sign of things to come, as a group gets in some Wiffleball on Saturday afternoon.
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Posted in Boston, Food, North End on April 6, 2008 | No Comments »
Wow. More dessert?
While waiting for our traditional bacon, egg and cheese at Beanstock this morning, we picked up the latest edition of the North End News only to read that delicious (and expensive) dessert joint Finale is in discussions to be one of the four new tenants at the former Martignetti site (picture below.) The [...]
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Dear Marty,
What, you don’t cawl?
On March 25, the Inside Track reported that you were in the North End on Easter Sunday.
…TRACKED DOWN: “Ashecliffe” director Martin Scorsese and the fam enjoying Easter dinner at Lucca in the North End . . .
Our heart skipped a bit when we read this news because, well, we’re kind of [...]
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