Two high-profile musicals have been nixed from the fall Boston theater schedule.
Brigadoon was scheduled to move into the Colonial theater during a pre-Broadway tryout (remember those?). It has been “postponed”, according to the producers because of “the lack of an appropriate Broadway theatre in spring 2009.”
Plans to premiere the New York City bound Nice [...]

Next to the Apple store on Boylston Street, in Boston’s Back Bay.

I need a good night’s sleep as much as the next guy (more, even), but I was kind of hoping for something a little more exciting and I don’t know … upscale? to go into this spot.
(Anyone remember when there was a mattress store [...]

All you naysayers are wrong about the RKG, I am happy (and surprised) to report.
Walking through there, earlier this afternoon, I was pleased with what I saw. Mostly.
Some photos, plus short, pithy comments above each photo.
(I am serious that it’s getting better. Plenty of people walking through there. Plus it’s clean. [...]

Courtesy a local cub reporter.
A BTD car, outside city hall.

A column by me(*) appears in this week’s South End News:

In 1996, Mayor Thomas M. Menino proclaimed in his State of the City address, “I want to be judged as your mayor by what happens now in the Boston public schools.” Laying out a specific list of goals, he charged residents, “If I fail to [...]

Boston Mayor Thomas M Menino recently announced a citywide initiative to encourage residents and visitors to spend some of their summer vacations close to home. “Holi-stays”, they are called.
The new program is called “Visit the Pin-itiative”; around the city (well, around some of the city) city-workers have installed giant 12-foot wooden sculptures. Go [...]